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Article: Harry Katz, Philanthropist, Meat-Packing Executive
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 13, 1995
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Harry Katz, 71, a noted philanthropist who headed a leading
Chicago meat-packing company, died Monday in his Near North Side
residence.
Mr. Katz was president and CEO of Stock Yards Packing Co. Inc.,
340 N. Oakley, for many years. He had been with the company,
founded in 1893 by family members, for half a century.
Stock Yards Packing is a purveyor of meat products to hotels,
restaurants and private clubs. It also prepares meat gift packages.
Mr. Katz was well-known to philanthropic organizations,
including the Purple Heart Cruise run annually by Chicago Sun-Times
columnist Irv Kupcinet. Over the years, many of those groups honored
him as their Man of the Year for his ...