A MILLIONAIRE CITY.
There are more millionaires in San Francisco, says the San Francisco Argonaut, than in any other American pity* 7 lt is .a curiousi fact, and without one exception, that none spring from the ve»Uhy class,: and that only one brought any money to* San Francisco. Only ©ne is a , graduate <>f a learned university { only seven were educated to any profession, an,d all. of, these lawyers. Twenty of the 1 lisfi-were in their youth of the uneducated barefoot classes, whose early straggles were unaided by relatives or frieuds. Fortynine of our millionaires are American by birth, 18 are^lriwb, § are Jews, 5 arr-<*ermari, 4 J ar^ English; and 1 French. Only three were born in the South.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 8, 7 December 1883, Page 2
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119A MILLIONAIRE CITY. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 8, 7 December 1883, Page 2
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