Title Invisible giants : the empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen brothers / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr.

Publication Info.	Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 342 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country's largest railroad system a network of track reaching from the Atlantic to Salt Lake City and from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. On the eve of the Great Depression they were close to controlling the country's first coast-to-coast rail system a goal that still eludes us. They created the model upper-class suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, with its unique rapid translator.
Subject	Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936.
	Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935.
	Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935. (OCoLC)fst00310654
	Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936. (OCoLC)fst00310653
	Businessmen -- Ohio -- Biography.
	Real estate development -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History.
	Railroads -- Ohio -- History.
	Cleveland (Ohio) -- History.
	Businessmen -- Ohio.
	Businessmen. (OCoLC)fst00842951
	Railroads. (OCoLC)fst01088711
	Real estate development. (OCoLC)fst01090973
	Ohio. (OCoLC)fst01205075
	Ohio -- Cleveland. (OCoLC)fst01205966
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Harwood, Herbert H. Invisible giants. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003 0253341639 (DLC) 2002004355 (OCoLC)49383930
ISBN	0253110602 (electronic bk.)
	9780253110602 (electronic bk.)

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