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Not everyone who made fortunes from the Gold Rush did so by mining. Phillip
Armour (1832-1901) supplied miners with meat from his butcher shop. With the
money he earned, he built a huge meat packing company, Armour & Company, in
Chicago. His innovative techniques and enormous success helped make Chicago the
meat packing capital of the world. In his later years, the fabulously wealthy
Armour became quite charitable. He founded both the Armour Mission and the
Armour Institute of Technology, which later became the Illinois Institute of
Technology.
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