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Leigh Hunt Promoter's Rise and Global Fortunes
A detailed portrait of Leigh S. Hunt former president of Iowa State College who built and lost vast wealth through mining ventures in Korea Russia Egypt and the United States. The piece chronicles his early teaching career a banking venture in Seattle the Kirkland project the Northwest railroad scheme and his later acclaimed success in Korea and Egypt before returning to pay creditors in full and amass a larger fortune.
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Leigh
Hunt
Iowa State College
Iowa Agricultural College
Iowa
Morgan
Lawson
Korea
Columbus City
Indiana
East Des Moines
Cornell College
Ret Clarkson
Des Moines
Seattle
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The
Post-Intelligencer
Peter Kirk
England
Snoquamie Pass
Kirkland
Kirk
Walter Oakes
Northern Pacific Line
Lake Washington
Iron Mountain
Russell A Alger
James Clarkson
Platt
Michigan
Northern Pacific
Cascades
Leigh Hunt
Japan
Crown of Korea
Cascade
America
London
Orient
the Nile
Soudan
Nile
Egypt
Lord Cromer
Land of the Pyramids
Sphynx
Leigh S. Hunt