Harry Boyd Earhart
{{Short description|American business executive and philanthropist}}
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Harry Boyd Earhart (1870–1954) was an American business executive and philanthropist.
Biography
=Early life=
=Career=
He bought the struggling Buffalo, New York-based White Star Refining Company in 1911, and moved it to Michigan, just as the car industry was beginning to develop there. White Star developed a chain of gas stations and had its own refinery, and was eventually acquired by the Vacuum Oil Company in 1930, which later became Mobil.Eric V. Thompson, [http://www.virginia.edu/igpr/APAG/apagoilhistory.html A Brief History Of Major Oil Companies In The Gulf Region: Mobil], Petroleum Archives Project, Arabian Peninsula & Gulf Studies Program, University of Virginia
=Philanthropist=
He founded the Earhart Foundation,[http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/hall_of_fame/harry_earhart Harry Eathart] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006171649/http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/hall_of_fame/harry_earhart |date=2014-10-06 }}, Philanthropy Hall of Fame which has identified talented and influential scholars such as Friedrich A. Hayek and Milton Friedman. Nine winners of the Nobel Prize in economics were Earhart Foundation fellows earlier in their careers. Other Nobel-winning economists who benefited from Earhart funding include Gary Becker, James M. Buchanan, Ronald Coase, Robert Lucas, Daniel McFadden, Vernon L. Smith, and George Stigler.{{cite web|last1=Barbic|first1=Kari|title=Harry Earhart|url=http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/hall_of_fame/harry_earhart|website=www.philanthropyroundtable.org|publisher=The Philanthropy Roundtable|accessdate=1 October 2014|archive-date=6 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006171649/http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/hall_of_fame/harry_earhart|url-status=dead}}
=Death=
Legacy
After his death, Earhart's land and mansion in Ann Arbor, Michigan became part of Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1963.
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Category:Businesspeople from Ann Arbor, Michigan