Sunday, May 18, 2025

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Samuel Waters Allerton

S. W. A.
AUG 17 1900
CHICAGO.

S. W. A.
JUL 12 1898
CHICAGO.

Samuel Allerton was CBOT member 222.  He was one of the richest men in Chicago, at one point only behind Marshall Field and J. Ogden Armour.  Much of Allerton's fortune was made in livestock.  He was the Republican candidate for Mayor of Chicago in 1892.

Samuel Waters Allerton


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