Captains of Industry

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Author

Parton, James, 1822-1891

Title

Captains of Industry; or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money

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Produced by Stacy Brown, Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

T: Technology

Subject

Industrial arts -- Biography

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Text

eBook-No.

20064

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20064

Release Date

December 9, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY — OR
2. 2.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.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
5. 5.PORTRAITS.
6. 6.CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY.
7. 7.DAVID MAYDOLE, — HAMMER-MAKER.
8. 8.ICHABOD WASHBURN, — WIRE-MAKER.
9. 9.ELIHU BURRITT, — The Learned Blacksmith.
10. 10.MICHAEL REYNOLDS, — ENGINE-DRIVER.
11. 11.MAJOR ROBERT PIKE, — FARMER.
12. 12.GEORGE GRAHAM, — CLOCK-MAKER, BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
13. 13.JOHN HARRISON, — EXQUISITE WATCH-MAKER.
14. 14.PETER FANEUIL, — AND THE GREAT HALL HE BUILT.
15. 15.CHAUNCEY JEROME, — YANKEE CLOCK-MAKER.
16. 16.CAPTAIN PIERRE LACLEDE LIGUEST, — PIONEER.
17. 17.ISRAEL PUTNAM.
18. 18.GEORGE FLOWER. — PIONEER.
19. 19.EDWARD COLES, — NOBLEST OF THE PIONEERS, AND HIS GREAT SPEECH.
20. 20.PETER H. BURNETT.
21. 21.GERRIT SMITH.
22. 22.PETER FORCE.
23. 23.JOHN BROMFIELD, — MERCHANT.
24. 24.FREDERICK TUDOR, — ICE EXPORTER.
25. 25.MYRON HOLLEY, — MARKET-GARDENER.
26. 26.THE FOUNDERS OF LOWELL.
27. 27.ROBERT OWEN, — COTTON-MANUFACTURER.
28. 28.JOHN SMEDLEY, — STOCKING-MANUFACTURER.
29. 29.RICHARD COBDEN, — CALICO PRINTER. — " free trade, peace and good will among nations ."
30. 30.HENRY BESSEMER.
31. 31.JOHN BRIGHT. — MANUFACTURER.
32. 32.THOMAS EDWARD, — COBBLER AND NATURALIST.
33. 33.ROBERT DICK, — BAKER AND NATURALIST.
34. 34.JOHN DUNCAN, — WEAVER AND BOTANIST.
35. 35.JAMES LACKINGTON, — SECOND-HAND BOOKSELLER. — small profits do great things.
36. 36.HORACE GREELEY'S START.
37. 37.JAMES GORDON BENNETT, — AND HOW HE FOUNDED HIS HERALD.
38. 38.THREE JOHN WALTERS, — AND THEIR NEWSPAPER.
39. 39.GEORGE HOPE.
40. 40.SIR HENRY COLE.
41. 41.CHARLES SUMMERS.
42. 42.WILLIAM B. ASTOR. — HOUSE-OWNER.
43. 43.PETER COOPER.
44. 44.PARIS-DUVERNEY. — FRENCH FINANCIER.
45. 45.SIR ROWLAND HILL.
46. 46.MARIE-ANTOINE CARÈME, — FRENCH COOK.
47. 47.WONDERFUL WALKER.
48. 48.SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN.
49. 49.SIR JOHN RENNIE, — ENGINEER.
50. 50.SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE.
51. 51.MARQUIS OF WORCESTER, — INVENTOR OF THE STEAM-ENGINE.
52. 52.AN OLD DRY-GOODS MERCHANT'S RECOLLECTIONS.

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