Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-02
lIILLIONAIRES OF AMERICA.
A Few of the Lucky Ones Who are
Not Famous.
BEGAN ON THE BOTTOM ROUND.
The Rich Men of Denver, Ohio and
Pennsylvania How They Made
Their Strikes-Dead Ones
of California.
American MiIlionaires.

The New York correspondent of the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat writes hi
paper as follows: MIillionaires abound
in this age, and the number of men who
now possess untold wealth is far greater
than IN the fabulous epoch of the Roman
empire. Jay Gould is said to be worth
5000 600, 900, and Vanderbilt left half
that amount when he died. New York
counts its millionaires by the score,
while they are fairly plentiful in such
outlying localities as Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland,
Detroit, Denver, San Francisco and
other towns. New Haven, Conn, boasts
of having more wealth than any other
town of its size in the United States, but
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, is willing
to bet on Portland. The aim of this
paper is to bring forward some obscure
millionaires and facts, not to deal
with those already well known to the
public.
The bankers, Kountz Bros, of Den
yer, Colo, are among the most enter
prising capitalists in the union. Orig
lnally poor boys, they started out from
the Ohio town of Canton to make their
fortunes. They engaged in banking,
and each of the four is now worth sew
eral millions. Two Of them own mag
nifcent houses near New York, great
stone palaces in the New Jersey noun
tains near Morristown. Another has
home at Omaha, which is palatial in APP
'pointmcnts, while the fourth has big
house in Denver, valued at SlOO,OOO.
Tabor and Hill are we'll known Denver
millionaires, but there are half dozen
others that have not blazed upon the
public eye. Judge Symos, the red
headed congressman who succeeds Judge
Belford in the house of representatives.,
has big block near Tabor's opera
house, which brings in rs much as a
kings ransom every year. He made
his money in mining law.
d. II. Moffat, president OF the Denver
& Rio grande railroad, went to Denver
as a book seller, and is now worth
100000. The two Clayton brothers,
who carried $1,000 to that bustliug
western town during Lincoln's presi-
dency, are each worth 81 ,0OO,O or
more. Senator Teller is rich man.
Ex-Governor Routt has made a big
| fortune since the days of Grants ad-
| ministration, and Jim Belford says he
| is going TO roll up 100000 in the next
ten years.
California, of course, is the state
where big fortunes have naturally ac-
cumulated through its floods Of gold.
| Stories of its rich men fill the world,
while the wife of one daZzle5 Partisan
| eyes with the splendor of her eXtraya-
| gance, and the widow of anOther-just
married again, by the way
| has consoled her lonely hours
| by erecting mammoth palace
| at Great Darlington, Mass. For many
years California's seats in the United
STATES SENATE have been held bV the
men whose checks were good for mil
| lions; and within decade thirty mil
| lionaires have been removed from the
| Pacific slope by death. Ralston, the
banker, drowned himself in 1915, and in
| 1874 w. b. Bowen, who was worth
| 81 900 900, was found with a bullet IN
| his brain. In the same year James de
| Laveaga died, leaving S3,OOO,0OO, and
and shortly after II. G. CrOokcr, of
| Sacramento, left $S 800, 900. In 1876 II.
G. Manson failed to carry his million to
| the grave, and James Lick surrendered
some of the millions he had made to
| charity. 1t is hardly ten years since
Mark Hopkins left his mansion ON Mob
| Hill and his $40. .O0O,O 900, and Michael
| Reese, worth several millions, followed
him Immediately. Resse mad a goniu5
| for lending money, He borrowed II
| cheap and put il out dear, and it is
said that he made 500, 900 annually on
| these transactions alone. His personal
expenses were less than $4,000 year,
| and his income several hundred times
| that amount, ="
| In 1880 liquor dealer named Martin
| died in San Francisco worth ~, 600 600,
1 and in 1885 Hugh Glenn, the farmer
king, was shot by an assassin. Glenn
began life in California as mule seller