Henry Clews was born in 1836 in Staffordshire, England, on a sheep farm. His father, James Clews, was a potter. Henry arrived in America in 1853 and started out as a clerk in a firm of wool importers. After few years, he tried to become a stock broker but his efforts to gain admittance to Wall Street’s inner circle were snubbed until 1857. That year, fears of excessive trade deficits ...