The Eight-Year-Old Entrepreneur is the story of one of the great financial tycoons of the early 20th Century, Edward Grayland Sourbier. A contemporary of the Rockefeller’s, Carnegie, J.P Morgan, Vanderbilt’s, and the Astor’s.

Starting with selling fly swatters, establishing a printing business, making posters for Barnum and Bailey Circus. By age nineteen, he was investing in five new automobiles, Mier, Marion, Overland, National, and Stutz race cars. A Business Tycoon, at one time, he owned 1/3 of Indianapolis, Indiana, and all of Marathon, Ohio, and its oil wells. At twenty five, a business tycoon, he owned twenty five theaters in Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Indiana and Toledo, Ohio.