HARRIMAN AND HILL
EDWARD H. HARRIMAN was the son of a poor and unsuccessful Episcopal clergyman who spent the latter days of his life as a bookkeeper in the old Bank of Commerce in New York. Born in 1848, young Harriman was just fourteen years old when his father obtained a job for him as office boy with DeWitt C. Hays, a Wall Street stockbroker. This was just about the time when Pierpont Morgan was preparing to get into business in America; when Andrew Carnegie was accumulating his first money in speculative oil and railroad ventures under the tutelage of Scott and was scanning the horizon of the new Bessemer steel business; when John D. Rockefeller was laying the foundations of Standard Oil; and when Henry C. Frick -- one year younger than Harriman -- was doing duty as an errand boy in Mount Pleasant.
From the very first, young Harriman displayed
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Publication information:
Book title: The Masters of Capital:A Chronicle of Wall Street.
Contributors: John Moody - Author.
Publisher: Yale University Press.
Place of publication: New Haven, CT.
Publication year: 1921.
Page number: 89.
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