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A Cloth Peddler's Ledger Spawned a Five-Nation Banking Empire
18th-19th Century

A Cloth Peddler's Ledger Spawned a Five-Nation Banking Empire

A wandering cloth merchant from Frankfurt kept such meticulous accounts that his five sons accidentally built a banking empire spanning five nations.

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