Kroger and the Cincinnati Stock Exchange
Barney Kroger knew what he was doing. He started a company from scratch that competes toe to toe with every major food retail company in the United States. He built a company that survived the Great...
View ArticleThe Images
The following images were collected from the Cincinnati Stock Exchange boxes at the Cincinnati Historical Society Library.
View ArticleBarney Kroger Profile
In the words of a Cincinnati Times-Star editorial, “Barney Kroger represented an era which the dominant political currents of our time have ended, perhaps forever. It was a rough-and-tumble era, which...
View ArticleThe Sources
The documents on this page were culled from more than 100 boxes of research available for viewing at the Cincinnati Historical Society Library. They represent a sampling of the primary sources UC...
View ArticleControl Data Corporation Historical Timeline
1957 Control Data Corporation was incorporated in Minnesota, July 8, 1957, by Fremont Fletcher, Abbot L. Fletcher, and D.P. Wassenberg with 600,000 shares of stock sold at $1 per share. The first...
View ArticleCincinnati Stock Exchange Timeline
Nearing the end of the year, Governors of the Cincinnati Stock Exchange decided to open up the Exchange floor for informal meetings, but not for record trading or official quotations. The Exchange was...
View ArticleThe Art of Automation: Nick Niehoff, Curator
Nick Niehoff, the mastermind behind the automation of the Cincinnati Stock Exchange (CSE) and the progressive business expert who changed the scope of the stock market forever, has a quiet but powerful...
View ArticleEarly CSE Trading Procedures
As early as 1858, there was a stock exchange in Cincinnati located at 83-85 Walnut Street where members met every Wednesday and Saturday. However, the Cincinnati Stock Exchange (CSE) was not organized...
View ArticleThe Birth of the Modern Stock Market
There are many things that Cincinnati is known for: Procter & Gamble, Kroger Corp., Gold-Star Chili and Graeter’s ice cream, to name a few. But hidden behind the façade of laundry detergent and...
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