https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/oi1gull985p8 Made with a quick smile. en-us 2018-10-17 20:41:34 UTC 2024-03-20 05:48:50 UTC hello@padlet.com 372264 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/oi1gull985p8/wish/294098369 William A. Clark was an american explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial Governor.Before the expedition, he served in a militia and the United States Army. Afterwards, he served in a militia as a governor of the Missouri territory. Two years into his presidency, Jefferson asked congress to fund an expedition through the Louisiana territory to the Pacific Ocean. In 1803, Jefferson commissioned the Corps of discovery and named Army Captain Meriwether Lewis as it's leader, who then selected William A.Clark as second in command.
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]]> 2018-10-17 20:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/oi1gull985p8/wish/294098369 372264 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/oi1gull985p8/wish/294098553 Daniel Drew was an American businessman, steamship and railroad developer, and financier. He was born on July 29, 1797 in Carmel, New York, in the dairy country north of New York City. He received little schooling. The Erie Railroad was controlled by Daniel Drew, an eccentric character who had made his fortune as a cattle drover, walking herds of beef cattle from upstate New York. Daniel Drew grew up on his family farm. His career began as a cattle drover and a horse trader.
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]]> 2018-10-17 20:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/oi1gull985p8/wish/294098553 372264 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/oi1gull985p8/wish/294098676 Charles Tyson Yerkes died in New York 1905, of kidney disease. The events of Yerkes life served as a blueprint for the Theodore Dreiser novels, The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic, in which Yerkes was fictionalized as Frank Cowperwood. The crater Yerkes on the Moon is named in his honor. Charles was born June 25, 1837 and died December 29, 1905. He played a major part in developing mass-transit systems in Chicago and London.
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]]> 2018-10-17 20:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/oi1gull985p8/wish/294098676 372264 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/oi1gull985p8/wish/294098828 Shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt was a self-made multi-millionaire who became one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century. As a boy, he worked with his father, who operated a boat that ferried cargo between Staten Island, New York, where they lived , and Manhattan. Cornelius Vanderbilt was a famous industrialist who worked in railroads and shipping. He had accumulated the largest fortune in the u.s at the time of his death, in 1877. 
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]]> 2018-10-17 20:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/oi1gull985p8/wish/294098828 372264 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/oi1gull985p8/wish/294098997 Henry Huttleston Rogers was an American Industrialist and financier. A descendant of the original Mayflower Pilgrims, he made his fortune in the oil refining business, becoming a leader at Standard Oil. Henry Huttleston Rogers was a capitalist, was the son of Rowland and Mary Eldridge (Huttleston) Rogers. Henry was born January 29, 1840 and died May 19, 1909.
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