KImberley Soriente's Industrialization Padlet by Kimberley Soriente https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/5jyowir7y4sl Made with a quick smile en-us 2018-10-17 20:43:13 UTC 2025-11-16 22:01:42 UTC hello@padlet.com William A. Clark 504067 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/5jyowir7y4sl/wish/294099362 William A. Clark was born on January 8, 1839 in Connellsville, PA. He was an American Politician and entrepreneur. He was also a teacher and a law sturdier at Iowa Wesleyan University on Mount Pleasant. He also worked as quartz mine worker near a central city of Gilpin County, Colorado. He became wealthy with his Montana copper discoveries by selling food, tobacco and other goods to miners in Montana.

Source:]]> 2018-10-17 20:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/5jyowir7y4sl/wish/294099362 John D. Rockefeller 504067 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/5jyowir7y4sl/wish/294595918 John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1839 in Richford, NY. He was an American industrialist and founder of an oil company. The Standard Oil Company is a oil refinery that monopolized the oil business in the United States. He's the Head of the Standard Oil Company which controls the drilling, refining and transporting the oil across the United States. He founded the Rockefeller Institute for medical research.

Source:]]> 2018-10-18 20:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/5jyowir7y4sl/wish/294595918 Edward Henry Harriman 504067 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/5jyowir7y4sl/wish/294596064 Edward Henry Harriman was born on February 20, 1848 in Hempstead, NY. He was an American financier and railroad magnate. In his origin life, he was a broker's clerk or a paper worker at his early age in New York. He brought the Union Pacific "out of bankruptcy into prosperity." Before his death, in 1909, Harriman's influenced the extension of railroad tracks over 60,000. 

Source:]]> 2018-10-18 20:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/5jyowir7y4sl/wish/294596064 Charles Tyson Yerkes 504067 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/5jyowir7y4sl/wish/294596185 Charles Tyson Yerkes was born on June 25, 1837 in Philadelphia, PA. He was an American financier who syndicated companies to invest in the building of Chicago mass-transit system. He fired for misappropriation of funds and was jailed for seven months. After he was pardoned, he bought stocks during the Panic of 1873. He invested in the street rail-way line replacing horse-car with car traction.
Source:]]> 2018-10-18 20:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/5jyowir7y4sl/wish/294596185 Andrew Carnegie 504067 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/5jyowir7y4sl/wish/294596339 Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, United Kingdom. He was an American industrialist and major philanthropist in a steel industry. In his early life, when he was a young boy, he worked as a ragged cotton factory worker in Pittsburgh. In 1859, He then became rich by rising to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In the early 1870s, he started his steel business and became a dominant force over the industries in the past two years.

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