Huntington Hartford

Tosco was later acquired by ConocoPhillips. He also set up the Denver Research Institute at University of Denver to find alternate methods of oil extraction. During this period, he also wrote and produced "The Master of Thornfield", a stage adaptation of Jane Eyre that ran for two weeks in Cincinnati staring Errol Flynn as Mr. Rochester. Read Less

At the end of his life, Hartford lived in Lyford Cay in the Bahamas with his daughter Juliet.

His grandfather George Huntington Hartford and his uncles John Augustine Hartford (1872–1951) and George Ludlum Hartford (1864–1957) privately owned the A&P Supermarket, which at one point had 16,000 stores in the U.S. and was the largest retail empire in the world. In the 1950s A&P was the world's largest grocer and, next to General Motors, it sold more goods than any other company in the world. Time magazine reported that A&P had sales of $2.7 billion in 1950. The Time magazine published on November 13, 1950 had both John Augustine Hartford and George Ludlum Hartford on its front cover. Time said that "the familiar red-front A & P store is the real melting pot of the community, patronized by the boss's wife and the baker's daughter, the priest and the policeman. To foreigners A & P's vast supermarkets are among the wonders of the age; to the U.S. middle class, they are one of the direct roads to solvency. 'Going to the A & P' is almost an American tribal rite.'" In 2007, A&P had revenue of 6.9 Billion. A&P is considered an American icon. The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial on December 10, 2010, said that "A&P was as well known as McDonalds or Google is today" and that A&P was "Walmart before Walmart." "To immortalize outstanding American merchants", Joseph Kennedy in 1953 commissioned a bronze bust of George Huntington Hartford, four times life size along with 7 other men, which would come to be known as the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame in Chicago. Read Less