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Jay Gould was born on May 27, 1836. He was born in Roxbury, New York. Gould began speculating in the securities of small railways. He then later became manager of Rensselaer and Saratoga Railway. "Gould gained control of the Western Union Telegraph Company after he had weakened that company with cutthroat competition from his own smaller telegraph companies."

Sources:
- "Jay Gould." En.wikipedia.org. N. p., 2017. Web. 5 Oct. 2017.

- "Jay Gould | American Financier." Encyclopedia Britannica. N. p., 2017. Web. 5 Oct. 2017.

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Marshall Field was born on August 18, 1834. Field was born in Conway, Massachusetts. Field and one of his junior partners Levi Zeigler Leiter joined the merchandising firm of Potter Palmer. Later Levi withdrew and the organization become known as Field. Marshall then bought out Levi and renamed the firm Marshall Field.

Sources:
- "Marshall Fields Biography - Google Search." Google.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 5 Oct. 2017.

- "Marshall Field | American Businessman." Encyclopedia Britannica. N. p., 2017. Web. 5 Oct. 2017.

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Daniel Drew was born on July 29, 1797. He was born in Carmel, New York.  Daniel Drew bought an interest in a New York-to-Peekskill steamboat. Drew also six years later established the People's Line. "He also bought control of the Stonington Line on Long Island Sound and operated a steamship service on Lake Champlain."

Sources:
- "Daniel Drew." En.wikipedia.org. N. p., 2017. Web. 5 Oct. 2017.

-  "Daniel Drew | American Financier." Encyclopedia Britannica. N. p., 2017. Web. 5 Oct. 2017.

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Charles Crocker was born on "September 26, 1833". He was born in Troy, New York. "Crocker abandoned his attempt at prospecting in 1852 and opened a store in Sacramento, becoming extremely wealthy by 1854." "In 1861 Crocker joined fellow merchants Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, and Mark Hopkins in a new railway company, the Central Pacific, ...".  These men together were known as the Big Four.

Sources:
-"Charles Crocker." En.wikipedia.org. N. p., 2017. Web. 5 Oct. 2017.

-"Charles Crocker | American Businessman." Encyclopedia Britannica. N. p., 2017. Web. 5 Oct. 2017.

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William Andrews Clark Sr. was born in January 8,1939. He was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvanian. "Mr. Clark earned millions upon millions in copper mining out West, ...". Mr Clark arrived in New York where he told The New York Times "he was building mainly because one of his daughters lived in the city." William ended up building a mansion that contained "25 guest bedrooms; a 17-foot-high banquet hall paneled in oak supposedly from Sherwood Forest; a sculpture hall 36 feet high..."

Sources:
- "William A. Clark." En.wikipedia.org. N. p., 2017. Web. 5 Oct. 2017.

- Gray, Christopher. "Huguette Clark’S ‘Worthless’ Girlhood Home." Nytimes.com. N. p., 2014. Web. 5 Oct. 2017.