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See also:HARRIMAN, See also:EDWARD See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1848—1909) , See also:American financier and railroad See also:magnate, son of the Rev. Orlando Harriman, See also:rector of St See also:George's Episcopal See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, Hempstead, L.I., was See also:born at Hempstead on the 25th of See also:February '848. He became a See also:broker's clerk in New See also:York at an See also:early See also:age, and in 1870 was able to buy a seat on the New York Stock See also:Exchange on his own See also:account. For a See also:good many years there was nothing sensational in his success, but he built up a considerable business connexion and prospered in his See also:financial operations. Meanwhile he carefully mastered the situation affecting American See also:railways. In this respect he was assisted by his friendship with Mr See also:Stuyvesant See also:Fish, who, on becoming See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:Illinois Central in 1883, brought Harriman upon the directorate, and in 1887, being then president, made Harriman vice-president; twenty years later it was Harriman who dominated the See also:finance of the Illinois Central, and Fish, having become his opponent, was dropped from the See also:board. It was not till '898, however, that his career as a See also:great railway organizer began with his formation, by the aid of the bankers, See also:Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of a See also:syndicate to acquire the See also:Union Pacific See also:line, which was then in the hands of a See also:receiver and was generally regarded as a hopeless failure. It was soon found that a new See also:power had arisen in the railway See also:world. Having brought the Union Pacific out of See also:bankruptcy into prosperity, and made it an efficient instead of a decaying line, he utilized his position to draw other lines within his contrcl, notably the See also:Southern Pacific in 1901. These extensions of his power were not made without See also:friction, and his abortive contest in 1901 with See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James J. See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill for the See also:control of the See also:Northern Pacific led to one of the most serious financial crises ever known on See also:Wall See also:Street. But in the result he became the dominant See also:factor in American railway matters. At his See also:death, on the 9th of See also:September 1909, his See also:influence was estimated to extend over 6o,000 m. of track, with an See also:annual earning power of $700,000,000 or over. Astute and unscrupulous manipulation of the stock markets, and a capacity for the hardest of bargaining and the most determined warfare against his rivals, had their See also:place in this success, and Harriman's methods excited the bitterest See also:criticism, culminating in a stern denunciation from President See also:Roosevelt himself in 1907. Nevertheless, besides acquiring See also:colossal See also:wealth for himself, he helped to create for the American public a vastly improved railway service, the benefit of which survived all controversy as to the means by which he triumphed over the obstacles in his way.
End of Article: HARRIMAN, EDWARD HENRY (1848—1909)
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