# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-arrell-brown-widener
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:07:08.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-arrell-brown-widener"
name: "Peter Arrell Brown Widener"
slug: "peter-arrell-brown-widener"
description: "Peter Arrell Browne Widener was an American businessman, art collector, and patriarch of the wealthy Widener family. He began his career as a butcher, ran a successful chain of meat stores, and won a lucrative contract to supply mutton to Union army troops during the American Civil War. He partnered with William Lukens Elkins and William H. Kemble to found the Philadelphia Traction Company and established electric trolley systems in several major cities in the United States."
tagline: "American art collector (1834–1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pabwidener.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1834-11-13"
deathDate: "1915-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.73
  momentum:             13.90243902439024
  historical:           3.315302666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Widener"
    title: "Peter Widener"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Arrell_Browne_Widener"
    title: "Peter Arrell Browne Widener"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Arrell_Brown_Widener"
    title: "Peter Arrell Brown Widener"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7172565"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations