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• 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

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• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)