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==Biografia== |
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'''Albert Augustus Pope''' nacque a [[Boston]] da Charles Pope e Elizabeth Bogman Pope. La famiglia paterna discendeva dai [[New Englanders]] che si occupavano di [[legnami]] sin dal 1660, ma Charles optò per il ramo immobiliare. Il nonno materno, capitano James Bogman, scomparve in mare a [[Norfolk]] quando Elizabeth era giovane. Albert fu uno di otto figli.<ref>{{ |
'''Albert Augustus Pope''' nacque a [[Boston]] da Charles Pope e Elizabeth Bogman Pope. La famiglia paterna discendeva dai [[New Englanders]] che si occupavano di [[legnami]] sin dal 1660, ma Charles optò per il ramo immobiliare. Il nonno materno, capitano James Bogman, scomparve in mare a [[Norfolk]] quando Elizabeth era giovane. Albert fu uno di otto figli.<ref>{{Cita libro|titolo=Col. Pope & his American Dream Machines: the life and times of a bicycle tycoon turned automotive pioneer|cognome=Goddard|nome=Stephen B.|editore=McFarland and Company|città=Jefferson, North Carolina|anno=2000|pp=20–23}}</ref> |
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Around 1845, Charles Pope initiated his independence from the family business when he purchased his first lot in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], a nearby suburb of Boston. In 1846, he moved the family from [[Milton, Massachusetts]] to a large house on Harvard Street in Brookline. He borrowed against his older landholdings to accumulate more lots at Harvard Place, and on Summer, Vernon, and Washington Streets. As these lots gained streetcar convenient streetcar access, or were even rumored to be so, he sold his Brookline properties at a hefty profit. He continued to accumulate property through 1850, but starting in 1851, the financial leverage caught up to him, and sales of his land holdings only paid his creditors.<ref>Goddard, pp. 28-30.</ref> |
Around 1845, Charles Pope initiated his independence from the family business when he purchased his first lot in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], a nearby suburb of Boston. In 1846, he moved the family from [[Milton, Massachusetts]] to a large house on Harvard Street in Brookline. He borrowed against his older landholdings to accumulate more lots at Harvard Place, and on Summer, Vernon, and Washington Streets. As these lots gained streetcar convenient streetcar access, or were even rumored to be so, he sold his Brookline properties at a hefty profit. He continued to accumulate property through 1850, but starting in 1851, the financial leverage caught up to him, and sales of his land holdings only paid his creditors.<ref>Goddard, pp. 28-30.</ref> |
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* {{Cita libro|cognome= |nome= |titolo=The Movement for Better Roads: An Address |anno=1892 |editore=[[Pope Manufacturing Company]] |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VcgSAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq }} |
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* [http://stephengoddard.com/first_chapter.htm First chapter of ''Colonel Albert Pope and his American dream machines'']. |
* [http://stephengoddard.com/first_chapter.htm First chapter of ''Colonel Albert Pope and his American dream machines'']. |
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* [http://rustyspokes.com/facts.html Outline history of the bicycle in the United States]. |
* [http://rustyspokes.com/facts.html Outline history of the bicycle in the United States]. |
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Versione delle 20:41, 13 set 2015
Albert Augustus Pope (Boston, 20 maggio 1843 – Lindermere-by-the-Sea, 10 agosto 1909) è stato un imprenditore statunitense, colonnello della Union Army, fondatore della Pope Manufacturing Company.
Biografia
Albert Augustus Pope nacque a Boston da Charles Pope e Elizabeth Bogman Pope. La famiglia paterna discendeva dai New Englanders che si occupavano di legnami sin dal 1660, ma Charles optò per il ramo immobiliare. Il nonno materno, capitano James Bogman, scomparve in mare a Norfolk quando Elizabeth era giovane. Albert fu uno di otto figli.[1]
Galleria
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1901 Columbia Electric Advertisement
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1903 Pope Automobile Company Logo
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1904 Pope Toledo Tonneau
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1907 Pope Toledo
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1910 Pope Waverley Coupe
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1911 Pope Hartford
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1914 Pope Hartford advertisement
Dopo la sua morte alcune aziende confluirono nella United States Motor Company. L'impero di Pope collassò nel 1913. Fondò il Pope Park, Hartford, Connecticut e lo donò alla città.
Aziende Pope
- Columbia Automobile Company
- Pope Manufacturing Company
- Pope Motor Car Company
- American Bicycle Company
Note
- ^ Stephen B. Goddard, Col. Pope & his American Dream Machines: the life and times of a bicycle tycoon turned automotive pioneer, Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland and Company, 2000, pp. 20–23.
Collegamenti esterni
- The Movement for Better Roads: An Address, Pope Manufacturing Company, 1892.
- A Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, and Articles on the Construction and of Roads, Pope Manufacturing Company, 1892.
- First chapter of Colonel Albert Pope and his American dream machines.
- Outline history of the bicycle in the United States.
- Columbia Bikes Incorporated.
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