Identifier: progressofempire01cona_0 (find matches)
Title: The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Conant, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1861-1915
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Publisher: New York : The Progress of the Empire State Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ination in finance which has excited so much criticism andwhich, like all great forward movements, coupled abusesand exaggerations with its tremendous services and benefits. It is the story of this growth which it is the purpose ofthis volume to tell. It is a story recorded nowhere else incomplete form, because the work itself is largely the achieve-ment of yesterday rather than of a time long gone. To theservice of recounting these achievements has been broughtthe services of many of the men who have borne the burdenand heat of the day in the doing of them and of those alsowho have looked on as students and sometimes as critics.If their work has been well done, their story will be throb-bing with the pulsing life of the New York of to-day. Theportraits which are presented will be those of men of ac-tion, not of talkers or dreamers, but of those whose achieve-ments justify the forceful words applied to the greatness ofGrant,—that he was Great in the arduous greatness of things done.
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ELLIS H. ROBERTS Writer and publicist born of Welsh parentage in Utica, N. Y.,mber 30, 1827 -VT while a lad. In Yale College, took prizes for English composition, for Townsendprize essay, for Bristed scho) d by his classmates first editor of Yale Literary Magazine; graduated in 1850 secondin merit in his class. Principal 1 Academy, 1850-1851; editor of Utica Herald, 1850-18- iber of New York atative in Congress, 1871-1875, servingon Committee of Ways and Mean. nl treasurer of resident of Franklin■rial Bank, New York, 1893-1897; treasurer -States, 1897 (905. Married Elizabeth Morris 1851, who died in,Washington, 1). (., July 21, 1903. President Oneida HistoricalSociety and Fort Schuyler ( a, X. Y.; president St. Davids Society, Phi Beta Alumni, and Patria Club, New York;LL.D from Yale and Hamilton. Addresses delivered beforeAmerican Bankers Association and Bankers Associations ofmany States. Author of Government Revenue and Planting andGrowth of Empire State. 1 Progress of the Empire

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