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Title: Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Charles H. (Charles Hinckley), b. 1864
Subjects: Baker, William Taylor, 1841-1903 Electric power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Premier press
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rtune made or crippled. Forme success meant more than honor and fortune; itmeant the real joy to which I had long looked forward,of drawing my father into a business relation with meof my own conception, by which he would later takeadditional pride in me as a son who had thus been themeans of adding to his fortune as well as to my own,and of drawing him away from the wearisome andwearing Board of Trade. My ambition was laterrealized, but it came too late to do all for him that Ihad counted upon as he died before our work wasfinished. II. Let me now describe this enterprise as I plannedit and as we finally in five years completed it in theshape that one sees it today as the socalled EighthWonder of the World, by which name many havedubbed it. Snoqualmie Falls, situated in the foothillsof the Cascade Mountains, results from the river ofthe same name falling in one leap over a precipice270 feet high. The name is the white mans corrup-tion of the name of a tribe of Indians called in their
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