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John Jacob Astor

Elbert Hubbard

FormatEbook
Published1996
Words6,509
LanguageEnglish
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Elbert Hubbard profiles John Jacob Astor, the German-born fur trader and real-estate investor who became one of the wealthiest men in early nineteenth-century America. It suits readers interested in American business history and in Hubbard's biographical essays.
Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait: via Wikipedia (see source).

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