E.H. Harriman
Railroad Czar, Vol. 2
Born Edward Henry Harriman in 1848 of an ordained deacon father in the Presbyterian Church and well-connected socialite mother, Young Edward attended private school in New Jersey and New York, but dropped out at age 14 to take a job as a Wall Street errand boy. He moved up rapidly to become a managing clerk and, ultimately, became a stockbroker with a seat on the New York stock exchange. Harriman began investing his own money in railway stocks, and even married into a railroad family. In 1881, he bought his first railroad company outright in upstate New York and his name soon became synonymous with rail…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59605-115-7
- EAN: 9781596051157
- Produktnummer: 1405916
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 452 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.6 cm 511 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 511
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