| CHAPTER | | PAGE | | I. | Parentage and Early Home Life (1819-1835) | 1 | | II. | Early Life in New York (1835-1840) | 14 | | III. | Marriage and Business Life (1840-1853) | 27 | | IV. | Out of Debt—A Voyage to South America (1853) | 42 | | V. | The First Cable (1853-1857) | 59 | | VI. | The First Cable (continued) (1857) | 74 | | VII. | A Fleeting Triumph (1858) | 86 | | VIII. | Failure on All Sides (1858-1861) | 122 | | IX. | The Civil War (1861-1862) | 131 | | X. | Capital Raised for the Making of a New Cable—Steamship “Great Eastern” Secured (1863-1864) | 154 | | XI. | The Failure of 1865 | 182 | | XII. | The Cable Laid—Cable of 1865 Grappled for and Recovered—Payment of Debts (1866) | 199 | | XIII. | The Reconstruction Period (1867-1870) | 232 | | XIV. | International Politics—Rapid Transit (1870-1880) | 267 | | XV. | The Pacific Cable—The Golden Wedding (1880-1891) | 303 | | XVI. | Last Days and Death—In Memoriam (1891-1892) | 321 |
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