https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2gplglrcjgun Made with big dreams en-us 2017-10-06 20:13:44 UTC 2024-03-20 05:48:49 UTC hello@padlet.com 377432 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2gplglrcjgun/wish/194849070 Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. Andrew Carnegie made his fortune by his steel company.  He was from Dunfermline  Scotland. He came here  to the united states to begin with the railroads. He left the railroad in 1865 to focus on his other business interests.   Carnegie made a dramatic change in his life. He sold his business to the United States Steel Corporation,  J.P. Morgan.
https://www.biography.com/people/andrew-carnegie-9238756]]> 2017-10-06 20:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2gplglrcjgun/wish/194849070 377432 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2gplglrcjgun/wish/194852513 22 Oct. 1821-13 Aug. 1900), railroad builder and financier, was born at Huntington, Connecticut. Collis made his fortune of a new formula that he invented in the nineteenths.   Huntington actively seeking it, an opportunity arose to expand his rail construction ambitions to east of the Mississippi.  Because of the difficulty of selling stock in this risky enterprise, Huntington often had to raise money by borrowing on his personal credit.  Huntington could no longer hold back legislation to force repayment. Huntington saw his own refunding bill defeated and in 1899 a settlement forced on him.

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]]> 2017-10-06 20:41:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2gplglrcjgun/wish/194852513 377432 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2gplglrcjgun/wish/194854292 Jayson Gould was born in Roxbury, New York, on May 27, 1836. He became a stockbroker on Wall Street and manipulated the price of stocks. In 1868, he used illegal methods to issue 100,000 shares of new stock for the struggling Erie Railroads. Gould moved his operations westward into the Wabash. Gould had bought the insignificant American Union Telegraph Company in 1879. Gould added twenty-five hundred miles to the railroad at a cost of about $50 million.
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Gould-Jay.html#ixzz4uneR1pU9]]> 2017-10-06 20:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2gplglrcjgun/wish/194854292 377432 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2gplglrcjgun/wish/194854357 Daniel Drew born July 29 1797 Carmel, N.Y. U.S. Successful career as a cattle trader. Bought an interest in a New York-to-Peek skill Steamboat. After this career he entered the steamboat business and also became quite successful. Primarily working the Hudson River. The Panic of 1873 and the following depression completed his downfall.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h864.html]]> 2017-10-06 20:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2gplglrcjgun/wish/194854357 377432 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2gplglrcjgun/wish/194854383 Mellon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1855. Mellon began expanding his firm into industrial fields such as aluminum, steel, oil, coal, and coke by providing capital for corporations. Mellon’s financial backing led to the creation of the Aluminum Company of America and the Gulf Oil Company. Resigned from the Treasury amidst accusations of improper business ties and impeachment proceedings. Mellon held that continuance of the high wartime tax rates would discourage business expansion and hence reduce revenue.
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