Tag: Robert Plaster Net Worth

Robert W. Plaster was the kind of businessman whose influence is easier to see than his fortune is to calculate. His name is attached to university buildings, business schools, athletic facilities and a charitable foundation across Missouri and beyond. Yet decades after his death, websites still disagree dramatically about what he was actually worth. Some online pages claim Robert Plaster was a billionaire, with figures ranging from hundreds of millions of dollars to $5 billion. Those numbers are not backed by a publicly disclosed personal balance sheet. What can be established is more interesting. Plaster built Empire Gas Corporation into one of the largest retail liquefied petroleum gas distributors in the United States, later created Evergreen Investments, and developed a subst...