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Daniel Drew was born on July 29, 1797, and died September 18, 1879. He was an American businessman, steamship and railroad developer and financier. His career began as a cattle drover and horse trader: he drove cattle from the countryside into New York City. Drew would water his beeves heavily before bringing them to market to increase their weight. In 1866, Drew entered into a war with Cornelius Vanderbilt for control of the Eerie. In order to check Vanderbilt, Drew sold bonds in defiance of a court order and issued 100,000 new shares of Eerie, creating a wild market, with Vanderbilt buying and the manipulators selling short.

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http://biography.yourdictionary.com/daniel-drew

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Jay Gould was born on May 27, 1836, and died December 2, 1892. He was an American Financier and railroad builder. He began as an unprincipled stock manipulator and became one of the most acute businessmen in America's age of industrial capitalism. As part of the Erie's move westward, Gould obtained control of the Wabash, a wheat-carrying railroad. Gould hit on the scheme of pushing up the price of gold, weakening the dollar, and encouraging foreign merchants to buy more wheat. He traded in the securities of his own companies, manipulating banks he was associated with to finance his speculations and corrupting legislators and judges. Gould soon launched the Eerie on an expansion campaign that vastly increased its capital debt.

Source: http://biography.yourdictionary.com/jay-gould

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Charles Tyson Yerkes was born on June 25, 1837, and died December 29, 1905. He was an American financier. He played a major part in developing mass-transit systems in Chicago and London. In 1871, a stock exchange panic brought on by the Chicago fire stopped him from delivering money that he had received as an agent in a municipal bond sale. For misappropriation of funds, he was sent to prison for seven months. By 1901, Yerkes had sold his interests in the financially overburdened elevated systems. He went to London with $15,000,000 to convert its subways from steam to electricity. In 1892, Yerkes gave the University of Chicago funding for an observatory.

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Tyson-Yerkes

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Leland Stanford was born on March 9, 1824, and died June 21, 1893. He was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician, and the founder of Stanford University. Migrating to California from New York at the time of the Gold Rush, he became a successful merchant and wholesaler, and continued to build his business empire. In 1861, Stanford and others organized the Central Pacific Railroad, which built east to join the westward progressing Union Pacific Railroad. Stanford became President of the Central Pacific, and his excellent reputation in California allowed the Central Pacific access to a large amount of money. In 1885, he endowed a new institution called, Leland Stanford University, in memory of his son that passed away at the age 15.
Source: http://biography.yourdictionary.com/leland-stanford

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John D. Spreckels was born on August 16, 1853, and died June 7, 1926. He was the son of a German-American industrialist, and he founded a transportation and real estate empire in San Diego, California. Impressed by the real estate boom, he invested in construction of a wharf and coal bunkers at the foot of Broadway. Within the next decades, Spreckels became a millionaire, and was considered the wealthiest man in San Diego. Upon his death, he was eulogized as "One of America's few great Empire Builders who invested millions to turn a struggling,  bankrupt village into the beautiful city San Diego is today."

Source: http://www.sandiegohistory.org/archives/biographysubject/spreckels/