https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/799maz13c5en Made with good vibes en-us 2017-10-05 17:36:29 UTC 2026-01-29 01:32:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/152395311/8295bfd9ab382daaaa8f53cf4050ae9c/face.jpg 817348 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/799maz13c5en/wish/194423695 Mark Hopkins was born in Henderson, Jefferson County in September 1, 1813. When the gold rush began in Sacramento, he created the "New England Mining and Trading Company" that was basically buying goods and shipping them to California to sell them there. He lived in New York but then moved to Sacramento and he started a wholesale grocery store. He then later created the "Huntington Hopkins and Company" that operated hardware and iron in Sacramento. However than he became partners with other 3 people and they created the " Central Pacific Railroad" and because of that he was called " balance-wheel of the Associates and one of the truest and best men that ever lived".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Flagler]]> 2017-10-05 17:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/799maz13c5en/wish/194431334 817348 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/799maz13c5en/wish/194441330 2017-10-05 18:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/799maz13c5en/wish/194441330 817348 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/799maz13c5en/wish/194441636 Jay Cooke was born in Sandusky, Ohio on August 10, 1821. He was the creator of the development or railroads in the Northwestern United States and is acknowledge as the major investment banker and also the creator of the first wire house firm. He first opened the private banking house of "Jay Cook & Company" and it was very successful in distributing Treasury notes. After the Civil War, Cook was interested in the northwest and his firm financed the construction of the "Northern Pacific Railway" and he began to purchase railways, he later went into bankrupt. Later on Cooke took his son-in-law, Charles Barney into the firm and they reorganized to "Chas. D. Barney & Co. and that is when Cooke became more wealthy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cooke]]> 2017-10-05 18:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/799maz13c5en/wish/194441636 817348 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/799maz13c5en/wish/194452184 Daniel Drew was born in Carmel, New York in July 29, 1797. He was a businessman, steamship and railroad developer as well as financier.He founded the brokerage firm of Drew, Robinson & Company in 1844, which dissolved a decade later with the death of his partner. He also became a director of the New York and Harlem Railroad, where he collaborated again with Vanderbilt to prop up that company's finances. In 1870, Fisk and Gould betrayed Drew, manipulating the stock price of the Erie Railroad and causing him to lose $1.5 million. The Panic of 1873 cost him still more, and by 1876, Drew filed for bankruptcy, with debts exceeding a million dollars and no viable assets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Drew]]> 2017-10-05 18:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/799maz13c5en/wish/194452184 817348 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/799maz13c5en/wish/195443046 Marshall Field was born on a farm in Conway, Franklin County, Massachusetts, in 1834.  At age 21, he went to live with his brother in Chicago,and obtained employment at leading dry goods merchant Cooley, Wadsworth & Co., which was to become Cooley, Farwell & Co. in 1857. He was an American entrepreneur and the founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based store. The company also survived the Panic of 1873 because they didn't have debts. The wholesale business even had its own landmark building, the Marshall Field's Wholesale Store. In 1905, Field's fortune was valued at $125 million.
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