2 Quotes & Sayings By Albert Wattenberg
Albert Wattenberg was an American author, born in Brooklyn, New York on February 4, 1867. He was educated at the public schools of Brooklyn and at the City College of New York (1887-1889) and graduated from Columbia University in 1890. He wrote for the New York World and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and was afterward employed by the United States Treasury Department (1890-1903). He was a frequent contributor to Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The Forum, and The Outlook
His other works include: A Life's Business (1898), The Man Who Lived At Home (1903), The Prince of Wall Street (1907), The Man Who Made Money (1909), Behind Brush Creek (1910), Ten Years on Wall Street (1913), A Man of Mark (1914), Rockwell's Way to Wealth(1915), Around the World on a Bicycle(1920) and Classic Idols' Homes: A Study of Eight Great Builders, including Albert Kahn, Stanford White, William Waldorf Astor, George B. Post, James Gamble Rogers, Richard Morris Hunt and A. Ogden Armour.
In 1925, he was appointed director of the new library for the American Institute of Architects. In 1931 he became a member of the board of trustees of Columbia University. He died on June 7th at his home in New Rochelle, New York