For the English journalist and antiquary, see George Pulman.
George Pullman
Born
George Mortimer Pullman
(1831-03-03)March 3, 1831
Brocton, New York, U.S.
Died
October 19, 1897(1897-10-19) (aged 66)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupations
Engineer
industrialist
Spouse
Hattie Amelia Sanger (1842–1921)
Children
4
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George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the Pullman Strike due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company. His Pullman Company also hired black men to staff the Pullman cars, known as Pullman porters, who provided elite service and were compensated only in tips.
Struggling to maintain profitability during an 1894 downturn in manufacturing demand, he halved wages and required workers to spend long hours at the plant, but did not lower prices of rents and goods in his company town. He gained presidential support by Grover Cleveland for the use of federal military troops which left 30 strikers dead in the violent suppression of workers there to end the Pullman Strike of 1894. A national commission was appointed to investigate the strike, which included assessment of operations of the company town. In 1898, the Supreme Court of Illinois ordered the Pullman Company to divest itself of the town, which became a neighborhood of the city of Chicago.
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for GeorgePullman as a place to produce the Pullman railroad-sleeping cars. Originally built beyond the Chicago city limits, it is in the Pullman community...
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as "George", the first name of GeorgePullman, the company's founder (see also Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George"). The...
travel on Pullman carriages. He became convinced that there was a market for Pullman-type carriages in Europe. After a proposal to GeorgePullman to collaborate...
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consortium of no fewer than six engineers—including Brown, Hollingsworth and GeorgePullman—co-managed a project to raise half a city block on Lake Street, between...
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