Edward Henry Harriman belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.
The record lists Edward Henry Harriman as American financier and railroad magnate (1848–1909).
Edward Henry Harriman was born at Hempstead in 1848. 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 financier, railway executive and railway worker.
His recorded affiliations include Union Pacific Corporation.
Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.
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.
Edward Henry Harriman died in 1909, aged 61. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Affiliated with Union Pacific Corporation
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