=====+=======================+================+================ Rank | Name. | How Made. | Total Fortune. -----+-----------------------+----------------+---------------- 1 | John D. Rockefeller | Oil | $600,000,000 2 | Andrew Carnegie | Steel | 300,000,000 3 | W.W. Astor | Real Estate | 300,000,000 4 | J. Pierpont Morgan | Finance | 150,000,000 5 | William Rockefeller | Oil | 100,000,000 6 | H.H. Rogers | do | 100,000,000 7 | W.K. Vanderbilt | Railroads | 100,000,000 8 | Senator Clark | Copper | 100,000,000 9 | John Jacob Astor | Real Estate | 100,000,000 10 | Russell Sage | Finance | 80,000,000 11 | H.C. Frick, Jr. | Steel and Coke | 80,000,000 12 | D.O. Mills | Banker | 75,000,000 13 | Marshall Field, Jr. | Inherited | 75,000,000 14 | Henry M. Flagler | Oil | 60,000,000 15 | J.J. Hill | Railroads | 60,000,000 16 | John D. Archbold | Oil | 50,000,000 17 | Oliver Payne | do | 50,000,000 18 | J.B. Haggin | Gold | 50,000,000 19 | Harry Field | Inherited | 50,000,000 20 | James Henry Smith | do | 40,000,000 21 | Henry Phipps | Steel | 40,000,000 22 | Alfred G. Vanderbilt | Railroads | 40,000,000 23 | H.O. Havemeyer | Sugar | 40,000,000 24 | Mrs. Hetty Green | Finance | 40,000,000 25 | Thomas F. Ryan | do | 40,000,000 26 | Mrs. W. Walker | Inherited | 35,000,000 27 | George Gould | Railroads | 35,000,000 28 | J. Ogden Armour | Meat | 30,000,000 29 | E.T. Gerry | Inherited | 30,000,000 30 | Robert W. Goelet | Real Estate | 30,000,000 31 | J.H. Flager | Finance | 30,000,000 32 | Claus Spreckels | Sugar | 30,000,000 33 | W.F. Havemeyer | do | 30,000,000 34 | Jacob H. Schiff | Banker | 25,000,000 35 | P.A.B. Widener | Street Cars | 25,000,000 36 | George F. Baker | Banker | 25,000,000 37 | August Belmont | Finance | 20,000,000 38 | James Stillman | Banker | 20,000,000 39 | John W. Gates | Finance | 20,000,000 40 | Norman B. Ream | do | 20,000,000 41 | Joseph Pulitzer | Journalist | 20,000,000 42 | James G. Bennett | Journalist | 20,000,000 43 | John G. Moore | Finance | 20,000,000 44 | D.G.