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#	Company	Founded
1	Cambridge University Press	1534
2	Harvard College	1636
3	Harvard Library	1638
4	McCormick & Company	1669
5	St. John's College	1696
6	Yale College	1701
7	Yale University	1701
8	Broadwood and Sons	1732
9	Moravian University	1742
10	University of Delaware	1743
11	Sotheby's	1744
12	Princeton University	1746
13	Washington and Lee University	1749
14	Columbia College	1754
15	Mount Vernon	1754
16	Brown University	1765
17	Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania	1765
18	Christie's	1766
19	Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons	1767
20	Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.	1768
21	College of Charleston	1770
22	Transylvania University	1780
23	Bank of North America	1781
24	Phillips Exeter Academy	1781
25	Dickinson College	1783
26	University of Georgia	1785
27	University of North Carolina	1789
28	University of Vermont	1791
29	Hamilton College	1793
30	Williams College	1793
31	Bowdoin College	1794
32	University of Tennessee	1794
33	ABCorp	1795
34	University of Louisville	1798
35	Bank of the Manhattan Company	1799
36	Middlebury College	1800
37	University of South Carolina	1801
38	Ohio University	1804
39	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	1805
40	Castle Clinton	1808
41	Biblica	1809
42	Miami University	1809
43	The Hartford	1810
44	Yale School of Medicine	1810
45	SunTrust Banks	1811
46	Warner Chappell Music	1811
47	Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University	1812
48	American Antiquarian Society	1812
49	Princeton Theological Seminary	1812
50	Colby College	1813
51	E. Remington & Sons	1816
52	Harvard Divinity School	1816
53	Remington Arms	1816
54	Black Ball Line	1817
55	Harper	1817
56	HarperCollins	1817
57	Harvard Law School	1817
58	Brooks Brothers	1818
59	Bunge Limited	1818
60	New York State Library	1818
61	Saint Louis University	1818
62	School District of Philadelphia	1818
63	Centre College	1819
64	Norwich University	1819
65	University of Cincinnati	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	Yale Law School	1824
75	Baldwin Locomotive Works	1825
76	KeyBank	1825
77	National Academy of Design	1825
78	Furman University	1826
79	Lord & Taylor	1826
80	University of North Alabama	1830
81	University of Richmond	1830
82	Denison University	1831
83	New York University	1831
84	University of Alabama	1831
85	Wesleyan University	1831
86	Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works	1832
87	C. F. Martin & Company	1833
88	Haverford College	1833
89	Mercer University	1833
90	Oberlin College	1833
91	Tulane University	1834
92	Wake Forest University	1834
93	Currier and Ives	1835
94	University of West Alabama	1835
95	Emory University	1836
96	Mobile County Public School System	1836
97	Union Theological Seminary	1836
98	United States National Library of Medicine	1836
99	Davidson College	1837
100	DePauw University	1837

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