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Started off as a fur trader and merchant, he eventually reached success and began to expand to sell more fur.  He became a wealthy seal skin-trader and gained a lot of money.  He later invested in railroads and donated money to the American Red Cross.

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One of four main investors who formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, and Collis Huntington. Although his success wasn't reached at first, he reached it eventually when he formed the Central Pacific along with the other three colleagues.

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Jay Gould, one if the richest men of his era, probably one of the most ruthless as well, was one of the leading railroad developers and speculators.  Also, he could be the man who invented Black Friday during the Gold Rush era when he would reduce the price for gold or increase at will.

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Founder of one a department store we may all know, known as Marshall, started in Chicago, also donated land for the making of Chicago University.

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Stanford was the founder of one the most known Universities around the world: Stanford University.  He was also president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and in 1861, the Central Pacific.

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