https://davidhardiman.com A safe and legal literary drug. Now available in prescription strength. Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:43:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://davidhardiman.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Header-32x32.jpg https://davidhardiman.com 32 32 https://davidhardiman.com/blog/john-jacob-astor-americas-first-tycoon/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:25:36 +0000 https://davidhardiman.com/?p=3841 John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) was America’s first multimillionaire. He made his fortune in the fur business, which at that time, was an honorable and necessary profession. In those mean, frigid times before the invention of Gore-Tex and Holofill, fur didn’t mean murder; it meant survival. Astor was a renowned furrier and his witty wife Sarah […]

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