Authors: George Kennan
ISBN-13: 9781893122710, ISBN-10: 1893122719
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Beard Books, Incorporated
Date Published: December 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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 "railroad." Volume 2 of this two-volume biography includes Harriman s Far Eastern Plans and Russia s plan to sell the Chinese Eastern Railroad to his American syndicate. His life and work at his estate, Arden House as well as his foray into a more spiritual life. Included are two fascinating chapters about the rupture of his long-standing friendship with President Theodore Roosevelt.
XVIII. | Far Eastern Plans | |
XIX. | Life and Work at Arden | 30 |
XX. | Changes in the Illinois Central | 42 |
XXI. | San Francisco Earthquake and Fire | 66 |
XXII. | The Union Pacific Dividend in 1906 | 77 |
XXIII. | The Imperial Valley Oasis | 88 |
XXIV. | The Fight with a Runaway River | 136 |
XXV. | The Break with President Roosevelt | 174 |
XXVI. | The Break with President Roosevelt | 203 |
XXVII. | Investigation of the Harriman Lines | 228 |
XXVIII. | Reply to Accusations | 275 |
XXIX. | The Saving of the Erie | 311 |
XXX. | Last Years | 326 |
XXXI. | Character and Business Methods | 347 |
XXXII. | Recollections, Estimates, and Appreciations | 368 |
Chronology of E. H. Harriman's Life | 399 | |
Index | 407 |