https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/jrxhazkiape3 Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2017-10-05 15:55:15 UTC 2024-03-20 05:48:51 UTC hello@padlet.com 371121 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/jrxhazkiape3/wish/194367635 Charles Tyson Yerkes was born June 25,1837,Philadelphia,PA after his mother died Yerkes began his business at age 17 as a clerk in 1862 he was able to purchase his own banking house he was buying stock cheaply during the panic of 1873 eventually is business became big and he invested his money to a lot of places.

Source:https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Tyson-Yerkes]]> 2017-10-05 15:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/jrxhazkiape3/wish/194367635 371121 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/jrxhazkiape3/wish/194375452 Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on May 27,1794 Port Richmond and he was one of the wealthiest man in the U.S probably the greatest of the nineteenth century railroad barons,Earlier in his business Career he probably was the greatest shipping tycoon in the U.S.
Source: https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/cornelius-vanderbilt/


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Leland Stanford was born March 9,1824,Watervliet,New York,U.S Leland stand ford amassed a large fortune from the development of the railroad industry in the west he was the founder of the Central Pacific Railroad Company that helped build the first transcontinental railroad.

Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/business-leaders/leland-stanford]]> 2017-10-05 16:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/jrxhazkiape3/wish/194382684 371121 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/jrxhazkiape3/wish/194389598

William Andrews Clark was born January 8,1839 and was from Virginia William A. Clark was 19 years old when he volunteer militia force under Major John Hardin he won fame as an explorer by sharing with Meriwether Lewis the leadership of their epic expedition to the Pacific Northwest (1804-06).
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Clark]]> 2017-10-05 16:40:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/jrxhazkiape3/wish/194389598 371121 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/jrxhazkiape3/wish/194408232 Huttleston Rogers was born into a working-class in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, on January 29,1840 and he became rich off the oil industry.



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