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William Fargo

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1818, May 201881, Aug 3
a pioneer American expressman who helped found the modern day financial firms of American Express Company and Wells Fargo with his business partner, Henry Wells. He was also the 27th Mayor of Buffalo, serving from 1862 until 1866 during the U.S. Civil War. At the...
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John Fearn [1]

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1768, Aug 241790sunknown
an English whaling ship captain, notable as the first European to discover the Pacific island of Nauru, which is now a sovereign republic. He was probably born on 24 August 1768 in Kingston upon Hull. John Fearn discovered Nauru on 8 November 1798, while travelling with his whaling ship Hunter from New Zealand to Calcutta via the China Seas. He named it Plea...
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William Felton [2]

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unknown1790s-1800sunknown
a London coachmaker from 36 Leather Lane in Holborn, and 254 Oxford Street near Grosvenor Square, and noted for his 1796 illustrated two-volume "A Treatise on Carriages; comprehending Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons, Curricles, Gigs, Whiskies, &c Together with their Proper Harness in which the Fair Prices of Every Article are Accurately Stated." William Felton w...
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Vincenz Fettmilch

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unknown1602-16161616
a grocer and gingerbread baker who led the Fettmilch uprising of the guilds in 1612–1616 to get rid of foreigners (mainly Jews) in the city, whom they viewed as competition and usurers. Fettmilch settled in Frankfurt in 1602. On August 22, 1614 he led a mob that stormed the Judengasse (Jews' Lane) and plundered the city's 1,380 Jews, forcing them to leave ...
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Cyrus W. Field

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1819, Nov 301892, Jul 12
an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. Although Field had many available career options, he chose business. At first, he worked for his brothers, David Dudley Field, Jr., and Matthew Dickinson Field.
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John Fitch

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1743, Jan 211780s-1790s1798, Jul 2
an American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. The first successful trial run of his steamboat Perseverance was made on the Delaware River on August 22, 1787, in the presence of delegates from the Constitutional Convention. It was propelled by a bank of oars on e...
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Thomas Fleet

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1685, Sep 81758, Jul 21
Thomas was a printer who married Elizabeth Goose's daughter. Elizabeth's stories were printed by Thomas as MOTHER GOOSE'S MELODIES FOR CHILDREN in 1719. No copies of the broadsheet exists today.
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Ann Smith Franklin

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1696, Oct 21736-17631763, Apr 16
an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband, James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin. She published the Newport, Rhode Island Mercury, printed an almanac series, and printed Rhode Island paper curren...
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Benjamin Franklin

aka: Richard Saunders
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1705, Jan 61718-17891790, Apr 17
one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories rega...
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James Franklin [1]

aka: Poor Robin
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1697, Feb 41735, Feb 4
an American colonial author, printer, newspaper publisher, and almanac publisher. James published the New England Courant, one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers. ames was an older brother of Benjamin Franklin and the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler and businessman from Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, and Abiah Folger Fran...
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Gilbert James French

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18041866
a textile manufacturer and the biographer of Samuel Crompton. Beginning on 26 April 1856, he contributed a series of letters to consecutive numbers of the Bolton Chronicle, which he collected and again "printed for presentation" in the same year as An Enquiry into the Origin and Authorship of some of the Waverley Novels. Here French developed, with new facts...
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Ingram Frizer

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1561 ca1627, Aug
an English gentleman and businessman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who is notable for his reported killing of the playwright Christopher Marlowe in the home of Eleanor Bull on 30 May 1593. He has been described as "a property speculator, a commodity broker, a fixer for gentlemen of good worship" and a confidence trickster gulling "young fools" ou...
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