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H. L. (Herbert Lee) Barber
1865–1937
Best remembered for writing about money, investing, and the early automobile industry, this early 20th-century American author brought business topics to a general readership. His surviving books suggest a practical, explanatory style focused on industry, finance, and modern technology.
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About the author
Herbert Lee Barber (1865–1937), who published as H. L. Barber, was an American writer whose known books include Making Money Make Money (1912), Investing for Profits (1917), and Story of the Automobile (1917).
His work points to strong interests in finance and industrial change. Story of the Automobile is especially notable as a broad historical survey of the motor car’s development up to the late 1910s, showing his effort to explain a fast-changing industry to everyday readers.
Reliable biographical detail beyond his dates and published works is limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to remember him as a practical nonfiction author writing at the intersection of business, investment, and technology in the early 1900s.