https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w Made with ♥ en-us 2017-10-05 16:09:30 UTC 2025-09-24 16:45:17 UTC hello@padlet.com 813612 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w/wish/194374631 Daniel Drew was born on July 29th 1797, he died on September 18, 1879. He first had a successful career in cattle trading. After that he had interest in York-To- Peekskill steamboat. He operated a steamboat service on Lake Champlain.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Drew]]> 2017-10-05 16:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w/wish/194374631 813612 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w/wish/194380775 Jay Gould was born on May 27th, 1836 and died on December 2nd, 1892. He was a prominent American Railroad builder and financier. In the 1800's he was pushed out of the Union Pacific Railroads, but regained control in 1885. He was a stockbroker and manipulated the prices.  He used illegal methods to issue 100,000 shares.

Source:https://www.biography.com/people/jay-gould-9316806]]> 2017-10-05 16:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w/wish/194380775 813612 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w/wish/194389356 John was born on March 6th, 1851 and died on January 4th, 1926. He was one of the founders of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company and a coal baron which extended throughout the Rocky mountains West. He also found employment as a bookkeeper for the union mining company in Iowa. A bank gave him financial experience and soon gained control of the white breast mining company, which supplied coal to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad.

Source: https://www.mininghalloffame.org/inductee/osgood]]> 2017-10-05 16:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w/wish/194389356 813612 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w/wish/194527501 Leland was born on March 9th,1824 and died in June 21st, 1893. He was California's eighth governor. He was also a lawyer, storekeeper, a justice of the peace, and an organizer. He was also one of the big four who built the transcontinental railroad which connected the eastern United States to the west. Leland was the last governor of California to serve a two year term.

Source:  http://governors.library.ca.gov/08-stanford.html]]> 2017-10-05 23:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w/wish/194527501 813612 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w/wish/194529336 Collis was born on October 22nd. 1821 and died on August 13th, 1900. He was a railroad builder, and a financier. His father was a farmer, he was born in Harwinton, Connecticut. He only went to school four months a year. He was one of the original gold rush "49ers".

Source: http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-00841.html]]> 2017-10-05 23:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bbxcx4amhv5w/wish/194529336