Life, Death And Gold: Remembering The Panic Of 1857
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
The New York branch of the Cincinnati-based Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company failed in late August 1857, felled by an embezzlement scandal. Reports of financial instability in New York quickly carried between cities by the new telecommunications medium, the telegraph , which spread more fear than information.
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