author
Frederick L. (Frederic Lockwood) Lipman
b. 1866
A San Francisco businessman and writer, he is best remembered for a thoughtful early-20th-century book on money, ethics, and the purpose of business. Family-history records point to a long life that began in California in 1866 and later included marriage, children, and work in both business and writing.
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Creating Capital Money-making as an aim in business
by Frederick L. (Frederic Lockwood) Lipman
About the author
Frederick Lockwood Lipman was born on February 21, 1866, in San Francisco, California. Catalog and library records identify him as the author of Creating Capital: Money-making as an Aim in Business, a work associated with the University of California's Barbara Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade.
A family-history catalog record describes him as the son of Charles Lipman and Frances C. Kellogg, and says he married Edith Law in Virginia City, Nevada, on July 25, 1891. That same source says the family later lived in California and had children, suggesting a life rooted in the American West.
Reliable biographical information about him is fairly limited online, but the surviving record shows a figure who moved between practical business life and reflective writing about wealth, saving, and ethics. His work remains of interest today mainly for the way it connects commerce with moral questions rather than treating money-making as an end in itself.