Erastus Corning: Merchant and Financier, 1794-1872

ISBN-13: 9780801476457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 226 str.

Irene D. Neu

Opis

Founder and first president of the New York Central Railroad, Erastus Corning rose from humble origins he begin his working life at the age of thirteen as a clerk in a Troy, New York, hardware store to become one of the wealthiest men of his time. In this skillfully written biography, Irene D. Neu traces Corning's the arc of his life and career as a merchant, manufacturer, railroad promoter, land speculator, financier, and politician telling, at the same time, the story of American business in the mid-nineteenth century. Neu relates the significant events in Corning's life and addresses in considerable detail his many-faceted enterprises, including the circumstances of his loss of the New York Central to Cornelius Vanderbilt."