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Armour (JONATHAN OGDEN an American)

JONATHAN OGDEN, an American capitalist, born in Milwaukee in 1863. He studied at Yale, but without having completed his course, he entered the meat-packing business of his father, Philip D. Armour, and on the death of the latter became head of the firm of Armour & Co. In this capacity he came in constant conflict with committees appointed to investigate the meat-packing bu business, from 1914 to 1920. He strongly defended the course of the meat packers throughout the war in newspapers and periodicals. He wrote "The Packers and the People" (1906).