Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will pass over the Civil War, though I ought to explain what a big help my grandfather, Corp. Ephraim Forecast, was to General Grant. After the war, Ephraim, always quick to see an industrial opportunity, realized there was a fine opening for a man who could sign checks in a bold, clear hand. He learned to sign a great many different names--the Forecasts have always been of money at it. He alternated this work with several ventures in the stone-breaking business, in which he handled some big government contracts. He died in Ossining...
...from a moneyed uncle. He built so well that he was able to do private banking in a big way, extending credit and signing notes for the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. and, during the panic of 1873, for many a Baltimore and Philadelphia firm. He aided Southerners after the Civil War with credit, meeting George Peabody who was doing the same thing. Here was a coincidence: both men were bachelors, both had made fortunes of ten millions, Peabody by advancing cash, Hopkins by advancing credit. Johns Hopkins learned that George Peabody had given Harvard University an institute of archaeology, Yale...
...prairies. This was in 1856. Marshall Field became a partner. The firm became Field, Palmer & Leiter. Potter Palmer withdrew and the name was changed to Field, Leiter & Co. Marshall Field became a rich man and became so through two business principles most unusual in the U. S. before the Civil War. He backed up every item of goods he sold with a warranty of its soundness and value and he sold only for "cash." "Cash" meant the exact day, 30 to 60 days after billing, on which a bill was due, else no more dealings with Field, Leiter...
Stark Young is only 45, so that only by hearsay could he have known these relatives of his at "Heaven Trees" before the Civil War. But his keen understanding and prodigious talent for transcribing subtle values have made of them, with no particular plot or thesis, as wholly real and charming a group of personalities as you are likely to meet in many a year...
Edmund Trowbridge '28, and Richard Cary '63, as executors of the will of John Alford, who had died in 1761, established in Harvard College, according to the desires of Alford, in 1789, the Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. Alford's will left $10,000 each to Harvard College; the "College of New Jersey", now Princeton; and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians...