. Financial giants of America . es of the Lake district and it is esti-mated that 100,000,000 pounds of copper can be recoveredfrom its tailings. This enormous amount of brands snatchedfrom the burning** would give the properties an enormousadded value, after the richest of the famous conglomeratelodes have been exhausted. The famous Calumet & Arizona, of Bisbee, Arizona,connecting with the Copper Queen, is an offspring of Calumet [154] QUINCY ADAMS SHAW & Hecla, most of the original issue of stock being subscribedfor in Houghton County in small lots by miners and otherworkingmen. Like Calumet
. Financial giants of America . es of the Lake district and it is esti-mated that 100,000,000 pounds of copper can be recoveredfrom its tailings. This enormous amount of brands snatchedfrom the burning** would give the properties an enormousadded value, after the richest of the famous conglomeratelodes have been exhausted. The famous Calumet & Arizona, of Bisbee, Arizona,connecting with the Copper Queen, is an offspring of Calumet [154] QUINCY ADAMS SHAW & Hecla, most of the original issue of stock being subscribedfor in Houghton County in small lots by miners and otherworkingmen. Like Calumet & Hecla, Calumet & Arizonasold down as low as 64 cents a share. It was afterwards w^orth$150 a share. The office of Lee, Higginson & Co., in Boston, was aheadquarters for the property and the friends of the firmbought a great many shares. Alexander Agassiz heroicstruggles at Lake Superior and Quincy A. Shaws fight in Bos-ton proved epochal. The theme is worthy of Balzac. Mr. Shaw died in 1908. [155] ■J -7. WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER William Rockefeller did not receive as muchpublicity as his much discussed brother, John D.,—yet he was entitled to it. He had much to say aboutthe p&licies and the projects fathered by theStandard Oil Co., of which he was one of threeleading factors. He was energetic, jovial, and very well liked byhis associates and business acquaintances. He wasa big operator in the stock market, his interestsbeing in oil and railroads. Mr. Rockefeller was notso ostentatiously philanthropic as were some of theother financial giants—and yet he did not worshipthe almighty dollar. His was a forceful personalitywhose influence counted much. WILLIAM A. ROCKEFELLER WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER, from 1865 to 1911 at thehead of the Standard Oil business in New York, alsopresident of the Standard Oil Co. of New York until1911, was born in Richford, Tioga County, New York, May 31,1841, and was about eighteen months younger than his brother,John Davison Rockefeller. He was educated a
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