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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter
A business man that reminds me you fags

>> No.9911200

>>9911163
He made a fortune off of useless currencies

>> No.9911247

>>9911163
kek what a madman eh was
thanks anon

>> No.9911263

>>9911163
lmfao this guy is literally us

>> No.9911277

An excerpt from his book:

"IME the first Lord in the younited States of A mericary Now of Newburyport it is the voise of the peopel and I cant Help it and so Let it goue Now as I must be Lord there will foller many more Lords pretty soune for it dont hurt A Cat Nor the mouse Nor the son Nor the water Nor the Eare then goue on all is Easey Now bons broaken all is well all in Love Now I be gin to Lay the corner ston and the kee ston with grat Remembrence of my father Jorge Washington the grate herow 17 sentreys past before we found so good a father to his shildren and Now gone to Rest"

sounds like one of us

>> No.9911300

>>9911277
he was barely literate

>> No.9911303
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9911303

what a legend

>> No.9911306

>>9911300
>he was barely literate
what the fuck does that mean?

>> No.9911309

>>9911300
he was the luckiest man ever

>> No.9911310

kek thanks for the read OP

>> No.9911314

>>9911163
lmao, thanks for sharing this

>> No.9911315

>>9911163
Great find, OP. This man's pic needs to be stickied at the top of every page of /biz/.

>> No.9911319
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>>9911263
>People jokingly told him to "ship coal to Newcastle". He did so during a miners' strike at the time, and his cargo was sold at a premium.

>In one notable episode, Dexter faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter's mock wake. Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving his death sufficiently.

>> No.9911325

50% citation needed and 50% one source called "The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots". Entertaining work of fiction, I guess.

>> No.9911326

>>9911319
kek

>> No.9911332

>>9911319
Most famously, in imitation of the King of England, Dexter hired his own poet laureate -- a hapless 20 year-old who he’d found in the market, selling halibut from a wheelbarrow. After learning that the great Italian poets were crowned with mistletoe, Dexter concocted his new lyricist a coronet of parsley (the only thing he had in his garden at the moment), and forced him to write and recite fawning poems that boosted his own self esteem

>> No.9911337

>faked his own death
This is us everytime the market crashes a few percent, Topkek.
He was /ourguy/, he must not be forgotten.

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>>9911277

>> No.9911360

>In the second edition, Dexter added an extra page which consisted of 13 lines of punctuation marks with the instructions that readers could distribute them as they pleased.
Holy kek

>> No.9911390

>>9911315
This

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>>9911347
>>9911360