https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/odkoggd896zc Made with love en-us 2017-10-06 20:13:14 UTC 2024-03-20 05:48:45 UTC hello@padlet.com 813170 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/odkoggd896zc/wish/194849942 William A. Clark was born on January 8, 1839. He was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. This was a very rich man because he made his riches but being an American politician and entrepreneur. The things that made him wealthier was mining, banking, and the railroads. After working in Colorado in 1863 on quartz mines he found new gold fields and that he where he made his fortune in the Montana gold rush. He lived in the Cooper King Mansion. He died on March 2, 1925.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Clark

]]> 2017-10-06 20:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/odkoggd896zc/wish/194849942 813170 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/odkoggd896zc/wish/194851798 Daniel Drew was born on July 29, 1797 in Carmel, New York. Drew was an American businessman. He was poorly educated and followed hardship after his father. He enlisted and drilled in the army but didn't get to fight. After the war, he went on to travel with the zoo and built a successful cattle-droving business.  Drew became a member of the board of directors of the Erie Railroad in 1857. He was the developer of the railroad. 
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Drew

]]> 2017-10-06 20:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/odkoggd896zc/wish/194851798 813170 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/odkoggd896zc/wish/194853180 J.P. Morgan was born in April 17, 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut. Morgan was an American financier and banker. He dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation. He had a varied education due in part of the plans of his father. He came down with the Pheumatic fever and it left him a lot of pain. He was in so much pain he couldn't walk.  Morgan recovered and ended up going into banking. The most famous thing he is known for is Chase bank.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Morgan

]]> 2017-10-06 20:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/odkoggd896zc/wish/194853180 813170 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/odkoggd896zc/wish/194855080 John Warne Gates was born on May 18, 1855 in what is now West Chicago, Illinois. Gates was also known as "Bet-a-million" Gates. He did not enjoy farm life. He also began the sale of firewood to homes and the local railroad. He was hired by Isaac Ellwood in San Antonio, Texas in 1876 as a salesman for the Washburn-Moen barbed wire company. He was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warne_Gates

]]> 2017-10-06 20:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/odkoggd896zc/wish/194855080 813170 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/odkoggd896zc/wish/194866423 Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. He was a Scottish-American Industrialist. He emigrated to the United States in 1848 with his parents. He sold the Pittsburg's Carnegie Steel Company to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million. He surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American for the next couple of years. He is known for leading the expansion of the American steel industry.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie

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