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“Plutarch's Lives” of Trade: The First Series of American Business Biographies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Henrietta M. Larson
Henrietta M. Larson
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Harvard University.
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Freeman Hunt, the founder of the first general business magazine published in the United States — known today as the Commercial and Financial Chronicle — was also responsible for the publication of the first series of biographies of American business men. Biographies of mercantile capitalists and a few industrial capitalists were a regular feature of his Merchant's Magazine and Commercial Review from its beginning in 1839, and in 1855 and 1857 appeared the Lives of American Merchants edited and published by Hunt.

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Business History Review , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1946 , pp. 28 - 32
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1946

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References

1 The quotations in this article are taken from the 1858 edition of that workGoogle Scholar.

2 Ibid., vol. i, p. iii.

3 Loc. cit.

4 Ibid., p. iv.

5 Ibid., p. v.

6 Ibid., vol. ii, p. 65.

7 Ibid., p. 448.

8 Ibid., p. 332.

9 For later developments see “Trends in Business Biography,” an article by Porter, Kenneth Wiggins in the Journal of Economic and Business History, vol. iv, pp. 583–610Google Scholar.