Kings of fortune
Subtitle: or, The triumphs and achievements of noble, self-made men
By: ed. by Walter R. Houghton
Publisher: Davis
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 621
Subjects: Biography
Table of contents: title: Merchants: Stephen Girard. John Jacob Astor. Alexander T. Stewart. Amos Lawrence. Andrew V. Stout. Jonas Chickering. Nicholas Longworth. George Peaboby. Philip D. Armour. Marshall Field.; title: Capitalists: Cornelius Vanderbilt. George M. Pullman. Cyrus W. Field. William H. Vanderbilt. Jay Gould.; title: Inventors: Robert Fulton. Charles Goodyear. Eli Whitney. Elias Howe, jr. Richard M. Hoe. Samuel Colt. Samuel F. B. Morse. Cyrus H. McCormick.; title: Editors: James Gordon Bennett. Robert Bonner.; title: Lawyers: John Marshall. James T. Brady.; title: Artists: Benjamin West. John Rogers. Hiram Powers.; title: Divines: David Swing. Peter Cartwright.; title: Authors: Henry W. Longfellow. Nathaniel Hawthorne.; title: Actors: Edwin Booth. Joseph Jefferson.