1910 antique CONFIDENCE or NATIONAL SUICIDE signed by author stilwell RR HISTORY For Sale

1910 antique CONFIDENCE or NATIONAL SUICIDE signed by author stilwell RR HISTORY
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This listing is for the hardcover book shown. Hardcover, cloth over board, measures approx 5.5\"x8\" with 120 pags.
Kansas City Southern Railroad

Presumed first edition.9mnj

SIGNED BY AUTHOR inscribed inscription

\"Respectively Dedicated to George W. Westinghouse whom I consider one of the greatest Americans, and to whom the world owes a debt of gratitude for the air brake and other inventions.\"

Section Headings Are: Conditions; Errors; Remedies. Chapter Titles Include: A Protest; The Englishman; Mexican Officials As Confidence Builders; American Wolves; Our Financial Apaches; State Contracts; The Corporation Court; An American Legion Of Honor; Let Us Be Fair!, Etc.

Born in Rochester, New York, October 21, 1859, Arthur Edward Stilwell, with only a fourth grade education, (due to poor childhood health) formed over forty companies, and was responsible for the laying of 2,300 miles of railway in America, in the 1890\'s and early 1900\'s. When only twenty-seven, and married, he quit The Traveler\'s Insurance Co, where he was in line to become president, and headed west. He considered Kansas City his home, doing much community service there. In Kansas City he organized the Belt Line, and later the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, now the Kansas City Southern. He was president only from 1897 to 1900. In his retirement he wrote numerous books, poems, plays and hymns. Wikipedia

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