Me: >>> Charles Schwab? is there any connection with the discount broker?
Leigh Meyers wrote: >> Yes. Michael Perelman wrote: > I don't think so. from Wikipedia: >Charles Michael Schwab (February 18, 1862 in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania - October 18, 1939 in London, England) was an American industrialist who became a multimillionaire in the steel industry but died bankrupt.... >He was not related to Charles R. Schwab, founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation. However, according to John Rothchild's The Bear Book - Survive and Profit in Ferocious Markets, this Charles Schwab is the grandfather of Charles R. Schwab the discount broker.< the Rothchild book sounds like a bogus source. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
