https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/fb1qgv5sqzpd Jay Cooke, Charles M. Schwab, Andrew W. Mellon, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Leland Stanford. en-us 2017-10-05 15:55:34 UTC 2025-12-16 18:32:10 UTC hello@padlet.com 814142 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/fb1qgv5sqzpd/wish/194371804 Born on August 12, 1821, in Sandusky, Ohio, Jay Cook was a merchant baker in the United States. At the age of 14, he stopped schooling and became a clerk in Saint Louis, Missouri, as well as the community of his own. He got many great opportunities after the outbreak of the Civil War. He owned three baking houses in Philadelphia, New York, and Washington. The New York banking house shut down on September 18, 1873. He died in Philadelphia on February 16, 1905. ]]> 2017-10-05 16:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/fb1qgv5sqzpd/wish/194371804 814142 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/fb1qgv5sqzpd/wish/194379737 Andrew William Mellon, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on March 24, 1855, was an American philanthropist, financier, and secretary of the state. He became one of the richest men in America in the 1920's. He helped found the Union Steel Company and the Union Trust Company, along with Henry Clay Frick. He supplied in fields such as coal, coke, oil, aluminum, and other synthetic abrasives. He was the Ambassador for England for a year. He died in Southampton, New York, on August 26, ]]> 2017-10-05 16:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/fb1qgv5sqzpd/wish/194379737 814142 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/fb1qgv5sqzpd/wish/194385654 John W. Gates was an American steel magnate and financier from Turner Junction, Illinois. He was born on May 8, 1855. At the age of 19, he was done working at a hardware store in the country, so he moved on to be a traveling barbed wire salesman, as he was impressed with the invention and was certain he could sell a lot of it. After the barbed wire idea was a success, he began the Southern Wire Co., the Braddock Wire Co., and the American Steel & Tire Co. he died at 56 years old on August 9, 1911, in Paris, France.]]> 2017-10-05 16:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/fb1qgv5sqzpd/wish/194385654 814142 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/fb1qgv5sqzpd/wish/194389761 Born on March 9, 1824, in Watervliet, New York, Leland Stanford was the former governor of California, as well as an American politician, lawyer, storekeeper, industrialist, tycoon, and the founder of Stanford University located in California. ]]> 2017-10-05 16:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/fb1qgv5sqzpd/wish/194389761