Business & Finance: Death of a Napoleon

In 1912 he was one of the greatest of U. S. commercial successes. Young, ambitious men, seeking business inspiration, pored over his oft-written success story. A Retail Napoleon was the title one of his biographers took. A Merchant Prince in Deed as Well as in Name was the heading of another. But when Henry Siegel died last week in Lakewood, N. J. at the age of 78, he was neither rich nor remembered. The Retail Napoleon had had his St. Helena as well as his Waterloo. Henry Siegel arrived in the U. S. in...

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