Businessman Timothy Dexter - "the luckiest fool" of America

Timothy Dexter was uneducated "hillbillies", a successful businessman and a great eccentric.

Timothy Dexter was born January 22, 1747 in the city of Madeleine, Massachusetts. At first he worked as a farmer and later became a student of Kozhumyaki. When he was twenty, he pocketed all of his savings, which accounted for only nine dollars and moved to Newburyport developed city, where he met and married the 31-year-old wealthy widow Elizabeth Frotingem.

Dexter provided a brilliant businessman. Spending money to his wife, he did the same thing as other businesses - buying stocks. Not knowing what stocks to buy, he simply bought cheap. Their price is somehow grew, Dexter and sold them at a profit for themselves.

Competitors scoffed at the illiterate Dexter and amused themselves by giving him senseless advice. One trader told Dexter that the islands of the West Indies, where colonization was in full swing, are very necessary pans, gloves and the Bible.

Without the thought of that in these islands is very sultry, Dexter took the advice and bought more than 40 thousand pans, 40 000 pairs of mittens and 40,000 Bibles and sent them back to the ship. And then I waited for him to get lucky.

Dexter incredibly lucky, because when the cargo arrived to the islands of the West Indies, there was conceived a religious movement, and his Bible bought a 100% profit. He was even luckier when Russian merchant ships come for the ports of the West Indies and immediately ordered his agents to buy everything to the last pair of gloves.

Pans lying around in stock as long as a resourceful farmer discovered that one can make for the perfect skimmer passing the fish in the tank. So it was sold at a profit all the pans. These amazing deals brought Dexter condition 150 000 dollars, which made him incredibly rich.

Other traders were jealous of the city of Dexter luck and decided to destroy it, persuaded to invest all his money in coal, and then transport it to England in Newcastle. Inexperienced Dexter did not know what to Newcastle - the center of the coal mining industry in England. So he hired dozens of ships, filled them with soft coal from Virginia, and sent the goods to England.

But instead to become an international laughingstock, Dexter again caught luck: due to prolonged strikes in Newcastle Mine did not work and there was a shortage of coal. When the ships arrived Dexter, his coal sold for huge money, which made it twice as rich.

With age, Dexter became chudatkovatey. His wife, Elizabeth, constantly nagged him out of his tomfoolery. Instead of quarreling with her, Dexter pretended she was dead, and is nothing more than a ghost at his estate. When visitors come, Dexter pointed at her and said: "This is Mrs. Dexter, a ghost that was once my wife».

The culmination of the eccentricities of Dexter was when he decided to publish his memoirs under the title "Nonsense for clever or the truth in the rough dress." The book from the beginning to the end is a single long rambling sentence without any punctuation. Dexter ordered to print thousands of copies of his books and razvez them to different cities. The book was "a great success". Later, Dexter has released yet another edition of the book in which there were only punctuation marks that the reader is invited to insert in the previous book to your liking.

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