Philip Danforth Armour

Philip Danforth Armour (1832–1901) was an American meatpacking entrepreneur who founded Armour & Company and helped make Chicago a center of the meatpacking industry.

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Gustavus Franklin Swift: An American meatpacker who founded Swift & Company and developed a large-scale refrigerated meat distribution system. Swift built a rival Chicago meatpacking company during Armour’s rise.
Armour & Company: An American meatpacking and food-processing company founded by Philip Danforth Armour in Chicago. It was the enterprise through which Armour built his industrial fortune.
Stockbridge, New York: A town in Madison County, New York, in the United States. Armour was born there in 1832.
Chicago meatpacking district: The industrial area around Chicago’s Union Stock Yards where meatpacking companies and related businesses operated. Armour’s operations helped concentrate employment and industry around the stockyards.
Nelson Morris: An American meatpacking entrepreneur who founded Morris & Company, one of Chicago’s major packing firms. Morris was another leading meatpacker in the Chicago industry Armour helped shape.
Union Stock Yards: A Chicago livestock market and slaughterhouse complex that operated from 1865 to 1971. Its concentration of animals and processors made Chicago’s large-scale meatpacking possible.
California Gold Rush: The mass migration to California after gold was discovered there in 1848. Armour went west during the gold-rush era before entering the meat trade.
Chicago's industrialization: The growth of manufacturing, processing, and transport industries in Chicago during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Armour’s company contributed to Chicago’s rise as a major industrial city.
Philip Armour: The name commonly used for Philip Danforth Armour, the founder of Armour & Company. This shorter name is often used for the same entrepreneur.
Refrigerated railcar: A railway freight car designed to keep perishable goods cold during transport. Refrigerated transport extended the market for meat packed by Chicago firms.