https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9 en-us 2017-10-05 15:54:23 UTC 2024-03-20 05:48:47 UTC hello@padlet.com 814047 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9/wish/194369585 Cleveland Osgood was born on March 6, 1851. He was a founder of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. He was orphaned by fourteen. He attended night classes for school and was employed as a bookkeeper. With the experience of his bookkeeping job for an mining company, he had control of the White Breast Mining Company. When he was sent back to look for more coal deposits in Colorado, he bought a large deposit that was exposed by an avalanche.  With that, he founded Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
Source:  https://www.mininghalloffame.org/inductee/osgood]]> 2017-10-05 16:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9/wish/194369585 814047 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9/wish/194371014 Henry Clay Frick was born on December 19, 1849 in Pennsylvania. He built the largest Coke and Steel operations. The following year after started building coke ovens, he founded Frick and Company. His company had a financial panic in 1873. He was made the chairman of Carnegie Brothers and Company in 1889. He made Carnegie Brothers and Company into the top industry and helped it buy out all it's competitors.
Source:https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Clay-Frick]]> 2017-10-05 16:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9/wish/194371014 814047 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9/wish/194372336 Collis Potter Huntington was born on October 22, 1821 in Connecticut. When he was fourteen, he was an apprentice of a farmer. By the end of his apprenticeship he claimed to be a capitalist. When he turned sixteen, he was a Yankee Peddler. He became an original Gold Rush 49er. He and a few other people had planned the creation of the transcontinental railroad.
Source: http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-00841.html]]> 2017-10-05 16:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9/wish/194372336 814047 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9/wish/194373782 Andrew W. Mellon was a businessman and a banker. He worked with his brother at their family bank at an early age. He was Treasury Secretary in 1921. He was idolized as the best Treasury Secretary since Alexander Hamilton. He resigned in 1932. He then was sent to Britain as an American Ambassador.
Source: https://mellon.org/about/history/andrew-w-mellon/]]> 2017-10-05 16:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9/wish/194373782 814047 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9/wish/194376666 Charles T. Hinde was born on July 12, 1832 in Ohio. He was an American industrialist. He was also an entrepreneur in railroads, shipping and hotels. He was a college dropout and worked as a grocery clerk. He started his own steamboat shipping business then added onto railroads. Due to mismanagement it when down but he was able to sell his contracts on time. 
Source: https://foundr.com/pre-internet-entrepreneurs-charles-t-hinde/ ]]> 2017-10-05 16:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/2tux7gmdm7g9/wish/194376666