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  2. Irene Spencer - Wikipedia

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    Irene Golda Kunz was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 1, 1937, [1] one of 31 children [2] born to polygamist Morris Kunz. [3] She was the fifth generation of her family to live in polygamy. Her ancestors were members of the LDS Church who believed that they could not attain the highest rewards of heaven unless they were in plural ...

  3. Curbstone broker - Wikipedia

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    The curb market grew further out of the Open Board of Brokers, previously in a building on New Street. [8] Founded in part by former curbstone brokers, [9] the Open Board of Stock Brokers was an early regional stock exchange established in 1864, [4] [9] which merged with the NYSE in 1869.

  4. List of former stock exchanges in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The National Stock Exchange ceased trading operations on May 30, 2014, bringing the number of active stock exchanges in the United States to 11. Wrote Bloomberg , that left "just one public exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange Inc. , that isn't owned Bats , Nasdaq OMX Group or IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc. " [ 2 ]

  5. Panic of 1901 - Wikipedia

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    May 9, 1901, headline in The New York Times. The Panic of 1901 was the first stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange, caused in part by struggles between E. H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff, and J. P. Morgan/James J. Hill for the financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway.

  6. San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange - Wikipedia

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    On December 9, 1927, it was reported that the agreement to re-organize with the San Francisco Stock Exchange had been authorized, with changes to take place immediately. Also, the old building occupied by the San Francisco Stock Exchange was put for sale, with the exchange to be renamed the San Francisco Mining Exchange. [13]

  7. Gerald Spencer Pryse - Wikipedia

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    His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. [10] In 1932 he married Muriel Anstace Theodora, daughter of the Rev. Laurence Farrall, and they had three daughters, one of whom, Tessa Spencer Pryse, later a landscape artist, became an art student against her father's wishes. He died at ...

  8. Merrill Chase Galleries - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1960s, Bob Chase began developing a plan for a fine art gallery. [5] He had recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison [6] [5] and convinced his father, Merrill Chase, who owned a portrait photography business, [1] to join him in opening a fine art gallery that would focus on emerging artists, mid-career artists, and works of art on paper by masters.

  9. Private equity in the 1980s - Wikipedia

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    Michael Milken, the man credited with creating the market for high yield "junk" bonds and spurring the LBO boom of the 1980s. The beginning of the first boom period in private equity would be marked by the well-publicized success of the Gibson Greetings acquisition in 1982 and would roar ahead through 1983 and 1984 with the soaring stock market driving profitable exits for private equity ...