Twentieth Century Successful Americans, Local and National

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Excerpt from Twentieth Century Successful Americans, Local and National: Living Men of America Who Have Attained Some Prominence in Social Industrial Commercial Financial and Public AffairsAs the failure to consider the lives of men of affairs as of historical importance is a defective feature of all bio graphical works heretofore published, a special feature of this Series will include the lives of the great merchants, manufacturers, railroad builders, and other practical men who have developed the mines, forests and farms, built the railroads, steamboat lines and canals, organized the corpor ations, and introduced the new processes in science and me chanics, which have so greatly reduced the cost and pro moted the comfort of living, while contributing to the power and prestige of the nation itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.