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[edit]I will be adding significant content in the next month. Fellow editors who like to challenge bio's for their notability, please have patience. Richard Myers 01:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
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[edit]I have removed this non-encyclopedic material:
- BW graduated Harvard class of 1894, Harvard has sizable BW file
- Met Grace Livermore (wife #1) while her father was agent for Amoskeag Textile Mills
- several children w/ Grace. no survivors
- Served engineering apprenticeship at Amoskeag Mills Powerplant
- Large textile mill strikes at Amoskeag while Livermore/Wells in Manchester NH
- Livermore was partners with Shaw/Agassiz other prominent Boston families in the Calumet and Hecla copper mine, Michigan UP
- Labor unrest in Calumet MI subject of several Woody Guthrie songs
- Livermore and Agassiz formed "New England Exploration Company" in 1899
- NEEx purchased Smuggler Union mine for $1.5 million
- Smuggler Manager Arthur Collins shot at Pandora November, 1902
- Wells appointed manager of SU by father-in-law Livermore
- labor war starts in Telluride following Collins shooting
- Built Bridal Veil, his summer house cum hydroelectric plant, in 1907
- Wells bombed in his bed, March 1908
- President American Mining Congress, Western Colorado Power Co, Director Rio Grande Southern RR
- Meets Harry Payne Whitney at poker game
- invests Whitney $ in Uranium industry, the Comstock, Hudson's Bay silver mines. Most fail
- acquires Mrs. Crawford Hill as mistress; they are both married
- Grace Livermore divorces BW 1918 in Telluride, cites "abandonment"
- attempts to reopen Comstock mines in Virginia City, NV with Whitney money (1921) leaves CO
- meets young wife of Governor Schmidt of Nevada
- expropriates said Virginia Licking Schmidt
- marries Virginia in Salt Lake City
- Whitney no longer supports Wells due to romantic liaisons
- Comstock fails
- Wells commits suicide, San Francisco CA, May 24, 1931
- leaves wife and two young children w/o support
- daughter marianne lives in elko, Nevada
- son died in railroad accident in NV the night before leaving for cadet appointment at west point
- musical written about him, 1991 "a difficult man"
- bridal veil, his scenic summer house, restored 1987
- grey mill building, pandora, still standing
- comstock construction foundations only still evident
It may be returned to the article as appropriate, but please use proper Wikipedia editing practices. Richard Myers (talk) 20:35, 18 April 2011 (UTC)