Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr. belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.
The record lists Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr. as American businessman (1883–1979).
Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr. was born at Pugwash in 1883. His recorded nationality is United States. He was educated at McMaster University and Colgate University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.
He worked as entrepreneur.
Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.
Recognition followed: Lenin Peace Prize.
That the business was built from United States shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr. died in 1979, aged 96. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Lenin Peace Prize
- Educated at McMaster University and Colgate University
