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William Bateman Leeds (September 19, 1861 – June 23, 1908) was an American businessman. He dominated the tin plate industry, becoming known as the "Tin Plate King".
25 de mar. de 2014 · Interchangeably heralded by the press as, “The World’s Richest Boy” or “Poor Little Rich Boy,” Leeds managed a small army of servants by the time he was nine and topped it off by marrying a Greek princess at the age of 19.
3 de ene. de 1972 · William B. Leeds, the tinplate heir who became a model of the yachting rich in America's pre‐Depression salad days, died Friday at Wintsberg Peak, his estate in St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands.
On 3 August 1900, May married for the second time in Cleveland: the groom was William Bateman Leeds, a wealthy businessman who was born on 10 September 1861, in Richmond, Indiana. This was also Leeds's second marriage, the previous one having ended in 1896, at which time he settled one million dollars on his ex-wife.
When the elder Mr. Leeds died in Paris in 1908, the boy inherited $7‐million. Mrs. Leeds established a large home for herself and her son in Montclair, N.J. Twenty servants, governesses and private detectives watched the boy's every movement....
16 de jul. de 2006 · John Russell Pope’s mausoleum for William Bateman Leeds, an industrialist, in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. The cemetery’s rich collection of archives contains blueprints for this and other...
14 de jun. de 2023 · William Bateman Leeds was a Richmond native who joined with his childhood friend, Daniel Reid, to create a domestic tin plate industry, first in Elwood, Indiana, and ultimately becoming super wealthy along with Reid and his associates after their company was incorporated into United States Steel in 1901.
