Excerpt from The City College Quarterly, Vol. 4: December, 1908 Many of the college instructors spoke of Professor Roemer as a man of wealth. This idea was based in part on the fact that he always made his home in expensive quarters, and that for years he kept several carriages and an impressive team of horses. Moreover he was, for a time at least, part owner of an extensive summer residence at bash-bish Falls, near Copake in the Berkshire Hills. It is not unlikely that during the Civil War he speculated in Wall Street, ...
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Excerpt from The City College Quarterly, Vol. 4: December, 1908 Many of the college instructors spoke of Professor Roemer as a man of wealth. This idea was based in part on the fact that he always made his home in expensive quarters, and that for years he kept several carriages and an impressive team of horses. Moreover he was, for a time at least, part owner of an extensive summer residence at bash-bish Falls, near Copake in the Berkshire Hills. It is not unlikely that during the Civil War he speculated in Wall Street, for he told me that he had lost as much as in a day. So much is certain, however, that towards the end of his life, his capital had practically dwindled away, though to the last he kept up the appearances of a gentle man of means. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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