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    Edward Henry Harriman (February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909) was an American financier and railroad executive. Harriman was born on February 20, 1848...
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    historic estate outside Harriman, New York, that was owned by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman and his wife, Mary Averell Harriman. By the early 1900s...
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    Williamson Averell Harriman (July 22, 1851 – November 7, 1932) was an American philanthropist and the wife of railroad executive E. H. Harriman. Born in New...
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    advisor to Democratic presidents. Harriman was born to a wealthy family as the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. While attending Groton School and...
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  • Averell Harriman, wife of the late Edward H. Harriman. After her death, the award was presented by her sons E. Roland Harriman and W. Averell Harriman. Today...
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    Henry Harriman. Among his siblings was W. Averell Harriman, the financier and government official, four years his senior. Edward H. Harriman's estate...
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    Jacob Schiff (redirect from Jacob H. Schiff)
    Union Pacific Railroad. In many of his interests he was associated with E. H. Harriman. Schiff was born in 1847 in the Judengasse in Frankfurt am Main, Germany...
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    Administration. Mary was the daughter of railroad magnate E.H. Harriman and sister to W. Averell Harriman, former New York State Governor and United States Diplomat...
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    builder E. H. Harriman. In spite of sharply-defined differences in temperament and method, they became as brothers. In opposition to Harriman's gruff,...
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    included Oliver Harriman Jr. (1862–1940), J. Borden Harriman (1864–1914), and Herbert M. Harriman (1873–1933). Her first cousin, E. H. Harriman, was the father...
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    Orlando Harriman (1790–1867) and Anne Ingland (1795–1853). His brother, Orlando Harriman, was the father of railroad tycoon Edward H. Harriman and grandfather...
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    company but now pronounced "Railroad" and not "Rail Road". Empire builder E. H. Harriman (1848–1909) purchased the UP for a song.[quantify] He upgraded its 3...
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    connect north of the village. Harriman State Park is located east of the village. The village is named after E. H. Harriman, former president of the Union...
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    the only engine owned by the Union Pacific Railroad from the era when E. H. Harriman controlled the Union Pacific. UP No. 1243 was built in 1890 originally...
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    inherently limited. In May 1901, James J. Hill and J. P. Morgan battled with E. H. Harriman over control of the Northern Pacific Railway. By the end of business...
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    Moses Taylor Russell Sage John Insley Blair Cyrus H. K. Curtis Paul Allen J. P. Morgan E. H. Harriman Henry Huddleston Rogers Oliver Hazard Payne Henry...
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  • Averell Harriman in 1920. Intended as a way for Harriman to make his mark in the business world outside of his father, railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, the...
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    bondholder's representative James Speyer, forcing him to sell his interests to E. H. Harriman. In 1898, in friendly competition with his uncle's Southern Pacific...
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  • Stanley G. Mortimer Jr. (category Articles with hCards)
    Truman) and a granddaughter of railroad tycoon E. H. Harriman. Together, they had a home in Harriman and an apartment at 149 East 73rd Street in Manhattan...
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    Company was a short-lived American railroad trust formed in 1901 by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan and their associates. The company controlled...
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    Warne Gates (barbed wire, oil) – Texas Jay Gould (railroads) – New York E. H. Harriman (railroads) – New York James J. Hill (fuel, coal, steamboats, railroads)...
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    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...
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  • you walk into my parlor?' said the Spider to the Fly. Railroad tycoon E. H. Harriman is depicted as a fly on a spider web labeled "The Law," subject to the...
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    Butch Cassidy (category Articles with hCards)
    drop their criminal complaints against him, and Union Pacific chairman E. H. Harriman attempted to meet with Cassidy through Warner. On August 29, 1900, Cassidy...
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    Samuel P. Bush (category Articles with hCards)
    and among its clients were the railroads controlled by E. H. Harriman. The Bush and Harriman families would be closely associated at least until the...
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    J. P. Morgan (category Articles with hCards)
    In 1901, a compromise was reached between Morgan, New York financier E. H. Harriman and Minnesota railroad builder James J. Hill. To reduce competition...
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    Richard Wyckoff (category Articles with hCards)
    Wyckoff worked with and studied them all, himself, Jesse Livermore, E. H. Harriman, James R. Keene, Otto Kahn, J.P. Morgan, and many other American investors...
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  • learn from Place that the posse has been paid by Union Pacific head E. H. Harriman to remain on their trail until they are both killed. Cassidy convinces...
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    campaign. Only a week before the election, Roosevelt himself called E. H. Harriman, the railroad king, to Washington, D.C., for the purpose of raising...
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    Edward Henry Harriman Simmons (August 21, 1876 – May 21, 1955) was an American banker and author who served as president of the New York Stock Exchange...
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