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Cyrus Miller's carnival has come to town. Its chief draw is a gorilla named Goliath. Each night, Goliath is teased by a trapeze artist named Laverne. She swings back and forth, just out of reach from the simian's upraised arms. This frustrates Goliath, but audiences are thrilled.
Gould was born in Manhattan on June 8, 1871 [1] to railroad financier Jay Gould (1836–1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838–1889). He was the fourth of six children among siblings George, [2] Edwin, [3] Helen, [4] Anna [5] [6] and Frank. [7] His paternal grandparents were Mary (née More) Gould and John Burr Gould from Roxbury, New York. [8]
They did not escort coffles or run auctions themselves, but they did parlay their enslaving expertise into profits. Also, especially in the first quarter of the 19th century, cotton factors , banks, and shipping companies did a great deal of slave trading business as part of what might be called the "vertical integration" of cotton and sugar ...
Gould was born on February 6, 1864, the eldest son of Jay Gould (1836–1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838–1889). His father was a leading American railroad developer and speculator who has been referred to as one of the ruthless robber barons of the Gilded Age, whose success at business made him one of the richest men of his era.
The "United States Hotel", construction started in 1827, corners of Fulton Street and Pearl Street, in South Street Seaport The "United States Hotel", a 225 rooms luxury hotel built in 1832 in Manhattan's Financial District, owned by General Edwin R. Yale, competitor of Astor House built in 1836 by John Jacob Astor New York City, 1870, the "United States Hotel" (U.S. Hotel), is a white stone ...
Kerry Washington portrays Lt. Col. Charity Adams in the Netflix film. The real-life leader was born in Kittrell, N.C., on Dec. 5, 1918, and raised in Columbia, S.C.
July 18 – John A. Kimberly, entrepreneur, co-founder of Kimberly-Clark (died 1928) July 20 – Augustin Daly, dramatist and theatre manager (died 1899) July Full Date Unknown – Bass Reeves, one of the first black Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River (died 1910)
The Troubled-Teen Industry Has Been A Disaster For Decades. It's Still Not Fixed.