Better Gutenberg
Free, beautifully formatted public-domain ebooks

Cyrus W. Field, His Life and Work

by Isabella Field Judson

16 sections · Download EPUB

Start reading ›
  1. 1Dedication — Chapter I — Parentage and Early Home Life (1819-1835)
  2. 2Chapter II — Early Life in New York (1835-1840)
  3. 3Chapter III — Marriage and Business Life (1840-1853)
  4. 4Chapter IV — Out of Debt — A Voyage to South America (1853)
  5. 5Chapter V — The First Cable (1853-1857)
  6. 6Chapter VI — The First Cable (Continued) (1857)
  7. 7Chapter VII — A Fleeting Triumph (1858)
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Failure on All Sides (1858-1861)
  9. 9Chapter IX — The Civil War (1861-1862)
  10. 10Chapter X — Capital Raised for the Making of a New Cable — Steamshi…
  11. 11Chapter XI — The Failure of 1865
  12. 12Chapter XII — The Cable Laid — Cable of 1865 Grappled for and Recov…
  13. 13Chapter XIII — The Reconstruction Period (1867-1870)
  14. 14Chapter XIV — International Politics — Rapid Transit (1870-1880)
  15. 15Chapter XV — The Pacific Cable — The Golden Wedding (1880-1891)
  16. 16Chapter XVI — Last Days and Death — In Memoriam (1891-1892)

← Back to Cyrus W. Field, His Life and Work

Scroll to Top