Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made : Or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men.
Title:
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made : Or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men.
Author:
McCabe, James D. Jr.
ISBN:
9781775564850
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (844 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Preface -- I MERCHANTS -- Chapter I Stephen Girard -- Chapter II John Jacob Astor -- Chapter III Alexander T. Stewart -- Chapter IV Amos Lawrence -- Chapter V Andrew V Stout -- Chapter VI Jonas Chickering -- Chapter VII Nicholas Longworth -- Chapter VIII George Peabody -- II CAPITALISTS -- Chapter IX Cornelius Vanderbilt -- Chapter X Daniel Drew -- Chapter XI James B. Eads -- Chapter XII Cyrus W. Field -- III INVENTORS -- Chapter XIII Robert Fulton -- Chapter XIV Charles Goodyear -- Chapter XV Eli Whitney -- Chapter XVI Chauncey Jerome -- Chapter XVII Elias Howe, Jr. -- Chapter XVIII Richard M. Hoe -- Chapter XIX Samuel Colt -- Chapter XX Samuel F. B. Morse -- IV PUBLISHERS -- Chapter XXI James Harper -- Chapter XXII James T. Fields -- V EDITORS -- Chapter XXIII James Gordon Bennett -- Chapter XXIV Robert Bonner -- VI LAWYERS -- Chapter XXV John Marshall -- Chapter XXVI James T. Brady -- VII ARTISTS -- Chapter XXVII Benjamin West -- Chapter XXVIII John Rogers -- Chapter XXIX Hiram Powers -- Chapter XXX Emmanuel Leutze -- VIII DIVINES -- Chapter XXXI Henry Ward Beecher -- Chapter XXXII Peter Cartwright -- IX AUTHORS -- Chapter XXXIII Henry W. Longfellow -- Chapter XXXIV Nathaniel Hawthorne -- X ACTORS -- Chapter XXXV Edwin Booth -- Chapter XXXVI Joseph Jefferson -- XI PHYSICIANS -- Chapter XXXVII Benjamin Rush -- Chapter XXXVIII Valentine Mott -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
The chief glory of America is, that it is the country in which genius and industry find their speediest and surest reward. Fame and fortune are here open to all who are willing to work for them. Neither class distinctions nor social prejudices, neither differences of birth, religion, nor ideas, can prevent the man of true merit from winning the just reward of his labors in this favored land. We are emphatically a nation of self-made men, and it is to the labors of this worthy class...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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