This man's identically named grandson was a famous botanist and orchid expert who pioneered the field of economic botany and authored Economic Annuals and Human Cultures. Early in his life this man joined his brother Oliver in managing his family's w
This man's identically named grandson was a famous botanist and orchid expert who pioneered the field of economic botany and authored Economic Annuals and Human Cultures. Early in his life this man joined his brother Oliver in managing his family's well-known shovel factory in his native Easton, Massachusetts. Active in the founding of the Republican Party in Massachusetts, he served in the US House of Representatives from 1863-73, but is best-known today for the events set in motion when he ousted Thomas Durant as the head of a company which soon bribed political figures like James Brooks, James Patterson, and Schulyer Colfax. FTP, who was this mastermind behind the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
This man's identically named grandson was a famous botanist and orchid expert who pioneered the field of economic botany and authored Economic Annuals and Human Cultures.
Oakes Ames