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Alfred Escher Zürich: Bahnhofplatz
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Born February 20, 1819 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died December 6, 1882 (aged 63) • Zürich • Switzerland
Title / Office president (1848-1848), Zürich

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Alfred Escher
Zürich: Bahnhofplatz
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Johann Heinrich Waser
Swiss politician
Henry B. Plant
American industrialist
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan
American financier
Savva Mamontov
Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist
Thomas Nast: “This is a White Man's Government”
Jay Gould
American financier
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
American industrialist and philanthropist [1794–1877]
William Henry Vanderbilt, engraving
William Henry Vanderbilt
American industrialist and philanthropist
Jacob H. Schiff
American financier
J. Edgar Thomson
American engineer and businessman
Collis P. Huntington, c. 1900
Collis P. Huntington
American railroad magnate
Mark Hopkins
American businessman
William Mahone
William Mahone
American businessman and Confederate general
Kahn, Otto Hermann
Otto Hermann Kahn
American businessman
Donald Smith; Canadian Pacific Railway
Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Canadian financier and statesman
William Wheelwright
American businessman and promoter
Harriman, Edward Henry
Edward Henry Harriman
American financier
David Macpherson, 1881
Sir David Macpherson
Canadian politician and railroad builder
Cyrus Field
Cyrus W. Field
American financier
Daniel Drew, engraving by J.C. Buttre after a photograph by M. Brady
Daniel Drew
American financier
Leland Stanford
Leland Stanford
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