Background
Armour, Philip Danforth born in Stockbridge, New York; earned wealth in California goldfields 1854_56; earned almost $ 2 million selling Midwest pork to New Yorkers near end of American Civil War; joined brother Herman's Chicago grain business; added a meat-packing plant, Armour & Company, in 1870; founded Armour ( now Illinois ) Institute of Technology 1892; engaged in numerous philanthropies.