H&l hunt biography of william shakespeare

also known asHaroldson Lafayette Hunt Jr.

Industrialist

H. L. Hunt was an American entrepreneur who built a financial empire from a small early investment in oil in Arkansas.

In his later years he was perhaps the world's richest man.

H&l hunt biography of william shakespeare

Background

H. L. Hunt, in full Haroldson Lafayette Hunt Jr. , was born on February 17, on his father's farm near Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois. He was the youngest of eight children of Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, a successful farmer-entrepreneur, and Ella Rose Hunt.

When his father died in he left the young man an inheritance of about $6,

Education

Hunt reached only the fifth grade in the public schools.

Career

As a boy Hunt worked nearly full-time on the farm.

At age 16 he left home, travelling across the United States working as a farmhand, cowboy, lumberjack, and mule skinner. With money inherited form his father he bought himself a cotton plantation near