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Vor 2 Tagen · William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986), better known as Averell Harriman, was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. He founded Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. , served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman , and was the 48th governor of New York , as well as a candidate ...
Vor 5 Tagen · E. Roland Harriman (1917), co-founder Harriman Brothers & Company; Harry William LeGore (1917), All-America college football player; H. Neil Mallon (1917), CEO of Dresser Industries: 126, 145, 168 Kenneth Farrand Simpson (1917), member of the United States House of Representatives from New York: 144
Vor 3 Tagen · E. H. Harriman and the Railroad; Tragic Train Wreck of 1901; Railroad Yard; Maritime Occupations and Sailors. Owen P. Merrill – Trials and Tribulations of being a Sodus Point Sailor; Maritime Occupations; Sodus Point Sailors 1854 – 1914; Sodus Canal; Trolley; Timeline. 1400s. 1450. Native American Fishing Mural; 1700s. 1759. French and ...
Vor 4 Tagen · In New York State in the “Burned-Over District” of central New York, a Shaker community was begun in 1826 at Sodus Bay on Lake Ontario, a community which would relocate to Groveland to the south of the Finger Lakes area after a few years. The Shaker faith had its incipient beginnings in England in the mid-1700s, but it was Ann Lee, born in ...
Vor 4 Tagen · As the onset of World War II discredited eugenics, the Eugenics Record Office closed on December 31, 1939. Nonetheless, the Georgian Colonial-style building still exists today at 1682 Laurel ...
Vor 6 Tagen · U.P. Board Chairman Roland Harriman said the railroad’s improvement plan “is the greatest since 1910, when the road operated under the direction of E.H. Harriman,” his father and the founder ...
Vor 6 Tagen · From the Vanderbilts of Hyde Park to Jay Gould’s purchase of Tarrytown’s Lyndhurst estate and the vast land holdings of E. H. Harriman in Orange County, the Hudson Valley has been home to many of the Gilded Age’s most illustrious, and infamous, titans of industry. Though their empires were not always centered in New York, the ...
