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5 Things You May Not Know About the Men Who Built America

Source: HISTORY

Check out this list to learn some interesting facts about Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt.

This entry was posted in An Age of Realism and tagged Historic Figures on November 1, 2019 by Hilary Woods.

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