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William McKinley

Teddy Roosevelt’s Wild Ride to the Presidency

August 4, 2022 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

On September 9th through 11th Newcomb, in Essex County at the heart of the Adirondacks, once again celebrates 26th President Theodore Roosevelt, who was vacationing at the Tahawus Club there in 1901 when the wheels leading to his presidency were set in motion.

Roosevelt had come to the Tahawus Club, a hunting and fishing retreat created in the 1870s on the site of early mining efforts on the uppermost reaches of the Hudson River, as a guest of one of its members. His arrival had been delayed by the assassination attempt on William McKinley, but after a trip to Buffalo where the stricken President was recovering, Roosevelt felt assured that he could join his family at Tahawus. [Read more…] about Teddy Roosevelt’s Wild Ride to the Presidency

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Adirondacks, Essex County, Minerva, Mount Marcy, Newcomb, North Creek, Political History, Theodore Roosevelt, TR Weekend, Transportation History, William McKinley

Trust Busting: William Jennings Bryan & Theodore Roosevelt

February 10, 2022 by James S. Kaplan 2 Comments

Corner of Wall Street and Broad Street in New York City, ca 1900 (Library of Congress)As control of the American economy became increasingly centralized in trusts located on Wall Street after the Civil War, and the wealth of men like J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller grew exponentially, there developed an increasing backlash against such concentrations of wealth. In the 1880s, through an investigation by a committee of the New York State Legislature, Americans became aware that Standard Oil secretly controlled a number of supposedly competing oil companies. By 1910 almost 90% of the world’s oil supply was controlled from the company’s headquarters at 26 Broadway in Manhattan. [Read more…] about Trust Busting: William Jennings Bryan & Theodore Roosevelt

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Economic History, Financial History, Immigration, Imperialism, Industrial History, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Justice Department, Labor History, Legal History, Manhattan, New York City, Ohio, Oil Industry, Political History, railroads, Roscoe Conkling, Theodore Roosevelt, TR, Urban History, Wall Street, Wall Street History Series, William McKinley

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