George V. Forman (December 3, 1841 - October 22, 1922) was the founder of VanderGrift, Forman & amp; The Company, which is part of the Standard Oil Company. Forman was also a leading banker in Buffalo in the late 1800s and early 1900s, founded "The Fidelity Trust and Guaranty Company" which later merged with the Manufacturer and Trust Trade Company to become M & T Bank.
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George Van Syckel Forman was born near Milford, New Jersey in 1841. After graduating from Princeton University in 1861, he practiced law in Trenton, New Jersey. Then he moved to Oil City, Pennsylvania, where with Captain J. J. Vandergrift, he founded "Oil City Trust Co.," where Forman became president for a while.
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Business career
While residents of Olean, New York, and members of the "Exchange National Bank of Olean," Forman organized "Eastern Oil Co.". founded in West Virginia. He then came to Buffalo, New York to become president of the company.
In May 1893, Forman, along with John J. Albright, John Satterfield, and Franklin D. Locke, founded The Fidelity Trust and Guaranty Company of Buffalo, New York, where he became president. In 1909, E. B. Green was assigned to build the "Fidelity Trust Building", now known as the "Swan Tower" and owned by Ellicott Development Co., located at 284 Main Street in Buffalo.
Forman, a very timely man, according to Anson Goodyear, "each morning leaves his home at a certain hour and meets George Williams at his home just above North Street, to walk to the Fidelity Building together." Mr. Forman boasts a very prominent company. leaning backwards to get his balance, Mr. Williams is emaciated and bent down to grab it.That is a procession in which people check their watches. "
In December 1925, a few years after his death in 1922, the Fidelity Trust Company, with $ 35 million in assets, joined the Manufacturers and Merchants Bank, founded in 1856, with assets of $ 64 million, at under the new name Manufacturers and Trusting Companies . The $ 100 million company is led by Fidelity President Lewis G. Harriman, 36. Harriman and a group of investors including AH Schoellkopf, from the founding family of the Niagara Water Hydraulic Company and the Niagara Hydraulic Company, and James Forrestal, who will become the first US Secretary of Defense, have enough stock to control both Fidelity and M & T.
Personal life
Forman married Martha Carter (1849-1931), also from New Jersey, with whom he had three children. Howard Arter Forman (1870-1931), who married Georgia M. Green (1871-1955), daughter of George C. Greene, General Counsel for Lake Shore Railroad. Howard served as Eastern Petroleum's vice president and during World War I, he was the Federal Fuel Administrator for Buffalo. After the war he and Georgia separated and in early 1920 he moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he died in 1931. Georgia served for more than a decade on the Board of Children's Hospital and was a contributor to the Chamber of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery Albright.
Forman died on October 22, 1922 and was buried at Mount View Cemetery in Olean, New York.
Residence
In 1893, Forman built the classic beaux art mansion, now known as the "Forman-Cabana House," for his family at 824 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York in the current Delaware Avenue Historic District. The house was designed by Green & amp; Axis with E. B. Green serves as the main designer. This house is guarded by prominent columns and features a Roman yellow brick, rounded round front entrance having an Ionic flasher flanked by a couple. Today the residence is home to Child and Family Services and Stanley G. Falk School, located in the carriage house.
See also
- The Goodyear Family (New York)
References
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