Word: saddlers
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Ownership. The Phelps Dodge combination had its origin in Anson Greene Phelps who was born at Simsbury, Conn., in 1781. He was a saddler by trade but came to New York and set up in the tin plate and metal business. One of his six children, Melissa, married William Earle Dodge who was a dry goods merchant. In the 1830's Phelps persuaded his son-in-law to join him in establishing Phelps, Dodge & Co. This latter company was extinguished only in 1917 when it merged with its subsidiary, the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. to become the Phelps...
...CARSON, THE HAPPY WARRIOR OF THE OLD WEST #151;Stanley Vestal-Hough-ton Mifflin ($3.50). Before Horace Greeley had thought of his famed suggestion, Kit Carson had made the West his own country. At 15, he was apprenticed to a saddler. He ran away after a few months to become a "mountain man." Soon he was counted among the best. He knew the habits of game animals, was well versed in customs and mental processes of the Indian. He had a reputation for absolute truthfulness and reliability, and was a crack shot. He never learned to read or write (except...
That he started his career as a saddler's apprentice is well-known. That he stopped directly from this occupation to the presidency is, of course, false. Since 1901 he had been a recognized factor in German politics. Ebert had always been a Socialist, preaching the creed of Marx and Lassalle in the streets of Bremen...
...daughter is engaged to Wilhelm Jenecke, a young man in the Foreign Office. She has an ex-saddler for a father and her fiance's father used to make the Kaiser's boots...