Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men
Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 1881
Category : California
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Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 1881
Category : California
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Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 1881
Category : California
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Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 1882
Category : California
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Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
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Author : Robert Ernest Cowan
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1914
Category : California
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Sandra E. Bonura
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2024-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496239091
Claus Spreckels (1828–1908) emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the United States with only seventy-five cents in his pocket, built a sugar empire, and became one of the richest Americans in history alongside John D. Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates. Migrating to San Francisco after the gold rush, Spreckels built the largest sugar beet factory of its kind in the United States. His sugar beet production in the Salinas Valley changed the focus of valley agriculture from dry to irrigated crops, resulting in the vast modern agricultural-industrial economy in today’s “Salad Bowl of the World.” When Spreckels gave America its first sugar cube, he became the “Sugar King.” The indomitable Spreckels was a colorful and complicated character on both sides of the Pacific. A kingpin in the development of the Hawai‘i-California sugarcane industry, he wielded a clenched fist over Hawai‘i’s economy for nearly two decades after occupying a position of unrivaled power and political influence with the Hawaiian monarchy, while also advancing major technology developments on the islands. The Sugar King’s legacy continued as the Spreckels family developed large portions of California, building and breaking monopolies in agriculture, shipping, railroading, finance, real estate, horse breeding, utilities, streetcars, and water infrastructure, and building entire towns and cities from infrastructure to superstructure. In The Sugar King of California Sandra E. Bonura tells the rags-to-riches story of Spreckels’s role in the developments of the sugarcane industry in the American West and across the Pacific, triumphing in a milieu rife with cronyism and corruption and ultimately transforming California’s industry and labor. Harshly criticized by his enemies for ruthless business tactics but loved by his employees, he was unapologetic in his quest for wealth, asserting “Spreckels’s success is California’s success.” But there’s always a cost for single-minded determination; the legendary family quarrels even included a murder charge. Spreckels’s biography is one of business triumph and tragedy, a portrait of a family torn apart by money, jealousy, and ego.
Author : Sandra E. Bonura
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2022-12
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ISBN : 1496233417
Empire Builder is the previously untold story of John D. Spreckels, the pioneer who almost singlehandedly built San Diego after creating empires in sugar, shipping, transportation, and building development up and down the coast of California and across the Pacific.
Author : United States. Board of Commissioners on the Irrigation of the San Joaquin, Tulare, and Sacramento Valleys of the State of California
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
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Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Page : 802 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Art
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