John Randolph Bland (1851 - abt. 1923)

Born 24 Mar 1851 in St Louis, Missouri, USA

Ancestors

Biography

That structure and the great corporation it houses, the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, are indeed the creations of the brain of John Randolph Bland, its onetime founder and president. He conceived the idea, he obtained the money that brought the company into being, he organized it into a living business actuality and he has led that company into its present status of the foremost corporation in its line in America, with resources of many millions of dollars, known in every county of the United States and one of the most famed and strongest institutions of Baltimore. This was accomplished by Mr. Bland in fifteen years, in a field that has for a century been the bed rock of financial conservatism.

Upton Sinclair described the many parties held by his uncle Bland as presenting an "atmosphere of pride and scorn, of values based on material possessions"

Sources

http://archive.org/stream/baltimoreitshist02lewiuoft/baltimoreitshist02lewiuoft_djvu.txt

• United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3KN-7XN : 9 March 2022), John R Bland, 1900.

• Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGK9-M9XC : 23 November 2022), John Randolph Bland, ; Burial, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, United States of America, Green Mount Cemetery; citing record ID 183773876, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.