CLERK TO MILLIONAIRE.
RISE OF A CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRiY
STARTED WITHOUT A DOLLAR.
Mr Alfred C. Bedford, chairman pf the board of directors, of the Standard Oil Company, New Jersey, died suddenly last month from heart failure. Mr Bedford became president of the great Standard Oil Company in 1916. He was a striking instance of th® selfmade captain of industry. “I hadn’t a dollar in the world when I started,” he once said to a “Daily Express” representative. “But I made up my mind to get on. I made it a rule never to look at the clock.” He started almost at the bottom of the staff of the Bergenport Chemical. Company, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company, and in a little over twenty years was director of the company. He found his recreation away from business in educational and, hard wb-k. His maxim in life was: “A ■man must keep on working, and, with grit and optimism, fortune is, bound to come.” ■ !
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4904, 18 November 1925, Page 3
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164CLERK TO MILLIONAIRE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4904, 18 November 1925, Page 3
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