Money Game in Old New York

"e;I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly,"e; remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879). An uneducated farm boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River steamboat operator, and an unscrupulous speculator. As the colorful "e;Uncle Daniel"e; of Wall Street-his whiskered face seamed wi...