Letters From A Self Made Merchant To His Son Being The Letters Written By John Graham Head Of The House Of Graham Company Pork Packers In Chicago

Excerpt from Letters From a Self Made Merchant to His Son "Young fellows come to me looking for jobs and telling me what a mean house they have been working for."; "Old Doc Hoover asked me right out in Sunday School if I didn't want to be saved."; "I have seen hundreds of boys go to Europe who didn't bring back a great deal except a few trunks of badly fitting clothes."; "I put Jim Durham on the road to introduce a new product."; "Old Dick Stover was the worst hand at procrastinating that I ever saw."; "Charlie Chase told me he was President of the Klondike Exploring, Gold Prospecting, and Immigration Company."; "Jim Donnelly, of the Donnelly Provision Company, came into my office with a fool grin on his fat face."; "Bill Budlong was always the last man to come up to the mourners' bench."; "Clarence looked to me like another of his father's bad breaks." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

George Horace Lorimer (October 6, 1867 - October 22, 1937) was an American journalist and author. He is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post. In the early 1900s Lorimer published several books, including Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." The book was among the list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s

Excerpt from Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: Being Some of the Letters Written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham and Company, Pork Packers in Chicago, Familiarly Known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to His Son Pierrepont, Facetiously Known to His Intimates as "Piggy" In issuing this selection of letters from the original book, we we desire to acknowledge our indebtedness to the publishers, Messrs. Small, Maynard and Company, for permission to use a certain number of these letters in this way, and also to the artists, 8. Martin Justice and F. R. Gruger, for the use of some of the illustrations. To those who enjoy reading these letters we heartily commend the complete work, which c'ontains a number of others equally entertaining and helpful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

George Horace Lorimer was an American journalist and author best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post. During his editorial reign, the Post rose from a circulation of several thousand to over a million. He is credited with promoting or discovering a large number of American writers like Jack London. Lorimer's Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son is a timeless collection of Gilded Age aphorisms from a rich man - a prosperous pork-packer in Chicago to his son, Pierrepont, whom he 'affectionately' calls 'Piggy.' The writing is subtle and brilliant.