Daniel Drew

Daniel Drew

male, deceased (1879)
Daniel Drew (July 29 1797 - September 18 1879) was an American financier. He was born in Carmel, New York. Drew was poorly educated. His father...
James Fisk

James Fisk

male, deceased (1872)
James Fisk, Jr. (April 1, 1834 - January 6, 1872), known variously as "Big Jim," "Diamond Jim," and "Jubilee Jim," was an American financier. Fisk...
Horatio Allen

Horatio Allen

male, deceased (1889)
Horatio Allen, LL.D was an American civil engineer and inventor. Born in Schenectady, New York, he graduated from Columbia in 1823, and was...
Hugh J. Jewett

Hugh J. Jewett

male, deceased (1898)
Hugh J. Jewett (1817 - 1898) was president of the Erie Railroad from July 1874 to October 1884. At the beginning of his tenure the railroad was...
John J. Bernet

John J. Bernet

male, deceased (1935)
John J. Bernet (February 9 1868 - July 5 1935) was president of the Nickel Plate Road, Erie Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and Pere...
Robert E. Woodruff

Robert E. Woodruff

male, deceased (1957)
Robert Eastman Woodruff (September 11 1884 - 1957) was president of the Erie Railroad from 1939 to 1949.

Charles Eugene Denney

male, 130 years old
Charles Eugene Denney (born October 18, 1879) was president of Northern Pacific Railway 1939-1950. He was born in Washington, D.C., on October 18,...
John Adams Dix

John Adams Dix

male, deceased (1879)
John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 - April 21, 1879) was an American politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and...
Wendel Bollman

Wendel Bollman

male, deceased (1884)
Wendel Bollman was an American self-taught civil engineer, best known for his iron railway bridges. Only one of his patented "Bollman truss"...
John Jay Phelps

John Jay Phelps

male, deceased (1869)
John Jay Phelps (October 25, 1810 at Simsbury, Connecticut - May 12, 1869 Simsbury, Connecticut) was an early railroad baron and financier, who was...