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Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, Jr. (1851–1925), known first as the "Young Napoleon of Finance," [1] and subsequently as "the Best-Hated Man in the United States," was an American swindler.
May 14, 2020 · Ward, who had briefly been known as the “Napoleon of finance”, quickly became the “best-hated man in the United States” and spent nearly seven years in jail.
Aug 30, 2013 · Ferdinand Ward ran what came to be called, 40 years later, a ‘ Ponzi scheme ’, a swindle as old certainly as financial instruments and probably as greed. He promised investors improbable returns from unlikely investments, in Ward’s case government procurement contracts. He spent enough money himself and made his partners, including the ...
Now out of the obscurity that for a quarter of a century has surrounded him, comes Ferdinand Ward, the second central figure of the Grant & Ward crash, the one who was selected by the public as the object of reprisal, to tell the story for the first time of the intimacies that existed between himself and General Grant.
Apr 23, 2013 · The compelling behind-the-scenes story of the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age, whose villainy bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and stunned the world of finance—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward.
Geoffrey Ward is the author of A Disposition to Be Rich, a biography of his great-grandfather, Ferdinand Ward, who ran a fraudulent Wall Street investment firm from 1880 to 1884. The Geoffrey Ward collection on Ferdinand Ward and the Ward family (1825-2012) consists of material collected and created by Geoffrey Ward in preparation of the book.
Following the failure of Grant & Ward, Puck Magazine depicted Ferdinand Ward as a disgraced Napoleon Bonaparte. He sits on an island as business leaders in New York City disclaim any prior knowledge of working with Ward.
May 8, 2020 · Thanks to a pyramid scheme operated by his unscrupulous partner, Ferdinand Ward, Grant’s investment firm had instantly collapsed, wiping out his life savings.
May 20, 2012 · Ferdinand Ward plied his fraudulent schemes in the late 1800s. His most famous victim was Ulysses S. Grant, former U.S. president and commander of the Union Army in the Civil War.
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Apr 23, 2013 · Ferdinand Ward, the son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor, moved to New York at twenty-one and, in less than a decade, made himself the business partner of a former president and...
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