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Captains of Industry

by James Parton

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Captains of Industry
  3. 3Ichabod Washburn
  4. 4Elihu Burritt
  5. 5Michael Reynolds
  6. 6Major Robert Pike
  7. 7George Graham
  8. 8John Harrison
  9. 9Peter Faneuil, and the Great Hall He Built
  10. 10Chauncey Jerome
  11. 11Captain Pierre Laclede Liguest
  12. 12Israel Putnam
  13. 13George Flower
  14. 14Edward Coles
  15. 15Peter H. Burnett
  16. 16Gerrit Smith
  17. 17Peter Force
  18. 18John Bromfield
  19. 19Frederick Tudor
  20. 20Myron Holley
  21. 21The Founders of Lowell
  22. 22Robert Owen
  23. 23John Smedley
  24. 24Richard Cobden
  25. 25Henry Bessemer
  26. 26John Bright
  27. 27Thomas Edward
  28. 28Robert Dick
  29. 29John Duncan
  30. 30James Lackington
  31. 31Horace Greeley’s Start
  32. 32James Gordon Bennett, and How He Founded His Herald
  33. 33Three John Walters, and Their Newspaper
  34. 34George Hope
  35. 35Sir Henry Cole
  36. 36Charles Summers
  37. 37William B. Astor
  38. 38Peter Cooper
  39. 39Paris-Duverney
  40. 40Sir Rowland Hill
  41. 41Marie-Antoine Carème
  42. 42Wonderful Walker
  43. 43Sir Christopher Wren
  44. 44Sir John Rennie
  45. 45Sir Moses Montefiore
  46. 46Marquis of Worcester
  47. 47An Old Dry-Goods Merchant’s Recollections

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