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9. Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 1884.
10. New York Times, May 7, 1884.
11. New York Tribune, March 28, 1884.
12. Ibid.
13. Wall Street Journal, February 16, 1931.
14. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, April 20, 1878, Brinton Collection.
15. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to William Shaw Ward, May 22, 1877, Brinton Collection.
16. Chicago Tribune, November 9, 1880.
17. Joseph J. Perling, Presidents’ Sons, p. 171.
18. George W. Bishop Jr., Charles H. Dow and the Dow Theory, p. 354.
19. John Y. Simon et al., eds., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, vol. 28, p. 6.
20. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, January 22, 1879, Brinton Collection.
21. Don L. Griswold and Jean Harvey Griswold, The Carbonate Camp Called Leadville, p. 207.
22. Rodman W. Paul, ed., A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West, p. 177.
23. Ibid., p. 183.
24. Mary Hallock Foote to Helena Gilder, July 18, 1879, courtesy of Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries.
25. Mary Hallock Foote to Helena Gilder, September 8, 1879, courtesy of Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries.
26. Mary Hallock Foote to Helena Gilder, “Friday before Christmas,” 1879, courtesy of Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries.
27. Chicago Tribune, April 29, 1880.
28. New York World, July 2, 1886.
29. Ibid.
30. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 27, 1883.
31. Atlanta Constitution, May 15, 1884.
32. New York World, July 11, 1886.
33. Ibid.
34. New York Times, March 28, 1885.
35. New York Times, December 28, 1884.
36. New York Herald, May 10, 1884.
37. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, April 24, 1880, Brinton Collection.
38. Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean, August 7, 1887.
39. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 11, 1884.
40. Ibid.
41. New York Herald, October 10, 1885.
42. New York Tribune, January 4, 1885.
43. Ibid.
CHAPTER NINE
1. Jean Edward Smith, Grant, p. 618.
2. Julia Dent Grant, The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, p. 208.
3. Smith, Grant, p. 15.
4. Ibid., p. 610.
5. Josiah Bunting III, Ulysses S. Grant, pp. 115–16.
6. Smith, Grant, p. 18.
7. Henry Clews, Twenty-eight Years on Wall Street, p. 37.
8. New York World, July 21, 1886.
9. Hamlin Garland, “A Romance of Wall Street.”
10. Wall Street Journal, February 16, 1931.
11. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, March n.d., 1881, Brinton Collection.
12. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, August n.d., 1882, Brinton Collection.
13. New York Times, December 1, 1883.
14. Wall Street Journal, February 16, 1931.
15. Livingston Republican, August 25, 1881.
16. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, August 27, 1881, Brinton Collection.
17. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 15, 1880, Brinton Collection.
18. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, December 13, 1881.
19. New York Times, December 21, 1881.
20. Jasper Yeates Brinton, Fourteen Twenty-three Spruce Street, p. 25, Brinton Collection.
21. Ibid., p. 28.
22. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, n.d., Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
23. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, February n.d., 1882, Brinton Collection.
24. Ibid.
25. New York Tribune, May 11, 1884.
26. New York Herald, October 8, 1885.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. In fact, he had begun it long before, but not on the breathtaking scale that followed. New York Tribune, October 8, 1885.
30. New York Herald, March 28, 1885.
31. Ibid.
32. Boston Globe, September 21, 1885.
33. New York Times, October 9, 1885.
34. New York Herald, March 28, 1885.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. New York Herald, October 27, 1885.
39. New York Tribune, May 27, 1884.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. New York Herald, March 31, 1885.
43. Ibid.
44. Atlanta Constitution, December 11, 1885.
45. Ferdinand Ward, “General Grant as I Knew Him,” New York Herald, December 19, 1909.
46. New York World, July 11, 1886.
CHAPTER TEN
1. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 27, 1883.
2. Ibid.
3. New York Herald, May 8, 1884.
4. New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 12, 1885.
5. Parker Morell, Lillian Russell: The Era of Plush, p. 62.
6. David Stone, “Secrets and Lies,” p. 18.
7. Wilkes-Barre Leader, November 29, 1877.
8. Galveston Daily News, June 14, 1885.
9. Richard Lockridge, Darling of Misfortune: Edwin Booth, 1833–1893, p. 85.
10. Ferdinand Ward, “General Grant’s Dinner to President Diaz.”
11. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, July 13, 1882, Brinton Collection.
12. New York World, July 2, 1886.
13. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, July 10, 1882, Brinton Collection.
14. New York World, July 2, 1886.
15. Henry Clews, Twenty-eight Years on Wall Street, p. 216.
16. New York Herald, October 8, 1885.
17. Ibid.
18. Mystic Press, April 18, 1885.
19. Author’s collection.
20. New York Times, October 15, 1885.
21. Ferdinand Ward, “General Grant an Easy Prey for the Wolves of Finance.”
22. Reprinted in Rocky Mountain News, December 16, 1883.
23. Reprinted in Cincinnati Inquirer, November 27, 1883.
24. Ibid.
25. Reprinted in Cincinnati Enquirer, November 30, 1883.
26. New York Times, April 9, 1885.
27. Julia Dent Grant, The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, pp. 327–28.
28. John Y. Simon et al., eds., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, vol. 31, p. xvii.
29. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, December 26, 1883, Brinton Collection.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
1. Jane Shaw Ward to Ferdinand Ward, August 17, 1888, author’s collection.
2. Boston Globe, April 18, 1884.
3. New York Evening Post, October 27, 1885.
4. New York Tribune, March 20, 1885.
5. New York World, July 21, 1886.
6. New York Tribune, October 18, 1885.
7. New York Times, October 27, 1885.
8. Ibid.
9. New York Times, October 15, 1885.
10. New York Herald, December 26, 1909.
11. Ibid.
12. New York Sun, October 28, 1885.
13. New York Times, March 18, 1885.
14. Chicago Tribune, October 27, 1885.
15. New York Times, May 17, 1884.
16. Jean Edward Smith, Grant, p. 620.
17. Ibid.
18. Smith, Grant, p. 620.
19. New York Herald, December 17, 1884.
20. New York Times, November 28, 1885.
21. New York Times, March 19, 1885.
22. New York Times, September 9, 1885.
23. New York Times, May 17, 1884.
24. Ibid.
25. New York Herald, December 17, 1884.
26. Hamlin Garland, “A Romance of Wall Street.”
27. Ibid.
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sp; 28. New York Times, May 7, 1884.
29. Ibid.
30. James Grant, Money of the Mind, p. 61.
31. Alexander Dana Noyes, The Market Place: Reminiscences of a Financial Editor, pp. 44–45.
32. Smith, Grant, p. 620.
33. Richard Goldhurst, Many Are the Hearts, pp. 7–8.
34. New York Times, September 18, 1885.
35. New York Tribune, November 1, 1885.
36. New York Sun, May 10, 1884.
37. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, April 11, 1885, Brinton Collection.
38. Brooklyn Eagle, May 8, 1884.
39. Brooklyn Eagle, May 11, 1884.
40. Ibid.
41. New York Herald, October 28, 1885.
42. New York Tribune, May 29, 1884.
43. New York Herald, October 28, 1885.
CHAPTER TWELVE
1. New York Times, May 11, 1884.
2. New York Times, May 12, 1884.
3. Ibid.
4. Boston Daily Advertiser, May 20, 1884.
5. New York Times, May 15, 1884.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. New York Times, May 17, 1884.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. New York Times, May 21, 1884.
12. New York Sun, May 22, 1884.
13. Ibid.
14. New York Herald, March 7, 1890.
15. Washington Post, November 30, 1884.
16. A. R. Macdonald, Prison Secrets, p. 10.
17. New York Times, May 23, 1884.
18. Anonymous, “The Romance and Reality of American Railroads.”
19. Ibid.
20. New York Herald, March 7, 1890.
21. Ibid.
22. John Y. Simon et al., eds., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, vol. 29, p. 162.
23. Robert Underwood Johnson to Richard Watson Gilder, July 1, 1884, Richard Watson Gilder Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
24. Rocky Mountain News, May 18, 1884.
25. Thomas M. Pitkin, The Captain Departs, p. 6.
26. Simon et al., eds., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, p. 148.
27. Ibid., p. 154.
28. Ibid., p. 142.
29. David Stone, “Secrets and Lies.”
30. Hartford Courant, May 10, 1885.
31. Pitkin, The Captain Departs, p. 24.
32. Ibid., p. 20.
33. Richard Goldhurst, Many Are the Hearts, p. 150.
34. Pitkin, The Captain Departs, p. 22.
35. Harriet Elinor Smith, ed., Autobiography of Mark Twain, vol. 1, p. 83.
36. New York World, November 3, 1885.
37. New York Times, May 8, 1885.
38. Robert A. M. Stern, New York 1880, p. 136.
39. Phillip C. Jessup, Elihu Root, p. 142.
40. Ibid., p. 141.
41. New York Times, March 24, 1885.
42. Ibid.
43. New York Times, March 17, 1885.
44. New York Times, March 28, 1885.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Brooklyn Eagle, April 2 and 3, 1885.
48. Ferdinand Ward to Thomas H. Hubbard, March 31, 1885, Ford Autograph Collection, Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
49. New York Times, April 7, 1885.
50. New York Times, April 1, 1885.
51. New York Times, April 3, 1885.
52. New York Times, April 7, 1885.
53. New York Times, April 10, 1885.
54. New York Times, April 11, 1885.
55. Ibid.
56. New York Herald, April 12, 1885.
57. Mystic Press, July 1, 1885.
58. New York Times, March 28, 1885.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
1. New York Herald, April 14, 1885.
2. Boston Daily Globe, June 4, 1885.
3. New York Tribune, September 26, 1885.
4. New York Times, May 8, 1885.
5. Cincinnati Enquirer, May 29, 1885.
6. Cincinnati Enquirer, May 30, 1885.
7. Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 1885.
8. New York Times, June 28, 1885.
9. New York Times, October 31, 1885.
10. Richard Goldhurst, Many Are the Hearts, p. 220.
11. Harriet Elinor Smith, ed., Autobiography of Mark Twain, p. 84.
12. Ibid.
13. William McFeely, Grant: A Biography, p. 517.
14. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 22, 1885.
15. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, August 7, 1885, Brinton Collection.
16. Washington Post, August 9, 1885.
17. Reno Evening Gazette, October 19, 1885.
18. Nelson Sizer and Henry Shipton Drayton, Heads and Faces and How to Study Them, p. 73.
19. National Police Gazette, August 8, 1885.
20. New York Herald, October 20, 1885.
21. Boston Daily Globe, September 29, 1885.
22. Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1885.
23. New York Herald, October 8, 1885.
24. Marquis James, Merchant Adventurer, pp. 206–07.
25. New York Herald, October 20, 1885.
26. Ibid.
27. Frederick (Maryland) News, October 22, 1885.
28. New York Times, October 30, 1885.
29. New York Sun, October 27, 1885.
30. Ibid.
31. New York Times, October 31, 1885.
32. New York Sun, October 27, 1885.
33. New York Times, October 27, 1885.
34. New York Sun, October 27, 1885.
35. Ibid.
36. New York Times, October 28, 2010.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. New York Sun, October 28, 1885.
40. New York Times, October 29, 1885.
41. New York Tribune, November 1, 1885.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
1. New York World, November 3, 1885.
2. Timothy J. Gilfoyle, A Pickpocket’s Tale, p. 53.
3. Sing Sing Admission Register, Series B00143–80, vol. 7, p. 555, New York State Archives.
4. New York World, November 3, 1885.
5. Gilfoyle, A Pickpocket’s Tale, p. 160.
6. “Number 1500,” Life in Sing Sing, p. 38.
7. Ibid., p. 228.
8. Ibid., p. 47.
9. New York Times, July 3, 1910.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. New York Herald, May 12, 1889.
14. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, June n.d., 1888, author’s collection.
15. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, n.d., summer, 1888, Brinton Collection.
16. National Police Gazette, July 10, 1886.
17. Hutchins Hapgood, The Autobiography of a Thief, pp. 175–76.
18. Atlanta Constitution, February 6, 1887.
19. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, February 13, 1887, author’s collection.
20. Ferdinand Wilton to President Grover Cleveland, May 8, 1886, Grover Cleveland Papers, Library of Congress.
21. New York World, July 2, 1886.
22. New York World, July 11, 1886.
23. Ferdinand Ward to Hon. Daniel S. Lamont, August 3, 1887, author’s collection, Grover Cleveland Papers, Library of Congress.
24. New York World, July 11, 1886.
25. Chicago Tribune, August 12, 1886.
26. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, May 10, 1886, author’s collection.
27. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, February 19, 1887, author’s collection.
28. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, March 13, 1887, author’s collection.
29. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, June 5, 1887, author’s collection.
30. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, September 4, 1887, author’s collection.
31. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, August 13, 1887, author’s collection.
32. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, January 30
, 1887, author’s collection.
33. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, June 28, 1886, Ferdinand De Wilton Ward Collection, Waidner-Spahr Library, Dickinson College.
34. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, September 13, 1887, author’s collection.
35. Boston Globe, February 7, 1887.
36. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, September n.d., 1887, Brinton Collection.
37. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, June 28, 1886, Brinton Collection.
38. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, August 17, 1886, Brinton Collection.
39. Ferdinand Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, December 29, 1887, Brinton Collection.
40. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 4, 1888, Brinton Collection.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Jane Shaw Ward to Ferdinand Ward, August 19, 1888, author’s collection.
44. Jane Shaw Ward to Ferdinand Ward, August 17, 1888, author’s collection.
45. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, November 22, 1888, author’s collection.
46. William Shaw Ward to Ferdinand Ward, January 1, 1889, author’s collection.
47. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, February 2, 1889, author’s collection.
48. New York Herald, January 29, 1889.
49. Ferdinand Ward to President Grover Cleveland, February 6, 1889, Grover Cleveland Papers.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
1. New York Herald, May 12, 1889.
2. Ibid.
3. New York World, May 12, 1889.
4. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Ella Ward, June 17, 1889, author’s collection.
5. W. Bourke Cockran to Ferdinand Ward, June 14, 1889, author’s collection.
6. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, January 28, 1889, author’s collection.
7. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, May 5, 1889, author’s collection.
8. Ibid.
9. Author’s collection.
10. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, September 30, 1889, author’s collection.
11. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, October 3, 1889, author’s collection.
12. Brooklyn Eagle, April 24, 1885.
13. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, November 9, 1889, author’s collection.
14. Ella Ward to Ferdinand Ward, November 24, 1889, author’s collection.
15. Sarah Ward Brinton to Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, January 12, 1890, Brinton Collection.
16. Sarah Ward Brinton to Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, January 26, 1890, Brinton Collection.
17. Sarah Ward Brinton to Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, January 30, 1890, Brinton Collection.
18. New York Herald, March 3, 1890.
19. New York Herald, March 7, 1890.
20. James W. Graff to Ferdinand Ward, April 2, 1890, author’s collection.