Author : Franklin Parker
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826512567
A biography of George Peabody
Author : Phebe Ann Hanaford
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN :
Author : Louise Ware
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820334561
Published in 1951, this biography of George Foster Peabody (1852-1938) tells the story of an industry pioneer, railroad magnate, and philanthropist. A native of Georgia, Peabody is often listed alongside such men as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. P. Morgan--men who rose from obscurity to prominence after Reconstruction. Peabody's businesses were central to the building of railroads in the United States and Mexico, and to financing mining, electrical, and sugar beet industries. Peabody also took a prominent role in civic affairs, using his position of power as an active philanthropist. Peabody's greatest concern was the advancement of education, and he eventually retired from his many business interests to devote himself to humanitarian work. Today, Peabody may be recognized most widely as the person after whom the George Foster Peabody Awards--which recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service in the electronic media--are named.
Author : George Robert
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1604946679
Eddie Peabody is at the peak of his musical career, known to his many fans as the King of the Banjo. But after entertaining White House guests in the Rose Garden, he is summoned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and asked to rejoin the armed forces. Secretly commissioned a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he continues performing in theaters across the country while training for his reconnaissance mission in Germany. Eddie photographs a newly constructed German U-boat, verifying the American government's suspicions. His mission complete, he troupes on to Berlin with the theater group. Unbeknown to the Allies, however, German intelligence has found a photograph of Eddie in his uniform. The head of the German state invites him to play at a private party for the chancellor and his entourage. Will this be Eddie's final performance? George Robert is the second son of Eddie and Ragna Peabody. Whenever he heard his mother yell out "George Robert " he knew he was in trouble.
Author : William R. Power
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738509624
Peabody was settled in 1626 as Brooksby Village and was originally a part of the town of Salem. In 1752, citizens joined in the area of town known as Salem Village to form the town of Danvers. The separation of the two towns into Danvers and South Danvers took place in 1855. In 1868, the name of South Danvers was changed to Peabody to honor its native son George Peabody.In Peabody, vivid postcards offer a contrasting view of what it was like to live and work in a community having two distinct characters: the town center, with its bustling tanning industries, which soon earned Peabody the sobriquet of "Leather Capital of the World," and the pastoral farming villages of Brookdale, Locustdale, Brooksby, and West Peabody, which portray a sense of life in rural America during this same era.
Author : Severn Teackle Wallis
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 1870
Category :
ISBN :
Speech in honor of George Peabody, 13 years after founding the Peabody Institute.
Author : Joseph Hibbard Hanaford
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781372740831
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Author : Ron Chernow
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802198139
The National Book Award–winning history of American finance by the renowned biographer and author of Hamilton: “A tour de force” (New York Times Book Review). The House of Morgan is a panoramic story of four generations in the powerful Morgan family and their secretive firms that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan’s empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the family’s private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved—a world that included Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Franklin Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, and Winston Churchill. A masterpiece of financial history—it was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century—The House of Morgan is a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.
Author : Earle Havens
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Bibliomania
ISBN : 9780997965919
Author : Phebe Ann Hanaford
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 1884
Category : 1884
ISBN :
