Minor Cooper Keith (19 January 1848 – 14 June 1929) was an American businessman whose railroad, commercial agriculture, and shipping enterprises much influenced the national economies of the Central American countries, and that of Colombia. As a businessman, Minor C. Keith is notable for being a pioneer in the establishment and administration of a multi-national company, for the exportation and importation of goods among the United States and the countries of the Caribbean Sea.
Read more about Minor Cooper Keith: Early Life, Costa Rican Railroad, Banana Trade, Other Activities, Biographical Mentions
Famous quotes containing the words minor, cooper and/or keith:
“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)
“It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red,—it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, ‘tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)