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See also:GAGE, LYMAN See also:JUDSON (1836– ) , See also:American financier, was See also:born at De Ruyter, See also:Madison See also:county, New See also:York, on the 28th of See also:June 1836. He was educated at an See also:academy at See also:Rome, New York, where at the See also:age of seventeen he became a See also:bank clerk. In 1855 he removed to See also:Chicago, served for three years as See also:book-keeper in a planing-See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill, and in 1858 entered the banking See also:house of the See also:Merchant's See also:Loan and See also:Trust See also:Company, of which he was See also:cashier in 1861–1868. Afterwards he became successively assistant cashier (1868), See also:vice-See also:president (1882), and president (1891) of the First See also:National Bank of Chicago, one of the strongest See also:financial institutions in the See also:middle See also:west. He was chosen in 1892 president of the See also:board of See also:directors of the See also:World's Columbian Exposition, the successful financing of which was due more to him than to any other See also:man. In politics he was originally a Re-publican, and was a delegate to the national See also:convention of the party in ,88o, and chairman of its See also:finance See also:committee. In 1884, however, he supported Grover See also:Cleveland for the See also:presidency, and came to be looked upon as a Democrat. In 1892 President Cleveland, after his second See also:election, offered Gage the See also:post of secretary of the See also:treasury, but the offer was declined. In the " See also:free-See also:silver " See also:campaign of 1896 Gage laboured effectively for the election of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:McKinley, and from See also:March 1897 until See also:January 1902 he was secretary of the treasury in the cabinets successively of Presidents McKinley and See also:Roosevelt. From See also:April 1902 until 1906 he was president of the See also:United States Trust Company in New York See also:City. His See also:administration of the treasury See also:department, through a more than ordinarily trying See also:period, was marked by a conservative policy, looking toward the strengthening of the See also:gold See also:standard, the securing of greater flexibility in the currency, and a more perfect See also:adjustment of the relations between the See also:government and the National See also:banks.
End of Article: GAGE, LYMAN JUDSON (1836– )
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