Jacob Bunn: Legacy Of An Illinois Industrial Pioneer: Andrew Taylor Call
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This book traces the career of Jacob Bunn and the rise of the Bunn empire in Illinois. A New Jersey-born farmer who ventured west to Illinois in the mid 19th century and had his hand in a wide variety of business enterprises, ranging from a grocery business, coal, iron, sugar beets, railroads, banks, newspapers, and timepieces, he helped make Illinois a center of innovative industry. Bunn was involved in the making of Lincoln as President, in the success of the Illinois Watch Company, and set the stage for Illinois-based companies like the Sangamo Electric Co., well-known into recent times around the world. His real legacy, according to this young scholar, is his legacy of integrity and his honorable behavior when faced with bank failure in the Panic of 1873.
Read of a time when industrial pioneers were settling a frontier. Listen to the case this young writer and new law student makes for vision, integrity, and honor in the workplace. Jacob Bunn’s life has had a global impact. He left companies and a legacy, and should serve as a model for the contemporary business world.
About the Author
Andrew Taylor Call, born in 1981 in south Florida, has lived in Virginia since 1985. Homeschooled when younger, he is an Honors Graduate, of Cave Spring High School in Roanoke, and a 2003 graduate of the University of Virginia with a major in History. In 2001 at UVa he founded and was President of the Patrick Henry Law Society until his graduation. As his legacy at the University, he established the Andrew Taylor Call Business History Fund at UVa’s Alderman Library, which provides for the acquisition of documents related to business history. He also established the Jacob Bunn Business History Award, to be given annually to an undergraduate who composes a thesis on a topic in United States business history, through the Corcoran Department of History. It was first awarded in 2004.
He is a member of the Judges’ Panel of the James Monroe Memorial Foundation Scholarship Program, Director of the Monroe Doctrine web site, and a new member of the National Advisory Board of the Monroe Foundation. A member of the Capital City Historic Research Associates, of Springfield, IL, he contributed to a project on 19th century businessman Dr. George Pasfield.
His home since 1990 has been at The Grove, an antebellum plantation in downtown Rocky Mount, VA. His is preparing for a career as a legal consultant to the corporate world, with a focus on business history and ethics, and to continue his work in “corporate archeology” and biography.
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