“One should not underestimate Mr. Birch’s ability as a financier and high grade business man, even on Wall Street. While he organized the Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska Syndicate, he was not a mere employee therein — he was the third member of the Syndicate and furnished the ideas and the rules upon which its copper trust and business was based. He furnished these ideas and plans and carried them to success, while the New York partners merely furnished capital.” —James Wickersham, in a letter to Ernest Gruening, 1938
Stephen Birch and the Kennecott Copper Mine
Stephen Birch and the Kennecott Copper Mine
Stephen Birch and the Kennecott Copper Mine
“One should not underestimate Mr. Birch’s ability as a financier and high grade business man, even on Wall Street. While he organized the Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska Syndicate, he was not a mere employee therein — he was the third member of the Syndicate and furnished the ideas and the rules upon which its copper trust and business was based. He furnished these ideas and plans and carried them to success, while the New York partners merely furnished capital.” —James Wickersham, in a letter to Ernest Gruening, 1938