Charles Yerkes is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists Charles Yerkes as American banker and art collector (1837-1905).
Charles Yerkes was born at Philadelphia in 1837. His recorded nationality is United States.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as businessperson, art collector and art historian.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
That the business was built from United States shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Charles Yerkes died in 1905, aged 68. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
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