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Excerpt from The Rise of Jennie Cushing As a matter of fact, the senior member of the firm had begun his business career under Henry D. Meigs, and it was from that oil baron, as it was the fashion of that day to call the Meigs variety of capitalist, that Walcott had borrowed the money to set up for himself. I thought he was an old man in those days, Walcott used to say in amused yet regretful recollection; he'd done so much, and he'd made so much money, and he'd been before the public so long. Lord! He wasn't as old as I am now; He began early and he wore out early. He was a big man, Hank Meigs - that's what they used to call him, you know - he was a big man I And here Mr. Walcott would not infrequently heave a short sigh in memory of the plain, hard-working, successful man who now rested from his dearly relished labors out at Spring Grove with the great white monument soaring above him. He took a chance on me, Walcott said, and I hope he didn't make any mistake. Yes, we manage all of their real estate. I had charge of considerable of it before Mr. Meigs's death, and the heirs afterward gave us the whole of it to look after, theirs and the Harpers' together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.