power to memorize, 21;
  animal pets, 23;
  early evidence of organizing power, 24, 43;
  leaves Dunfermline, 25;
  sails for America, 28;
  on the Erie Canal, 29, 30;
  in Allegheny City, 30;
  becomes a bobbin boy, 34;
  works in a bobbin factory, 35, 36;
  telegraph messenger, 37-44;
  first real start in life, 38, 39;
  first communication to the press, 45;
  cultivates taste for literature, 46, 47;
  love for Shakespeare stimulated, 48, 49;
  Swedenborgian influence, 50;
  taste for music aroused, 51;
  first wage raise, 55;
  learns to telegraph, 57, 58, 61;
  becomes a telegraph operator, 59.

  Railroad experience:
  Clerk and operator for Thomas A. Scott, division superintendent of
    Pennsylvania Railroad, 63;
  loses pay-rolls, 67;
  an anti-slavery partisan, 68, 96;
  employs women as telegraph operators, 69;
  takes unauthorized responsibility, 71, 72;
  in temporary charge of division, 73;
  theological discussions, 74-76;
  first investment, 79;
  transferred to Altoona, 84;
  invests in building of sleeping-cars, 87;
  made division superintendent on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 91;
  returns to Pittsburgh, 92;
  gets a house at Homewood, 94;
  Civil War service, 99-109;
  gift to Kenyon College, 106;
  first serious illness, 109;
  first return to Scotland, 110-13;
  organizes rail-making and locomotive works, 115;
  also a company to build iron bridges, 116-18;
  bridge-building, 119-29;
  begins making iron, 130-34;
  introduces cost accounting system, 135, 136, 204;
  becomes interested in oil wells, 136-39;
  mistaken for a noted exhorter, 140;
  leaves the railroad company, 140, 141.

Period of acquisition: Travels extensively in Europe, 142, 143; deepening appreciation of art and music, 143; builds coke works, 144, 145; attitude toward protective tariff, 146-48; opens an office in New York, 149; joins the Nineteenth Century Club, 150; opposed to speculation, 151-54; builds bridge at Keokuk, 154; and another at St. Louis, 155-57; dealings with the Morgans, 155-57, 169-73; gives public baths to Dunfermline, 157; his ambitions at thirty-three, 157, 158; rivalry with Pullman, 159; proposes forming Pullman Palace Car Company, 160; helps the Union Pacific Railway through a crisis, 162, 163; becomes a director of that company, 164; but is forced out, 165; friction with Mr. Scott, 165, 174; floats bonds of the Allegheny Valley Railway, 167-71; negotiations with Baring Brothers, 168, 169; some business rules, 172-75, 194, 224, 231; concentrates on manufacturing, 176, 177; president of the British Iron and Steel Institute, 178; begins making pig iron, 178, 179; proves the value of chemistry at a blast furnace, 181-83; making steel rails, 184-89; in the panic of 1873, 189-93; parts with Mr. Kloman, 194-97; some of his partners, 198-203; goes around the world, 204-09;