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Title: Financial giants of America
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Redmond, George F
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers
Publisher: Boston, Mass., The Stratford company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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aternity of Montana. He has seen military serviceas major of the Butte Battalion, leading it in Nez Perce cam-paign in 1878. He presided at the Constitutional Conventionof the State in 1884 and 1889. Montana sent him as com-missioner to the New Orleans Exhibition in 1884. In 1898he was elected to the United States Senate, but resigned, andwas afterwards elected for the term 1901-1907. Senator Clark first married a boyhood sweetheart, in hisConnellsville days. She died in 1893. The present Mrs.Clark was formerly Miss Anna E. Chappelle, of Butte. Hemarried her at a small hamlet near Marseilles, France. Forawhile they lived at a retreat in France owned by a Benedictinemonk, and then in a magnificent villa at Manitou in the Algiers. Senator Clark is a quiet, modest man and dislikes pub-licity. He silently pursues the tenor of his way, and lookingat his face, it is hard to picture him as the master mind of themighty mining, smelting, railroad and banking enterpriseswhich he controls. (192)
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WILLIAM WOOD William M. Wood, the textile giant, towers headand shoulders above any other man in that field.The American Woolen Company, of which he is thehead is a $100,000,000 organization. Mr. Wood conceived the idea of luilding amodel town for some of his employes, and Shaw-sheen Village, now justly famous throughout thecountry, stands as a lasting monument to thisthoughtful and efficient executive. WILLIAM M. WOOD WILLIAM M. WOOD, the textile giant, is a native NewEnglander. He is the founder and head of theAmerican Woolen Co., operating the biggest textilemills in the world. Wood was born at Edgartown, a quaintlittle port at the eastern edge of the island of Marthas Vine-yard, Massachusetts. The island of Nantucket, long renownedfor the quality of its whalers and seamen, is only a few milesaway. He was born on June 18, 1858, and is of English andPortuguese ancestry, the son of William Jason Wood andAmelia Christine Madison Wood. William passed the firstfew years of his life in E

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