Landlord William Scully

by Homer E. Socolofsky

Book Overview

William Scully, an Irishman who was a member of the lesser landed gentry, put his life's energy into the accumulation of high-quality, low-cost land. He carefully husbanded his inheritance, and in 1850 he traveled to the United States and purchased with personal savings more than 8,000 acres in central Illinois. In 1851 he acquired another 30,000 acres of swampy virgin land. He added to his holdings until, by the late nineteenth century, he had amassed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700631755
• ISBN13: 9780700631759
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"