The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ent to himfor the interest he manifested in the progress of theSouth, created a separate county, and gave it thename of Dodge. He had other investments in thepine lands of Michigan
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ent to himfor the interest he manifested in the progress of theSouth, created a separate county, and gave it thename of Dodge. He had other investments in thepine lands of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Texas, be-sides being interested in the copper mines of LakeSuperior and other districts in the United States. Arolling mill was established by his firm at Derby,Conn., and the village of Ansonia, on theNaugatuckriver, two miles above Derby, was built up for themanufacturing operations of the of which was a partner. He was the founder, anduntil his death one of the most active directors of theLackawanna iron and coal company at Scranton,Pa. Ironworks at Oxford Furnace, N. J., and ironmills and steel works in Illinois and Virginia werealso projected and largely managed by him, foryears. In a controversy with the U. S. governmentconcerning payment of certain duties—-the eovern-rn^tal claim being that small items in vanous in-oicesflf goods imported by his firm had been under-. valued, the house was forced to pay a stipulatedsum by way of settlement, but was amply exoneratedfrom the charge of evil intent in the transactions bythe report of the U. S. commissioner of publicity given to this matter so stirred themercantile community that public sentiment, so soonas it became intelligent, rose in active opposition tothe continuance of laws which left importers at themercy of interested officials and offered a premiumto clerks to misrepresent the dealings of their em-ployers, and the result was that in 1874 the U. of representativ
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