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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: John Whitfield Bunn and Jacob Bunn, Mary Decker, Dick Zimmer, John Knowles Herr, Leonard Lance, JP Miller, Marcia A. Karrow, Jayson Williams, Francis Burton Harrison, Carla Katz, Alison Haislip, Anne Kursinski, Lloyd Wescott, Christian Bauman, Harvey Spencer Lewis, John Hart, George W. Taylor, Kurt Wiese, George H. Large, Julie Culley, Glenway Wescott, James Valenti, Dick Foran, George F. Houston, Kathryn Minner, Barbara McConnell, Scott Metzger, Elmer H. Wene, Thomas W. Greelish, Charles Pettit, Frankie Schneider, John Schoenherr, William Marchant, John Stevens, Miles Ross, James Buchanan, Wesley Lance, J. Linus McAtee, James N. Pidcock, Michele Mary Smith, J. Hart Brewer, Johnston Cornish, John Schenck, John Manners, Frederic A. Potts, Jason Read, Alvah A. Clark, Howard Menger, Chris Kappler, Hiram Edmund Deats, Alan B. Handler, Anna Case, Abner Howell, Eddie Matos, William Cotton, Stephen Dilts, Aaron Woodruff, Isaac G. Farlee, Dan Smith, David Stout Manners, Horace Griggs Prall, Gat Stires, George C. Maxwell, George Opdyke, Robyn Kenney, Harold Dadford West, Billy Pauch, Colonel John Reading, William Kirkpatrick, George Holcombe, Arlene Quinones-Perez, Richard Egielski. Excerpt: John Whitfield Bunn (June 21, 1831 - June 7, 1920) was an American corporate leader, financier, industrialist, and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, whose work and leadership involved a broad range of institutions ranging from Midwestern railroads, international finance, and Republican Party politics, to corporate consultation, globally significant manufacturing, and the various American stock exchanges. He was of great historical importance in the commercial, civic, political, and industrial development and growth of the State of Illinois and the American Midwest, during both the nineteenth century and the twentieth century. John Whit...
