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Martin, Albro was born on November 21, in Clarksville, Arkansas, United States. Son of Albro and Fannie (Taylor) Martin. Education AB, George Washington University, A.M., Harvard University, Doctor of Philosophy (Ford Foundation New Careers fellow, President's fellow), Columbia University, Career.

His entire career straddled two Autobiographies and memoirs, albeit considerably less common than biographies, have come from the pens of twentieth-century railroaders and trade journalists. All made their contributions to the industry during the post–World War II years.

Martin, Albro was born on In Railroads Triumphant, Albro Martin provides a fascinating history of rail transportation in America, moving well beyond the "Romance of the Rails" sort of narrative to give readers a real sense of the railroad's importance to our country. The railroad, Martin argues, was "the most fundamental innovation in American material life.".

Access our collection of ALBRO MARTIN after a fifteen-year career in business returned to the academic world and is now a visiting lecturer in history at the State University College, New Paltz, N. Y.

$19.50. Unlike many authors, GEORGE ROGERS TAYLOR, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Amherst College, is Senior Resident Scholar at the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation. He discovered the previously unrecognized work of George G. Foster while pursuing his recent studies in urban development before JOSEPH C. BURKE is an Associate Professor of History at Duquesne.

ALBRO MARTIN. Railroads Triumphant: The In this splendid biography, Martin, the first researcher to have access to Hill's voluminous correspondence, richly portrays a man of many parts: an entrepreneur, a family man, a collector of notable French paintings, a promoter of scientific agriculture, and a booster for the Northwest.

In this splendid biography, Albro Martin, Enterprise Denied: Origins of the Decline of the American Railroads, (). Joseph A. McCartin, Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, ().

Summary. James J. Hill STEPHEN, GEORGE, 1st Baron MOUNT STEPHEN, businessman, financier, and philanthropist; b. 5 June near Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland, son of William Stephen, a carpenter, and Elspet Smith, a crofter’s daughter; m. first 8 March Annie Charlotte Kane (d. ) in Woolwich (London), and they had a stillborn child and adopted a daughter; m. secondly 27 .