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#	Company	Founded
1	Cambridge University Press	1534
2	Harvard College	1636
3	Harvard Library	1638
4	McCormick & Company	1669
5	College of William & Mary	1693
6	St. John's College	1696
7	Yale College	1701
8	Broadwood and Sons	1732
9	Moravian University	1742
10	University of Delaware	1743
11	Princeton University	1746
12	Washington and Lee University	1749
13	Columbia College	1754
14	Mount Vernon	1754
15	Brown University	1765
16	Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania	1765
17	Christie's	1766
18	Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons	1767
19	Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.	1768
20	College of Charleston	1770
21	Transylvania University	1780
22	Bank of North America	1781
23	Jones Lang LaSalle	1783
24	University of Georgia	1785
25	University of Pittsburgh	1787
26	University of North Carolina	1789
27	University of Vermont	1791
28	State Street Corporation	1792
29	Williams College	1793
30	Bowdoin College	1794
31	University of Tennessee	1794
32	ABCorp	1795
33	University of Louisville	1798
34	Bank of the Manhattan Company	1799
35	Chase Bank	1799
36	Middlebury College	1800
37	Ohio University	1804
38	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	1805
39	Colgate-Palmolive Company	1806
40	Wiley	1807
41	Castle Clinton	1808
42	Biblica	1809
43	Miami University	1809
44	The Hartford	1810
45	Yale School of Medicine	1810
46	SunTrust Banks	1811
47	Warner Chappell Music	1811
48	Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University	1812
49	American Antiquarian Society	1812
50	Princeton Theological Seminary	1812
51	Colby College	1813
52	E. Remington & Sons	1816
53	Harvard Divinity School	1816
54	Remington Arms	1816
55	Harper	1817
56	HarperCollins	1817
57	Harvard Law School	1817
58	Bunge Limited	1818
59	New York State Library	1818
60	Saint Louis University	1818
61	Centre College	1819
62	Colgate University	1819
63	Norwich University	1819
64	University of Cincinnati	1819
65	University of Virginia School of Law	1819
66	Indiana University	1820
67	Indiana University Bloomington	1820
68	Amherst College	1821
69	George Washington University	1821
70	Trinity College	1823
71	Blair House	1824
72	Kenyon College	1824
73	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	1824
74	Thomas Jefferson University	1824
75	Baldwin Locomotive Works	1825
76	KeyBank	1825
77	National Academy of Design	1825
78	Furman University	1826
79	Lafayette College	1826
80	Lord & Taylor	1826
81	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad	1827
82	Yuengling	1829
83	University of Richmond	1830
84	Merriam-Webster	1831
85	University of Alabama	1831
86	Wesleyan University	1831
87	Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works	1832
88	C. F. Martin & Company	1833
89	Mercer University	1833
90	Oberlin College	1833
91	Long Island Rail Road	1834
92	Tulane University	1834
93	Wake Forest University	1834
94	Wheaton College	1834
95	University of West Alabama	1835
96	Emory University	1836
97	Mobile County Public School System	1836
98	Union Theological Seminary	1836
99	Davidson College	1837
100	Hachette Book Group	1837

Top 100 entries with a recorded value; entries without data are not ranked.