https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/qkezfg8xpdeb Made with ♥ en-us 2017-10-06 17:48:46 UTC 2025-04-17 23:05:52 UTC hello@padlet.com 8202021 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/qkezfg8xpdeb/wish/194800495  James FISK was born on April 1, 1835 in Pownal, Vermont. Fisk was  known variously as "Big Jim", "Diamond Jim", and "Jubilee Jim" – was an American stockbroker and corporate executive. James has been referred to as one of the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age. Though Fisk was admired by the working class of New York and the Erie Railroad , he achieved much ill-fame for his role in Black Friday in 1869, where he and his partner Jay Gould befriended the unsuspecting President Ulysses S. Grant in an attempt to use the President's good name in a scheme to corner the gold market in New York City. Several years later Fisk was murdered by a disgruntled business associate.
Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk_(financier)]]> 2017-10-06 17:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/qkezfg8xpdeb/wish/194800495 8202021 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/qkezfg8xpdeb/wish/194805598 Marshall Field was born on August 18, 1834 in Massachusetts. Field was an American entrepreneur and the founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores. His business was renowned for its then-exceptional level of quality and customer service. Field is also known for some of his philanthropic donations, providing funding for the Field Museum of Natural History and donating land for the campus of the University of Chicago. During his lifetime his wholesale business made far more money. During the 1880s, Field's wholesale business generated 5 times more revenue than retail annually.The wholesale business even had its own landmark building.
Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Field]]> 2017-10-06 18:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/qkezfg8xpdeb/wish/194805598 8202021 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/qkezfg8xpdeb/wish/194813546 Henry Morrison Flagler was born on January 2, 1830 in Hopewell, New York. Henry Morrison Flagler was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil. When Flagler achieved successes in the oil industry, he and Rockefeller started building their fortune in refining oil in Cleveland, Ohio. Their companies become well known in Ohio as well as other sates. He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of what became the  Florida East Coast Railway. He is known as the father of St.Augustine, Miami and Palm Beach Florida.
In May 1913, Flagler fell down a flight of marble stairs at Whitehall. He never recovered and died in Palm Beach of his injuries on May 20 at 83 years of age.
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Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cooke]]> 2017-10-06 18:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/qkezfg8xpdeb/wish/194816676 8202021 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/qkezfg8xpdeb/wish/194818566 J.P.Morgan was born on April 17, 1913 on Hartford,Connecticut, U.S.
J.P.Morgan was an American Financier and banker. Morgan dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in late 19th and early 20th Century United States. In 1892, Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson Houston Electric company to form General Electric. He was also instrumental in the creation of the United States Steel Corporation, International Harvester and AT&T.
Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Morgan

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