Reply #18: bill gates is the grandson & great-grandson of bankers. specifically, bankers who were president

[Hannah Bell]

of the seattle branch of national city bank, the rockefeller franchise which evolved into citibank.

grandpa set up a million dollar trust fund for him at birth.

so no, he didn't have 38 billion or whatever the current total is, but he had plenty.

the "garage" is figurative.

bill gates was a private school boy.

as were most of the ed deformers.

ruling class all the way.


One thousand American men of mark of to-day: Twentieth century ... - Page 134
1916 - 430 pages
JAMES WILLARD MAXWELL, Banker and City Official of Seattle, Wash., was born in 1864 in Iowa. He was educated in the common schools. He is president of the National City Bank, the Title Trust Company ; and director of the Northern Life ...

The family moved to Seattle in 1906, where Maxwell founded National City Bank (of seattle) and gained a national reputation in the banking industry. Maxwell's son, James Willard Maxwell, began his own banking career in 1925 as a messenger in his ...

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Gates: how Microsoft's mogul reinvented an industry and made ...
Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews - 1994 - 541 pages
James Willard Maxwell had ventured west from Lincoln, Nebraska, with more than a decade of banking already under his belt. The son of a physician who had helped lay out the town of Lincoln, Maxwell had been born in 1864 in Iowa. ...
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Journal of the Senate of the ... regular session, of the ... - Page 441
No cover image Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Senate - 1895
JW MAXWELL, Chairman. On motion of Senator Maxwell, the amendment was adopted. On motion of Senator Maxwell, senate bill No. 159 was ordered engrossed and to third reading tomorrow. Senator Maxwell, chairman of the committee on counties ...
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Bankers magazine - Page 360
1913
One of the features of the bank is an elaborately furnished ladies' writing and rc.st room. ... and JW Maxwell of Seattle, member of the nominating committee of the State of Washington for the American Bankers' Association. ...
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The Banker's magazine - Page 278
1910
JW Maxwell, who accedes to the first vice-presidency of the new bank, has long been prominent in the financial life of the Northwest. He was elected mayor of South Bend, Washington, for two terms, without opposition; has served in the ...
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History of Seattle from the earliest settlement to the present time - Page 485
Clarence Bagley - 1916
National City Bank (organized 1911; capital, $500000); JW Maxwell, president; FW Baker, vice president; JH Bloedel, vice president; EW Campbell, cashier; NH Seil, assistant cashier; directors, CA Black, JF Bloedel, Albert Daub, ...
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****Those Bloedels, btw, are the timber family, e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Bloedel

International banking directory - Page 366
1922
17000000 Correspondents: Chase National Bank. New York; Continental & Commercial National Bank, Chicago; Anglo & London Paris National Bank, San Francisco; First National Bank. St. Paul. National City Bank (1911) JW Maxwell ...
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The National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, 1889-1969: territorial ...
Elliot Marple, Bruce H. Olson - 1972 - 277 pages
Price reviewed these matters with his board on March 7, and reported that JW Maxwell, president of National City, had agreed to deliver at least two-thirds of the bank's 5000 shares at $300 each. Along with Maxwell, who owned 600 shares ...
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Banking Publicity Assn. of the United States - 1912
Controlling interest in the Title Tr^st Company of Seattle has been purchased by the National City Bank of that city. RR Fox, who has been president of the Till;: Trust Company, has resigned and JW Maxwell, president of the National ...
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Trust companies of the United States - Page 555
Audit Company of New York, United States ... - 1918
Rate 3% 4% 6% New York Correspondents National Bank of Commerce United States Mortgage & Trust Co. ... Parsons Worrall Wilson JW Maxwell Charlton L. Hall GH Davidson Olof Olson Tohn W. Roberts David Whitcomb Paul C. Harper John E. Ayer ...
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Financier - Page 183
1918
... (second choice) 13, (third choice) 16; JW Maxwell (first choice) 11, (second choice) 5, (third choice) 11; ... The Pasadena Trust & Savings Bank, of Pasadena, Calif., has received permission from the California State Banking ...
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American shipping - Page 55
No cover image 1920
VC Haigh, American Exchange National Bank, New York; MP Mose- ley, American Exchange National Bank, New York; TF Aspden, Park Union Foreign Banking Corp., New York; JW Maxwell, National City Bank, Seattle, Wash.; John Clausen, ...
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