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Early start fortunes: how giants began with humble jobs
A historical survey recounts how Rockefeller Vanderbilt Astor Gould Morgan Carnegie Seligman Armour Wanamaker Edison Sage and others rose to vast wealth from minimal early work. It notes youths began as bookkeepers, errand boys, laborers, or shop clerks before building empires.
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John D. Rockefeller
Cleveland
America
Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York
Julius Spencer Morgan
Morgan Fortune
Boston