Chapter 19 of 20 · Men of Wealth: The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day by John T. Flynn
Index
Aaron of Lincoln, 17
Abdul Hamid, 257
Abercorn, Duke of, 317
Abraham Lincoln: the War Years (Sandburg), 473
Accessory Transit Company, 187, 188, 194
Adamic, Louis, 258–9
Addis, Tom, 346
Addison, Joseph, 144
Aetna Fire Insurance Company, 460
Agassiz, Louis, 222
Agence Radio, 361
Aguesseau, Henri François d’, 78
Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 377
Albany & Schenectady Railroad, 191
Albany & Susquehanna Railroad, 479, 481
Albertus Magnus, 3
Albizzi family, 128
Aldrich, Nelson W., 413
Alexander I, King of the Hellenes, 363
Alger, Russell A., 384
Allen, William, 152
Allison, William Boyd, 416
American Bridge Company, 497, 499
American Legion, 388
American Line, 503
American Sheet Steel Company, 499
American Steel & Wire Company of Illinois, 497, 499
American Steel Hoop Company, 497, 499
American Telephone & Telegraph Company, 502, 511
American Tin Plate Company, 497, 499
America’s Cup, 457
Ames, Oakes, 383
Ames Brothers, 430
Amiens, Treaty of, 295
Anderson, Henry H., 234, 235, 236
Andreas, 166
Anglesey, Henry William George Paget, Marquis of, 378
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 365, 366
Anna of Bohemia, wife of Ferdinand I, 44
Anthony Adverse (Hervey Allen), 51
Appleton, Samuel, 382
Archbold, John D., 19, 408, 411, 416, 419, 429, 442, 446, 447
Argenson, Marc Voyer d’, 52, 70, 71, 76, 80
Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 52, 59, 83
Ariel (steamboat), 188
Aristotle, 304
Armour family, 260
Armstrong (arms firm), 289, 339, 355, 364, 366, 367
Arnold, Benedict, 405
Arthurian legends, 142–3
Ashikaga Shogunate, 264
Aspinwall family, 218
Astor, John Jacob, 189, 194, 195, 245, 379, 382
Astor, John Jacob (son of William Backhouse), 379
Astor, William Backhouse, 379, 382, 466
Astor, William Vincent, 379
Astor, William Waldorf, 379
Atlantic Transport Line, 503
Auburn & Rochester Railroad, 191
Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus), Saint, 166
Augustus (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus), Roman emperor, 142
Augustus II, King of Poland, 77
Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, 377
Averill, William J., 488
Babeuf, François Noël, 166
Babiaan, 319
Backus, Mrs., 445
Bacon, Sir Francis, 166
Badaoni, 257
Baer, George, 387
Baker, Frank, 466
Baldwin Locomotive Company, 511
Balfour, Arthur James, 371
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 487
Balzac, Jean Louis de, 143
Bankers’ Trust Company, 465
Bank of Amsterdam, 54–7, 59, 65–6
Bank of France, 371
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 190
Banque Commerciale de la Méditerranée, 364
Banque de la Seine, 363, 364, 365, 366
Banque de l’Union Parisienne, 351, 352
Banque Mayer Frères, 363
Barclay’s Bank, 124
Bardi bank, 24–8, 38, 87, 122, 275
Baring, Sir Francis, 123
Barnard, George C., 203, 205, 206, 208, 479
Barnato, Barney, 306–7, 308–10, 322, 332–3
Barnato, Harry, 306
Barnato Brothers, 307
Barnato Mining Company, 308–10
Barney, James Tracy, 506
Basinger, Franz, 8
Bayard, Thomas F., 384
Beardmore’s, 350, 352, 355, 371
Beaulieu, Leroy, 410
Beaupré, Mme, 145
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 468
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron, 363, 364, 371
Bedford, Francis Charles Hastings Russell, Duke of, 378
Beebe, J. M., Morgan, and Company, 461, 463
Beecher, Henry Ward, 405
Beit, Alfred, 309, 322, 329, 331
Bellona (steamboat), 181
Belmont, August, 382, 466, 483, 492, 493
Belmont family, 383
Bennett, Smith W., 408
Bentham, Jeremy, 151–2
Berghoeffer, 92
Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay), 144
Benzo, 288
Bernard, Samuel, 52, 62, 63, 343
Bethlehem Steel Company, 366
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald Theodore Frederic Alfred von, 88
Biddle, Francis, 482
Biddle, Joseph, 482
Big Consolidated Line, 392
Billars, John, 168
Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von, 312, 345, 347, 358, 374
Bissell, George H., 427
Blaine, James G., 230, 394, 398, 407
Blake, William, 351
Blanc, Camille, 369
Bland-Allison Silver Act, 403
Blessed Be the Tie that Binds, 454
Bliss, Cornelius Newton, 383, 384, 405
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 143
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicholas, 143
Bolen, John, 382
Bonaparte, Jerome, King of Westphalia, 96
Bonaparte, Joseph, King of Spain, 101
Bonaparte, Napoleon; see Napoleon, Emperor of the French
Bonaparte, Napoleon II, Duke of Reichstadt, 106
Bonar Law, Andrew, 364
Bonnier de la Mosson, 351
Book of Common Prayer, 506
Boott, Kirk, 173
Boston & Albany Railroad, 192
Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad, 200
Boston Herald, 504
Boston Manufacturing Company, 171
Bostwick, Jabez, 447
Botha, Louis, 330
Bourbon, Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of, 77, 80, 81, 83
Bouret, M., 62
Bradford, Roark, 459
Bradford & Pittsburgh Railroad, 202
Brand, President, 302
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 509, 510–11
Brandenburg, Albrecht, Margrave of, Elector of Mainz, 32, 39–42
Brandt, 356
Bratianu, Ion, 371
Brewer, H. F., 427
Bristow, 420
British East India Company, 103, 317
British South Africa Company, 316–8, 319
British Westinghouse Company, 367
Bronson, Isaac, 382
Brooks, Peter C., 382
Brown, John, shipbuilders, 355
Bryan, William Jennings, 244, 394, 404, 405, 406, 421, 511
Buchanan, James, President of the United States, 188
Buderus, Carl Frederick, 92, 95, 96, 99–100, 104, 122
Builders’ Guild, 176
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle (Lytton Bulwer), Baron Lytton, 226
Bums, Robert, 145
Burr, Aaron, 405
Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Marquis of, 378
Byron, George Noel Gordon, Baron, 147
Cabet, Etienne, 166
Cabot, Sebastian, 14
Cabot family, 216
Caillard, Sir Vincent, 350–1
Calthorpe, Frederick Henry William Gough Calthorpe, Baron, 378
Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, 366
Campaign, The (Addison), 144
Campanella, 166
Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 395
Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of, 164, 168
Capitalism the Creator (Snyder), 431
Capone, Alphonse, 198
Cardoza, Judge, 204
Carlisle, John Griffin, 384, 492
Carlyle, Thomas, 135, 138, 299–300, 324
Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, Earl of, 302
Carnegie, Andrew, 148, 218, 242, 260, 374, 383, 402, 407413, 451, 497–8, 501
Carnegie Corporation, 380
Carnegie Steel Corporation, 497, 499, 501
Carrington, Sir Frederick, 319
Carter, 407
Cartwright, Edward, 154
Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo, 148
Case, J. I., 430
Cassiodorus, Marcus Aurelius, 15
Castle of Indolence, The (Thomson), 144
Central Pacific Railroad, 197
Cephalus, 153
Chait Singh, 326
Chandler, William E., 407
Chapelain, Jean, 143
Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 143
Charles I, King of Spain; see Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles II, King of England, 199
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 32, 35–6, 45–6, 47, 48
Charles VII, King of France, 132, 133
Charles X, King of France, 119
Chartered Company of Rhodesia, 322, 323, 326, 327, 328, 329, 331, 334
Chase, Salmon Portland, 476
Chaumont, Mme de, 76–7
Chemical National Bank, 229, 231, 238
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, 487
Chicago, University of, 450
Chicago Board of Trade, 410
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 489, 490–1
Childe Harold (Byron), 147
Chimes of Normandy, The (Planquette), 250
China Company, 69
Choate, Joseph H., 235, 236, 237
Chonin Koku Roku (Hachirobei Mitsui), 276
Chorlton Twist Company, 151
Christian VII, King of Denmark, 95
Churchill, Winston Spencer, 28
Cid, Poema del, 142
Cinna (Corneille), 146
Cisco, J., and Company, 230
City Hotel (Hartford), 460
Clafin, Tennie C., 210–11
Clark, John Bates, 411
Clark, Thomas N., 171
Clark & Dodge, 482
Clark & Rockefeller, 425
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark (Twain), 425
Cleon, 343
Clermont (steamboat), 180
Cleveland, Grover, President of the United States, 230, 384, 397, 400, 407, 408, 411, 493, 494, 495, 496
Cleveland Harry George Powlett, Duke of, 378
Cleveland Leader, 400
Clive, Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey, 326
Cobbett, William, 384
Coeur, Jacques, 19, 28, 127, 132–4, 343, 346
Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 62
Colby, Sir G., 303
Colebrenner, Mr. and Mrs., 319
Collins, E. K., 188
Colomby, M., 143
Colonna family, 143
Colt, Samuel, 338, 345, 346, 430
Colt Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, 430
Columbia (yacht), 457
Combination Acts, 174
Compagnie Française des Mines de Diamond du Cap, 308–10
Company of the West, 68, 69, 71, 72, 74
Comstock, Anthony, 456
Connecticut River Railroad, 232
Consolidated Steel & Wire Company, 497
Constantine, King of the Hellenes, 341, 342, 360, 361, 362, 363
Conversational Encyclopedia (Brockhaus), 90
Converse, 498
Cooke, Lady; see Clafin, Tennie C.
Cooke, Thomas, of Islington, 253, 254
Coolidge, Calvin, President of the United States, 78, 262
Cooper, Peter, 466
Copernicus, Nikolaus, 130
Corey, Lewis, 473
Cornelius Vanderbilt (steamboat), 184
Corsair I (yacht), 457
Corsair III (yacht), 457
Cortelyou, George, 506
Corti, Egon Caesar, Count, 104
Coules, John Overton, 189
Cox, 417
Coxey’s Army, 492
Cramp, George, 407
Crawford, Frank C.; see Vanderbilt, Frank C. (Crawford)
Crocker, Charles, 197
Croker, Richard, 128, 417, 418
Crompton, Samuel, 153
Cromwell, William Nelson, 416–7
Crookes, Sir William, 209
Crosby, Professor, 427
Crosby, William B., 382
Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star, The (Coules), 189
Curb Market, 76
Cushing, John P., 382
Dabney, Morgan & Company, 478, 482
Daikakuya, 270
Dalberg, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von, 96–7, 106, 107, 117, 125
Dale, Anne Caroline; see Owen (Dale), Anne Caroline
Dale, David, 151
Darwin, Charles Robert, 411, 412
Daudet, Alphonse, 147
Davenport, Homer Calvin, 385, 406, 408
Davis, Jefferson, President of the Confederate States of America, 405
Davison, Henry P., 502
Day, Chancellor, 19
Dean, Jonathan, 144
De Beers Consolidated Mines, Limited, 309–10, 322, 323, 333
De Beers Mining Company, 307–8, 309, 310
Decameron (Boccaccio), 143
Deere, John, 430
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, 479, 481
Delessert, 119
Derby, Edward Henry Smith Stanley, Earl of, 312, 378
Deutsche Bussan Aktiengesellschaft, 290
Deutsche Orientbank, 364
Deux-Ponts, Prince of, 77
Devonshire, William Cavendish IX, Duke of, 378
Dewey, George, 396
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beanconsfield, 147, 299, 304, 383
Dolliver, Senator, 406
Domesday Book, 378
Domesday Book (1911), 378
Dominion Line, 503
Domitian (Titus Flavius Domitianus Augustus), 142
Douglas, Clifford Hugh, 57
Dover House, 458
Dread (steamboat), 181
Drew, Daniel, 116, 183–4, 193, 194, 198, 200–1, 202, 203–4, 205, 206, 208, 211, 213, 214, 466
Drexel, Anthony Joseph, 481
Drexel, Francis Martin, 482
Drexel & Company, 481–2
Drexel, Morgan & Company, 482, 483
Drinkwater, Mr., 150
Dubois, Guillaume, Cardinal, 80
Duclos, Mme, 52
Dudley, William Ward, Earl of, 378
Dudley, Lord, 296
Dumas, Alexandre, père, 349
Duncan, Sherman & Company, 465, 466, 478
Du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthère Irénée, 345–6
Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 345
Du Pont de Nemours family, 260, 338, 345, 346
Dutch East India Company, 55–6, 295, 317
Dutoit, 320
Dutton, Warren, 171
Duverney, M., 82
Early, Jubal, 388
Eastman, Arthur M., 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475
Echigo, Lord of; see Sasaki, Takahisa
Echo de Paris (Paris), 352–3
Edda, 142
Edward II, King of England, 25
Edward III, King of England, 25, 27, 28, 38
Edward VI, King of England, 129, 130
Edward VII, King of England, 459
Eldridge, John S., 200
Electric & Ordnance Accessories Company, 350
Electric Boat Company, 357
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), 147
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 129, 130, 131, 169
Elkins, Stephen Benton, 383, 407, 413, 416
Elwes, John, 254–5
Emery, William M., 248
Émile (Rousseau), 146
Empire Pipe Line, 446
Enclosure Acts, 163
Endicott, William Crowinshield, 384
Endymion (Disraeli), 147
Engelbrecht, 338
Erie Railroad, 199, 202–7, 208, 213, 479, 487
Eveleth, Jonathan G., 427
Excelsior (Paris), 352
Exchange Coffee House (Hartford), 460
Fall, Albert B., 384
Fargez, M., 77
Featherstonhaugh, George W., 192
Federal Steel Company, 497, 499
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 44, 45, 47, 48
Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies, 119–20
Ferdinand V, King of Castile, 32
Ferris, 427
Fife, Duke of, 317
First National Bank of Chicago, 384
First National Bank of New York, 509
Fish, Stuyvesant, 488
Fisher, Irving, 53
Fisk, James, Jr., 200, 201–2, 203, 205–7, 208, 213, 478, 479, 480, 481, 484, 500, 511
Flagler, Henry Morrison, 407, 428, 429
Flandin, Pierre Étienne, 344
Foch, Ferdinand, 372
Folsom’s Commercial College, B. S., 424
Foraker, Joseph Benson, 394, 396–7, 399, 404, 408, 412, 413, 447
Ford, Henry, 148, 242, 431, 451
Fortune (New York), 124
Forty Years of American Finance (Noyes), 494
Fox sisters, 209
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 230
Francis I, King of France, 32, 143
Francis II, Emperor of Austria, 94, 104, 114
Frederick, Prince of Wales, 144
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 5
Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 94
Frémont, John Charles, 470, 471, 475
French East India Company, 68
French Revolution, The (Carlyle), 138
Frescobaldi family, 87
Frick, Henry Clay, 380, 383, 402, 507
Froebel, Friedrich, 148
Fugger, Andreas, 8
Fugger, Hans, 8
Fugger, Jacob (the elder), 8
Fugger, Jacob (“the Rich”), 3–48, 112, 116, 127, 129, 131, 132, 141, 305, 335, 343, 371, 374, 435, 455
Fugger, Marcus, 38
Fugger, Philip Edward, 36
Fugger family, 3–48, 87, 131, 173, 275, 277, 433
Fugger & Brothers, Ulrich, 9, 10
Fugger-Thurzo Company, 44–47, 437
Fugiwara, Kamatari, 263
Gage, Count Joseph, 77
Gage, Lyman J., 384
Garland, Augustus H., 384
Garrison, William Lloyd, 461
Garrison, Morgan, Rolston & Fretz (bankers), 187
Gary, Elbert Henry, 374, 485, 497, 498, 499, 500, 507
Gary, James A., 384
Gates, Frederick T., 450
Gates, John Warne, 375, 406, 485, 496–7, 498
Gates family, 244
Gay, John, 144
General Education Board, 450
General Electric Company, 511
Geneyemon, 288
Gentz, Friedrich von, 86, 89–90, 96, 118, 121, 125
George III, King of England, 93
George IV, King of England, 94
German Navy League, 358
Gibbon, Edward, 324
Gibbons, Thomas, 180, 181, 182–3
Gibbons vs. Ogden, 181–2
Girard, Stephen, 382
Girdler, Tom Mercer, 148
Gladstone, William Ewart, 299, 303, 311, 332, 333
Gloucester, U. S. S. (warship), 457
God Save the King, 169
Godwin, William, 167
Goelet, Robert, 466
Gold Fields Consolidated, Limited, 322
Gold Fields of South Africa, 322
Goldschmidt, Abraham, 116, 122
Gold Standard Act, 410
Gontard, 87
Goodwin, James, 468
Gorgias, 141
Gossembrot, 45
Gould, George J., 381
Gould, Jay, 198, 201, 202, 203–4, 205, 206, 207, 208–9, 213, 214, 381, 389, 407, 451, 454, 478, 479, 480, 483, 484, 485, 487, 500, 501, 511
Gould family, 381
Grand Army of the Republic, 388
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, President of the United States, 207, 208, 408
Granville, George, 144
Great Northern Railroad, 487, 489, 490
Greeley, Horace, 209
Green, Edward H., 219–20, 223–6, 228, 230, 235, 240–1, 243–4, 245, 249
Green, Edward Howland Robinson, 226, 229–30, 231–3, 245, 246–7, 249, 253–4
Green, Hetty Howland (Robinson), 87, 146, 215–49, 250, 253–4, 255, 307
Green, Hetty Sylvia; see Wilks, Hetty Sylvia (Green)
Gregory, Augusta, Lady, 252
Gresham, Sir Thomas, 127, 129–31
Gresham College, 131
Gresham’s Law, 130–1
Grey, Earl, 301
Guaranty Trust Company, 510
Guiche, Duke of, 77
Guillaumat, General, 344
Gunton, George, 411
Guthman torpedo, 415
Hachirozaemon, Shimada, 281
Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), Roman emperor, 293
Haig, Douglas, Earl, 372
Haldon, Lawrence Palk, Baron, 378
Hallam, Henry, 4
Hamburg-American Line, 503
Hammond, John Hays, 331
Hand, Phoebe; see Vanderbilt, Phoebe (Hand)
Hanighen, Frank, 338
Hanna, Mark, 34, 130, 383–421, 424
Hanna, Robert, 387
Hanna & Company, M. A., 388
Hanna, Garretson & Company, 388
Hanseatic League, 18
Hapsburg, House of, 9, 33, 38, 44
Harding, Warren Gamaliel, President of the United States, 419
Hargreaves, James, 153
Harkness, Stephen V., 428, 429, 434
Harriman, Edward, 218, 406, 454, 487, 488–91, 498, 501
Harriman family, 244
Harris, Townsend, 287
Harris Line; see Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Harrison, Benjamin, President of the United States, 397, 398, 399, 400, 496
Hastings, Warren, 326
Hayes, Rutherford B., President of the United States, 403, 408–9
Haynau, Julius Jakob von, 95
Hearst, William Randolph, 397, 447
Heath, Perry, 420
Heine, Heinrich, 119
Hemu, 257
Henry II, King of England, 17
Henry III, King of England, 25
Henry VII, King of England, 153
Henry VIII, King of England, 169
Hepburn investigation, 447
Heptameron (Margaret of Navarre), 143
Herbert, Secretary, 416
Herrick, Myron T., 401, 402, 411, 419
Herries, John Charles, 89, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110
Hervey, Hubert, 301
Herwart, 45
Hesse-Cassel, Frederick II, Landgrave of, 93
Hesse-Cassel, William I, Elector of, 90, 91, 92, 93–6, 99–100, 103, 104, 107, 115
Hesse-Cassel, William IX, Landgrave of; see Hesse-Cassel, William I, Elector of
Hewitt & Tuttle, 424–5
Hiero, 20
Hill, James Jerome, 242, 487, 489, 490, 491
Hiphentides, 340–1
History of Great American Fortunes (Meyer), 472
Hitler, Adolf, 73, 142, 298, 301, 302, 304
Hoar, George, 413
Hobson, John A., 300
Hochstetter, 45
Hoffman, Governor, 480
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (the elder), 222
Holt, J., 472
Holt-Owen commission, 474, 475
Hooley, Ernest Terral, 485
Hoover, Herbert Clark, President of the United States, 163, 384–5, 386
Hopkins, Mark, 197
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), 142, 143
Horn, Count, 79
Hottinguer, 119
House of Mitsui, The (Russell), 288
Houston & Texas Central Railroad, 230
Howe, Mather & Company, 460
Howland, Abby Slocum; see Robinson, Abby Slocum (Howland)
Howland, Gideon, Jr., 215, 217, 248
Howland, Isaac, Jr., 219
Howland, Isaac, Jr. & Company, 215, 216
Howland, Sylvia Ann, 217, 219, 220–3, 226, 234, 248
Hudson River Association, 184, 188, 192, 194, 195
Hugh Capet, King of France, 4
Hugo, Victor Marie, 147
Humbert I, King of Italy, 138–9
Hunt, Jonathan, 382
Huntington, Collis P., 197, 230–1, 489
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 411
Hyderabad, the Nizam of, 377
Hydeyoshi, 264
Ikeda, Seihin, 287
Iliad, 145
Illinois Central Railroad, 488–9
Illinois Steel Company, 416
India Company, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83
I Need Thee Every Hour, 454
Innocent VIII, Pope, 129
Inouye, Kaoru, 283, 284, 286, 287, 289
Institution for the Formation of Character, 160
Insull, Samuel, 504
International Harvester Company, 502
International Labor Office, 353
International Mercantile Marine, 503
International Worker’s Party, 210
Interstate Commerce Commission, 212
Interstate Commerce Law, 488
Interstate Commerce Railroad Association, 488
Isaac Newton (steamboat), 184
Isaacs, Barney; see Barnato, Barney
Isaacs, Harry; see Barnato, Harry
Isabella I, Queen of Castile and Leon, 32
Islay, Archibald Campbell, Earl of (later Duke of Argyle), 83
Jackson, Andrew, President of the United States, 215
Jackson, Patrick Tracy, 171
Jameson, Sir Leander Starr, 318, 323, 326–7, 328–32, 334
Jaurès, Jean Léon, 372
Jefferson, Thomas, President of the United States, 345
Jennings, O. B., 429
Jesus, Lover of My Soul, 454
Jiji Shimpo, 286
Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg, 40
Joanna, Archduchess of Spain, 32
Johannesburg Railroad, 328
John XXIII, Pope, 16
John Chrysostom, Saint, 15
Johnson, Samuel, 145
Johnson, Sophia; see Vanderbilt, Sophia (Johnson)
Johnson, Tom L., 391–2, 419–20
Jonson, Ben, 145
Jourdan, 323
Journal de Régence, 76
J. Pierpont Morgan, an Intimate Portrait (Satterlee), 458, 460
Juárez, Benito, 346
Julius II, Pope, 34
Kaga, Lord of, 270
Kanda, Shumpei, 288
Kanegafuchi cotton mills, 282, 283
Kay, John, 153
Kean, 383
Kean, Senator, 413
Keane, James (“Jim”), 116
Keate, 302
Keene, James R., 500
Keller, Hans, 45
Kemal Pasha, Mustapha, 363, 364
Kenoike family, 276
Kent, Edward, Duke of, 164, 170
Ketchum, Morris, 475, 476, 477
Ketchum Sons & Company, 473, 475
Kier, Samuel, 427
Kinokuniya-Bunzaemon, 273
Kitchener of Khartoum, Horatio Herbert, Earl, 101
Knickerbocker Trust Company, 506
Knights Templar, 23
Kohlsaat, H. H., 402
Kokusan Kata, 282
Konoye, Prince Fumimaro, 287
Kronje, P. A., 330
Kruger, Paul (Stephanus Johannes Paulus), 302, 303, 312, 313–4, 326, 327–8, 331
Krupp, Alfred, 338, 339, 344–5, 357, 358, 359
Krupp, Fritz, 358, 359–60, 371
Krupp’s, 344, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 353, 354, 356, 358–9, 367, 368, 373
Kuhn, Loeb & Company, 490
Ladenois, Ravent, 132–3
Lady of the Lake, The (Scott), 147
Laffitte, 119
La Follette, Robert Marion, 511
Lagrange, General, 96
Lake Superior Consolidated Mines, 499
Lamar, Lucius Q. C., 384
Laughlin, J. Laurence, 411
Law, George, 184, 186, 188, 191, 192, 198
Law, John, 49–85, 132, 173, 213
Lawrence, Abbot, 382
Lawrence, Amos, 382
Lawrence, Sir Herbert, 368
Le Blanc, 167
Lennox, James, 382
Leo XIII, Pope, 459
Leonardo da Vinci, 154–5
Leopold II, King of the Belgians, 459
Lewinsohn, 362
Leyland Line, 503
Li Hung Chang, 357
Lincoln, Abraham, President of the United States, 219, 389, 408, 468
Lipton, Sir Thomas, 457
Little, Jacob, 382
Little Consolidated line, 392
Livingston, Robert R., 180, 191
Lloyd George, David, 101, 362, 363, 364, 365, 370
Lloyds Bank, 124
Loaisa, Garcia de, 14
Lockhart, 442
Locks & Canals Company, 172
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 403
Lorillard, Peter, 466
Lothair (Disraeli), 147
Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, 46–7, 48
Louis XI, King of France, 134
Louis XIV, King of France, 52, 53, 55, 60–4, 143, 343, 344
Louis XV, King of France, 53, 63–4, 67, 82, 351
Louis XVI, King of France, 88
Louis XVIII, King of France, 88, 111, 119
Louis Philippe, King of France, 119
Louisiana Company, 69
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 231
Lowell, Francis Cabot, 171
Lowell, Miss, 218
Lowell Offering, The, 173
Ludite, Ned, 169
Ludites, 169
Lusitania (steamship), 357
Luther, Martin, 9, 34, 39, 41–2, 46
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron, 459
MacKenzie, John, 312
Macleod, Henry Dunning, 130
Madison Square Garden, 458
Maecenas, Caius Cilnius, 142
Magellan, Ferdinand, 14
Mainichi (Osaka), 283
Makorane, 312
Mallet, 119
Malleterre, General, 344
Mansfield, Josie, 208
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre, 143
Marie, Queen of Rumania, 371
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 255
Marshall, John, 181–2
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), 142
Mary I, Queen of England, 129, 130
Mason, John, 382
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 287
Masuda, Takasi, 287
Mather, Samuel, 402
Matsumae, daimio of, 272
Matthews, 446
Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, 43
Maxim, Hiram, 338, 348, 349, 351, 357
Maxim Guns & Ammunition Company, Limited, 348
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 20, 28–9, 31–3, 35, 43, 44, 45, 48, 343
Mayeda, Lord of Kaga, 264
Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal, 60, 143
McArthur, Robert S., 405
McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 430
McCormick Harvester Company, 502
McGuffog, Mr. & Mrs., 149
McKinley, William, President of the United States, 35, 262, 383, 384, 386, 389, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397–8, 399, 400, 401–4, 406, 409, 412, 413, 416, 417, 419, 420, 421
McKisson, Mayor, 414
Medical Institute, 450
Medici, Cosimo de’, 127–8
Medici, Giovanni de’, 16
Medici, Giovanni di Bicci de’, 127–8
Medici, Lorenzo de’, 127, 128–9
Medici, Piero de’, 128
Medici, Pietro de’, 129
Medici family, 87, 127–9, 131, 277, 433
Meiji; see Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan
Mellen, Charles, 454, 503, 504
Mellon, Andrew, 130
Mendelssohn family, 275
Menevée, Roger, 337
Mercantile National Bank, 505
Merrimac (warship), 347
Merrimack Manufacturing Company, 171, 172
Merritt family, 445
Metropolitan Club (New York), 458
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 481
Metropolitan Opera House, 458
Metternich-Winneburg, Prince Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von, 89, 90, 107, 118, 120, 121
Meyer, Courtland, 405
Middlemarch (George Eliot), 147
Midland Bank, 124
Mills, Darius Ogden, 407
Milton, John, 143–4
Misérables, Les (Hugo), 147
Mississippi Bubble, 53, 54–7, 69, 73
Mississippi Company; see Company of the West
Mitchell, Charles Edwin, 504
Mitsubishi family, 289, 290, 291
Mitsui, Daimio Takayasu, 264, 265
Mitsui, Hachirobei, 262–3, 266–7, 268–9, 272, 275, 277, 278, 291–2
Mitsui, Saburozaemon, 266, 267
Mitsui, Shuho, 266
Mitsui, Sokobei, 265–6
Mitsui, Baron Takakimi, 285, 288
Mitsui Bank, Limited, 281
Mitsui Bussan, 290
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, 282, 287, 289, 290, 357
Mitsui family, 28, 128, 262–92, 381
Mitsui Gomei Kaisha, 285, 286, 287, 288
Mitsukoshi corporation, 267
Mitsutsugu, Goto, 270
Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), 145, 250
Monaco, Louis II, Prince of, 369
Money and Trade Considered, with a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money (Law), 58–60
Monitor (warship), 345
Monmouth, Anne Scott, Duchess of, 144
Monnett, Frank, 408
Montrauon, M., 146
Montserrat, Marchioness of; see Clafin, Tennie C.
Moody, Dwight Lyman, 456
Moody, Paul, 171
Moore brothers, 498
Moore & Schley, 507
More, Sir Thomas, 166
Morgan, Amelia (Sturgis), 467, 469
Morgan, E. D., 187
Morgan, Frances (Tracy), 478
Morgan, Henry, 199
Morgan, John Pierpont (the elder), 3, 9, 28, 36, 128, 132, 218, 260, 307, 371, 383, 388, 389, 400, 406, 424, 426, 448, 451, 452–513
Morgan, John Tyler, 413
Morgan, Joseph, I, 460
Morgan, Joseph, II, 460
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 460–1, 463, 465, 467, 475, 478, 486
Morgan & Company, J. P., 482, 490, 510, 511
Morgan & Company, J. S., 478
Morinosuke, 288
Morris, Gouverneur, 382
Morton, Bliss & Company, 483
Mouse of the Mountain (steamboat), 179, 180, 181
Mumford, Lewis, 155
Murat, Joachim, King of Naples, 120
Muromachi, 270
Murphy, Charles, 128
Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan, 281
Nakamigawa, Hikojiro, 286–7
Naniwaya-Juemon, 273
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 87, 92, 96, 98, 99, 106, 107, 110, 111, 113, 116, 117, 119, 120, 125, 126, 163, 343, 345
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 345, 347
Naraya-Mozaemon, 273
Natchez (steamboat), 184
National Bank of Commerce, 506
National Bank of North America, 505
National Equitable Labour Exchange, 175
National Provincial Bank, 124
National Recovery Administration, 274, 423, 439
National Refiners’ Association, 441
National Steel Company, 497, 499
National Tube Company, 497, 499
Naval Armaments Company, 350
Newbold, Walter, 355
New Harmony community, 170
New Haven House (New Haven), 460
New Lanark mills, 151, 156–9, 160, 161
New York & Harlem Railroad, 192, 193, 194, 198
New York & Hudson River Railroad, 192, 194, 195, 198
New York Central & Hudson River Road; see New York Central Railroad
New York Central Railroad, 191, 192, 194, 195, 199, 200, 202, 206, 211, 212, 379, 413, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487
New York Evening Post, 404, 405
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 427, 454, 456, 462, 503, 504, 510, 511
New York Stock Exchange, 208, 488, 500, 506, 512
New York Times, The, 477
New York Tribune, 405
New York, Westchester & Boston, 503
Nibelungenlied, 142
Niekerk, Chaik van, 296, 312, 314
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 12, 411, 412
Night Thoughts (Young), 144
Noailles, Duke of, 66
Nordenfeldt, Torsten Vilhelm, 342, 347–8, 349, 368
Norfolk, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Duke of, 378
North American Review, 193
Northern Pacific Railroad, 197, 482, 487, 489, 490
Northern Securities Company, 490, 491
North Star (steamboat), 189
Northumberland, Algernon George Percy, Duke of, 378
Noyes, Alexander Dana, 494
NRA; see National Recovery Administration
Ogden, Aaron, 180
Ogden, Charles W., 236
Oguri, 286
Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, 232
Ohlen, H. C., 445
Oh Zion Haste! Thy Mission High Fulfilling!, 506
Oji Manufacturing Company, 283
Okuma, Count Shigenobu, 289
Oldknow, Samuel, 150
Ono-Zensuke, 281
On the State of Europe Before and After the French Revolution (von Gentz), 89
Oom Paul; see Kruger, Paul
Oppenheim family, 91
Oregon (steamboat), 184
Orleans, Philip, Duke of, Regent of France, 52, 53, 63–7, 70, 74, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84
Other People’s Money (Brandeis), 510–11
Otis, J. C., 414
Ouvrard, M., 87, 119, 343, 346
Owego Academy, 424
Owen, Anne Caroline (Dale), 151
Owen, Robert, 87, 148–77, 262, 386, 472
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 186, 195
Paine, 434
Paine, Thomas, 167
Palatine, Louis V, Elector, 32
Palmer & Flint, 150
Papillon, Thomas, 343
Paradise Lost (Milton), 143
Paris de Montmartel, the brothers, 62, 67, 70, 71, 343, 346
Parkhurst, Charles Henry, 405
Parnell, Charles Stuart, 321
Pasteur Institute (Athens), 372
Paul II, Pope, 128–9
Pawtucket Canal Company, 171
Payne, Oliver H., 419, 447, 507, 508
Pazzi family, 129
Peabody, George, 461, 463, 478
Peabody & Company, George, 465, 467, 477
Peck, Harry Thurston, 464
Peel, Sir Robert, 130, 162, 384
Peirce, Benjamin, 222
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 510
Pennsylvania Railroad, 446, 486, 487, 488, 497
Penrose, Boies, 413
Périer, Casimir, 119
Perkins, Thomas H., 382
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 265, 280
Peruzzi bank, 24–8, 38, 122, 275
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 148
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), 143
Pettius, van, 312
Peutinger, Konrad, 19–20, 34, 131, 141
Philadelphia Ledger, 482
Philip, Archduke of Spain, 32
Philip VI, King of France, 25
Philip Augustus, King of France, 17
Phillips, Lionel, 331
Pierrepont, Judge, 205
Place, Francis, 174
Plato, 166
Platt, Thomas Collier, 389, 413, 417, 418, 424, 478
Plautus, Titus Maccius, 142, 250
Plumer, Herbert Charles Onslow, 319
Pole, Sir William de la, 12, 28
Polignac, Prince Jules Auguste Armand Marie de, 119
Prie, Mme de, 82
Prince’s Gate, 458
Prix de Balzac, 372
Proctor, Redfield, 416
Producers’ Association, 441
Progress and Poverty (George), 391
Proposals and Reasons for Constituting a Council of Trade in Scotland (Law), 51, 58
Proposals for Raising a College of Industry of All Useful Trades and Husbandry (Billars), 168
Protagoras, 141
Prudhon, 167
Pucille, La (Chapelain), 143
Pujo, 512
Pullman, George Mortimer, 411
Pullman Company, 511
Pullman strike of 1894, 411
Quay, Matthew Stanley, 389, 394, 413, 417–8, 419, 447
Queensbury, Catherine Hyde, Duchess of, 144
Queensbury, Charles Douglas, Duke of, 144
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quinctilianus), 142
Racine, Jean Baptiste, 61, 145–6
Radziwill, Princess Catherine, 334–5
Rameses II, King of Egypt, 20
Ramsden, Sir J. W., 378
Ramsey, Joseph H., 479, 480, 481
Rathbone, 420
Ravensburg Company, 18–19
Reade, Winwood, 303–4
Reading Railroad, 231, 487, 511
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 387
Red Star Line, 503
Reed, Thomas Brackett, 389, 398, 403
Reid, Daniel G., 498
Remington, Eliphalet, 338, 345, 346
Review of Reviews, 405
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 324
Rhinelander family, 218
Rhodes, Cecil John, 68, 123, 293–336
Rhodes, Edith, 324
Rhodes, Ernest, 328
Rhodes, Francis William, 294
Rhodes, Herbert, 294–5, 296, 297
Rhodes Scholarships, 336
Ricardo bank, 122
Rice, George, 446
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal, 60, 143
Richmond, Dean, 184, 188, 194, 195
Richmond & West Point Terminal Company, 487
Ritter, Rosa Wilhelmina Dorothea (Frau von Lindenthal), 94–5
Roach, 407
Robert E. Lee (steamboat), 184
Robert, King of Naples, 143
Roberts, Marshall O., 186
Robinson, Abby Slocum (Howland), 215, 216–7, 219
Robinson, Edward Mott, 215, 216–7, 218, 219, 222, 224, 234
Robinson, Sir Hercules, 329, 330
Robinson, Hetty Howland; see Green, Hetty Howland (Robinson)
Rochester, Lockport & Niagara Falls Railroad, 191
Rockefeller, John Davison, 3, 9, 13–14, 19, 42, 44, 112, 123, 128, 132, 217–8, 237, 241, 250, 260, 307, 371, 383, 386, 387, 388, 389, 406, 422–51, 452–3, 455, 462, 468, 469, 486, 492, 498, 499
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 450
Rockefeller, Laura Celestia (Spelman), 424, 426
Rockefeller, William (father of John Davison), 424
Rockefeller, William, 214, 428, 429
Rockefeller & Andrews, 426
Rockefeller & Company, William, 428
Rockefeller family, 260
Rockefeller, Flagler & Andrews, 428
Rockefeller Foundation, 291, 450
Rock Island Railroad, 227
Rock Oil Company, 427
Rogers, Henry Huttleston, 214, 389, 416, 429, 442, 447, 451, 497
Rogers family, 244
Rohan, Prince de, 77
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, President of the United States, 28, 72, 73, 207, 354, 423, 443
Roosevelt, Theodore, President of the United States, 394, 395, 405, 415, 417, 418–9, 420, 421, 448, 491, 505, 506, 507
Root, E. K., 430–31
Roseberry, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 332
Rothschild, Albert, 124
Rothschild, Alphonse, 123, 124
Rothschild, Anselm, 86, 92, 99, 106, 107, 112, 115, 117, 124, 125
Rothschild Carl, 86, 102, 106, 112, 115, 120, 124
Rothschild, Guetele (Schnapper), 91–2, 117
Rothschild, James, 86, 87, 102, 105, 106, 111, 112, 117, 118, 119, 123, 124, 125, 126
Rothschild, Lionel, 123
Rothschild, Meyer Anselm, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 111, 113, 117
Rothschild, Nathan, 86, 87, 92, 97, 98, 99–100, 102, 103–4, 105, 106, 107, 108–9, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 123, 124, 125, 126, 132
Rothschild, Solomon, 86, 90, 92, 102, 106, 110, 112, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120, 123, 124, 125, 126
Rothschild family, 86–126, 277, 308, 346, 371, 382
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 146
Royal Bank of France, 69, 71, 73, 74, 77, 78
Royal Dutch Shell, 123
Rudd, C. D., 297, 305, 315, 322, 323
Ruef, Abe, 417
Russell, Oland D., 288
Russell, Sturgis & Company, 225
Russian Shipbuilding Company, 352
Saburoemon, Yodoya, 273
Sage, Margaret Olivia (Slocum), 254
Sage, Russell, 87, 218, 242, 254, 255, 407
St. John the Divine, Cathedral of, 456, 458
St. Petersburg Iron Works, 352
Saint-Simon, Claude Henri, Count of, 166, 167
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of, 52, 64, 78
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Gascoyne Talbot Cecil, Marquis of, 301–2, 317
Sandburg, Carl, 473
Sandhurst, Lord, 371
Sankey, Ira David, 456
Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 345
Sapori, 25
Sappho (Daudet), 147
Sasaki, Takahisa, 263
Satsuma clan, 265
Satterlee, Herbert Livingston, 458, 460, 464, 468, 472, 473, 474, 480
Savagner, M., 97
Savonarola, Girolamo, 129
Sayre, Lewis A., 229–30
Schenectady & Utica Railroad, 191
Schiff, Jacob, 405
Schlotheim, Juliane Albertine von, 95
Schneider, Joseph Eugène, 345, 352
Schneider-Creusot, 346, 347, 349, 351, 352, 353, 367
Schneider family, 338
Schreiner, 330
Scott, Thomas Alexander, 213, 478, 497
Scott, Sir Walter, 147
Sears, David, 382
Seasons, The (Thomson), 144
Seligman, Isaac, 405
Seneca Oil Company, 427
Senegal Company, 69
Senshu Kaisha, 282
Shah Jahan, Emperor of Hindustan, 257, 377
Shakespeare, William, 145
Shamrock (yacht), 457
Shaw, Robert G., 382
Shayne, Mr., 414–5
Sheets, Joseph, 393
Sherman, John, 393, 394, 397, 398, 399, 412, 413
Sherman Antitrust Laws, 212, 442
Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 403
Shibaura Engineering Works, 282, 283
Shufunotomo, 288
Sigismund I, Duke of the Tirol, 43
Silliman, Benjamin, 427
Sixtus IV, Pope, 129
Skoda, 338
Skouloudis, Stephen, 341–2, 361–2, 371
Sloo, Albert G., 186, 188, 191
Sloo Line; see United States Mail
Smith & Company, A. O., 431–2
Snyder, Carl, 431
Société Anonyme Française Bussan, 290
Société Française des Docks et Ateliers et Constructions Navales, 364
Société Générale des Huiles de Pētrole, 365
Société Navale de l’Ouest, 365
Société Ottoman, 364
Society for the Suppression of Vice, 456
Sokai, Takoto, 289
Southard, T. J., 190
Southey, Robert, 150
Southern Pacific Railroad, 230, 489
South Improvement Company, 440–1
Smiles, Samuel, 149
Social and Economic History of Japan (Elijoro Honjo), 270
Social Security Board, 72
Socii, 142
Songs of Innocence (Blake), 351
Sorel, Agnes, 134
Southern Railroad System, 487
South Pennsylvania Railroad, 486
Spelman, Laura Celestia; see Rockefeller, Laura Celestia (Spelman)
Spelman, Laura, Memorial, 450
Spence, Thomas, 167
Spengler, Oswald, 293, 304, 325
Spinola, Gherardino, 27
Spooner, John Coit, 416
Staël, Mme de (Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staël-Holstein), 345
Standard Oil Company, 44, 393, 397, 407, 408, 416, 419, 428–9, 442, 444–5, 446, 447–8, 449, 489, 490, 505
Stanford, Leland, 197
Stanley Commission, 507
Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 190
Star of South Africa (diamond), 296
Stayton, William H., 235–6
Stead, William Thomas, 320–1, 325, 335
Steele, Sir Richard, 144
Stevens, Simon, 470, 471, 472, 473, 475
Stillman, 447
Stinnes, Hugo, 373–6
Stinnes, Matthis, 374
Stokes, Mr., 208
Stortford, Bishop, 294
Strieder, Jacob, 20
Studebaker, 430
Stumm, 358
Sturgis, Amelia; see Morgan, Amelia (Sturgis)
Stuyvesant, Peter G., 382
Suez Canal, 123
Sukegoro of Yamato, 274
Suleiman I, Sultan of Turkey, 46, 47–8
Summa Theologica (Saint Thomas Aquinas), 15, 20
Sunday, William (“Billy”), 41
Supreme Court Reports (New York), 481
Suraj-ud-Dowlah, 326
Sweeney, Boss, 206
System, the; see Mississippi Company
Taft, William Howard, President of the United States, 35, 512
Takaakira, 288
Takakiyo, Baron, 288
Takamoto, 288
Takaniga, 288
Takateru, 288
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, Prince de Bénévent, 345
Talmage, Thomas DeWitt, 411
Tarbell, Ida Minerva, 445
Tarpon Club of Texas, 246
Tawney, 89
Technics and Civilization (Mumford), 155
Temps, Le (Paris), 362
Tennessee Coal & Iron, 507, 508
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), 142
Tetzel, John, 41–2
Texas & Midland Railroad, 232
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 144
Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, 15
Thickness, Mr., 149
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 3, 15, 20
Thomas, Albert, 353
Thomas, Ransom H., 506
Thomson, James, 144
Thorne, Oakleigh, 508
Thurzo, Alexis, 46–7
Thurzo, Johann, 43
Thurzo Company; see Fugger-Thurzo Company
Tilden, Samuel Jones, 408
Tillman, Benjamin Ryan, 416
Times (London), 318
Tinker, James, 467
Tirpitz, Alfred von, 358
Tokugawa Shogunate, 265, 269, 270
Tombs, Senator, 190
Toshitaro, Baron, 288
Townsend, Francis, 57
Tracy, Frances; see Morgan, Frances (Tracy)
Tredegar, Godfrey Charles Morgan, Baron, 378
Trier, Richard von Greiffenklau zu Vollraths, Elector of, 32
Trust Company of America, 508
Tsushima, 271–2
Tsuwano, 272
Tufts, Mrs., 209
Twain, Mark; see Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
Tweed, William Marcy, 192, 203, 204
Tweeddale, John Hay, Marquis of, 59
Ullrich, Professor, 464
Union Pacific Railroad, 197, 489, 491
United Copper Company, 505
United Pipe Lines, 447
United States Mail (steamboat line), 186, 195
United States Steel Corporation, 242, 366, 375, 462, 490, 490, 500, 503, 507, 508, 510–11
Vail, Theodore, 502
Van Brunt, Commodore, 190
Van Buren, Martin, President of the United States, 184
Vanderbilt, Consuelo, 380
Vanderbilt, Cornelius (father of the Commodore), 178
Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius, 178–214, 277, 380, 451, 466, 479, 483, 501
Vanderbilt, Cornelius (son of the Commodore), 212
Vanderbilt, Cornelius (son of William Henry), 212, 380
Vanderbilt, Frank C. (Crawford), 211
Vanderbilt, Frederick W., 380
Vanderbilt, George (son of the Commodore), 209
Vanderbilt, Phoebe (Hand), 178, 209
Vanderbilt, Sophia (Johnson), 179, 185–6, 209
Vanderbilt, William (son of Alfred), 380
Vanderbilt, William Harold (son of William K.), 380
Vanderbilt, William Henry (son of the Commodore), 185, 209, 211–2, 213–4, 371, 380, 483, 484, 485, 486–7
Vanderbilt, William K. (son of William Henry), 212, 380
Vanderbilt (steamboat), 188
Vanderbilt family, 168–214, 380
Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 382
Van Sweringen brothers, 201
Van Syckel, Samuel, 428
Van Wyck, 478
Veblen, Thorstein, 87
Vendi Tavolini, 21
Vendôme, Louis Joseph, Duke of, 70
Venizelos, Eleutherios, 360, 361, 362–3, 364, 371
Vickers, Douglas, 368
Vickers, Thomas, 338, 345, 348
Vickers & Sons, Thomas, 289, 346, 347, 348–9, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 358, 364, 366, 367, 371
Vickers-Armstrong, 358, 368, 370
Victor Amadeus I, King of Sardinia, 52–3
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 138–9
Victoria, Queen of England, 164, 299, 316, 333
Vieux-Cours, Burey de, 67
Vilas, William F., 384
Villeroi, François de Neufville, Duke of, 78
Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro), 142, 143
Vladislav VII, King of Bohemia and Hungary, 43, 44, 46
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de, 53, 146, 351
Vorwärts, 359–60
Walker, Robert L., 401–2
Walpole, Sir Robert, Earl of Orford, 83, 144
Walter of Brienne, 27
Wanamaker family, 388
Warden, 442
Warren, George Frederick, 207
Washington, George, President of the United States, 178, 319
Waterboer, 302
Watson, Thomas Edward, 244
Welby, Lord, 355–6
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 98, 100–105, 110, 126, 171
Wernher, Beit & Company, 323
Western Railroad, 486
Western Reserve College, 388
Western Union Telegraph Company, 511
Westminster Bank, 124
Westminster Company, 247
Wheeler, Joseph, 462
Whistler, George W., 172
Whistler, James Abbot McNeill, 172
White Star Line, 503
Whitney, Eli, 154
Whitney, William C., 384
Whitney family, 383
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 173
Whittington, Sir Richard, 12, 149
Wiggins, Archibald Lee Manning, 504
Wilhelm I, Kaiser of Germany, 312
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, 88, 163, 358, 359, 360, 459
Wilks, Hetty Sylvia (Green), 226, 244, 245–6, 249
Wilks, Matthew Astor, 245–6
Willoughby, Sir John, 316, 329, 330
Wilson, Woodrow, President of the United States, 512, 513
Wilson tariff bill, 400
Winchecombe, John (Jack of Newbury), 153
Wing, Eliza, 218
Wister, Owen, 495
Wolseley, Sir Garnet, 303
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal, 129
Woodhull, Victoria, 210–11
Woodhull & Clafin, 210
Woodhull & Clafin’s Magazine, 210
Woolworth & Company, F. W., 262
Wordsworth, William, 150
World (New York), 201, 407, 504
Wren, Sir Christopher, 85
Wyndham Corporation, 247
Yankee Doodle, 454
York and Clarence, Frederick, Duke of, 94
Young, Edward, 144
Young, Owen D., 148
Young Men’s Christian Association, 481
Zacharias, Zacharias Basileios; see Zaharoff, Sir Basil
Zaharoff, Sir Basil, 337–72
Zaharoff, Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patiocinio Simona de Muguiro y Berute, Duchess of Villafranca, Lady Basil, 349–50, 369–70
Zeno, 141
Zinc, Johan, 40
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