Artist: Bjorn Peter Egeli (1900–1984)
James F. Donovan
DONOVAN, JAMES FRANCIS (1902–1979), inducted 1965
Chairman of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company and a director of the International Live Stock Exposition, James F. Donovan began working as a sixteen-year-old messenger boy for Frederick Prince’s Boston brokerage firm. Years later, in Chicago, he managed Prince’s Central Manufacturing industrial park network in Chicago, as well as similar industrial real estate centers in other cities, including Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona, and Sacramento, California. When Fred Prince died in 1953, Donovan and William Wood Prince were named co-trustees of the F. H. Prince holding company, overseeing multiple corporations.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 81