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Born: October 27, 1819, Branford, CT

Died: June 23, 1899, New York City, NY

Nationality: American
Plant became famous as president of the Plant System of railway, steamer lines, the Southern and Texas Express Co. He entered the railroad service in 1844, serving as an express messenger on the Hartford and New Haven Railroad until 1853.  In 1879 he purchased, the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad of Georgia, and later reorganized the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad, of which he became president. In 1887, Plant built the PICO Hotel in Sanford for the accommodation of his railroad and steamship passengers to Central Florida.
At the approach of the Civil War the directors of Adams Express, fearing the confiscation of their Southern properties, decided to sell them to Plant for his promissory note of $500,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B._Plant

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Born: July 29, 1797, Carmel, NY

Died: September 18, 1879, New York City, NY
Daniel Drew was an American businessman, steamship and railroad developer, and financier.
Drew's career as a financier,  estimated at $13 million and he was respectfully called "Uncle Daniel" on Wall Street, he was treated with admiration. After his fortunes changed, he was vilified by newspapers, which wrote that Drew "has been one of the curses of the market for years past.
Drew Street, in eastern Baltimore, Maryland, is reportedly named after him due to Drew's involvement as an investor in the Baltimore Canton Company, which owned and developed much of the area through the early 1900's.
Drew is credited with introducing  what would be called "watered stock" to the Wall Street. The term came from his time in the livestock business, when he would have his cattle lick salt and drink water before selling them, to increase their weight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Drew

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Born: May 27, 1836, Roxbury, NY

Died: December 2, 1892, Manhattan, New york City, NY
was a leading American railroad developer and speculator.
whose success at business made him one of the richest men of his era.
Gay Gould, Drew and James Fisk engaged in the Erie War, with the result that in the summer of 1868 Drew, Fisk, and Vanderbilt lost control of the Erie, while Gould became its president.
Gould's father-in-law Daniel S. Miller was credited with introducing the younger man to the railroad industry, when he suggested that Gould help him save his investment in the Rutland and Washington Railroad in the Panic of 1857. Gould purchased stock for 10 cents on the dollar, which left him in control of the company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Gould

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Born:April 17, 1837, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Died:March 31, 1913 (aged 75) Rome, Italy
J.P. Morgan was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in late 19th and early 20th Century United States.
He was also instrumental in the creation of the United States Steel Corporation, International Harvester and AT&T.
Morgan in his sleep in 1913 leaving his fortune and business to his son, John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. His fortune was estimated at US $80 million.
After the death of his father in 1890, Morgan took control of J. S. Morgan & Co. (which was renamed Morgan, Grenfell & Company in 1910).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Morgan

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Born: August 18, 1834, Conway, MA

Died:January 16, 1906, New York City, NY
Marshall Field was born on a farm in Massachusetts, the son of John Field IV and wife Fidelia Nash. His family was decended from Puritans who had come to America as early as 1650.
Field quickly rose through the ranks of Cooley, Farwell & Co. In 1862 for financial reasons Cooley left the firm.
In January 1865, Field and a partner, Levi Leiter, accepted an offer to become senior partners at the dry goods establishment of Potter Palmer (a film). The firm became known as "Field, Palmer, Leiter & Co. In 1867, after Field and Leiter could afford to buy him out, Palmer withdrew from the firm, and it was renamed "Field, Leiter & Company. In 1867 Field, Leiter & Company reported revenues of $12 million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Field