Fifty years in both hemispheres, or, Reminiscences of a merchant"s life

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PAGE 51; Vincent Nolte was a German-Italian merchant and cotton buyer for an Amsterdam firm. He came to New Orleans in and accumulated considerable wealth and social position in the city before he was forced to return to Europe after his firm failed.

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New Orleans, a unique port city in the South This wonderful study contributes to both southern history and business history and should be required reading in undergraduate and graduate courses.' Elena V. Shabliy Source: Southern Historian 'Prodigiously researched and elegantly argued, The Merchants' Capital deserves a wide readership.'Cited by: FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF VICTORIAN LIFE.

CHAPTER I. AN EARLY VICTORIAN CHILD. I was born at Stoneleigh Abbey on October 29th, My father has told me that immediately afterwards—I suppose next day—I was held up at the window for the members. FIFTY YEARS OF 2 MY LIFE. fen. postponement of the undertaking to the Greek Kalends but when, contrary to expectation, I reached the Psalmist's standard of longevity, I was left without an excuse for ; not attempting to fulfil the implied promise.

that time forth, therefore, I have been in the habit of making notes of occurrences as they. The vicissitudes of his life singular and instructive, For more than thirty years he filled posts of honour and some of the highest stations in this community, both as a stateman and as a merchant and hanker; and now, after a regular course of study and reading, is a.

Welcome to the book, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A History of the Great Struggle In Both Hemispheres; With A View of The Slavery Question In The United States, by. Sources Cited in The rise of New York Port [] experience as boy in dry goods jobbing house and father's store, and cabin boy on London packet.

Vincent O. Nolte, Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres (tr. International financial adventurer; occasional visitor at New York; good account of situation at New Orleans during cotton. Charlotte Rolfe, or Lottie, was the youngest daughter of Charles Rolfe, a tailor, and his wife Maria Rolfe.

She was born in Bury St. Edmunds on the 2nd of February, There is no suggestion on the census returns that she was deaf until the census, so we may assume she had a form of progressive hearing loss, though it rendered her almost completely deaf.

The same period was equally remarkable both in France and England for an unexampled degeneracy of manners and looseness of morals. and were inserted in his “History of Massachusetts Bay,” in Fifty-seven years after the argument was delivered, Mr in the first instance, have affected only the rights of a few merchants of Boston.

EIGHTY YEARS AND MORE REMINISCENCES friend was rather hypercritical and that we were as nearly perfect as mortals need be for the wear and tear of ordinary life. Being both endowed with a good degree of self-esteem, neither the praise nor the blame of mankind was overpowering to either of us.

Could he have looked forward fifty. Fifty years hence people may wonder that their ancestors of this our day, did not, one and all, use the telegraph or telephone, instead of the slow process of sending letters by mail, by which days are consumed in doing the work of a few minutes.

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Reminiscences by delegates of the first Zionist congress Page 32 And everything that has been achieved in our national life in the course of fifty years, all the changes that have developed in its life, matter of course for every Jew of both hemispheres: viz. an assured social existence in a well meaning community, the possibility of em.

Apr 02,  · D uring the first decades of the nineteenth century, the German immigrant Vincent Nolte reigned as one of the largest cotton merchants in New Orleans. Byhis Barings-backed commercial house was worth millions, responsible for shipping about a quarter of the cotton that passed through New Orleans—4 to 8 percent of U.S.

exports—on its way around the catholicyoungadultsofsc.com: Kathryn Olivarius. Fifty-two years had come and gone, and domestic slavery had been abolished on both hemispheres, fully half a century and this ancient warrior was still stirring the embers of sectional fury and still spluttering about the rights of Southern slave owners.

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Marshall (page images at HathiTrust).Stephen Davies, “Richard Cobden: Ideas and Strategies in Organizing the Free-Trade Movement in Britain” (January ) Today it is easy to be despondent about the prospects of bringing about radical change in public policy or the political and social order.