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Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin
(1828-1909)

Baldwin instructed his broker to sell his silver-mine stock but sailed for India and Japan without giving him the key to the safe. Thus, the broker could not get to the shares until Baldwin returned, by which time their value had increased a hundred fold.
His silver fortune was estimated at $20 million. Later, because of a debt owed him, he accepted the deed to ostensibly worthless land, which became Baldwin Park, near Los Angeles. Part of the Baldwin Park land eventually became Santa Anita racetrack.

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