African American businesspeople -- Biography
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From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond; The Rewards of Honesty, Industry, Economy and Perseverance (Madison, AR: Journal Printing Co., 1917), by Dan. A. Rudd and Theo. Bond, contrib. by James Carroll Napier
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Filed under: Bond, Scott, 1852 or 1853-1933- From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond; The Rewards of Honesty, Industry, Economy and Perseverance (Madison, AR: Journal Printing Co., 1917), by Dan. A. Rudd and Theo. Bond, contrib. by James Carroll Napier
- Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1998), by Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
- John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by John D. Haeger (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
- Merchants of Deception (online edition; originally published 2004), by Eric Scheibeler (PDF with commentary at transgallaxys.com)
- George Draper Dayton: An Autobiography (privately printed, 1933), by George Draper Dayton (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth: or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould (Philadelphia: J. C. Yorston and Co., 1893), by Trumbull White (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Story (Washington: The author, 1918), by Anson Mills, ed. by C. H. Claudy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Goodriches: An American Family, by Dane Starbuck (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
- The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth: or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould (Philadelphia: J. C. Yorston and Co., 1893), by Trumbull White (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900 (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1904), by Henry Villard
- Life, Adventures, Strange Career and Assassination of Col. James Fisk, Jr.:The Fisk-Stokes Tragedy: All About Miss Mansfield (Philadelphia: Barclay and Co., c1872), by George L. Barclay (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Portrait of a Banker: James Stillman, 1850-1918 (New York: Duffield and Co., 1927), by Anna Robeson Brown Burr (page images at HathiTrust)
- The House of Lynch (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The House of Lynch (5th American edition; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1920), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Naomi W. Cohen (page images and PDF at Brandeis)
- Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998), by Martin R. Ansell (PDF at Ohio State)
- Life of an American Workman (c1950), by Walter P. Chrysler and Boyden Sparkes (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, by Andrew Carnegie, ed. by John C. Van Dyke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
- A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
- Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
- Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
- The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
- Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
- Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
- Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
- Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)
- Index to Profile Sketches in New Yorker Magazine (Boston: F. W. Faxon Co., 1946), by Thomas Shuler Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionary of World Biography (fifth edition, c2018), by Barry O. Jones (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1855), by Parke Godwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1856), by Parke Godwin
- Hand-Book of Universal Biography (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Parke Godwin
- An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle; With a Life of Bayle (4 volumes; London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826), by Pierre Bayle
- Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries (15th edition; London: G. Routledge and sons, 1899), ed. by Victor Plarr (page images at HathiTrust)
- Vitae Selectorum Aliquot Virorum Qui Doctrinâ, Dignitate, Aut Pietate Inclaruere (in Latin; London: A. G. and J. P., 1681), by William Bates
- Crusaders for Freedom (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1962), by Henry Steele Commager, illust. by Mimi Korach (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dawnings of Genius: or, The Early Lives of Some Eminent Persons of the Last Century (London: Charles Knight and Co., 1841), by Anne Pratt (page images at Google)
- Famous Men of Ancient Times (Boston: Brown and Taggard, 1860), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Red Book of Heroes (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by Mrs. Lang, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by Arthur Wallis Mills (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Triumphs of Perseverance and Enterprise (with updated illustrations), by Thomas Cooper (illustrated HTML in the UK)
- Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times, by Elbridge S. Brooks
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