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Henry Clews
1836–1923
A Wall Street insider with a long memory, he turned decades of market experience into lively books about finance, politics, and public life. Born in England and active in New York, he became known both as a banker and as a prolific commentator on his era.
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Fifty years in Wall Street
by Henry Clews
About the author
Born in Staffordshire, England, Henry Clews emigrated to the United States around 1850 and built his career in New York finance. He helped found the banking house Livermore, Clews & Co., which became an important seller of federal bonds during the Civil War, and later established Henry Clews & Co. He was also active in civic reform in New York.
Clews is remembered not only as a financier but as a writer who tried to explain Wall Street to a broad audience. His books, including Twenty-Eight Years in Wall Street, drew on firsthand experience and mixed financial history with personal observation, which helped make his work readable even for people outside banking.
The date range you provided, 1836–1923, is commonly associated with him in library and archival records, though some biographical sources list his birth year differently. What is consistent across sources is that he died in New York in 1923 after a long public career as both banker and author.