The Man Who Was Phileas Fogg

By William Bryk, on January 29, 2009
He went four times around the world and inspired Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. He devised the financing scheme for the transcontinental railroad, lobbied Congress to enact it, and made a fortune from it. And at the end, nearly penniless and living in a Greenwich Village single Read More
January 29th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Oddballs & Eccentrics | Leave a comment