San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-06-20
SOME RICH AMERICAN CITIZENS.


Warner Miller Is worth S5,0OO,oOo.
Secretary Window h worth 100000
VIM. A. Rockefeller Is worth S2o,0Oo,0Oo.
PIT. Barnum began poor and has 100000
Claus Sprccklos Is rated rs high as S2O,OOO,'
600
Jay Gould cannot DO worth less than sI5,-
0OO,OO0
Russell Sage Is 20 years old and worth sio,-
100000.
Samuel A. Scott, Kansas City. has siO,'
100000.
james Mcmillan. Detroit, has mado siO.'
100000.
Robert Bonner, New York, began poor and
has $G,0OO,O0O.
Charles Pratt, tho Brooklyn oil man, Ia
worth sGO0,0O0.
Charles MlcI.urc, st. Louis, made 100000
In Granite Mountain.
Gen. Russell A. Alger, of Detroit, Is worth
5000, 900 md more.
Charles +. a. Henrichs began ms n clerk
and now has S5,OOO,0Oo.
John I. Davis, st. Louis, has made ,OOO,-
900. mostly In dry goods.
John Wananaker, the new postmaster gen.
eral, Is worth Sl0,0O0,0O0.
Ex-Governor English, Of Connecticut, has
an estate valued at S5,0O0,OOO.
Tho Astor heirs will inherit 500, 0Oo, 600
mostly In gilt edged real estate.
Senator James G.. Fair kept saloon for
miners, and Is worth $20,000,0OO
Ex-senator Palmer, Michigan, married q
fortune, and Is worth S6,00O,OOO.
Philip Armour, Chicago, began life as
butcher boy, and now has SOS, 100000.
Marshall Field, Chicago, began as clerk In
Potter Palmcr's store and has Sl5,OOO,OOO
John ]. Jennings, one of Chicago's oldest
residents, has made $5,O0O,OOO in real estate.
Vice President Morton is worth $40, 100000,
and did not have largo nest egg TO start
with.
Coils p. Huntington, tho railroad mng'
nate, was once n poor man, and isworth S|O,'
100000.
J. W. Mackny, $3O,OO0,OOO, WINS ship
builder at days wages before no was gold
hunter.
David Sinton Is the richest man In Cincln-
natl, born In Il cabin in Ireland, and worth
now S5,0OO,OO0.
B.P. Hutchlson, "Old Hutch" started life
ut the shoemakcrs bench at Lynn, Mass lilo
is worth Ss,00O,0CO.
Andrew Carnegie, tho iron king is worth
$4,000 900, and came to this country from
Scotland n poor man.
A. NJ. Cannon, Washington territory, ped
o. md 10
now rated at S5,00O,OO0.
John I. Blair, Blairstown, N. j., is worth
$4,000, 900, and began business by selling
plug tobacco and notions.
Senator John p Jones came TO this coun-
try from Wales and went gold hunting in
1870 He is worth 100000.
l.. e. Letter, Washington, d. c., began
life poor and is new worth Sl0,0O00OO, made
mostly In dry goods In Chicago.
Sidney Dillon was at one time a brakeman,
and had no regular education. His fortune
Is estimated at Sl5,0Oo,oOo to S2O,OOO,O0o
Henry a. Flaglcr, who built tho Ponce do
Leon hotel, at st. Augustine, Fla, said to 10
tho finest hotel In tho world, is worth $751;
100000
George NJ. Pullman, the palace CIR man,
began life In n small furniture business in Al
bion, N. Y. Hc began with fifty dollars and
now has s5,OOO,oOO.
The four malo members of the Vanderbilt
family are rated Cornelius, SllO,O0J0OO;
William X, ss5 ZOO, 600; Frederick W., &c.,
1900; George W., Sl5,0O0,OOO.
Cauldwell Cole, owner of the yaucht Daunt-
less, is bachelor, So. and worth $GOO0,0Oo,
Mr.. Colo Is ono Of the few rich men who
have inherited most of their fortune.
Montgomery Sears, Boston, inherited So,
100000 from his father, but had TO contest
the will 70 get it. He is believed to bo worth
sl2,OOO,OO0 His father began life poor.
John D. Rockefeller, New York, began life
ms bookkeeper in Cleveland, and Is reported
to DO worth SEQ, 100000. Ho is still n young
man, and ono of tho brainiest and most unas.
Stunning Of Americas great iinancicrs.
George Ehret, New York beer king, is
but forty years old and worth 81, OOO,00o. "Hc
was so poor few years ago when he reached
this country that ho could not speak the
English language" is the way his financial
condition was expressed 10 the writer.
Here are soventy-two men, all American
citizens, whose fortunes aggregate the biz
total Of 81, 49,, OOO,CO0 This exceeds 10y $35,-
OK, 900 the total money circulation of the
United States tho first day Of the present
month, according to the treasury statement
A. ]. Drcxel. OF Philadelphia, Is worth
10000, goo lie is the son Of Francis Martin
Drexel, who was born In Austrian Tyrol,
l1ga, a portrait painter Of merit, who came
TO this country TO avoid ono OF Napoleon.
conscriptionS Ho engaged in the banking
business and his sons inherited a considerable
fortuna
James J. Hill, president Of the Manitoba
railroad. who not many years ago Taii Nor
man ". KittSon e, 10000 cash for unc-tlftl
interest in the ruad, jcr-;.n earning money b.
working on tile ST Taul lcvce for so q
month Hc was afterwards agent at S. Faul
Tor a line Of river steamers Mr.. HUI Is nov
worth Sl5,Oo0,Oo1
Ten cctta-c-s At Lcnox last summer wcr.'
rated as follows. H. W. Bishup. $4,000, 90
George W. Wcstinghu,lsc S-aJOO0. GO, ". n
Sloane, SlS,0u0.C COO, Charles Ianicr, Sl5,Cl,
0oO; q. @. Haven, Sl2.O10.CC1. George :
Crocker, a.C00,oco; ". IL Bradford, go.
oOO.0o0; Ans1n 2. Stokes. SS,COOO); Erayton
Ives sd.OOo.0OO, Col Auchmu;ty, sa.OcJ. 05j
George VI. chnAs, q FlIladolrhin. vas on
errand boy In a book store, bocauo c,Grk
then pzrtnor with r Z Fa;c1s-n. and latsi
With J. d. Uppirc5it in tie publishing tus
nezN Arn1ug t. famous to1ks isslol y q.
firm uas Para DrouuiCE's "Eerliui-u,l
CO. for ukicb Thy rail tie agtLor $500,
IN rovaltsss .r CHA i vc1th not loss iAat
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