Packet 1: Tossup 1
A Thai veteran of the US Civil War took the name of this family, who built a company town at the site of Fort Nisqually. With the help of his former secretary John Raskob, a member of this family financed the building of the Empire State Building and served as president of GM before Alfred P. Sloan. After Congress broke up Laflin & Rand’s trust with this family’s namesake company, it spun off into Atlas and Hercules. The diplomat Larz Anderson hosted parties in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood named for an admiral from this family and the word “Circle.” This family’s company, which endowed the Nemours Foundation and acquired all patents on smokeless nitrocellulose formulas, began as the Eleutherian Mills gunpowder plant near Wilmington, Delaware. For 10 points, what family founded a chemical multinational that developed nylon and Kevlar? ■END■
ANSWER: du Pont family [accept DuPont Company or (E.I.) du Pont de Nemours; accept Dupont Circle; accept Samuel Francis Du Pont, Henry Francis du Pont, Pierre S. du Pont, Henry Algernon du Pont, or George Dupont]
<Editors, American History> | U. Finals 1 (Editors 11)
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