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Captains of Industry; or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
By James Parton
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- CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY
- OR
- MEN OF BUSINESS WHO DID SOMETHING BESIDES MAKING MONEY
- A BOOK FOR YOUNG AMERICANS
- BY
- BY
- A BOOK FOR YOUNG AMERICANS
- JAMES PARTON
- BOSTON HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1890
- Copyright, 1884, By JAMES PARTON. All rights reserved.
- Copyright, 1884, By JAMES PARTON. All rights reserved.
- BOSTON HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1890
- PREFACE.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- PORTRAITS.
- CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY.
- DAVID MAYDOLE,
- HAMMER-MAKER.
- ICHABOD WASHBURN,
- WIRE-MAKER.
- ELIHU BURRITT,
- The Learned Blacksmith.
- MICHAEL REYNOLDS,
- ENGINE-DRIVER.
- MAJOR ROBERT PIKE,
- FARMER.
- GEORGE GRAHAM,
- CLOCK-MAKER, BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
- JOHN HARRISON,
- EXQUISITE WATCH-MAKER.
- PETER FANEUIL,
- AND THE GREAT HALL HE BUILT.
- CHAUNCEY JEROME,
- YANKEE CLOCK-MAKER.
- CAPTAIN PIERRE LACLEDE LIGUEST,
- PIONEER.
- ISRAEL PUTNAM.
- GEORGE FLOWER.
- PIONEER.
- EDWARD COLES,
- NOBLEST OF THE PIONEERS, AND HIS GREAT SPEECH.
- PETER H. BURNETT.
- GERRIT SMITH.
- PETER FORCE.
- JOHN BROMFIELD,
- MERCHANT.
- FREDERICK TUDOR,
- ICE EXPORTER.
- MYRON HOLLEY,
- MARKET-GARDENER.
- THE FOUNDERS OF LOWELL.
- ROBERT OWEN,
- COTTON-MANUFACTURER.
- JOHN SMEDLEY,
- STOCKING-MANUFACTURER.
- RICHARD COBDEN,
- CALICO PRINTER.
- "free trade, peace and good will among nations."
- "free trade, peace and good will among nations."
- CALICO PRINTER.
- HENRY BESSEMER.
- JOHN BRIGHT.
- MANUFACTURER.
- THOMAS EDWARD,
- COBBLER AND NATURALIST.
- ROBERT DICK,
- BAKER AND NATURALIST.
- JOHN DUNCAN,
- WEAVER AND BOTANIST.
- JAMES LACKINGTON,
- SECOND-HAND BOOKSELLER.
- small profits do great things.
- small profits do great things.
- SECOND-HAND BOOKSELLER.
- HORACE GREELEY'S START.
- JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
- AND HOW HE FOUNDED HIS HERALD.
- THREE JOHN WALTERS,
- AND THEIR NEWSPAPER.
- GEORGE HOPE.
- SIR HENRY COLE.
- CHARLES SUMMERS.
- WILLIAM B. ASTOR.
- HOUSE-OWNER.
- PETER COOPER.
- PARIS-DUVERNEY.
- FRENCH FINANCIER.
- SIR ROWLAND HILL.
- MARIE-ANTOINE CARĂˆME,
- FRENCH COOK.
- WONDERFUL WALKER.
- SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN.
- SIR JOHN RENNIE,
- ENGINEER.
- SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE.
- MARQUIS OF WORCESTER,
- INVENTOR OF THE STEAM-ENGINE.
- AN OLD DRY-GOODS MERCHANT'S RECOLLECTIONS.
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