Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857-1941
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Free Download Kate Sayen Kirkland, "Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857-1941"
English | ISBN: 1603448004 | 2012 | 480 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarming telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire client William Marsh Rice had died unexpectedly in New York City. Baker rushed to New York, where he unraveled a Description to murder Rice and plunder his estate. Working tirelessly with local authorities, Baker saved Rice's fortune from more than one hundred claimants; he championed the wishes of his deceased client and founded Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art-today's internationally acclaimed Rice University.
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