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• 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)
• Henry J. Heinz; a biography (New York : B. Orr press, 1923., 1923), by E. D. McCafferty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Clay Frick, the man (s.n.], 1936), by George Brinton McClellan Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of small business (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Chauncey Jerome (F.C. Dayton, 1860), by Chauncey Jerome, Lockwood Barr, and Wiley & Turner Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elämäni ja työni (in Finnish), by Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, trans. by Eino Voionmaa (Gutenberg ebook)
• Henry Ford's Own Story: How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power that goes with Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with Humanity, by Rose Wilder Lane (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• Henry Ford's own story ; how a farmer boy rose to the power that goes with many millions, yet never lost touch with humanity, as told to Rose Wilder Lane. (E. O. Jones, 1917), by Rose Wilder Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences (Vestal Printing Company, 1908), by Emory Fiske Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fugō jikken kyōkun (Jitsugyō no Nihonsha, 1907), by J. Ewing Ritchie and Baisho Yamazaki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In memoriam ([United States] : [publisher not identified], [1918?], 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man, John D. Spreckels (Press of Frye & Smith, 1924), by H. Austin Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Robert Dollar. (Privately published for the author by Schwabacher-Frey, 1927), by Robert Dollar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Robert Dollar. (Privately printed for the author [by Bruce Brough Press], 1925), by Robert Dollar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of business (C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by William Osborn Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam, William Leverett Chase. (s.n., 1896), by William Leverett Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memory of Arthur William Soper, 1838-1901. (Browning?, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam. Frederick H. Churchill ([New Britain, Conn.?, 1881), by Annie Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Thomas Hawley Canfield his early efforts to open a route for the transportation of the products of the West to New England, by way of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River and Vermont railroads and his connection with the early history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from the History of the Red River Valley, North Dakota and park region of northwestern Minnesota. ([s.n.], 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and achievements of Jay Gould, the wizard of Wall Street being a complete and graphic account of the greatest financier of modern times ; his early life and struggles; bold ventures and brilliant successes; wonderful career as a speculator and railroad king; vast operations in Wall Street; his immense fortune accumulated in a few years : a remarkable story abounding in fascinating incidents, thrilling episodes, and marvelous achievements (R.A.H. Morrow, 1892), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Howe McElwain, 1867-1908 (Priv. print., 1917), by Henry Greenleaf Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Set and spring your own net or traps. Results of combinations of experiences of John Tyler Hicks ... (J.T. Hicks, 1904), by John Tyler Hicks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous leaders of industry. Second series. Young men who have succeeded. With an index. Illustrated. (Page Company, 1934), by Edwin Wildman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of Robert Dollar : December, 1917 (Privately published for the author by W. S. Van Cott, 1917), by Robert Dollar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketch of Colonel Richard Lathers, 1841-1902. (Lippincott, 1902), by Richard Lathers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wizard of Wall Street and his wealth (J.C. Yorston, 1893), by Trumbull White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years' residence in America; or, The doctrine of a particular providence exemplified in the life of Grant Thorburn, seedsman, New York. (Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf; [etc, etc.], 1834), by Grant Thorburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence : with a brief account of some incidents in his life (D. Lothrop, 1855), by Amos Lawrence and William R. Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth; or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould, by Trumbull White (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• Memoirs of Henry Villard, journalist and financier, 1835-1900 ... (Houghton, Mifflin, 1904), by Henry Villard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Clay Frick, the man (s.n.], 1936), by George Brinton McClellan Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cannibals of finance : fifteen years' contest with the money trust (Farnum Pub. Co., 1912), by Arthur Edward Stilwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Adelbert Canfield (Privately Printed, 1930), by Caspar Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rich men of the world, and how they gained their wealth; exhibiting a variety of examples of practical business success, under various circumstances, successful speculations, etc., etc. With many valuable examples for every young man. (American News Co., general agents, 1867), by N.Y.) Jesse Haney & Co. (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baruch, the public years (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960), by Bernard M. Baruch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of George Peabody containing a record of those princely acts of benevolence which entitle him to the esteem and gratitude of all friends of education and the destitute, both in America, the land of his birth, and in England, the place of his death (B.B. Russell;, 1870), by Phebe A. Hanaford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wizard of Wall Street and his wealth (J.C. Yorston, 1893), by Trumbull White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth; or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould, by Trumbull White (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie. (Houghton Mifflin company, 1920), by Andrew Carnegie and John Charles Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drawing conclusions on Henry Ford (University of Michigan Press, 2001), by Rudolph Alvarado and Sonya Alvarado (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thomas D. Foster, 1847-1915 : a biography (The Torch Press], 1930), by Richmond Ames Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andorū Kānegī jijoden (Fuzanbō, 1922), by Andrew Carnegie, Kyūgorō Obata, and John Charles Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A captain in industry (New York, NY : Privately printed, 1957), by Junius David Edwards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Henry Baldwin Stone 1851-1897 (Priv. print. by the press of Rogers & Smith Co., 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elämäni ja työni (in Finnish), by Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, trans. by Eino Voionmaa (Gutenberg ebook)

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