Spencer Trask
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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 produc
Portrait of Spencer Trask
The Spirit of Life
Katrina Trask
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Katrina Trask, also known as Kate Nichols Trask, was an American author and philanthropist.
Spencer Trask
…Spencer Trask joined his uncle to form the investment firm Trask & Brown, which became Spencer Trask & Company in 1881. Trask was married in 1874 to Katrina Nichols, an author. Trask was often a supporter of new inventions in their experimental stages, having formed an early appreciation for the connection between…
Trask, c. 1900
Trask in 1900