Happy B’Day James Duke: The Tobacco Tycoon Known As “Father of Modern Cigarette”

 

(dazeinfo.com) ... Even being from a modest background, he was able to build a huge empire, trying his luck in every business and working from dusk till night. The tobacco Tycoon mechanized the Cigarette manufacturing process, built the largest Hydroelectric plant of the 1900’s and donated close to $1 billion through his endowment till date. Continued