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• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Goodriches: An American Family, by Dane Starbuck (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)

• The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York (based on the 3rd edition, 1913), by William Ingraham Russell (Gutenberg text)

• Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey: Autobiography and Letters (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2002), by J. G. M. Ramsey, ed. by William B. Hesseltine, contrib. by Robert Tracy McKenzie (PDF at Tennessee)

• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Early Bird: A Business Man's Love Story (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1910), by George Randolph Chester, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford: A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1908), by George Randolph Chester (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• John Rawn, Prominent Citizen (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1912), by Emerson Hough, illust. by M. Leone Bracker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lion and the Mouse: A Story of an American Life Novelized from the Play by Arthur Hornblow, by Charles Klein, contrib. by Arthur Hornblow (Gutenberg text)
• A Tale of Red Roses (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1914), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wallingford and Blackie Daw (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1913), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wallingford in His Prime (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1913), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young Wallingford (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1912), by George Randolph Chester, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger and Henry Raleigh (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Babbitt (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Sinclair Lewis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells
  • illustrated HTML at wsu.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to be One, by Peter B. Kyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Gilded Age (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Harper and Bros., c1915), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson: By One of the Firm (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1870), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Andy Blake and the Pot of Gold (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1930), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Andy Blake's Secret Service (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1929), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Andy Blake (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York (based on the 3rd edition, 1913), by William Ingraham Russell (Gutenberg text)

• Russian Policy in the Orthodox East: The Patriarchate of Constantinople (1878-1914) (Warsaw and Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2014), by L. A. Gerd (PDF at DeGruyter)

• 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)

• Ernest Oppenheimer and the Economic Development of Southern Africa (Cape Town; London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), by T. E. Gregory (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)

• Memories of an Active Life: Men, and Ships, and Sealing Wax (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923), by Charles R. Flint (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)

• 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)

• The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York (12th edition, 1855), by Moses Yale Beach (searchable page images at Google)

• 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
  • Volume I (1835-1862): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1863-1900): multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)

• Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Naomi W. Cohen (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by William B. Friedricks
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Wilfried Feldenkirchen, trans. by Bernhard Steinebrunner (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• 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.edu)
• Merchants of Deception (online edition; originally published 2004), by Eric Scheibeler (PDF with commentary at transgallaxys.com)

• 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 Charles 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• 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
  • Volume 1 (De Commines et al): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Earl of Clarendon et al): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Charles V et al): multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.