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Alexander Hamilton Revell Sr. (January 6, 1858 – March 13, 1931) was an American businessman from Chicago who in 1876 founded the Alexander H. Revell & Co. and built it into a large furniture retailer.[1]

Biography

Alexander Revell was born in Chicago on January 6, 1858. He worked at a variety of jobs while attending night schools.[2]

He married Maude B. Richardson in 1889 and they had one child.[2]

He was a charter member of the Field Museum of Natural History who sponsored a 1927 trip to Alaska to collect Kodiak bear specimens.[3] He was also a member of the Chicago Board of Education and a director of the World's Columbian Exposition.[2]

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Revell's grave at Rosehill Cemetery

Revell died by falling or jumping from his bathroom window on the 9th floor of the Drake Hotel on March 13, 1931.[4] He was buried at Rosehill Cemetery.[5]

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