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The Little Man with the Long Shadow

The Life and Times of Fredrick M. Hubbell

by George S. Mills

Bur Oak Books Series

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274 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 1988
$18.95 paper 1-58729-541-5, 978-1-58729-541-6

Frederick M. Hubbell, railroad financier and builder, real estate investor, public utilities magnate, leading lawyer, and founder of Iowa’s first life insurance company, the Equitable, was at one time the wealthiest Iowan in the state’s history. Based on his diaries from 1855 to 1927, The Little Man with the Long Shadow tells the story of this industrious and imaginative entrepreneur.

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