Historedia
Person

Samuel C.

Events
1
Episodes
2
Years
1882

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Samuel C., with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Standard Oil Trust secretly created by John D. Rockefeller

    1882

    Role: Attorney for Standard Oil, named only by truncated initials in the supplied passage

    1. 1882 · United StatesSecret Conveyance of Shares to Trustees

      Existing stockholders conveyed their shares in trust to nine trustees through a secret agreement, consolidating control over disparate companies.

    2. January 2, 1882 · United StatesSigning of the Standard Oil Trust Agreement

      Forty-one investors signed the Standard Oil Trust Agreement on January 2, 1882, pooling securities from forty companies into a single holding agency managed by nine trustees.

Sources

  1. Trust (business) Wikipedia, revision of 2025-12-27