The herald., 1895-03-10

| Western Reserve College. Later studied
law and in 1880 was elected Prosecuting
Attorney.
The reason Mr.. Starin dates his pros
perity from the time of his horse medi-
cine career is that his peregrinations
boatmen in the Mohawk river. There he
picked up considerable knowledge about
the canal business, later on he visited
New York obtained an interview with
old Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
He saw the Commodore, whom he told
freight for the Hudson River road than
it was getting. The Commodore bluntly
replied he had such id cheek he ought
to be able to get anything. In time Mr..
Starin controlled all the lighterage BUSH
ness of the Central Railroad, with hum
dreds of thousands of dollars year.
Ex-senator Warner Miller, one of the
Republican "Big Four" of the state, is
worth million or more. He worked as
chore boy in mill. The young ambition
of his life was to become the owner of
mill, a position for which he thought his
name peculiarly fitted him. He worked
sixteen hours day the first year for his
board, lodging and clothes. The ex-Sena-
tor says that he was never much of dude
and in consequence the item of clothing
was not an expensive one to his en-
ployer.
tune of eight millions in cotton and
Southern railroads, had an humble start.
He dates his first money making expert
ence from the time he arrived in New
York, directly after the war. He had
Just 500 in his pocket when he reached
the metropolis. The first thing he did
was to hunt up Richard 7. Wilson, who
had settled in New York. and was rapidly
building a fortune. Major Wilson had
kindly feeling for the young Southern
boy, and gave him repeated lifts, which
enabled him to start in business for him
self.
The late Eugene Kelly, who left vast
sum when he died couple of months
ago, was an extremely modest man. He
used to say. he found plenty of work in a
large furniture store in the Bowery,
where he was general utility boy from
o'clock in the evening. He speedily
worked himself up to the position Of
clerk, and when the firm decided to open
a branch store in st. Louis he was made
manager of it. The New York concern
collapsed and carried the st. Louis branch
down with it. Then it was that Mr.. Kelly
got the gold fever and went to the Cali
fornia mining camps, where he laid the
foundation OF the great banking house of
which he was the head until the time OF
his death.
Erastus Wiman, the ex-king of Staten
and then lost it by injudicious speculation
and enterprise, started life as a newsboy.
The late Charles Pratt the great pihlan-
thropist and Standard Oil man, who left
between $25, 900, 900 and $50, 900, 600 when
he died, also began life as a newsboy in
Boston. He believed that practical edu-
cation to the average man or woman had
treble the value of a smattering of the
sciences as gained in the customary col
lege course. He put this idea into execu-
tion when he established the Pratt Insti-
tute of Brooklyn, where young men and
women are taught all manner of every
day trades, from carpentering, bricklay-
ing, etc., to stenography and typewriting.
Henry M. Flagler was a wood man in
manhood. He is worth between $40, O0O,-
900 and $50, O00,0 600. He married the
daughter of his employer. Mr.. Flagler's
father-in-law became impressed with the
extraordinary business ability of young
Rockefeller, and wishing to give his new
relative a start in life, purchased half
interest in the Rockefeller store for $780,
Soon after Flagler and Rockefeller en-
tered actively into the partnership, and
that $500 was practically the corner stone
of the Standard Oil Company probably
the richest corporation on earth.