George Mortimer Pullman (1831-1897) was an American industrial innovator who developed the railroad sleeping car and built a big business with it. He was one of the last industrialists to operate a company town. George Pullman was born on March 3,...

1831-1897 American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman railroad car. Pullman recognized the marketability of a comfortable, elegant sleeping car in the age of railroad expansion. He created his own company in 1867 to manufacture these cars and...

George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently suppressing striking workers in the company town he created, Pullman,...

Not much in George Pullman's early years suggests he would revolutionize train travel and make a fortune.Born near Buffalo, N.Y., in 1831, Pullman dropped out of school and worked at his uncle's general store. By age 17 he was an apprentice cabinet maker and then...