Albert Benton Pullman: Railroad Pioneer and American Entrepreneur – Ames History Museum

Albert Benton Pullman: Railroad Pioneer and American Entrepreneur

Tues., April 14, 7 p.m.

Attend in person: Ames History Museum, 416 Douglas Ave.
Attend online: register for the Zoom link
Free & open to the public

Speaker: Simon Cordery

This talk details the life of an unjustly neglected Gilded Age figure. Older brother of the notorious George Pullman, Albert Pullman made several crucial but forgotten contributions to the success of Pullman’s Palace Car Company and engaged in an erratic, fascinating investment career. He personified the stratum of everyday entrepreneurs whose persistent, frantic, sometimes fraudulent, and often unproductive investments undergirded economic activity. Albert Pullman’s frequently calamitous investments illustrate the precarious nature of Gilded Age capitalism beyond the well-known Robber Barons.

Your Historians Series presented in partnership by Iowa State University Department of History and Ames History Museum