Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1902 — Washington as a Business Man. [ARTICLE]

Washington as a Business Man.

The fame of George Washington as soldier and President has thrown Into the shade the business end of his career, and we have almost forgotten that he was 'immensely clever at a horse trade. But for the Revolution he would have made his mark In tho tramqtortation business. Of course ho pever thought of a railroad, but he suggested the Chesapeake & Ohio canal, and was the first President of the company that undertook the project He also bad his eye on the Mohawk Valley, and would have dug the Erie canal If our ancestors had not required his services In the matter of casting off the British yoke.