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November 2013
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The Wikipedia article on Albert Wiggin was very vague but still credible. The article was, for the most part very minimal. There tended to be a lot of general statements that summarize a couple of important details and just barely get the job done. The American National Biography article goes into a little more detail, expanding on many of the points the Wikipedia article barely touches.

The article didn’t really focus too much attention on Wiggin’s early life. The American National Biography (ANB) article went into detail how Wiggin graduated from school and how he started from the bottom towards working his way up through progressively better jobs. For instance, some of his earlier jobs were working as a runner, bookkeeper and assistant. These are important to mention because it characterizes how Wiggin was one of the few people to successfully execute the true American Dream and it also describes how he started getting into the business. Both articles succeeded in mentioning how Wiggin got married. However, the Wikipedia article jumps right ahead to Wiggin’s success when he reaches his early thirties but fails to mention anything between his marriage and his success. Again, the ANB article goes into a little more detail on how he continued to move up the ranks, becoming vice president in a couple of banking companies such as the Mutual Bank, the National Park Bank and the Mount Morris Bank before his thirties. The Wikipedia article then makes a brief, general statement on how he made an impact while serving as the vice president and eventually the president. It seems as if the Wikipedia article is just rushing the information down to get to the dramatic part of Wiggin’s life, like a reporter always trying to find the information to gossip about. Wiggin made plenty of changes and impacted Chase bank for the better. The ANB article describes how Wiggin used out of town banking and commercial accounts to increase his banks financial situation. He also invited many different companies and executives so he could build relationships with them and look to work with them. The article also goes into some statistics as to how Chase’s deposits panned out. The amount of shareholders Chase had skyrocketed in the time Wiggin was there.

A key part of Wiggin’s success was his interest in the entire world. He knew that America was a great place to build a business but he also knew that there was vast success in tapping into the global market. The Wikipedia article says how he opened up an office in London, but as the theme persists the article is missing some information. As the ANB article claims, Wiggin opened up other foreign banking corporations in Rome, Panama City, Paris and Berlin.

The next part of Wiggin’s life was, as most people’s lives were during the Great Depression, a struggle. This is the one time period that the article really focuses much of its attention on. The Wikipedia article goes into great detail on how Wiggin tried to keep Chase above water while most companies were floundering. There is a paragraph long description on how Wiggin and his team schemed there way out of losing during the Great Depression. Wiggin wound up using his own shares and selling them short, which is when a stockholder “sells” or borrows stocks he doesn’t has and then “buys” them when the price goes down at a lower price to make a profit, while still having people buy stocks into his company to keep it running. Wiggin actually wound up making a large profit instead of just keeping his head above water. Not only did he make a profit, his money was tax-free because he used Canadian currency. The Wikipedia article abruptly ends with “they forced him into retirement”, not doing the paragraph any justice at all. Although this was a rough time in Wiggin’s life, he did still make an impact after all the chaos.

Towards Wiggin’s later years in life, he began to separate from Chase and invest his time and efforts into other things. Columbia gave him an honorary doctrate in law. He also had to pay roughly two million dollars to Chase for a shareholder’s suit. Wiggin assumed sole responsibility of the situation and all the blame went towards him. After years of trying to get Wiggin to sell his stock in the company, Wiggin sold a good portion of his stock to American Express, one of Chase’s biggest rivals. The Wikipedia article mentions none of this crucial information about Wiggin’s later years of his life. The article does however mention how he developed a collection of art prints, drawings, watercolors, and books throughout his life and then proceeds to name a long list of people he has collected from. This is pretty useless and irrelevant information that really has no business being thrown in at the end of the page, but if I can find a place for it somewhere in the middle of the article, then I will try to include it.

The Wikipedia article concludes with Albert Wiggin’s death and how he and his wife organized a scholarship fund. Overall, I would say that the article definitely has the basic information and in some places, a little too much unnecessary information, but with the help from The American National Biography article, I should be able to bolster up the Wikipedia article and provide some more information on Albert Wiggin. General Electric's Owen D. Young once described Albert Wiggin as "the most colorful and attractive figure in the commercial banking world" of his time. Chrisd915 (talk) 22:05, 6 November 2013 (UTC)