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Patriarch and oil baron Ed Doheny and wife Estelle acquired the home in 1901 and the Doheny family made it their home for nearly 60 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

As early as 1859 the New York Times associated Cornelius Vanderbilt with the idea of the medieval robber baron, thus tarnishing the image of the country’s biggest shipowner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

Not because Mullin, a wealthy plumbing baron from Oklahoma who’s served in Washington since 2013, has a distinguished legislative record.

From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2026

Help came when some of his friends met Hari Khoday, the late liquor baron who was building a temple in Pandavapura.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

Declaring themselves firmly opposed to the Super were Lilienthal, the Republican oil baron Sumner Pike, and Princeton physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The ruthless machinations of Gilded Age robber barons are transposed to New York’s hotels and banquet rooms—a story of love marketed to the highest bidder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Clark did not outline how a "brake pedal" for AI research and development could be created, but drew a parallel between AI and the oil boom and barons of the turn of the last century.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Ours is a history in which New York robber barons used the promise of belonging to splinter the poor into factions and manipulate them into fighting among themselves during the Gilded Age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2026

This was the age of robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil was a business “trust” comprising dozens of companies in numerous vertically linked industries.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

The barons came for the auction of Osage leases, an event that was held about four times a year and that was overseen by the Department of the Interior.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann