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About Spencer Trask
Spencer Trask was an American financier, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. Beginning in the 1870s, Trask began investing and supporting entrepreneurs, including Thomas Edison's commercial production of the electric light bulb and his electricity network. In 1896 he reorganized The New York Times, becoming its majority shareholder and chairman.
Everything about Spencer Trask →- Occupation
- financier
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 18, 1844
- Died
- December 31, 1909