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All Country Boys and New Yorkers Who Made It Here
A special correspondence from New York July 18 profiles country born men who found success in the city. It lists Charles A. Dana Chester S. Lord John Swinton Amos J. Cummings and others, noting many leaders in media business law and railroads were outsiders. The piece argues perseverance and risk are required, with warnings about urban failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Iman
mid-Indiana
Austin Corbin Jy
Akay
Weill
York
Charles A. Dana
Hinsdale
N. H
Lfe
Buffalo
Harvard
Tribune
Greeley
Brook Farm
Theibune
Chicago
The
Dana
Chester
Lord
San
Oswego
Ohn Swinton
Dundee
Otland
Amos J. Cummings
Conkling
Broome County
N. Y
Chancellorsville
ANTES
Rmny
Indiana
Joseph Pulitzer
Ben
Foster Coates
Oio
Anothce
the Mail
John A. Cockerill
E Morning Advertiser
Adams County
St. Louis
Whitelaw Reid
the Tribune
Bradford Merwill
Press
Julian Inh
Sonnc Changbers
Lon Gilder
Bronson Howard
William Gillette
Connecticut
Franklin Pyles
Troy
Augustus Thomas
West
Augustin Daly
North Carolina
Russell Sage
Thomas L. James
Lincoln Bank
Utica
Custom House
United States
W.R. Grace
Ireland
Levi P. Morton
Shoreham
Boston
France
Washington
BR. G. Dun
Chillicothe
DR. O. Mills
California
North Salem
John H. Starin
Rapid Transit Commission
Summonsville
William Steinway
Seesen
Brunswick
Germany
C. L. Tiffany
Killingly
Conn
Austin Corbin
Long Island Railroad
King of the Island
Newport
Elihu Root
Joseph Choate
William M. Evarts
Daniel G. Rollins
New Hampshire
J. C. Carter
Massachusetts
John F. Dillon
Colonel Fellows
Robert G. Ingersoll
Dresden
Thomas Dixon
Webbs
D. Marshal