The major financial catalyst for the panic of 1857 was the Aug. 24, 1857, failure of the New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company. It was ...

See the article in its original context from December 12, 1857, Page 2 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine. ... and now crisis and panic have seized upon the Old World, ...

In the wake of the Panic of 1857, "that nest of gamblers the Brokers' Board" (socalled by a Manhattan newspaper seeking to fix responsibility for the financial chaos) met one day to ...

Before West Virginia was its own state, a Congressman from Massachusetts travelled to Wayne County with dreams of building a ...

In 1857, the SS Central America sank during a hurricane it met as it transported passengers from California to New York. Also ...