Ackerman, William K., 55, 56, 57, 58
Adams express company, 357
Alaskan expedition: and Harriman’s legacy, xiv, 447; and Mary Harriman, 8, 10, 188, 189, 199; and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 156, 157, 158; and Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, 168; and Alton Railroad, 177; Harriman’s motives for, 181-83; planning for, 183-84; scientists involved in, 183-85; and train journey to Seattle, 185-87, 473 (n. 11); and Harriman’s management style, 186, 190; itinerary of, 188-98; homeward trip of, 198-200; effects of, on Harriman, 212, 213; reunions of, 395
Alexander, James W., 330, 331, 332, 333-34, 335, 336-37
Alger, Horatio, 31
Alton Railroad: and G. Kennan, 13-18; and Interstate Commerce Commission, 14, 15, 176, 393, 394, 404; and Harriman, 91, 171-80, 181, 208, 211, 212, 239, 472-73 (n. 62); and community of interest, 173, 208, 217; and Felton, 173-74, 175, 176, 178, 211, 276; and Union Pacific Railroad, 211; and holding company, 241; traffic needs of, 249; and Hawley, 323; and Cullom, 399
American China Development Company, 284
American express company, 357
American Group, 433
American Steel & Wire Company, 169
Ames, Oakes, 144
Arden: and Mary Harriman, 6; and state park, 8, 431-32, 445; and G. Kennan, 11-12, 23; and Harriman’s grave, 12, 443, 444; Harriman’s purchase of, 68, 69-70; and Harriman’s personal nature, 69, 98-101, 269; as break for Harriman, 69, 214, 302-3; and Erie Railroad, 93, 410; enlargement of, 95-97, 144; Episcopal Church of, 97-98; and Christmas, 99-100; and McKeen car, 263; and Ten Eyck, 298; building of new house, 303, 424-25, 438, 440; and communications, 372-73; and Stillman, 425; and Harriman’s illness, 435, 438-39
Arizona Eastern Railroad, 319
Armour, J. Ogden, 426
Armour, Philip D., 166
Armstrong Committee, 335-36, 342, 346, 366, 367, 368, 388
Astor, William Waldorf, 58, 70 Astor estate, 346
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad: and western theater of operations, 206; and competition, 207; and Central Pacific Railroad, 210; and G. Gould, 217; and stock market, 228; and Harriman, 242, 251-52, 318, 324, 350, 388; and Mexico, 264; statistics on, 279; and Union Pacific Railroad, 318, 319, 404, 408-9; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 320; and P. Morton, 339
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, 206
August Belmont & Co., 58
Averell, James, 44
Averell, Mary Williamson. See Harriman, Mary W.
Averell, William, 51, 52, 95, 184, 189, 293
Averell, William J., 44, 45, 49, 50, 293
Bacon, Robert: and Burlington Railroad, 223, 224; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 225, 231-32, 233, 235, 237, 238; and J. P. Morgan, 226
Baker, George F.: Stillman compared to, 163; and Burlington Railroad, 222-23; and Mutual Life, 330, 345, 346; and J. P. Morgan, 407; and Erie Railroad, 413, 414; and New York Central Railroad, 426; and American Group, 433 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 162-63, 166-67,181, 208, 226, 388
Bancroft, W. H.: and Union Pacific Railroad, 119; and Oregon Short Line, 152, 247, 278; and standardization, 160; and Alaskan expedition, 186; and Kerens, 244; and safety, 259; and Harriman’s management style, 267; and San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, 325-28
Bankers and banking: and G. Kennan, 2; and S. Fish, 49; banker syndicates, 91, 113; and Union Pacific Railroad, 107, 388; and Harriman, 163, 212; and competition, 205, 209; and railroad industry, 208, 209, 316; and community of interest, 209; and western advisory committee, 220; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 235; and mergers, 309; and Northern Securities Company, 312, 314-15; and insurance industry, 330; and Wells Fargo company, 357; and panic of 1907, 407; and Manchuria, 416, 417
Barry Glacier, 193
Baruch, Bernard, 169, 233, 235
Batson, George W., 9, 10, 11, 13, 19, 22, 23, 32
Bay Shore cutoff, 257
Beard, Charles A., 15
Beck, C. A., 82
Beef Trust, 309
Belmont, August, 36, 39, 58, 92, 93, 339, 340 Berry, J. B.: and Harriman’s inspection trip, 119-23; and Harriman’s management style, 126, 255; and operating costs, 130-31, 135, 137, 139; and railroad growth, 145; and improvements spending, 146, 158; and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 157; and Union Pacific Railroad, 255; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 257
Bienenfeld, A. M., 326, 327-28
Black, Frank S., 365
Blackstone, Timothy B., 171-72, 176
Blagden, Samuel, 41
Blake, William P., 376
Bliss, Cornelius N., 336, 337, 363
Boissevain, William, 87
Boissevain Brothers, 57
Bonaparte, Charles J., 404, 405, 408
Boston & Maine Railroad, 426
Boston fire, 37
Boxer Rebellion, 284
Brewer, David J., 312-13
Brown Brothers Harriman, 446
Bryan, William Jennings, 110
Bull, W. L., 154
Bull, William T., 297
Bureau of Information and Education, 268
Burlington Northern Railroad, 445
Burlington Railroad: and western theater of operations, 206; and Union Pacific Railroad, 210, 212-13, 216-17, 221-23, 230, 239, 314, 318; and J. J. Hill, 221-23, 225, 228, 318, 324, 353; and holding company, 252; management of, 278; statistics on, 279
Burroughs, John, 184, 186, 187, 189, 192, 193, 195, 200
Burt, Horace G.: as president of Union Pacific Railroad, 115, 128, 131; and Harriman’s inspections, 119-23; and Harriman’s management style, 135, 254, 255, 269-70, 277, 411; and double-tracking, 142; and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 154, 157; and standardization, 160; and Harriman’s train journey to Seattle, 186; and midwest theater, 212; and Oregon Short Line Railroad, 247; and safety, 266
Bury, J. B., 244
California Development Company (CDC), 376-79, 381, 383, 384, 390-91 Calvin, E. E., 278, 373-74, 375 Cannon, George Q., 115 Carnegie, Andrew, xiii, 183
Cassel, Ernest, 420
Cassidy, Butch, 160
Cedar Falls & Minnesota Railroad, 66
Central America, xiv Central of Georgia rail system, 427
Central Pacific Railroad, 120, 122, 210, 216, 219, 256, 275
Central Vermont Railroad, 50
Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad, 92
Chicago, Madison & Northern Railroad, 64
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, 163
Chicago, St. Louis 8c New Orleans Railroad, 49
Chicago 8c Alton Railway, 13-17, 163, 174, 175-76. See also Alton Railroad Chicago 8c Northwestern Railroad, 37, 109, 115
Chicago fire, 37
Chicago World’s Fair, 90
China: Harriman’s railroad lines in, xiv, 418; and G. Kennan, 4; and Open Door policy, 207, 283-84; and trade, 285; Harriman’s visit to, 288-89, 291; and W. D. Straight, 300, 416, 417; and American capital, 433, 434 Chinese Eastern Railroad, 285, 288, 415, 417, 433, 434, 435 Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, 415
Clark, Dodge & Co., 41
Clark, Katherine, 246
Clark, Ross, 325, 326, 327, 328
Clark, William A., 217, 243, 244-49, 325, 327, 328
Clarke, James C., 54, 55, 56-57, 58, 62, 64, 79 Clark family, 37, 324-26 Cleveland, Grover, 110, 113, 339 Colorado 8c Southern Railroad, 251, 323 Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CFI), 250-51
Commercial Cable Company, 286 Community of interest: and Harriman, 173, 208, 211, 217, 220, 222-24, 242, 249-50, 252, 318, 322; and Alton Railroad, 173, 208, 217; and competition, 205, 209; and Oregon Railways & Navigation Company, 208; logistics of, 209-10, 317-18; and G. Gould, 217, 220, 251, 322; and Burlington Railroad, 222, 223, 228; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 229; and Northern Securities Company, 241, 249, 318; and Railroad Securities Company, 242; and J. J. Hill, 249-50, 315; and Interstate Commerce Commission, 252, 308, 392
Cooley, F. B., 78
Coolidge, T. Jefferson, 115
Cornish, William D., 126, 248, 275, 326-27
Cortelyou, George B., 363, 364
Coster, Charles H., 65, 153, 154-56
Cromwell, William Nelson, 358
Cruger, S. Van Rensselaer, 58
Cullom, Shelby, 399
Custer, George Armstrong, 189
Cutting, R. Fulton, 52
Cutting family, 37
Czolgosz, Leon, 239
Dall, William Healey (Will), 6, 10, 184, 192, 197, 199
Daly, Marcus, 121 Dead Horse Trail, 189
Delaware & Hudson Railroad, 426
Dellenbaugh, Frederick, 185, 199
Depew, Chauncey M., 307, 334, 337, 361, 365-66, 368, 369, 426
Depression of 1870s, 36, 54-55, 75
Depression of 1873, 37, 38, 50, 68, 107
Depression of 1893-97: and railroad industry, xiii, xvi, 48, 114, 206; and Illinois Central Railroad, 87, 89, 90-91; and Harriman, 88-89, 93; and Erie Railroad, 93; and Union Pacific Railroad, 106, 119; and J. J. Hill, 151; and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 166; and Kansas City, Pittsburg 8c Gulf Railroad, 167; and Alton Railroad, 171-72, 176; and G. Gould, 217
Diaz, Porfiro, 264
Disenchantment Bay, 192
Doran, Peter A., 192, 193-94, 195, 196-97
Drew, Daniel, 34
Drexel, Morgan & Co., 64
Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad, 64-66, 354
Dun, R. G., 38
Duncan, William, 188
Dutch interests, 57, 78, 87, 146
E. H. Harriman & Company, 36-38, 37, 44, 46-47, 48, 55-56, 57, 58, 61, 63
Economic Club of New York, 409
Elliot, John, 56
Empire Construction Company, 248, 325-26, 491 (n. 26)
Equitable Life, 329-43, 344, 357, 358, 366, 368, 388, 415
Equitable Trust, 330
Erie Canal, 95
Erie Railroad, 93, 96, 154, 263, 410-14, 426, 443 Erie war, 37
Evarts, Maxwell, 368, 370, 389, 395-96, 397, 398
Farrer, Gaspard, 312, 314, 315, 316
Federal Steel, 169
Felton, Samuel M.: and Alton Railroad, 13, 14,173-74, 175, 176, 178, 211, 276; and Harriman’s management style, 126-28, 133—34, 254; and Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, 168, 178; and Los Angeles Terminal Railway, 243; and Harriman’s illness, 296-97
Fentress, James, 80
Ferry Building, 374
Field, Marshall, 166
Fish, Hamilton, 49
Fish, Marian (Mamie), 58, 60, 303, 346, 347, 348, 353
Fish, Stuyvesant: Harriman’s break with, 21, 329, 345, 350, 353-54, 367, 388, 389, 394; and Illinois Central Railroad, 49, 55-58, 60, 62-67, 73, 76, 79-86, 90, 92, 116, 347-50,352-54, 357; and Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain line, 49-50, 57; and Harriman, 49-52, 54, 55-56, 61, 67, 74, 77-79, 81-94, 99, 106, 111, 112, 128, 211, 249, 273, 307, 347-51, 354; and Sodus Bay & Southern Railroad, 51, 52, 57; and Ontario Southern Railroad, 51-52; and Sodus Point grain elevator interest, 52; personal life of, 58-60, 303, 346-47; and Greenwood Iron Works, 68; investments of, 94; and Furnaceville Iron Company, 95; and Union Pacific Railroad, 106, 111, 112, 113, 211; and J. H. Schiff, 109; and Alton Railroad, 177; and western advisory committee, 220; and Railroad Securities Company, 239, 241, 351; and Northern Securities Company, 309; and Milwaukee Railroad, 318; and J. H. Hyde, 333; and Mutual Life, 345-46, 349-50; and Interstate Commerce Commission, 394
Fish family, 37
Fisk, Jim, 34
Fitzgerald, Louis, 115
Fleming, Robert, 417
Frick, Henry Clay, 333, 334, 336, 337, 342, 350, 351
Frick Committee, 334-35, 336 Furnaceville Iron Company, 95, 96
Garland, Hamlin, 308
Gary, Elbert H., 408
Gas Trust, 309
Gates, John W., 167, 168-71, 233, 251, 281
George W. Elder, 183, 185, 187-88, 190-92, 195, 196, 199, 200, 212
Georgia Central Railroad, 427
Germany, 4
Gilbert, G. K., 184
Glacier Bay, 189
Global transportation system, xiv, 18-19, 182, 285, 300, 416
Gobi Desert, 291
Goelet, Robert (Bertie), 285, 290, 300, 302, 350, 352-53, 427
Gould, George: and Union Pacific Railroad, 109,113,115,116,131,173-74, 322; and Kansas City Southern Railroad, 171; and Alton Railroad, 175, 177; and Missouri Pacific Railroad, 208; and Harriman, 211, 224, 250, 318, 321-23, 325, 419; and Wabash Railroad, 211; and Burlington Railroad, 216; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 217, 219, 220, 250, 322; and Rio Grande Railroad, 217, 220, 221, 250; character of, 219-20; and western advisory committee, 220; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 235; and W. A. Clark, 248; and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, 251; boards served on, 307; and Northern Securities Company, 309, 314; and Pennsylvania Railroad, 321; and Western Pacific Railroad, 321-22, 324, 325; and J. H. Hyde, 331, 333; and coal lands, 387; and panic of 1907, 418-19
Gould, Jay: Harriman compared to, xiv-xvi, 240, 317, 360; and Wall Street, 34; and Harriman’s brokerage firm, 36, 37; “Jay Gould method,” 65; and J. P. Morgan, 65-66; and Burroughs, 184; and G. Gould, 217; management style of, 219; railroad industry consolidation, 252-53; and Pulitzer, 350
Government, U.S.: and Union Pacific Railroad, 106-7, no, 111-12, 114; and railroad ownership, no, 205, 353; and industrial development, 204; and railroad crashes, 265; and federal regulation, 310, 321, 364, 367, 370, 387, 396, 398, 400, 401, 409; and insurance industry regulation, 331; and Imperial Valley, 391; and corporate harassment, 393
Grammercy Sugar, 94
Granger Railroad, 206, 207, 210
Grant, Ulysses S., 49
Great Northern Railroad: and J. J. Hill, 151, 222, 226, 237, 273; and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 152, 154, 155; and western theater of operations, 206; and competition, 207; and Burlington Railroad, 224, 225, 239; and Harriman, 230, 402; and Northern Securities Company, 313, 388
Greenwood Iron Works, 68
Griscom, Lloyd C., 285, 286, 287, 288, 289-90
Guam, 283
Guaranty Trust Company, 425
Hadley, Arthur T., 15
Hanna, Mark, 361
Harriman, Alfonso, 27
Harriman, Anna (b. 1846), 29
Harriman, Anna Ingland, 28
Harriman, Carol, 12, 95, 119-22, 297, 433
Harriman, Cornelia (b. 1850), 30
Harriman, Cornelia (b. 1884), 45, 67, 98, 192, 199, 293, 297-98, 301, 302, 415
Harriman, Cornelia Neilson, 29, 30, 31, 45, 80
—business interests: titans compared to, xiii, 345; enemies, xiv, xv, 8, 320, 344, 355, 401, 402, 418, 419, 425; controversies, xiv, 8, 11, 20, 358, 369, 370, 388, 419, 425; as broker, xv, 33—35, 37, 38, 61, 62, 93; papers of, 9-10, 17-18; and G. Kennan’s biography, 13, 20; E. H. Harriman & Company firm, 36-38, 44, 46-47, 48, 55—56, 57, 58, 61, 63; railroads, 47, 49-50; boards served on, 49, 57, 70, 166, 181, 307, 332, 333, 405, 425; Sodus Bay grain elevator, 52; Harriman & Co., 62, 78, 89, 90, 93, 294; depression of 1893 interests of, 94; streetcar line, 94-95; mining, 95, 96-97, 105; and West, 105, 111, 115, 117, 122, 123, 146; and frontiers, 117; oil companies, 263; American China Development Company, 284; Equitable Life, 332, 333-43, 344, 366, 368, 388; United States Shipbuilding, 347; Wells Fargo company, 357-58; and panic of 1907, 407, 408
—myths concerning: and G. Kennan’s biography, xiv, 13; G. Gould compared to, xiv-xvi; context of, xvi; childhood, 32; and Ontario Southern Railroad, 51; and Sodus Bay & Southern Railroad, 52-53; and improvements spending, 52-53, 85, 87; and Garfield’s death, 56; and Wall Street business, 61; and Erie Railroad, 93-94; and Union Pacific Railroad, 118-19, 126, 134; and S. Fish, 353; and Northern Securities Company, 388
—personal life: intensity of, xiii, xv, 214-15, 241, 345, 357; ruthlessness, xiv; family devotion of, xv, 31, 45-46, 67-68, 73-74, 148, 187, 196, 292-93, 297-303, 441; athleticism, xv, 32, 38-39, 41, 96, 100, 187, 298; combativeness, xv, 33, 66, 115, 317, 329; will, 6, 211, 266; disagreeableness of, 13; G. Kennan’s biography, 19-20; family background, 27-33, 42-43, 44, 89; education, 32, 33; Jekyll-Hyde personality, 38, 67; and nature, 39-41, 68, 69, 100, 109, 117, 144, 149, 182, 198; charity of, 41-44, 45, 71, 96, 374; marriage, 45, 46, 67, 302-3, 441; names used to address, 67; illnesses, 84, 111, 128, 230, 267, 294, 296-97, 311, 312, 314-15, 347, 354-55, 371, 384, 386, 390, 392, 393, 401, 406, 409-10, 412, 416, 418, 421, 427-39; weaknesses, 88; mental processes, 125; and order, 148-49, 215, 241; and public recognition, 183, 200; and power, 211; honesty, 335-36, 348
—railroad career: and modernization, xiii, xvi, 163, 168, 211-12, 445; management style, xiii, 82-83, 91-92, 124-29, 132-35, 137,146-47, 159-61, 165, 173-74, 176, 207-8, 211-12, 254-55, 259, 267-73, 275-81, 282, 320, 324, 409; and global transportation system, xiv, 18-19, 182, 285, 300, 416; and J. H. Schiff, 13, 78, 105, 109, 110, 112, 113,118,147,163,166,173,181, 228, 241, 242, 311, 359, 362, 387, 405, 420-21, 423-24, 434, 439, 440, 444; controversies, 13-17, 78, 173, 174, 180, 388; Alton Railroad, 13-17, 91, 171-80, 181, 208, 211, 212, 239, 472-73 (n. 62); Ogdensburg 8c Lake Champlain Railroad, 45, 49-50, 57; and S. Fish, 49-52, 54, 55-56, 61, 67, 74, 77-79, 81-94, 99, 106, 111, 112, 128, 211, 249, 347-51, 354; Sodus Bay 8c Southern Railroad, 51, 52-53, 57; Ontario Southern Railroad, 51-52; Chicago move, 71, 73; Erie Railroad, 93-94, 410-13, 426; Oregon Short Line, 152, 155, 247-49; and Mellen, 153-54; Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 162-63, 166-67, 181; Kansas City, Pittsburg 8c Gulf Railroad, 162-63, 167-70, 181; and community of interest, 173, 208, 211, 217, 220, 222-24, 242, 249-50, 252, 318, 322; and holding company, 175, 241, 252; Burlington Railroad, 210, 212-13, 216-17, 221-24, 246; Northern Pacific Railroad, 225-26, 230-31, 234, 235, 236-38, 240; Railroad Securities Company, 239, 351; railroad industry consolidation, 253; and safety, 265-67; and international trade, 284-85, 288-91; Northern Securities Company, 310, 311-13, 320, 324, 387, 445; San Pedro, Los Angeles 8c Salt Lake Railroad, 326-28; and dividends, 357; and convertible bonds, 387, 411, 421, 423-24, 426, 428-29; legacy, 445-47. See also Arden; Illinois Central Railroad; Southern Pacific Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad
Harriman, Edward (b. ca. 1817; E. H.’s uncle), 28, 30, 31, 34-35
Harriman, Edward (b. 1787; son of William Harriman), 27
Harriman, Frederick (b. 1828), 28
Harriman, Henry Neilson (b. 1883), 45, 67, 71, 73, 74, 77, 95, 443
Harriman, J. Borden, 294
Harriman, James (b. 1818), 28, 35
Harriman, John Neilson, 29, 35, 37, 38, 45, 293
Harriman, Mary (b. 1881): birth of, 45;
Harriman’s relationship with, 67, 293; and inspection tours, 119-22, 294; and Alaskan expedition, 195; and Griscom, 285; and W. D. Straight, 289, 299-302, 415, 433; and Harriman’s illnesses, 297, 436, 438; and horses, 298; education of, 299
Harriman, Mary W.: and philanthropy, 6, 8; and business, 6, 73; and Alaskan expedition, 8, 10, 188, 189, 199; and Roosevelt, 9; and Harriman’s biography, 9-23; family background, 44-45; marriage, 45, 46, 67, 302-3, 441; and charity, 98, 445; and Harriman Medal, 267, 445; as mother, 293; and quarantine, 297; and eugenics, 299; and European trip, 430, 432; and Harriman’s illnesses, 434-35, 440, 441; and Harriman’s funeral, 443, 444
Harriman, Oliver (b. 1829), 28, 30, 34, 35, 62, 294
Harriman, Oliver, Jr., 294
Harriman, Orlando (b. 1790; E. H.’s grandfather), 27-28
Harriman, Orlando (b. 1813; E. H.’s father), 28-33, 38, 45, 69, 97, 105, 185, 299 Harriman, Orlando (b. 1844; E. H.’s brother), 29, 37-38, 45 Harriman, Roland: and Harriman’s papers, 10; and G. Kennan, 11, 12; and Imperial Valley book, 19; birth, 95; and paper game, 148; and Alaskan expedition, 187; and scarlet fever, 297; education, 298; travels, 298-99; and collarbone, 371; and White House visit, 395; and camp, 424; European trip, 433; banking career, 444; and Red Cross, 445; and R. A. Lovett, 446; and Union Pacific Railroad, 446, 447
Harriman, W. Averell: career, xiii, 444, 446; and Harriman’s papers, 10; and Harriman biography, 19; and Henry Harriman’s death, 71; birth, 95; and Union Pacific Railroad, 118; relationship with father, 148; and Alaskan expedition, 200; and Harriman’s appearance, 215; and streamliner, 263; and Japan trip, 287; education, 287, 298; strict upbringing, 293; and quarantine, 297; travels, 299; and Harvard-Yale regatta, 406; and camp, 424; and Harriman’s illnesses, 439; and R. A. Lovett, 446
Harriman, William (b. 1854; E. H.’s brother): birth, 29; and E. H. Harriman & Co., 38, 47, 61; and E. H. Harriman’s living with parents, 45; and Sodus Bay & Southern Railroad, 52; and Harriman & Co., 62; illness and death of, 293-94, 311, 347
Harriman, William (b. 1760; E. H.’s great-grandfather), 27-28
Harriman, William (b. 1781; E. H.’s great-uncle), 27
Harriman, William (b. 1820; E. H.’s uncle), 28, 30, 31
Harriman & Co., 37, 62, 78, 89, 90, 93, 294
Harriman Fjord, 194
Harriman Glacier, 190
Harriman National Bank, 12
Harriman Safety Medal, 267, 445
Hawaii, 283
Hawgood, H., 325, 326, 327, 328
Hawley, Edwin, 216, 217, 251, 318, 321, 323, 324
Hay, John, 284
Hearst, William Randolph, 367, 369, 370, 399, 400
Heinze, F. August, 406
Hendricks, Francis, 334, 335, 341, 366
Hepburn bill, 367
Higgins, Frank, 341, 363, 364, 365, 366, 368
Hill, Frank W., 399
Hill, James J.: and Batson, 9; and Harriman, 117, 212, 223, 224, 230, 231, 237-38, 249, 273, 294, 297, 308, 309, 312, 313-16, 317, 318, 320, 324, 445; and Great Northern Railroad, 151, 222, 226, 237, 273; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 151-54, 225, 226, 229-30, 231, 235, 236-38; and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 156, 158-59; and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 166, 167; and railroad industry, 208, 398; and Perkins, 213; and J. H. Schiff, 219; and western advisory committee, 220; and Burlington Railroad, 221-23, 225, 228, 318, 324, 353; and Milwaukee Railroad, 225; and Northern Securities Company, 239, 309, 310, 311-13; and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 242; and Interstate Commerce Commission, 252; management style of, 273, 426; and Far Eastern trade, 283; and competition, 324
Honduras, 94
Hood, William, 255, 257, 259-62, 325, 326, 327-28
Houghton Mifflin, 21
House of Morgan, 345, 411, 414, 433. See also Morgan, J. P.
Housman, A. A., 408
Howling Valley, 189
Hughes, Charles Evans, 342, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 388, 432
Hughitt, Marvin, 111-12, 115, 116, 131, 309, 428, 429
Humphrey, Omar, 194 Hunt, Michael, 416
Huntington, Collis P.: and Southern Pacific Railroad, 208, 210, 255, 256, 257, 267; and Central Pacific Railroad, 216; death of, 217, 221; and Stubbs, 237; and Los Angeles Terminal Railway, 243; and San Pedro harbor, 244, 246; and coast-to-coast railroad, 250, 253; and Mexico, 264; and Kruttschnitt, 275; and Mahl, 276; and Hawley, 323 Hyde, Henry B., 115, 228, 330, 331, 336, 358 Hyde, James Hazen, 329, 331-34, 336-38, 340, 342, 368, 492 (n. 20)
Illinois Central Railroad: and Harriman’s charity, 43, 71; Harriman’s financial work for, 49, 55-56, 57, 58, 60, 63-67, 74, 77-78, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90-93, 116, 120, 162, 346; and S. Fish, 49, 55-58, 60, 62, 63-67, 73, 76, 79-86, 90, 92, 116, 347-50, 352-54, 357; reputation of, 54; and improvements policy, 54, 66, 84-87, 90, 91, 130; management of, 54-58, 62, 73-75, 77-83, 92, 278; expansion of, 55, 56, 63-64, 73, 78, 92-93, 264; and Harriman as board member, 57, 62-64, 66, 70, 71, 73-87, 89-90, 110, 115, 307, 346, 347, 348-49; restructuring of, 63; earnings of, 75, 76; and railroad rates, 76-77, 79, 80-82; and rival lines, 91-92; and Union Pacific Railroad, 106, 110, 111, 112, 114, 116-17, 123, 211, 346, 350, 351, 353, 354; and J. H. Schiff, 109; and Alton Railroad, 171, 174; and St. Louis, Peoria & Northern Railroad, 175; and midwestern theater, 206, 210, 211; and Jeffery, 217; and Railroad Securities Company, 239; and holding company, 241; traffic needs of, 249; and pension plan, 268; Harriman’s desire for control of, 345, 349-50, 352, 357, 394; and C. Peabody, 346; and Harriman’s stock holdings, 388; and Interstate Commerce Commission, 394; and Central of Georgia, 427; and Georgia Central Railroad, 427
Illinois Steel Company, 167, 169
Imperial Valley, xiv, 18-19, 376-82, 447
Industrial development, 203-7, 215, 292, 361
Ingalls, M. E., 337
Inouye, Kaoru, 289
Insurance industry, 309, 330-32, 335, 336, 337, 338, 341, 342, 349
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, 76, 409
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC): and Harriman, 8, 301, 309, 354, 370, 371, 388-90, 392-96, 401-2, 404, 408-9, 420; and Alton Railroad, 14, 15, 176, 393, 394, 404; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 219; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 237; and Burlington/Union Pacific Railroad merger, 239; and community of interest, 252, 308, 392; and railroad crashes, 265; and J. J. Hill, 309; and railroad rates, 366, 367; and railroad regulation, 399; and Supreme Court, 409; and holding company, 423
Iowa Central Railroad, 323
Iowa railroads: and Illinois Central Railroad, 54, 55, 56, 64-65, 82, 106; and Union Pacific Railroad, 111-12; and Burlington Railroad, 210, 213, 324; management of, 211; volatile state of, 221; and J. J. Hill, 318
Ives, Henry S., 78
Japan: Harriman’s railroad lines in, xiv; and industrialization, 4; and G. Kennan, 10; and trade, 207; and railroad industry, 249, 416-17; and Russia, 284; and Far Eastern trade, 284-85; Harriman’s visit to, 285-91, 316, 341, 342; and J. H. Schiff, 417
Jeannette polar expedition, 3
Jeffery, Edward T., 73, 74-77, 79-82, 84, 90, 106, 217, 321, 322, 418
Jerome, Larry, 35
Jerome brothers, 34
Junior League, 299
Kahn, Otto H.: and “Harriman Extermination League,” 8, 344, 401; and Harriman, 8-9, 13, 128-29, 329, 354, 359, 401, 404, 434; and Harriman biography, 15; and Illinois Central Railroad, 91; and Union Pacific Railroad, 115, 116, 124; and Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, 169; and Kansas City Southern, 170, 171; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 219; and Keene, 281; and Equitable Life, 343; and Imperial Valley, 392; and Interstate Commerce Commission, 394
Kalinin, Mikhail, 20
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, 162-63, 167-70, 172, 177, 181, 211
Kansas City Southern Railroad, 170, 206, 324
Katy Railroad, 174
Keeler, Charles, 196
Keene, James R., 233, 280-82, 311
Keep, Henry, 34
Kellogg, Frank B., 394
Kelly, Luther “Yellowstone,” 189
Kemble, Gouverneur, 68
Kemble, William, 68
Kennan, Emeline Rathbone Weld, 2-3, 4, 22
Kennan, George: and Harriman biography, xiv, 10-23, 32, 51, 85, 94, 118, 176, 181; family background of, 1; as lecturer, 1-2, 3, 4-6, 12, 22; and foreign policy, 3, 4; as writer, 3, 4, 6, 10, 13; and Harriman’s charity, 42
Kennedy, John S., 219
Kincaid, Trevor, 188
Knapp, Martin A., 396
Knickerbocker Trust Company, 406, 407
Knott, S. R., 254
Kodiak Island, 195
Komura, Baron, 290
Korea, 290
Kruttschnitt, Julius: and Southern Pacific Railroad, 122; and Harriman’s management style, 126, 159, 254-55, 275, 276, 277, 278, 428; and Lucin cutoff, 261; and safety, 266-67; and labor, 269; and standardization, 279; and California Development Company, 379
Kuhn, Abraham, 109
Kuhn, Loeb & Company: and Kahn, 13, 91; and J. H. Schiff, 19, 78, 109; and Erie Railroad, 93; and Union Pacific Railroad, 107, 113, 218; and Illinois Central Railroad, 110, 351; and Harriman, 128-29, 147, 159; and securities, 165; and Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, 166; and Alton Railroad, 175; and Burlington Railroad, 216; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 217-19; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 232, 235; and Railroad Securities Company, 239, 349, 351; and American Group, 433
Lane, Franklin K., 14
Latin America, 94
Lauterbach, Edward T., 281
Lehr, Harry “King,” 346
Leopold II (king of Belgium), 284
Lincoln, Abraham, 34 Livingston, James, 37, 40, 46
Livingston, William, 49 Livingston family, 37, 49
Loeb, Solomon, 109
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 289, 290, 300, 366
Longworth, Nicholas, 30
Los Angeles Limited, 387 Los Angeles Terminal Railway, 243-44, 247, 248
Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railroad, 92
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 92, 109, 206
Lovett, Robert A., 446
Lovett, Robert 5.: and Mary Harriman, 6; and Harriman’s biography, 9, 10, 13, 19, 21; and Ripley, 16-17; and Harriman’s marriage, 46; and Harriman’s mental processes, 125; and Alton Railroad, 179-80; as Harriman’s confidant, 275, 348; and Harriman’s papers, 341; and Union Pacific Railroad, 359, 446; and Roosevelt, 365; and Erie Railroad, 411-14; and Harriman’s illness, 436-39
Luttgen, Walther, 58
Lyle, W. G., 285, 286, 294, 297, 392, 434, 436, 439, 440
McGuinness, J. H., 97, 99, 443
McKeen, William R., Jr., 263
McKenna, Joseph, 113
McKinley, William, 110, 111, 140, 146, 215, 239, 400
Macy, Josiah, 50
Macy, William, 50-51
Macy & Sons, 51
Mahl, William, 267-68, 275, 276
Manchuria, xiv, 284, 285, 291, 300, 415-18
Manchurian and Siberian Railway, 301, 415
Mann, John G., 82-83 Markham, C. H., 278
Martin, Albro, 226
Medbery, James K., 37
Mellen, Charles S., 151, 153-54, 156, 157, 158, 186, 210, 212, 308
Merriam, C. Hart: and Mary Harriman, 8, 10; and Alaskan expedition, 183-84, 185, 187, 190, 192, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199 Mexico: Harriman’s railroad lines in, xiv, 264-65, 356, 429; and California Development Company, 376, 378
Midway Island, 285-86 Milburn, John G., 400 Millar, Alexander, 117, 118-19, 214, 356, 417, 432, 435
Miller, Darius, 237, 238, 252, 273 Miller, Roswell, 115 Mills, D. O., 362
Milwaukee Railroad: and Miller, 115; management of, 210-11; expansion of, 213; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 217; and J. P. Morgan, 221; and stock market, 225, 227, 233; and Harriman, 249, 318, 324, 388; and railroad competition, 324
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad, 323
Mississippi & TennesSee Railroad, 70, 92
Missouri Pacific Railroad, 109, 174, 206, 208, 250, 279, 322
Mobile & Ohio Railroad, 62
Modernization: and Harriman’s mission, xiii, xvi, 211-12, 445; of Russia, 4; and Illinois Central Railroad, 84; of Union Pacific Railroad, 123, 130, 132-43, 145, 153, 159, 280; of Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 158, 210; and Harriman’s reorganization efforts, 163, 168; and Alton Railroad, 172, 177; and safety, 265; and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 318; and Rio Grand Railroad, 322; and New York Central Railroad, 426
Mohler, A. L.: and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 153, 156, 157, 158, 210; and standardization, 160; and Harriman, 186, 200, 212; and management, 273; and Union Pacific Railroad, 278
Montalvo-Burbank cutoff, 257
Morawetz, Victor, 242, 251-52, 319
Morgan, Edwin, 300
Morgan, J. P.: Harriman compared to, xiii, 345; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 16, 151, 225-26, 229, 231, 234, 235, 236, 237-38; and Illinois Central Railroad, 64-66; and J. Gould, 65-66; and Harriman, 65-66, 93-94, 96, 112, 154, 212, 224, 229, 236, 240-41, 317, 354, 396, 410, 414-15, 440; and Erie Railroad, 93-94, 410, 411, 412, 414-15; and J. H. Schiff, 107, 109, 212, 223, 236; and Union Pacific Railroad, 107, 110; and Coster, 153; and Stillman, 163, 241; and investments, 165; and Gates, 169, 251; and railroad industry, 208; and western advisory committee, 220; and Milwaukee Railroad, 221; and Burlington Railroad, 222, 224, 229; and Baker, 222, 346; and W. K. Vanderbilt, 228; and Northern Securities Company, 239; and American China Development Company, 284; and insurance industry, 330, 336; and Equitable Life, 341; and Roosevelt, 362, 398; and Southern Railroad, 386; and business conditions, 406, 407; and panic of 1907, 407-8; and New York Central Railroad, 426
Morgenthau, Henry, 163, 203, 331, 336
Morris, Lewis R., 183, 184, 186, 195, 297
Morse, Anthony, 34
Morse, Samuel F. B., 1
Morton, Bliss & Company, 49, 62
Morton, Paul, 264, 339, 340, 341
Mount Stephen, Lord, 312, 314-15, 316
Muir, John: and Mary Harriman, 8; and Harriman, 148-49, 297; and Alaskan expedition, 184, 186-87, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 198, 199, 200
Munroe, J. A., 119-23 Mutual Life, 330, 345-46, 349-50, 353, 425
National City Bank, 163, 165, 405, 407
Navigation Company. See Oregon Railway & Navigation Company Neilson family, 31, 37, 49
Nelson, George F., 188
Newsboys’ Lodging Club, 41
New York Central Railroad: and Pennsylvania Railroad, 52, 53, 426; traffic on, 145; as trunk line, 206; and Vanderbilts, 208; and Harriman, 297, 366, 388, 425-26; and Depew, 365-66 New York Life, 330
New York Stock Exchange: Harriman as member of, 35; and company failures, 36; and railroad industry, 48; and competition, 205; and loan call rate, 407; and Harriman’s health, 436. See also Stock market
Norris, Frank, 276
Northern Pacific Railroad: and J. P. Morgan, 16, 410; and J. H. Schiff, 21, 225-26, 229, 242; and Villard, 150; and Union Pacific Railroad, 151, 228, 318; and voting trust, 152; and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 153, 154-55, 157-58, 186; and Harriman, 186, 225, 228, 230, 308, 318, 332, 402, 410; and western theater of operations, 206; and competition, 207; and Burlington Railroad, 222, 224; and stock market, 226, 227, 233-36; and W. K. Vanderbilt, 236; and Northern Securities Company, 313, 388; and convertible bonds, 387; and Interstate Commerce Commission, 395
Northern Railroad of New York, 50
Northern Securities Company: and J. H. Schiff, 21; organization of, 238-39; and Roosevelt, 239, 308-9, 363; and community of interest, 241, 249, 318; and holding company, 241, 421; suit against, 241-42; and political climate, 252; and Supreme Court, 282, 311-13, 315, 324, 363, 445; and Sherman Antitrust Act, 308, 310; and Harriman’s World’s Fair speech, 320; breakup of, 358; and Union Pacific Railroad, 387-88
Northwestern Railroad: and Union Pacific Railroad, 112, 115, 210, 213, 217; and Vanderbilts, 208; and S. Fish, 211; and Harriman, 318, 324, 388; and Hughitt, 428
Odell, Benjamin B., Jr.: and Harriman, 175, 361-62, 363, 365-66, 367, 368, 436; and Mercantile Trust, 333; and insurance industry, 335, 336; and Equitable Life, 342; and Roosevelt, 369
Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain line, 45, 49-50, 57
Ogdensburg Bank, 44
Omaha Exposition, 186
Ontario Southern Railroad, 51
Oregon railroads, 116, 135, 150
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company: and Union Pacific Railroad, 121, 150-51, 154-56, 158, 159, 181; and voting trust, 152-53; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 153, 154-55, 157-58, 186; and Harriman, 153-55, 182, 224, 228, 243; modernization of, 158, 210; and community of interest, 208; and Calvin, 278
Oregon Short Line: and Union Pacific Railroad, 121, 150, 152, 155, 156, 159, 409; and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 152, 153, 155, 156; and Harriman, 152, 155, 156, 159, 181; and Utah & Pacific Railroad, 243, 246-47; and San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, 248; and Bancroft, 278
Osborn, Charles J., 36
Osborn, W. H., 58
Osgood, J. C., 251
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 284, 285, 288
Palisades Interstate Park, 8, 431
Panama Canal, 367
Panic of May 1884, 46
Panic of 1907, 43, 407, 416, 418, 420, 421,
423, 425
Panic of September 1873, 37
Park, W. L., 136, 137, 144, 266, 268, 277, 294, 295
Parrott, Ned, 303 Parrott, Peter, 68, 69 Parrott, Robert, 68 Parrott Iron Company, 68, 97 Peabody, Charles, 303, 346, 349, 350-51, 365 Peabody, Endicott, 287 Pennsylvania Railroad: and New York Central Railroad, 52, 53, 426; management of, 82, 278; and Union Pacific Railroad, 140, 272; traffic on, 145; and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 166-67, 208; as trunk line, 206; and Cassatt, 208, 392; and G. Gould, 250, 321; portfolio of, 388 Perkins, Charles E., 210, 212-13, 216, 220, 221-22, 224
Philippines, 3, 4, 207, 283-84, 285
Phoenix & Eastern Railroad, 251, 319
Pierce, Winslow S., 109, 112, 113, 115, 116, 131
Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad, 419
Platt, Thomas C., 361, 362, 363, 365
Political issues: and railroad industry, 110, 205, 235, 236, 252, 307-8, 313, 409; and J. J. Hill, 166; and Harriman, 175, 335, 342, 360, 362-63, 365-70, 400, 404, 409, 425, 427; and large corporations, 205, 215, 252, 309, 310, 407, 408; and W. A. Clark, 246; and insurance industry, 337-38; and Roosevelt, 360-61, 367, 407; and trusts, 393, 394-95
Populism, 110
Press: Harriman’s relations with, xv, 8, 240-41, 279-80, 290, 317, 336, 340-41, 343, 350, 353, 355, 357, 359-60, 367, 375, 396-98, 405-6, 425, 430; and Illinois Central Railroad, 78, 80, 81, 351, 352, 353; and Harriman’s wealth, 78, 292; and Harriman at Illinois Central, 89-90; and Arden, 101; and Union Pacific Railroad, 110, 111, 118, 132, 226-27, 359, 423; and Harriman’s management style, 159, 273; and Stillman, 163; and Alton Railroad, 175; and Alaskan expedition, 183, 187, 200; and Burlington Railroad, 222; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 228, 234, 235, 238; and stock market, 233; and W. K. Vanderbilt, 236; and W. A. Clark, 246, 248; and Oregon Short Line Railroad, 247; and G. Gould, 251; and Lucin cutoff, 261; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 261; and self-propelled vehicle, 263; and railroad crashes, 265; and business tycoons, 292; and Harriman’s health, 297, 392, 432, 433, 435-40; and Mary Harriman, 301-2; and Harriman’s view of railroad industry, 310-11, 316, 370, 398; and Northern Securities Company, 313; and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 319; and J. J. Hill, 324; and insurance industry, 332; and Equitable Life, 333, 334-38, 340-43; and Mutual Life, 345-46; and S. Fish, 349; and Roosevelt, 364-65; and Harriman’s San Francisco earthquake aid, 374—75; and Harriman as corporate predator, 387, 395; and Harriman’s Imperial Valley crisis, 389, 390-92; and Harriman’s Interstate Commerce Commission investigation, 392-96, 399-400; and Bonaparte, 404; and Standard Oil, 405; and Erie Railroad, 414
Pulitzer, Joseph, 337, 338, 350, 364-65, 399
Railroad industry: and depression of 1893-97, xiii, xvi, 48, 114; Harriman’s modernization of, xiii, xvi, 211-12, 445; and J. Gould, xv; and Chicago & Alton deal, 13-17; and gold rush, 33; and Wall Street, 48; and industrial revolution, 48, 204; and S. Fish, 49-50; and competition, 54, 75, 85, 153, 204-7, 209, 316, 324; expansion of, 54-55, 63, 76; and railroad rates, 63, 64, 75-76, 85, 90, 170, 171-73, 177, 178, 209, 212, 366, 367, 393; and pools, 76; and banker syndicates, 91; and West, 119; lack of vision in, 124; and increase in traffic, 145; and voting trusts, 151, 152, 170, 241, 323, 324, 427; and community of interest, 173, 205, 208-11, 217, 220, 222-24, 228, 229, 241, 242, 249-50, 251, 252, 308, 315, 317, 318, 322, 392; Harriman’s desire to impose order on, 177, 215-16, 398; Harriman’s need to reflect on, 182; and stock market, 204, 225, 226-28, 399; and mergers, 205, 209, 213, 219, 220-21, 248, 249, 309, 318; and collusion and combination, 205, 221, 309, 345; theaters of operation, 205-6; and reorganization, 208; stability in, 241; and consolidation, 252-53; and railroad crashes, 265-67; and safety, 265-67, 387, 445; and Roosevelt, 364, 366; and panic of 1907, 410; and Harriman’s legacy, 445
Railroad Securities Company, 239, 241-42, 349, 351, 388
Randolph, Epes, 319, 356, 379-84, 391 Randolph, L. V. F., 58 Ransom, W. A., 294 Ream, Norman B., 166
Reform movements, 310, 345, 348, 402
Republican Party, 362, 363-64, 367, 389, 400
Revelstoke, Lord, 417
Rio Grande Railroad, 206, 207, 217, 220, 221, 250, 322
Rio Grande Western Railroad, 206, 217, 322 Ripley, E. P., 242, 251 Ripley, William Z., 13-17, 176, 179 Rockefeller, John D., xiii, 174, 183, 350, 427 Rockefeller, William: and Stillman, 163, 165; and Milwaukee Railroad, 211, 318; and J. H. Schiff, 226; and J. P. Morgan, 229; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 282; and Harriman, 314, 387, 405; and Mutual Life, 330; and Hyde, 333; and Mexico, 356; and Roosevelt, 400, 408; and New York Central Railroad, 426
Rockefeller family, 241
Rockhill, W. W., 289
Rock Island Railroad, 206, 210, 242-43, 279, 318, 323, 324
Rogers, H. H., 214, 317, 330, 345, 346, 350, 351, 387, 431
Roosevelt, Theodore: Harriman’s split with, xiv, 8-9, 14, 16, 20, 21, 301, 329, 363, 400-402; and G. Kennan, 4, 14, 22; and Mary Harriman, 10, 12; presidential bids of, 10, 16, 363, 400; and Alton Railroad, 14, 175; and Harriman, 45, 239, 309, 360-61, 362, 363-70, 371, 375-76, 384-85, 389-90, 395, 396-401, 404, 405, 408; and wilderness, 69; and West, 105; and Burroughs, 184; and Northern Securities Company, 239, 308-9, 363; and Russo-Japanese War, 286; and trusts, 309, 310; personality of, 360-61; and Odell, 361; and J. P. Morgan, 362, 398; and Imperial Valley, 384, 391; and panic of 1907, 408; and Sherman Antitrust Act, 409; and Taft, 418
Root, Elihu, 336, 339, 362, 369, 389, 417
Russia: and G. Kennan, 1-2, 3, 17, 20; modernization of, 4; and Japan, 284; and Chinese Eastern Railway, 433, 435
Russo-Japanese War, 4, 284-85, 286, 299
Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 338-41, 342, 368, 415, 493 (n. 40)
St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad, 150
St. Louis, Peoria & Northern Railroad, 175, 176
St. Louis World’s Fair, 320-21
San Francisco earthquake of 1906, xiv, 373, 381, 395
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, 247, 248, 250, 324-28, 404, 408-9
Schell, Richard, 36
Schiff, Jacob H.: and Harriman, 13, 78, 109, 110,112,113,118,147,163,166,173 228, 241, 242, 311, 359, 362, 387, 405, 420-21, 423-24, 434, 439, 440, 444; and Harriman’s biography, 19, 20, 21; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 21, 225-26, 229, 231, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 242; and J. P. Morgan, 107, 109, 212, 223, 229-30; and Union Pacific Railroad, 107, 109-16, 118, 124, 131, 223; and Illinois Central Railroad, 109, 349; and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 154-55, 158-59; and Stillman, 165; and Alton Railroad, 174, 175, 177; and railroad industry, 208; and Burlington Railroad, 216, 222, 223, 224; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 217-18, 219, 242, 276; and railroad cooperation, 220; and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 242, 252; and American China Development Company, 284; and Russo-Japanese War, 284; and Japan, 291; and Northern Securities Company, 311, 315, 316; and J. J. Hill, 315; and Western Pacific Railroad, 321-22; and insurance industry, 330; and Equitable Life, 331, 333, 334, 337, 338, 340; and S. Fish, 350, 354; and Roosevelt, 399; and business conditions, 406; and Manchuria, 417, 433, 434; and retirement, 420
Schmitz, Eugene E., 375
Schwerin, R. P., 285 Scott, Nathan, 364
Seaboard Railroad, 206 Seligman, E. R. A., 15
Shakespeare, William, 69
Sherman, James S., 367, 368-70, 389-90, 394, 400, 405
Sherman Antitrust Act, 209, 239, 281-82, 308, 310, 311-12, 401, 409
Shibusawa, Baron, 287
Sloan, Sam, 58 Slums, 215, 344
Smith, Paul, 39-41, 67-68, 100, 119, 131, 146, 149,181, 214, 267 Sodus Bay & Southern Railroad, 50, 51, 52-53, 57
Sonora Railroad, 264
Southern Pacific Railroad: Harriman’s acquisition of, xiii, 217-21; and San Francisco earthquake, xiv, 373-75; chief surgeon of, 8; and Harriman’s inspection of Union Pacific, 122; and western theater of operations, 206; and competition, 207; and Huntington, 208, 216; and Central Pacific Railroad, 210; and Union Pacific Railroad, 213, 217, 218, 243, 256, 273, 281-82, 370, 393, 404, 408-9, 418, 445; and Harriman, 225, 242, 246, 250-52, 255-59; and stock market, 238; and Phoenix & Eastern Railroad, 251; and improvements spending, 254-63, 280-81, 282; and Harriman’s management style, 255, 259, 268, 276, 282; and oil, 263, 276; and Mexico, 264-65; and unions, 269-70; and Kruttschnitt, 275; statistics on, 280; and Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 284; and Keene, 311; relocation of, 319; and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 320; and Hawley, 323; and DeForest, 351; and Illinois Central Railroad, 353; and Wells Fargo company, 357; earnings of, 358; and dividends, 359; and Imperial Valley, 376, 377, 379-85, 390-92; and convertible bonds, 387; and cooperation, 431
South Manchuria Railway, 285, 288, 290-91
Southwestern Railroad, 92
Spanish-American War, 3, 207, 283
Spencer, Samuel, 154, 156, 309, 386, 387
Speyer, James, 216, 217, 220, 340
Spindletop oil field, 171
Stalin, Josef, 200
Standard Oil: and Macy family, 51; and Rockefeller, 229, 330; as large corporation, 309; and Hyde, 336; and Equitable Life, 337, 340; and Harriman, 346, 350, 387, 388; and Illinois Central Railroad, 349; and Roosevelt, 363; government suit against, 393, 404; and press, 405
Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 13, 199
Steele, Charles, 309
Stetson, Francis Lynde, 154, 411, 414
Stillman, James: and Harriman, 13, 44, 115, 125, 163, 173, 212, 241, 311, 359, 362, 387, 403-5, 416, 424, 426-27, 429, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 439; and J. H. Schiff, 113, 165; and Union Pacific Railroad, 115, 116, 131,146-47, 165, 359; and banking, 163, 165, 203; and Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, 167; and Kansas City Southern Railroad, 171; and Alton Railroad, 174, 175; and railroad industry, 208; and J. P. Morgan, 212, 229-30, 241, 407; and Burlington Railroad, 216; and railroad cooperation, 220; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 225, 229, 235; and holding company, 241, 421, 423; and American China Development Company, 284; and Russo-Japanese War, 284; boards served on, 307; and mergers, 309; and Northern Securities Company, 314; and Equitable Life, 331; and C. Peabody, 346; and Illinois Central Railroad, 351; and Mexico, 356; and business conditions, 406; and retirement, 420, 421, 425; and New York Central Railroad, 426; and Hughitt, 428; and American Group, 433
Stock market: and railroad industry, 204, 225, 226-28, 235; growth of, 204-5; and mergers, 221; and press, 233; contraction of, 398-99, 407; and panic of 1907, 407; and Harriman’s health, 436, 439-40
Stone, Melville E., 17, 175, 177, 347, 350, 351, 353, 405
Straight, Willard D., 2-3, 289, 291, 299-302, 415-18, 433-34, 435
Streamliner, 263
Struempel, Adolf, 432-33, 434, 435
Stubbs, John C., 237, 238, 252, 273, 275, 278, 428
Sturges, Frederick, 57, 58 Sultana, 298, 301, 406 Sundance Kid, 160 Sunset Route, 207
Supreme Court, U.S.: and Cedar Falls & Minnesota Railroad, 66; and Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 92; and Northern Securities case, 282, 311-13, 315, 324, 363, 445; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 319; and Interstate Commerce Commission, 409
Tabor, Francis H., 43
Taft, William Howard, 240, 288, 389, 418, 425
T’ang Shao-i, 416, 417-18, 433 Tarbell, Gage, 334, 337 Taylor, Talbot J., 281
Tegethoff, C. C.: and Mary Harriman, 6; and Harriman’s biography, 10, 14, 18, 19; and G. Kennan, 12; and Harriman, 13, 439, 441
Telegraph industry, xv, 1, 33, 37, 143, 149, 160, 204 Telephone industry, 143, 204 Ten Eyck, Jim, 298
TennesSee Coal & Iron Company, 407-8
Thaw, Harry K., 393
Thomas, E. B., 154
Thomson, Frank, 53
Tlinkit Indians, 191
Tolstoy, Lev, 3
Tompkins Square Boys’ Club, 8, 42-43, 96
Trans-Siberian Railroad, 285
Trudeau, E. L., 8, 40, 119, 184, 195, 214, 267
Tuxedo Park, 69-70, 96, 302, 444
Twain, Mark, 246
Twombley, H. M., 426
Underwood, Frederick D., 166, 273, 410-12, 414, 415
Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railroad, 149-50
Union Pacific-Central Pacific Railroad, 206
Union Pacific Railroad: Harriman’s rebuilding of, xiii, xv, 85, 246, 255; J. Gould’s rebuilding of, xv; and Harriman’s charity, 43; reorganization of, 88, 106-7, 109-14, 165, 362; Harriman’s interest in, 105, 106, 361; and Illinois Central Railroad, 106, 110, 111, 112, 114, 116-17, 123, 211, 346, 350, 351, 353, 354; and depression of 1893-97, 106, 119; and J. H. Schiff, 107, 109-16, 118, 124, 131, 223; and Harriman’s reorganization plans, 110-16; and Northwestern Railroad, 112, 115, 210, 213, 217; management of, 114, 115-16, 159, 272, 278, 294, 428; Harriman’s stocks in, 114, 123, 124; Harriman as board member of, 115-16, 123-24, 131, 146, 173, 181; improvements spending of, 118, 123-24, 130-45, 177, 280; and Harriman myths, 118-19, 126, 134; Harriman’s inspections of, 119-23, 133-34, 135, 144, 146, 152; and Oregon Short Line, 121, 150, 152, 155, 156, 159, 409; and Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, 121, 150-51, 154-56, 158, 159, 181; modernization of, 123, 130, 132-43, 145, 153, 159, 280; and Harriman’s management style, 124-29, 132-35, 137, 146-47, 159-61, 165, 173-74, 207-8, 268, 269, 272-73, 275-76, 411, 421, 423-24; and Pennsylvania Railroad, 140, 272; and meeting points, 145-46; and dividends, 146, 358-59, 367, 368, 388, 405, 421, 423, 429, 446; earnings of, 146-47, 358, 421, 429-30; branch lines of, 149-59; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 151, 228, 234, 238; and standardization, 159-60, 278-79; and train robberies, 160-61; and Harriman’s legacy, 162, 446; and Alton Railroad, 174, 177; and western theater of operations, 206; and competition, 207-8; and Burlington Railroad, 210, 212-13, 216-17, 221-23, 230, 239, 314, 318; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 213, 217, 218, 243, 256, 273, 281-82, 370, 393, 404, 408-9, 418, 445; and Milwaukee Railroad, 225; and stock market, 226-28, 233, 238; and W. K. Vanderbilt, 236; and Nevada, 243; and Los Angeles Terminal Railway, 244; and oil, 244, 328; and San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, 249; and McKeen car, 263; statistics on, 279, 280; and G. Gould, 322; and W. A. Clark, 328; and Hyde, 332; and Equitable Life, 341; and Peabody, 346; and convertible bonds, 387; and safety, 387; and Northern Securities Company, 387-88; assets of, 388; and New York Central Railroad, 426; and Harriman’s illness, 428; and Rogers, 431; and holding company, 446
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific system, xiii, 269, 390
United Copper, 406
United States express company, 357
United States Shipbuilding, 342, 347
United States Steel, 170, 221, 233, 238, 250, 251, 407, 408
Untermyer, Samuel, 358
Utah & California Railroad, 247 Utah 8c Pacific Railroad, 243, 246-47
Van Buren family, 37
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 34, 36, 346, 418, 426
Vanderbilt, William K., 228, 236, 307, 426
Vanderbilt family, 208, 210, 219-20, 225, 226, 227, 307, 426
Vanderlip, Frank: and Harriman, 215, 275, 276, 399, 429; and Ryan, 338; and Equitable Life, 341; and Interstate Commerce Commission, 394; and Erie Railroad, 413-14; and Stillman, 420, 425; and Harriman’s health, 427-28, 430, 431 Van Sant, Samuel R., 239 Villard, Henry, 150-51, 152 Voting trusts, 151, 152, 170, 241, 323, 324, 427
Wabash Railroad, 174, 211, 419
Wall Street: J. Gould’s career on, xv; Harriman’s career on, xv, 33; changes in, 33-34; and E. H. Harriman firm, 36-38, 44, 46-47, 48, 61, 62; depressions and, 38; and railroad industry, 48, 228, 252, 310-11, 393; and S. Fish, 49; and anti-Semitism, 78; and Union Pacific Railroad, 111, 116, n8, 146, 359, 421-22; and Kansas City, Pittsburg 8c Gulf Railroad, 167, 168; and Kansas City Southern Railroad, 170; and mergers, 213, 220-21; and G. Gould, 217, 322-23; and Southern Pacific Railroad, 219, 255; and Northern Pacific Railroad, 234; and Rock Island Railroad, 243; and “strikers,” 281; and Keene, 282; and Harriman’s illness, 297, 427, 439; and scandals, 309-10; and Hawley, 323; and Ryan, 340; and Equitable Life, 341; and United States Shipbuilding, 347; and Roosevelt, 362, 399, 407, 408; and Interstate Commerce Commission, 393; and Heinze, 406; and panic of 1907, 407; and Erie Railroad, 411, 414
Warburg, Felix, 236
Webster, Sidney, 57, 66, 74-75, 367-68, 394, 399, 400
Western Maryland Railroad, 250
Western Pacific Railroad, 251, 321-23, 324, 418
Western Railways, 90
Westinghouse Electric, 406
Weston, Rensselaer, 303
Wheeling 8c Lake Erie Railroad, 250, 419
White, S. V. “Deacon,” 37
White, William Allen, 408
Whitney, Dorothy, 302
William Harriman 8c Company, 30
Wilson Mission School, 41
Winslow, Lanier, 46
Woodward, James, 163
Wyche, T. J., 136
Young, Erastus, 275