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1 day ago · Panic of 1901. The Panic of 1901 was the first stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange, caused in part by struggles between E. H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff, and J. P. Morgan / James J. Hill for the financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway. The stock cornering was orchestrated by James Stillman and William Rockefeller 's First ...
Jul 16, 2024 · Located 30 just miles outside of New York City, in Laurel Hollow, Long Island, less than a mile from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Eugenics Record Office (1910-1939) was a dark episode in...
4 days ago · William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986), better known as Averell Harriman, was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. He founded Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. , served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman , and was the 48th governor of New York , as well as a candidate for the ...
Jul 11, 2024 · Over the years, the majority of the ERO funding would come from the philanthropy of the Carnegie Institution for Science, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the estate of Mary Harriman, the multimillionaire philanthropist and widow of railroad tycoon E.H. Harriman.
2 days ago · Only a week before the election, Roosevelt himself called E. H. Harriman, the railroad king, to Washington, D.C., for the purpose of raising funds to carry New York. [9] Insider money, however, was spent on both candidates.
E. H. Harriman: A Biography. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. A two-volume account of a railroad master. In addition to reorganizing and managing a host of different lines, Harriman also founded the Boy's Club. First edition, hardbound. Lane, Wheaton J. Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of the Steam Age. New York: Knopf, 1942.
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Jul 16, 2024 · McKeen was Superintendent of MP&M from 1902 to 1908, when he left UP to start his McKeen Motor Car Co., with the support of Harriman himself. E. H. Harriman died in September 1909, and McKeen sold his interest in McKeen Motor Car Co. to UP in March 1920.
