陈前辈 我在G00gle 查到了 E·H·Harriman 的资料。
用网页简单翻译了一下 。
早年 Harriman was born on February 20, 1848 in Hempstead, New York , the son of Orlando Harriman, Sr., an Episcopal clergyman, and Cornelia Neilson. [ 2 ] He had a brother, Orlando Harriman, Jr. [ 4 ] His great-grandfather, William Harriman, emigrated from England in 1795 and engaged successfully in trading and commercial pursuits.哈里曼1848年2月20日出生在Hempstead,紐約 ,奧蘭多哈里曼,老,一個聖公會牧師,科妮莉亞尼爾森的兒子。 [2]他有一個哥哥, 小奧蘭多哈里曼, [4]他的偉大祖父威廉·哈里曼,在1795年從英國移民,並成功地從事貿易和商業的追求。
As a young boy, Harriman spent a summer working at the Greenwood Iron Furnace in the area owned by the Robert Parker Parrott family that would become Harriman State Park .作為一個年輕的男孩,哈里曼花了一個夏天,在格林伍德煉鐵羅伯特·帕克(Robert Parker)的帕洛特家庭,成為哈里曼州立公園所擁有的在該地區的工作。 He quit school at age 14 to take a job as an errand boy on Wall Street in New York City .他在14歲退學去工作在紐約市 華爾街上跑跑腿。 His uncle Oliver Harriman had earlier established a career there.他的叔叔奧利弗·哈里曼早先成立的職業生涯。 His rise from that humble station was meteoric.他的上升從這個不起眼的站大氣。 By age 22, he was a member of the New York Stock Exchange . 22歲,他是紐約證券交易所的成員。
In 1879 he married Mary Williamson Averell , daughter of William J. Averell, a banker in Ogdensburg, New York . [ 5 ] 1879年,他娶了瑪麗·威廉姆森埃夫里爾 ,在奧格登斯堡,紐約 ,銀行家威廉·J·埃夫里爾的女兒。 [5]
[ edit ] Railroad career [ 編輯 ] 鐵路職業生涯 This section requires expansion . (March 2012) 本節需要擴展 。(2012年3月)
Harriman's father-in-law was also president of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad Company, which aroused his interest in upstate New York transportation.哈里曼的父親在法律的奧格登斯堡和尚普蘭湖鐵路公司,這引起了他的興趣在紐約州北部交通的總統。 In 1881, Harriman acquired the small, broken-down Lake Ontario Southern Railroad.在1881年,哈里曼收購,破舊的小湖安大略省南部的鐵路。 He renamed it the Sodus Bay & Southern, reorganized it, and sold it to the Pennsylvania Railroad at a considerable profit.他給它改名Sodus海灣南,重組它,並把它賣給賓夕法尼亞鐵路可觀的利潤。 This was the start of his career as a rebuilder of bankrupt railroads.這是開始他的職業生涯作為重建者破產的鐵路。
A 1907 cartoon depicting Harriman and his railroads as subject to federal law and the Interstate Commerce Commission 1907年的肖像漫畫,畫上哈里曼和他的鐵路為主體,以聯邦法律和州際商務委員會 Harriman was nearly fifty years old when in 1897 he became a director of the Union Pacific Railroad .哈里曼是將近50歲,在1897年,他成為聯合太平洋鐵路公司的董事。 By May 1898 he was chairman of the executive committee, and from that time until his death his word was law on the Union Pacific system. 1898年五月,他是主席的執行委員會,並從那個時候到他死後,他的話是法律上的聯合太平洋鐵路系統。 In 1903 he assumed the office of president of the company.在1903年,他出任該公司總裁。 From 1901 to 1909, Harriman was also the President of the Southern Pacific Railroad .從1901年到1909年,哈里曼的南太平洋鐵路公司的總裁。 The vision of a unified UP/SP railroad was planted with Harriman.種植哈里曼一個統一的UP / SP鐵路的願景。 (The UP and SP were reunited on Sept. 11, 1996 when the Interstate Commerce Commission approved their merger.) (UP和SP團聚, 州際商務委員會批准於1996年9月11日,當其合併)。
At the time of his death Harriman controlled the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific, the Saint Joseph and Grand Island , the Illinois Central , the Central of Georgia , the Pacific Mail Steamship Company , and the Wells Fargo Express Company .在他去世的時候,哈里曼控制聯合太平洋,南太平洋, 聖若瑟和大島 , 伊利諾伊州中部 , 格魯吉亞中央 , 太平洋郵輪船公司和富國銀行快遞公司 。 Estimates of his estate ranged from $70 million to $100 million.估計他的房地產從$ 70萬美元至1億美元不等。 It was left entirely to his wife.它完全是他的妻子。
[ edit ] Harriman estate [ 編輯 ] 哈里曼房地產 In 1885 Harriman acquired " Arden ", the 7,863 acres (31.82 km 2 ) Parrott family estate in the Ramapo Highlands near Tuxedo, New York , for $52,500.哈里曼在1885年收購了“ 雅頓 “,7863英畝(31.82 平方公里 )帕洛特的家庭財產在拉馬波高地附近的晚禮服,紐約 ,52500美元。 Over the next several years he purchased almost forty different nearby parcels of land, adding 20,000 acres (81 km 2 ), and built forty miles of bridle paths to connect them all.在接下來的幾年中,他購買了將近40種不同附近的兩幅土地,增加20,000英畝(81 平方公里 ),建成40公里的韁繩路徑,它們全部連接。 His 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m 2 ) residence, Arden House, which sat high above the Palisades Parkway , was completed only seven months before he died.他的10萬平方呎(9,300 平方米 )的住所,Arden House酒店,坐在高高在上的寶馬山花園大路 ,完成僅七個月之前,他死了。 In the early 1900s, his sons W.在20世紀初,他的兒子W. Averell Harriman and E. 埃夫里爾·哈里曼和E。 Roland Harriman hired landscape architect Arthur P. Kroll to landscape those many acres. 羅蘭·哈里曼聘請景觀設計師阿瑟·P.克羅爾景觀一顆顆畝。 In 1910, his widow donated ten thousand acres (40 km²) to the state of New York for Harriman State Park . 1910年,他的遺孀捐獻了一英畝(40公里²),紐約州哈里曼州立公園 。
[ edit ] The Harriman Alaska Expedition [ 編輯 ]哈里曼阿拉斯加探險 Main article: Harriman Alaska Expedition主要文章: 哈里曼阿拉斯加探險
In 1899, Harriman sponsored a scientific expedition to catalog the flora and fauna of the Alaska coastline, which he himself accompanied.哈里曼在1899年,舉辦了一個科學探險隊編目的植物群和動物群的阿拉斯加海岸線,這是他親自陪著他。 Many prominent scientists and naturalists went on the expedition, aboard the luxuriously refitted 250-foot (76 m) steamer George W. Elder .許多著名的科學家和自然的遠征,搭乘豪華改裝的250英尺(76米)的蒸籠喬治·W·長者 。
[ edit ] Interest in jiu-jitsu [ 編輯 ] 權益柔術 Harriman became interested in jiu-jitsu after his two-month visit to Japan in 1905. [ 6 ] When he returend to America, he brought with him a troupe of six Japanese jiu-jitsu wrestlers, including the prominent judokas Tsunejiro Tomita and Mitsuyo Maeda . [ 7 ] Among many performances, the troupe gave an exhibition that drew six hundred spectators in the Columbia University gymnasium on 7 February 1905. [ 8 ]哈里曼柔術產生了濃厚的興趣後,他的2個月訪問日本於1905年。 [6],當他returend到美國,他帶來了一隊6日本柔術摔跤手,其中包括著名的柔道運動員 常次郎富田洋之 光代前田 [7]在眾多的演出,藝術團給了一個展覽,吸引了600名觀眾在哥倫比亞大學體育館於1905年2月7日。 [8]
[ edit ] Death [ 編輯 ] 死亡 He died on 9 September 1909 at his home, Arden, at age 62. [ 2 ] Naturalist John Muir , who had joined him on the 1899 Alaska Expedition , wrote in his eulogy of Harriman, "In almost every way, he was a man to admire."他死了9月9日1909在他的家,雅頓,享年62歲。 [2] ,加入了他在1899年阿拉斯加遠征的博物學家約翰·繆爾的哈里曼在他的悼詞中寫道,“幾乎在每一個方面,他是一個男人佩服。“
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