https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn Due 10/17/18 en-us 2017-10-06 17:39:46 UTC 2024-07-24 10:00:12 UTC hello@padlet.com 813100 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn/wish/194801528 John Jacob Astor was a German-American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul and investor who mainly made his fortune in fur trade and by investing in real estate in or around New York City. He was born in Germany and emigrated to England as a teenager. He was the youngest son of Johann Jakob Astor.   John worked as a musical instrument manufacturer.  John was the wealthiest man in the country at the time, He died in 1848. At his death, his fortune was estimated to be about 20 Million, The bulk of which went to his son William Back house Astor. Driven to succeed, John Jacob Astor built a family and a fortune that became a part of American History.]]> 2017-10-06 17:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn/wish/194801528 813100 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn/wish/194802168 William A Clark was an american politician and entrepreneur, involved with mining, banking, and railroads. He was born in Conneellsville, Pennsylvania. He moved with his family to Iowa in 186 where he taught school and studied law at Iowa Wesleyan College. In 1862, he traveled west to become a miner. After working in Quartz mines in Colorado, during 1863 clark made his way to new gold fields to find his fortune in the Montana Gold Rush. William Clark Died September 1,1838, St. Louis, Missouri, American Frontiersman who won fame as an explorer by sharing with Meriwether Lewis the leadership of their epic expedition to the Pacific Northwest

Sources: Dedman, NBCNews, United States Congress, Hopkins, Las Vegas Hunting Press, Mangam, William ]]> 2017-10-06 17:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn/wish/194802168 813100 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn/wish/194802378 Jay Cooke was an American Financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the Northwestern United States. He is generally acknowledged as the first major investment banker in the United States and creator of the first wire house film. Cooke was born at Sandusky, Ohio, The son of Eleutheros Cooke and Martha Carswell Cooke. Eleutheros Cooke was a pioneer ohio lawyer and whig, a member of the Ohio General assembly and member of congress from Ohio in 1831-1833. He died February 16, 1905, Ogontz, Philadelphia.]]> 2017-10-06 17:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn/wish/194802378 813100 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn/wish/194802527 Charles Crocker was an american railroad executive who founded the central pacific railroad, which constructed the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the southern pacific railroad. He was born in Troy, New York, Crocker was the son of Eliza and Isaac Crocker, a modest family. They joined the nineteenth-century migration west and moved when he was 14 to Indiana, Where they had a farm. Crocker soon beame independent, working on several Farms, a sawmill, and at an iron forge. At the age of 23 in 1845, he founded a small, independent iron forge of his own. He used money saved from his earnings to invest later in the New railroad business after moving to California, which had become a boom state since the Gold Rush. He died August 14, 1888, Monterrey, CA.]]> 2017-10-06 17:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn/wish/194802527 813100 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn/wish/194802685 Daniel Drew was an american businessman, steamship and railroad developer, and financier. Summarizing his life, Henry Clews Wrote: "Of all the great operators of Wall Street... Daniel Drew Furnishes the most remarkable instance of immense and long-continued success, followed by utter failure and hopeless bankruptcy. Drew was born in Carmel, New York in the family of Gilbert Drew and Catherine Muckleworth. He was poorly educated and saw hardship after his father. who owned a small cattle farm. He died September 18, 1879, New York City.]]> 2017-10-06 17:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/4qez188o4lnn/wish/194802685