Born in Scotland in 1835, Carnegie's family moved to the U.S. when he was 12. He started work in the cotton industry but began investing in railroads and related industries and buying up his competition. He had ties with other major industrialists and financiers, including Henry Frick and ...
Railroads and highways were built and her citizens took an active part in National affairs. During the Civil War, the primary sentiment of the county was anti-slavery and the underground railroad functioned in the area. Potter County's young men have gone ardently to the defense of their ...
“one of the most significant conservative books published in the United States during the 1930s” for its “message of demographic, political, and economic decentralization and the widespread ownership of property” in opposition “to the growth of corporate farming, the decay of the small town, ...
Port Huron offers a range of marinas, parks, beaches, and a wonderful historic downtown. Residents can enjoy biking, walking, or running the scenicThomas Edison Parkway Boardwalk. In addition to a low cost of living, denizens can access all Detroit has to offer in an hour-long drive. ...
Wong had been born in 1873 above the Sacramento Street storefront owned by his merchant father in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Wong’s parents had been among the tens of thousands of Chinese immigrants who came to the United States in the mid-1800s to build the railroads that...
falls back on his devastating out pitch: one of baseball's best spitballs. The pitch is still legal, and Caldwell has incredible command on this day against the Philadelphia Athletics; the A's are flummoxed for two hours, managing four hits and a walk through eight innings.But th...
To compensate, employees placed less mail in sacks to make them lighter, which cost the Post Office Department more to transport, since railroads charged by the sack, not by weight (Ibid.). [84] Post Office Department press release, October 13, 1967. [85] The Chicago Daily Defender, ...