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Aug 01, 1858 Died on 17 Jan 1925 (aged 66)
American industrialist and philanthropist
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About Daniel G. Reid
- Daniel Gray Reid (August 1, 1858 – January 17, 1925) was an American industrialist and philanthropist known as the "Tinplate King".He was born August 1858 in Richmond, Indiana, and is a son of Daniel and Anna (Dougan) Reid.
- Reid was educated in the public schools of Richmond.
- His father died when he was 15 years old and he was reared by his mother.
- At the age of seventeen he entered the Second National Bank as messenger boy, obtained his business training there and gradually won promotion until he was made teller, which position he resigned in 1895.
- In 1892, he became interested in the American Tin Plate Company, owners of an extensive plant at Elwood, Indiana.
- He and his partner, William B.
- Leeds, another Richmond native, bought the tin plate mill, with which he eventually combined every tin plate company in the country to form the American Tin Plate Company, with Reid as president.
- In 1901, J.
- P.
- Morgan included the tinplate trust in the giant steel trust, United States Steel Corporation, and reportedly paid $18 million for the company and Reid became the director.
- He bought control of the American Can Company and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad.
- In 1912, he organized the Tobacco Products Corporation with Henry Clay Frick, John D.
- Ryan and others. On October 13, 1880, Reid married Miss Ella C.
- Dunn, of Richmond, Indiana.
- Mrs.
- Reid died on the 25th of June, 1899 in Chicago.
- His daughter Rhea married Henry J.
- Topping, the son of Republic Iron and Steel president, John A.
- Topping.Reid married two more times after her death.
- In 1900, he married his second wife, actress Miss Clarice Agnew whom The New York Times labeled “a theatrical beauty.” They moved into a mansion on Fifth Avenue across from Central Park with his daughter where the needs of family were taken care of by 20 live-in servants.
- She died in 1904.
- Then in 1906, he married his third wife, former actress Margaret M.
- Carrere who had appeared in "The Chinese Honeymoon, "The Runaways" and "West Point Cadet".
- Reid filed for divorce in New York in May 1919 on grounds of infidelity.
- Later, Reid abandoned the charges but his wife filed a counterclaim against him and won.
- They were divorced in February 1920.In 1918, Reid built for his daughter the Jacobean-style mansion Dunnellen Hall.
- Dunnellen Hall was built for approximately $6 million.
- The approximately 23,000-square-foot mansion originally sat on over 200 acres, but is currently situated on just over 40.
- It was purchased in 1983 by Leona Helmsley and her husband Harry for US$11 million.Reid's health began to decline in 1919.
- Twice, in 1921 and 1922, he was treated in the psychiatric clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
- He tried repeatedly to restore his health, traveling by private car in January 1923 to Florida with three physicians, four nurses and a private secretary.
- In 1924 he visited a spa in Germany, taking along his barber, a valet, one doctor, four nurses and a secretary. The cures were unsuccessful.
- On Friday, January 16, 1925, he died in New York City at age 66.
- His body was brought back to Richmond where he was laid to rest in Earlham Cemetery with his mother, wife and son.
- At the time of his death, he was a director of the American Can Company, Bankers Trust Company, Chase Securities Corporation, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, Metal and Thermit Corporation, and a trustee of the American Surety Company of New York.
