Find a Member:  1958 Horatio Alger Award Winner  Milton G.
Hulme*  Hulme, Applegate & Huphrey, Inc.  "For me, success came
because I worked hard and had a thirst for knowledge."  Milton
Hulme started a career as a railroad brakeman when he was 16 to
help bolster his family's modest income. After a short time, he
was laid off and took whatever work he could find. He was a
store clerk, a laborer in a rubber factory, and an assistant to
an insurance adjuster. Although his formal education was
limited, Hulme was fascinated by the securities business and
took a job as a "board boy" at less pay to learn while he
worked. He chalked prices on a blackboard in Glover &
MacGregor's customer's room and after work studied circulars and
annual reports. His hard work and thirst for knowledge impressed
his superiors, and he was promoted rapidly. Eventually he became
president of the brokerage firm. He later organized Hulme,
Applegate & Humphrey and built it into one of the most
successful investment banking houses in the cou