RISE OF A CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY
PENNILESS CLERK TO A MILLIONAIRE. Mr. Alfred C. Bedford, chairman of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Company, New Jersey, died suddenly last month from heart failure. Mr. Bedford became president of the great Standard Oil Company in 1916. He was a striking instance of the self-made captain of industry. "I hadn’t a dollar in the world when I started,” lie once said to a “Daily Express” representative. “But I made/up my mind to get on I made it a rule never to look at the clock.” He started almost at the bottom of the staff of the Bergenport Chemical Company, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company, and tn a little over twenty years was director of the company. He found bis recreation awav from business in educational and hard work. His maxim in life was: “A man must keep on working, and, with grit and fortune is bound to come.”
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 45, 17 November 1925, Page 11
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