| |  | Cornelius Vanderbilt I (May 27 1794 - January 4, 1877), also known by the sobriquets "The Commodore" or "Commodore Vanderbilt", was an American... |  | Jason Gould (May 27, 1836 - December 2, 1892) was an American financier, who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator. |  | Edward Henry Harriman (February 20 1848 - September 9 1909), better known as E. H. Harriman, was a wealthy railroad executive. He was born on Long... |  | Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company... |  | James Jerome Hill (September 16 1838 - May 29 1916), was a noted Canadian-American railroad executive. He was the chief executive officer of a... |  | Stuyvesant Fish was president of the Illinois Central Railroad. Fish was born in New York City, the son of Hamilton Fish and his wife Julia Ursin... |  | Lucian C. Sprague was an American railroad executive. Sprague was born in Serena, Illinois on September 29, 1882, and during his early years held a... |  | Colonel Nathaniel Lamson "N.L." Howard was an American railroad executive. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and for his... |  | William Nelson Page (January 6, 1854-March 7, 1932), was a United States civil engineer, entrepreneur, capitalist, businessman, and industrialist.... |  | Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2 1830 - May 20 1913) was an American tycoon, real estate promoter, railroad developer and Rockefeller partner in... | |
