Cyrus Eaton (1883-1979 )

• financier and philanthropist
• born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia
• graduated from McMaster University
• became active in public utilities in the US, 1906-1912
• organized Continental Gas and Electric Corporation
• became director of the Otis and Co. banking house in 1925
• became interested in the steel business, and after a series of mergers formed Republic Steel Corp.
• founded the Pugwash Intellectual Life Conferences a in 1956 and the International Pugwash Conferences of Nuclear Scientists in 1957
• in the fifties and sixties, he advocated the then unpopular view that there should be increased diplomacy with Russia
• Lenin Peace Price, 1960
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• books include:
  • Financial democracy (1941)
  • The professor talks to himself (1942)
  • A capitalist looks at labor (1947)
  • Canada's choice (1959)

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