My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands

ISBN-13: 9781544650593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 218 str.

George Francis Train

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-Train Villa, built at Newport, '68. Daughter's house, 156 Madison Avenue, '60. Organized French Commune, Marseilles, Ligue du Midi, October, '70, while on return trip around the world in eighty days. Jules Verne, two years later, wrote fiction of my fact. -Made independent race for Presidency against Grant and Greeley, '71-72. Cornered lawyers, doctors, clericals, by quoting three columns of Bible to release Woodhull-Claflin from jail, '72. Now lunatic by law, through six courts. -Now living in Mills Palace, $3 against $2,000 a week, at Train Villa. (Daughter always has room for me in country.) Played Carnegie forty years ahead. Three generations living off Credit Mobilier. Author dozen books out of print (vide Who's Who, Allibone, Appletons' Cyclopaedia).