Alexander Cassatt

Alexander Cassatt

male, deceased (1906)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, American racehorse owners and breeder, racehorse breeder, American, altoona, electrification…Pennsylvania Station, pennsylvaniarailroad, American railroad executive
Alexander J. Cassatt (December 8 1839 - December 28 1906) was the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from June 9, 1899 to December 28, 1906....
E. H. Harriman

E. H. Harriman

male, deceased (1909)
from New York, Episcopal Church in the United States of America, union pacific railroad, pennsylvaniarailroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Wall Street…American railroad executive
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...
John Scott

John Scott

male, deceased (1896) (Milford, Pennsylvania, United States)
from Pennsylvania, pennsylvaniarailroad, republican party, American, huntingdon, United States Senator…Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives
John Scott (July 24 1824 - November 29 1896) was an American lawyer and Republican party politician. He served in the Pennsylvania House of...
John Edgar Thomson

John Edgar Thomson

male, deceased (1874)
civil engineer, Industrialist, American Civil War industrialist, American, wood, coal…pennsylvaniarailroad, American railroad executive, from Pennsylvania
John Edgar Thomson (February 10 1808 - May 27 1874) was an American civil engineer, railroad executive and industrialist. He was President of the...
John W. Garrett

John W. Garrett

male, deceased (1884)
Johns Hopkins University, banker, American railroad executive, pennsylvaniarailroad, philanthropist, american civil war…Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
John Work Garrett (July 31, 1820 - September 26, 1884) was an American banker, philanthropist and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad...
Robert Pitcairn

Robert Pitcairn

male, 173 years old
from Pennsylvania, Renfrewshire, Carnegie Steel, Business magnate, from Renfrewshire, South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club…pennsylvaniarailroad, American railroad executive
Robert Pitcairn (born 1836) was a Scottish-American railroad executive who headed the Pittsburgh Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the late...

David Brooks

male
American, inventor, pennsylvaniarailroad, telegraph, telegraphy, Central Pacific Railroad
David Brooks was an Philadelphia, Pennsylvania inventor, remembered for an innovative insulator for telegraph lines in 1864 and 1867. He patented...
Thomas Alexander Scott

Thomas Alexander Scott

male, deceased (1881)
American railroad executive, pennsylvaniarailroad, Reconstruction, union pacific railroad, compromise of 1877, Fort Loudoun
Thomas Alexander Scott (December 28 1823-May 21, 1881) was the president of what was in its time the largest corporation in the world, the...
Stuart T. Saunders

Stuart T. Saunders

male, deceased (1987)
Roanoke College, from Virginia, American railroad executive, pennsylvaniarailroad, hollins university, lawyer…Wabash Railroad
Stuart Thomas Saunders (1909-1987) was an American railroad executive. Saunders served as president of the Norfolk and Western Railway, one of the...
Edward G. Budd

Edward G. Budd

male, deceased (1946)
Oakland, General Motors, General Motors Corporation, CITROEN, Budd Company, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad…pennsylvaniarailroad
Edward Gowen Budd was an American inventor and businessman. Budd was born in Delaware in 1870. He studied engineering in Philadelphia in 1888, and...