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Johns Hopkins' father, a Quaker tobacco grower, freed his slaves in 1807, made his sons stop school and go to work on the family's Virginia plantation. At 24, young Hopkins went into business for himself. The first year he did $200,000 worth of business selling groceries...
Johns Hopkins endorsed business papers, bought overdue notes, became a banker, loaned money to the State of Maryland, the city of Baltimore, the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., became a most imperious gentleman. At one time he owned more stock in the B. & O. than any other human being. But he...
On Christmas Day 1872, childless Johns Hopkins contemplated the end of his life and the division of his wealth. He had already written his will giving $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins Hospital and $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. During the following Lent he...
¶ Benefiting from the slight pick-up in building, Johns-Manville Corp. operated in the black for the first March quarter since 1931. Profits were $246,000 as against a loss of $76,000 in the same three months of 1934 and a loss of $953,000 in the March...
Died. Dr. Fielding Hudson Garrison, 64 longtime abstractor of medical publications, foremost U. S. historian of Medicine, librarian of Johns Hopkins' Welch Medical Library; after an abdominal operation; in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.