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• Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors In Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Susan Ingalls Lewis (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• What Diantha Did, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Gutenberg text)
• Emma McChesney & Co., by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text)
• Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1914), by Edna Ferber, illust. by James Montgomery Flagg (Gutenberg text and illustrateed HTML)
• Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney, by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text)

• Kate Meredith, Financier (New York and London: Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906), by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, illust. by Frank Parker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ethel Morton's Enterprise, by Mabell S. C. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Independent Woman (1920-1956) (partial serial archives)

• 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 Ford's Own Story: How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power That Goes With Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with Humanity (Forest Hills, NY: E. O. Jones, 1917), by Rose Wilder Lane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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

• 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
  • 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 (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)

• Famous Fortunes: Intimate Stories of Financial Success (Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co. c1931) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Willing Letters and Papers: Edited with a Biographical Essay of Thomas Willing of Philadelphia (1731-1821) (Philadelphia: Allen, Lane and Scott, 1922), by Thomas Willing, ed. by Thomas Willing Balch
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• Andrew Carnegie: His Methods With His Men (memorial service address, 1919), by Charles M. Schwab
  • page images at Harvard
  • rotated page images at HathiTrust
• Anti-Carnegie: Scraps and Comments (1899), by M. F. Campbell and J. C. Campbell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), by Tom Rea (page images at Pitt)
• Think and Grow Rich (Meriden, CT: Ralston Society, 1938), by Napoleon Hill (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, by Andrew Carnegie, ed. by John C. Van Dyke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie, by Frederick Henry Lynch (HTML at Virginia)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Life of an American Workman (c1950), by Walter P. Chrysler and Boyden Sparkes (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• George Draper Dayton: An Autobiography (privately printed, 1933), by George Draper Dayton (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)

• Henry Ford Must Choose (ca. 1941), by Friends of Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at hood.edu)
• The Amazing Story of Henry Ford, the Ideal American and the World's Most Famous Private Citizen: A Complete and Authentic Account of His Life and Surpassing Achievements (Chicago: Printed by M. A. Donohue and Co., c1922), by J. Martin Miller, contrib. by Henry Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Ford's Own Story: How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power That Goes With Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with Humanity (Forest Hills, NY: E. O. Jones, 1917), by Rose Wilder Lane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Forty Years With Ford (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., c1956), by Charles E. Sorensen, contrib. by S. T. Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Ford vs. Truman H. Newberry, the Famous Senate Election Contest: A Study in American Politics, Legislation and Justice (New York: R. R. Smith, 1935), by Spencer Ervin, contrib. by William Bennett Munro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Ford vs. the American Jew (Rochester, NY: Jewish Pub. Co., c1921), by Abraham. Silverstein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Life and Work, by Henry Ford, contrib. by Samuel Crowther (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• 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)

• The Portrait of a Banker: James Stillman, 1850-1918 (New York: Duffield and Co., 1927), by Anna Robeson Brown Burr (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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

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