Alexander Revell
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Alexander Hamilton Revell Sr. (January 6, 1858 – March 13, 1931) was an American businessman from Chicago who in 1876 founded Alexander H. Revell & Co. and built it into a large furniture retailer.[1]
Biography
Alexander Hamilton Revell was born in Chicago, on January 6, 1858. He worked at a variety of jobs while attending night schools.[2]
He married Maude B. Richardson in 1889, having one child together.[2]
He was a charter member of the Field Museum of Natural History and sponsored a 1927 trip to Alaska to collect Kodiak bear specimens.[3] He was also a member of the Chicago Board of Education and a director of the World's Columbian Exposition.[2]
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Revell died by falling or jumping from his bathroom window, on the ninth floor of the Drake Hotel, on March 13, 1931, aged.[4] He was buried at Rosehill Cemetery.[5]
References
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- ↑ "Rich Furniture Man Dies In 9 Story Fall," March 14, 1931, Morning Star (Rockford, Illinois), p. 2
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