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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
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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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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.