Henry Baldwin Hyde, (February 15, 1834–May 02, 1899), founded The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in 1859. It became, by the year of Hyde's death, the largest life insurance company in the world. He led the company to construct the Equitable Life Assurance Building for its headquarters, completed on May 1, 1870. He pushed to have the first passenger elevators installed in what was then the tallest office building in the United States.
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