Interview with Mr. Vernon B. Stouffer, president of the firm & son of the founder & foundress.
A silent partner in the brokerage firm his son Ulysses, Jr., formed with Ferdinand Ward, Grant left finances in Ward's hands.
No. 45 was built by Arthur and Adele Lehman; he was a partner at the Lehman Brothers banking firm and son of one of its founders.
One firm her son owed money to was the payday loan firm Wonga.
He is also the majority shareholder of Canadian container shipping firm Seaspan (son Kyle is co-chairman), which has an $8 billion contract with the Canadian Navy and Coast Guard to build 12 vessels over the next 20 years.
Chris Kennedy, the president of a Chicago-based commercial real estate firm and son of Robert F. Kennedy, has been planning a run but not yet announced, nor has embattled incumbent Sen. Roland Burris.
Surviving are his widow, the former Harriet Rosenberg and a partner in his law firm; 4 sons, Dr. Donald, Elwood, Anthony and Roger; a daughter, Barbara Scheiber; 11 grandchildren and a great‐grandchild.
He was working for the giant Omaha-based construction firm Peter Kiewit Sons' in 1988 when he spied an opportunity to wrest some business away from local phone monopolies.
WALTER SCOTT JR. $4.8 billion Age: 68 Childhood friend of Warren Buffett who turned Omaha construction firm Peter Kiewit Sons' into communications giant Level 3. Bankrolled local phone provider MFSCommunications in 1987; sold in 1996 to WorldCom for $15.4 billion.
WALTER SCOTT JR. $4.8 billion Age: 68 Childhood friend of Warren Buffett who turned Omaha construction firm Peter Kiewit Sons' into communications giant Level 3. Bankrolled local phone provider MFSCommuni-cations in 1987; sold in 1996 to WorldCom for $15.4 billion.
His father, Sidney, ran the firm (as the son later did).
