Talk:Bulkeley Wells

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles

Mining

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mining, a collaborative project to organize and improve articles related to mining and mineral industries. If you would like to participate, you can edit the attached article, or visit the project page, where you can see a list of open tasks, join in the discussion, or join the project.MiningWikipedia:WikiProject MiningTemplate:WikiProject MiningMining articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

[Untitled][edit]

I will be adding significant content in the next month. Fellow editors who like to challenge bio's for their notability, please have patience. Richard Myers 01:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

removed this[edit]

I have removed this non-encyclopedic material:

BW graduated Harvard class of 1894, Harvard has sizable BW file
Met Grace Livermore (wife #1) while her father was agent for Amoskeag Textile Mills
several children w/ Grace. no survivors
Served engineering apprenticeship at Amoskeag Mills Powerplant
Large textile mill strikes at Amoskeag while Livermore/Wells in Manchester NH
Livermore was partners with Shaw/Agassiz other prominent Boston families in the Calumet and Hecla copper mine, Michigan UP
Labor unrest in Calumet MI subject of several Woody Guthrie songs
Livermore and Agassiz formed "New England Exploration Company" in 1899
NEEx purchased Smuggler Union mine for $1.5 million
Smuggler Manager Arthur Collins shot at Pandora November, 1902
Wells appointed manager of SU by father-in-law Livermore
labor war starts in Telluride following Collins shooting
Built Bridal Veil, his summer house cum hydroelectric plant, in 1907
Wells bombed in his bed, March 1908
President American Mining Congress, Western Colorado Power Co, Director Rio Grande Southern RR
Meets Harry Payne Whitney at poker game
invests Whitney $ in Uranium industry, the Comstock, Hudson's Bay silver mines. Most fail
acquires Mrs. Crawford Hill as mistress; they are both married
Grace Livermore divorces BW 1918 in Telluride, cites "abandonment"
attempts to reopen Comstock mines in Virginia City, NV with Whitney money (1921) leaves CO
meets young wife of Governor Schmidt of Nevada
expropriates said Virginia Licking Schmidt
marries Virginia in Salt Lake City
Whitney no longer supports Wells due to romantic liaisons
Comstock fails
Wells commits suicide, San Francisco CA, May 24, 1931
leaves wife and two young children w/o support

daughter marianne lives in elko, Nevada

son died in railroad accident in NV the night before leaving for cadet appointment at west point

musical written about him, 1991 "a difficult man"

bridal veil, his scenic summer house, restored 1987

grey mill building, pandora, still standing

comstock construction foundations only still evident

It may be returned to the article as appropriate, but please use proper Wikipedia editing practices. Richard Myers (talk) 20:35, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]