All posts tagged "robber baron"

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  J.P. Morgan, The Robber Baron With the Disturbing Facial Feature

  J.P. Morgan, the Gilded Age’s most powerful and feared financiers, had an Achilles heel – or nose, rather. He became so rich...

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  Austin Corbin, New Hampshire Robber Baron – ‘We do not like the Jews…’ (Pt. 2)

    The following is the second in a two-part series. To read the first part, click here. In July of 1879, Austin Corbin...