Alexander Turney Stewart built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Alexander Turney Stewart as American businessman (1803–1876).
Alexander Turney Stewart was born at Lisburn in 1803. He was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as entrepreneur.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
Alexander Turney Stewart died in 1876, aged 73. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution
