. Leslie's history of the greater New York . many as fourteen newspapers inGreat Britain at one time, usinsi them as a propaganda of the princi-ples of democracy. Tliis is also the theme of liis nmst famous volume,Triumphant Democracy; or. Fifty Years March of the RepublicdSStJl. Besides liis many contributions to ])eriodical literature he has likewise published? An American Four-in-Hand in Britain(1883) and Boundth. World (1884).He was born in Dun-fermline, Scotland, No-vember 25, 1835, theson of a humble w(^av-ei\ who came to theUnited States in 1845,settliuii at the boy in tu
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . many as fourteen newspapers inGreat Britain at one time, usinsi them as a propaganda of the princi-ples of democracy. Tliis is also the theme of liis nmst famous volume,Triumphant Democracy; or. Fifty Years March of the RepublicdSStJl. Besides liis many contributions to ])eriodical literature he has likewise published? An American Four-in-Hand in Britain(1883) and Boundth. World (1884).He was born in Dun-fermline, Scotland, No-vember 25, 1835, theson of a humble w(^av-ei\ who came to theUnited States in 1845,settliuii at the boy in turnattended a stationaryeuiiine, was a t(drgraplimessenger, and becamea telegraph operator,eventually obtainingthe ])osition of managerof the telegraph linesand clerk to the sui)er-intendent in the Penn-sylvania Railroad office;it Pittsburg. His firststroke of fortune camewith his activity in i)ro-moting ^fr. ^^oodruffsinvention of the sleep-le was appointed Sujierintendent of the PittsburgPennsylvania llailroad. His next fortunate specu-. ANDREW CARNEGIE. ing-car. LaterDivision of th( lation was in joining the syndicate Avhich purchased for •|<40,000 theStorey farm on Oil Creek. The flow of oil from this property yieldedas much as .JiJl,000,000 in clear ])rotit in a single year. Henext joined with others in establishing a rolling mill, and in thecourse of some years was at the head of the greatest system ofsteel and iron works which a single person has ever controlled, in-cluding the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, the Pittsburg BessemerSteel Works, the Union Iron Mills, the Hai-tman Steel Works, the ENCYCLOPEDIA OE NEW YORK BIOGRAPHY. 131 Sc-otia Ore Mines, the Union Mill of ^Vilson, Walker ^: Company, theLuey Iuinaces, the Friek Coke Company, and the Keystone BridgeWorks. SAGE, lUSSELL, while jirominent in Whijj, polities in this Stateearly in life, has come into national prominence as a railroad financierin this city. Born in Verona, X. Y., in ISIG, he is the son of ElishaSa
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