Talk:Bulkeley Wells

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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)

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 * 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)