Joseph Earl Sheffield
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Joseph Earl Sheffield
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Joseph Earl Sheffield was an American railroad magnate and philanthropist. Sheffield was born in Southport, Connecticut, the son of Paul King Sheffield, a shipowner, and his wife Mabel. He attended public schools, and moved south to enter the cotton trade. He was a clerk in a drygoods store in New Bern, North Carolina, from 1807 to 1812, and moved to Mobile, Alabama, in 1813, where he became a very successful shipper of cotton. He married Maria St. John of Walton, New York, in 1822 and relocated
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American railroad executive, philanthropist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Earl_Sheffield
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2024-02-13T06:44:35Z
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