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Kimball, Richard Burleigh

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 482 words | Copyright

Kimball, Richard Burleigh (1816–92), a New York lawyer mainly associated with Wall Street affairs (1840–54), until he went to Texas to become a banker and railroad financier. Among his many books are four novels valuable for their early fictional presentation of the American millionaire and the background of Wall Street: Under‐Currents of Wall‐Street (1862), Was He Successful? (1864), Henry Powers, Banker (1868), and To‐day in New York (1870).

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