The Eccentric Millionaire Who Sold Coal to Newcastle and Wrote a Punctuation-Free Memoir

Timothy Dexter was a wealthy and eccentric American businessman who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He made his fortune through a series of unlikely and bizarre investments, such as sending bed warmers to the tropics, wool mittens to the South Sea Islands, and coal to Newcastle. He also exported stray cats…

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