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Title: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House
of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly
known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son,
Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

Author: George Horace Lorimer

Release Date: June 28, 2007 [EBook #21959]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "_Young fellows come to me looking for jobs and telling
me what a mean house they have been working for._"]

Letters from
A Self-Made Merchant
To His Son

Being the Letters written by John Graham,
Head of the House of Graham & Company,
Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known
on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to
his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known
to his intimates as "Piggy."

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company: 1903

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_Copyright, 1901-1902, by_
_THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO._

_Copyright, 1901-1902, by_
_GEORGE HORACE LORIMER_

_Copyright, 1902, by_
_SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY_
(_Incorporated_)

_Entered at Stationers' Hall_

_Published October, 1902_

_Sixtieth Thousand December, 1902_

_Plates by_
_Riggs Printing & Publishing Co._
_Albany, U.S.A._

_Presswork by_
_The University Press,_
_Cambridge, U.S.A._

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TO
CYRUS CURTIS
A SELF-MADE MAN

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CONTENTS PAGE

I. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago,
to