biography
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Dun, R(obert) G(raham)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1826–1900)
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| biography:
| Businessman, born in Chillicothe, Ohio, USA. In 1850 he joined the office of Tappan & Douglass, the first mercantile agency in New York City, and became a partner (1854). By 1861 he was sole owner of R G Dun & Co, a credit-rating agency that had domestic branches in several cities, and he also instituted Dun's Review (1893), a weekly overview of international business conditions. After the war his offices were the first to use typewriters and other print information innovations. The firm later merged to form Dun & Bradstreet, a major business credit-rating and financial services publishing company. |
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