Peter Arrell Brown Widener
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican art collector (1834-1915)
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.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 4
In their orbit 2
Musicians from United States 6
About this person
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.
United StatesFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.