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John Munro Longyear

1850 - 1922

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John Munro Longyear Sr. (April 15, 1850 – May 28, 1922) was an American businessman and noted developer of timber and mineral lands in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Minnesota who became the central figure behind the Arctic Coal Company, which surveyed and mined coalfields on Spitsbergen, from 1905 to 1916. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Munro Longyear has received more than 73,670 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Munro Longyear is the 647th most popular businessperson (down from 546th in 2019), the 10,243rd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,659th in 2019) and the 227th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, John Munro Longyear ranks 647 out of 847. Before him are John Peter Zenger, Sumner Redstone, Horace Elgin Dodge, Gwynne Shotwell, Eliphalet Remington, and Avram Glazer. After him are Amy Pascal, Joanna Hoffman, Steve Jackson, Shuntaro Furukawa, Athina Onassis, and Anil Ambani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, John Munro Longyear ranks 115. Before him are Nikolai Golitsyn, Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Yelena Polenova, Heinrich Peters, and Henry Cabot Lodge. After him are Constantin Henriquez, Fanny Hesse, Georg Naue, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Lawrence Hargrave, and Samuel Gompers. Among people deceased in 1922, John Munro Longyear ranks 130. Before him are Lyman Abbott, William Christie, Pál Simon, Henry Lawson, W. H. R. Rivers, and Liberato Marcial Rojas. After him are Tullio Bozza, Erskine Childers, Gösta Runö, Arthur Wesley Dow, Saint-George Ashe, and Charles Thias.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Munro Longyear ranks 10,243 out of 20,380. Before him are Lydia Maria Child (1802), Martha Mansfield (1899), Robert J. Bentley (1943), Carole Bayer Sager (1947), Robert Zubrin (1952), and Susan Dey (1952). After him are Alexi Lalas (1970), Kerri Walsh Jennings (1978), Vincent Sherman (1906), Blind Boy Fuller (1904), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), and Edna May Oliver (1883).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, John Munro Longyear ranks 227. Before him are Sean Parker (1979), Sumner Redstone (1923), Horace Elgin Dodge (1868), Gwynne Shotwell (1963), Eliphalet Remington (1793), and Avram Glazer (1960). After him are Amy Pascal (1958), Samuel Brannan (1819), Barry Diller (1942), Ginni Rometty (1957), Kevin Systrom (1983), and Chris Hughes (1983).

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