The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes: Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875 by Nagle, Michael W.
The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes: Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875 by Nagle, Michael W.

The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes: Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875

Eber Brock Ward (1811-1875) began his career as a cabin boy on his uncle's sailing vessels, but...
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Author: Michael W. Nagle
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The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes: Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875 by Nagle, Michael W.

The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes: Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875

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The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes: Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875 by Nagle, Michael W.

The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes: Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875

BD$40.60
Author: Michael W. Nagle
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Eber Brock Ward (1811-1875) began his career as a cabin boy on his uncle's sailing vessels, but when he died in 1875, he was the wealthiest man in Michigan. His business activities were vast and innovative. Ward was engaged in the steamboat, railroad, lumber, mining, and iron and steel industries. In 1864, his facility near Detroit became the first in the nation to produce steel using the more efficient Bessemer method. Michael W. Nagle demonstrates how much of Ward's success was due to his ability to vertically integrate his business operations, which were undertaken decades before other more famous moguls, such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. And yet, despite his countless successes, Ward's life was filled with ruthless competition, labor conflict, familial dispute, and scandal. Nagle makes extensive use of Ward's correspondence, business records, contemporary newspaper accounts, and other archival material to craft a balanced profile of this fascinating figure whose actions influenced the history and culture of the Great Lakes and beyond.



Author: Michael W. Nagle
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780814349922

About the Author

Michael W. Nagle is a professor of history and political science at West Shore Community College in Scottville, Michigan. He is the author of Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933 (Wayne State University Press, 2015), which won the Kentucky History Award. He lives in Ludington, Michigan.


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