Daniel Alef
Mr. Alef has written many legal articles, one law book, one historical anthology, Centennial Stories, and authored the award-winning historical novel, Pale Truth (MaxIt Publishing, 2000).
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John Deere: He Plowed AboutJohn Deere and tractors are as synonymous as water and H2O, so it is ironic that the man who started Deere & Co., one of the oldest and largest American corporations, never produced a single tractor in his life.
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Stephen Girard: America's First MultimillionaireMany of America's great moguls earned unique sobriquets such as the "Lone Wolf of Wall Street," or the "Witch of Wall Street," but Stephen Girard, America's first multimillionaire, had no such colorful tag.
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Henry Leland: The King of Luxury CarsFord, Chrysler, and Olds top the list of automotive pioneers whose names are commonly recognized. If Henry Leland had named his cars in his own image, he too would be on that list-after all, he founded Cadillac and Lincoln.
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George Fisher Baker: Banking's Rock of GibraltarBanker George Fisher Baker accomplished the unthinkable. He was the largest shareholder of AT&T, U.S. Steel, New York Central Railroad, Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroad, Chase Manhattan Bank and First National Bank.
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Thomas Alexander Scott: Mogul and Mentor to MogulsThomas Alexander Scott had his fingers and toes imbedded in so many pies and his complex empire extended over such a vast territory it's a wonder how he kept it all under control.
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Phoebe Hearst: Berkeley's 'mom'Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Jane Stanford were soul sisters, their lives bearing uncanny similarities. Each woman was married to a powerful mogul, and each had only one child, doting on them as their husbands built empires.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt: The Colossus of RoadsCornelius Vanderbilt played a major role in Gibbons v. Ogden, Justice Marshall's landmark Supreme Court decision striking down state laws that restrict trade among the states.
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David Dudley Field Launched a Legal RevolutionDavid Dudley Field single-handedly brought about a legal revolution of unprecedented magnitude to American and English law; weaning American jurisprudence from common law into codified civil law and procedure.
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Emile Berliner: Father of the Recording IndustryAlexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone; he was just the first to patent an improved version of it. Thomas A. Edison was not the inventor of the record player; though he was one of the first to record sound.
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Sarah Breedlove Walker: Pioneer American BusinesswomenAs America entered the 20th century, women were still denied many of the rights we now take for granted. They did not have the right to vote. There were few women doctors, fewer women lawyers and virtually no women business executives.
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Bernard Baruch: Lone Wolf of Wall StreetIt was customary for the titans of the 20th century to envelop themselves in immense, plush offices, reeking of leather and opulence. Bernard Baruch dispensed his advice from a bench at Lafayette Park across from the White House or at Central Park.
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Otis Chandler: Man of the TimesIn 2007, Chicago mogul Samuel Zell purchased the Los Angeles Times from the Tribune Company, and subsequently converted the paper into a private company. The Washington Post rued the Zell acquisition, calling him the "Human Wrecking Ball."
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P.T. Barnum: Greatest Showman on EarthThe population of the United States in 1840 was about 17 million, a small number to Phineas Taylor Barnum, the greatest impresario who ever lived. Between 1840 and 1880, he sold nearly 60 million tickets to his exhibits, museums and traveling circus.
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Walt Disney: The Man Behind the MouseThe Walt Disney Co., with 133,000 employees, sales in excess of $35 billion, and assets of $61 billion, started with a pencil, paper, cartoon and a young man's imagination.