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Colonial and Mercantile America
Chapter 1 :
Patroons
and Manor Lords - the landed gentry of New York
(
2 pages -free
)
The
Van Rensselaers - the richest family of New Netherland
The
Van Rensselaers - mighty patroons of Rensselaerswyck
(
4 pages )
The Greenbush line
of Van Rensselaers from Claverack (
1 page )
The
Livingstons - manor lords, economic factors and statesmen
Robert
Livingston 1st and
the building of the Manor
( 2 pages)
Philip Livingston’s line - Lords of the
Manor
( 3
pages)
Robert
Livingston and the Clermont line
(
4 pages )
Other Livingstons and their descendants
( 3 pages )
Livingstons and American aristocracy
( 8 pages)
Livingston pioneers in American transportation
( 2 pages free + 8
pages )
Other
manor lords and related families
The Morrises of Morrisania
( 3 pages)
Chapter
2 : A
Southern aristocracy of planters
(
2 pages -
free )
The
settlement of Virginia and emergence of a planter aristocracy
(
4 pages
)
The first
American revolution : Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion
(
5 pages
)
Slavery
- boon and bane of the Antebellum South
(
13 pages
)
The
Carters of Corotoman - richest dynasty of Virginia
(
2 pages
)
The
Randolph family : Plantation owners, Virginia Burgesses
and American Statesmen (
3 pages)
Plantation
owners and Presidents of the United States of America
( 3 pages)
George
Washington
Thomas
Jefferson
The Lee family of Virginia :
The
Stratford Branch - American Patriots
( 3 pages)
The
Leesylvania Branch - Soldiers of the Old South
( 2 pages)
The Harrisons of Berkeley One Hundred (coming later)
Other
dynasties of planters and politicians
The Hairstons of Virginia,
North Carolina and Mississippi (family profile)
The Langhornes - A First
family of Virginia (
4 pages - free )
Chapter
3 : Shipping
merchants
( 2 pages
- free )
Brahmin families from Salem to Boston
Salem shipping
merchants
( 3 pages
)
Boston merchant dynasties
( 2 pages )
The Cabots : from the wharves of Salem to Boston Society
The China traders
(1 free
)
The House of
Perkins 1 : J & T.H. Perkins
(
3 pages )
The House of Perkins 2
: the Cushing and Sturgis branches ( 4 pages
)
The House of Perkins 3 : the
Forbes clan ( 2 pages)
Russell & Co
Other Canton firms
Merchants of New York City
The Costers and the
Griswolds
(
3 pages )
Howland & Aspinwall
( 4 pages )
W.R.Grace - the last old
type shipping merchant
Merchants from Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities
Chapter 4 : The
Landlords of New YorkCity
(
2 pages - free )
The
Astors
John
Jacob Astor (1763-1848) : the richest man in America
( 2 pages )
William
Backhouse Astor and his sons : worthy successors
( 3 pages
)
The
English Astors of Cliveden and Hever
( 3
pages )
The
Goelets
( 3 pages )
Chapter 5 :
Bankers
Part 1 :
Bankers of the Early Republic
( 3
pages - free )
Robert Morris
– financier of the American Revolution
(
3 pages )
Stephen Girard – America’s richest shipping merchant and
foremost private banker
( 4
pages )
Nicholas Biddle – the most powerful man in the US after the
president (profile)
Alexander Brown and
his sons – the leading banking family in
pre-civil-war America
( 4
pages )
The
Brown Brothers in transportation : packet lines and railroads
( 4
pages )
Other Antebellum American banking houses
Chapter 6 : Early Industrialists
(
2 pages - free )
Introduction
of the textile mills in New England
Samuel
Slater and Arkwright continuous spinning
( 2
pages )
Francis
Cabot Lowell and the power loom
( 3 pages )
Phelps
Dodge & Co metal traders, mining magnates and industrialists
The
Phelps Dodge dynasty 1 : Anson
Greene Phelps
( 3 pages
)
The
Phelps Dodge dynasty 2 : William
Earl Dodge
(
6 pages)
Rise of Connecticut as the armory of the nation
( 6 pages )
The Du Ponts of Wilmington Delaware
(coming
later)
Part
2 :
America in the Gilded Age
Introduction
( 9
pages - free )
Chapter
7 : The
Mining Bonanza Kings
( 3 pages
- free )
The
California Gold Rush – placer mining on the mother lode
The
Silver Kings of Nevada’s Comstock Lode
The
Comstock Lode – discovery and first bonanza (1859-1864)
(
3 pages )
The
Comstock Lode – William Sharon and the Bank of California ( 6 pages )
Rise
of the Silver Kings
– Fair,
Flood, Mackay and O'Brien
( 4 pages )
Rise
of the Silver Kings
– The
Hale & Norcross coup
( 2 pages )
Rise
of the Silver Kings
– The
Consolidated Virginia and California mines
( 3 pages )
Mining
fortunes in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, the Dakotas and Montana (coming later)
Chapter
8 : The
Railroad Barons
( 2
pages - free )
First consolidation - the New York Central
( 3 pages)
The
Vanderbilt dynasty
Commodore
Vanderbilt - shipping magnate and railroad tycoon (
4 pages)
William
Henry Vanderbilt - the inception of the Vanderbilt dynasty
( 3
pages
)
The
main heirs - Cornelius Vanderbilt II genesis
( 5 pages)
The
main heirs - William Kissam Vanderbilt genesis
( 4
pages )
The Transcontinental railroad
( 2
pages - free )
Union Pacific and Credit Mobilier
( 8
pages )
Union
Pacific Eastern Division
( 1
)
The Central
Pacific and the Pacific Quartet
(
15 pages )
Chapter 9 : Retailers
and
Merchant Princes
( 3 pages
- free )
Rise
of the department store moguls
Alexander Turney Stewart and the first
large store in New York City ( 6 pages )
The Wanamakers - from Philadelphia to
New York
( 11 pages
)
Marshall Field & Company in Chicago
( 18 pages
)
Rowland Hussey Macy - genesis of a
department store
( 4 pages )
Sequence
at Macy's in New York - the Straus Family (coming later)
Jewish merchant princes in America (coming later)
The chain store tycoons (coming later)
The
story of mail order merchandising (coming later)
Chapter 10 :
The
Bankers II - Banking dynasties of the Gilded Age ( 5 pages free )
Jay Cooke : Rise and Fall of a Banking Grandee
Jay Cooke
- Financier of the Union (6 pages)
Jay Cooke
and the Northern Pacific Railroad (6 pages)
The House of Morgan (coming
later)
Jewish banking houses
in America ( 2 pages free )
A
short introduction about the Rothschilds (4 pages)
August
Belmont & Company (10 pages)
J.
& W. Seligman & Company (12 pages)
Kuhn,
Loeb & Company (12 pages)
Other Jewish banking houses (coming later)
The great national banks : National City, First National and Chase
National (coming later)
The Mellons of Pittsburgh (coming
later)
A. P. Gianinni : Banker of America
(coming later)
Chapter
11 :
The
Trusts (
4 pages - free )
A list of major industrial trusts or corporations organized between
1882 and 1904
(
1
)
A list of other industrial trusts or corporations
organized between 1882 and 1904
( 1
)
The rise of Standard Oil, John Davison Rockefeller and his associates
Rise of a Baptist capitalist : John Davison
Rockefeller (
6 pages )
Birth of the Standard Oil Company
( 7
pages )
Standard Oil : the Trust Agreement of 1882
( 6
pages )
The Standard Oil families
( 1
)
The Dukes
of American Tobacco (
6 pages )
Kings and Princes of Steel
- Introduction
(
4 pages - free )
Rise of the Carnegie Steel Empire
Andrew Carnegie : from an investment in iron to a kingdom in
steel
(
14 pages )
Henry Clay Frick : the consolidation of the Carnegie Steel
Company
(
16 pages )
Consolidation in the steel industry
Illinois Steel
(
7 pages )
The Wire Trust (Gates)
(
12 pages )
The Moore Brothers and the Tin Plate Kings
(
8 pages )
J.P. Morgan’s hand : Federal Steel, National Tube and
American Bridge
(
12 pages )
Creation of the United States Steel Corporation
(
11 pages )
Sequence in the Steel Kings’ lives (coming later)
Chapter
12 :
Utility
Tycoons ( 3 pages - free )
Telegraph and Telephone
: two new means of distant communication (coming later)
Samuel F. B. Morse and the beginnings of
the telegraph
Convergence of the telegraph companies into
Western Union
Western Union’s drive to monopoly
Bell’s invention and the rise of the
telephone trust
The street railway tycoons who controlled Philadelphia , New York and
Chicago
Union Traction
and the Philadelphia Rapid Transit system ( 6 pages )
The Elkins-Widener
Family ( 6 pages)
The
Metropolitan Street Railway system in New York ( 7 pages )
The Payne-Whitney
Family ( 12 pages )
The Ryan
Family ( 8 pages )
Public lighting, gas works and electricity (coming later)
Part
3 : The Twentieth Century
Chapter
13 :
Automobile and
Aviation (
5 pages - free )
The Selden Patent - case of a failed monopoly (coming later)
The Ford Story
Part I : The rise of Henry Ford
( 15 pages )
Part II : Edsel Ford and his children
- an automotive dynasty (coming later)
General Motors
William Crapo Durant - the
founder of General Motors ( 18 pages )
The GM Crowd - multi-millionaire executives
(coming later)
Other automobile tycoons (coming later) :
The Dodge Brothers and their legacy
Walter Percy Chrysler - founder of the Big
Third
John North Willys' empire
The Studebakers : from wagon makers to
automobile manufacturers
Packard - rise and fall of an automotive
institution
CharlesW. Nash - successful independent
The Chapins - from Hudson to American
Motors
Errett Lobbean Cord - latecomer among the
founders
Chapter 15 : From
Wildcatters to Oil Barons (
3 pages - free )
Spindletop
and the formation of Texas Big Four :
Gulf, Texaco, Humble and Magnolia (coming
later)
The Hunts : Texas' richest oil barons
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt (
15 pages )
The Hunt Brothers - a mega failure (coming later)
The Gettys
Jean Paul Getty
( 20 pages )
The Getty family and legacy (coming later)
Other oil barons (coming later)
Chapter
18 : Hail to the CEOs (5
pages - free)
Billionaire CEOs
(10 pages)
Table 1 :
Billionaire CEOs
Centimillionaire income CEOs
(9 pages)
Table 2 :
Centimillionaire income
CEOs
Table 3 :
CEOs with centimillion dollar exit packages
(2 pages)
Of good and bad CEOs
(8 pages + 3 tables)
Table 4 :
Top 10 Best CEOs
Table 5 :
Top 10 Worst CEOs
Table 6 :
Scoundrel CEOs
Enron : Climax of executive greed and deception
(12 pages)
Why CEOs are overpaid
(8 pages)
Encyclopedia
of American Wealth
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