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Harriman was born on February 20, 1848, in Hempstead, New York, the son of Orlando Harriman Sr., an Episcopal clergyman, and Cornelia Neilson. [3] He had a brother, Orlando Harriman Jr. [5] His great-grandfather, William Harriman, had emigrated from England in 1795 and became a successful businessman and trader.
E. H. Harriman. One of the key players was E. H. Harriman, who "by 1898…was chairman of the executive committee of the Union Pacific and he ruled without dissent. But he speculated heavily with Union Pacific holdings, and his attempt to monopolize the Chicago rail market led to the Panic of 1901."
Arden is a historic estate outside Harriman, New York, that was owned by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman and his wife, Mary Averell Harriman.By the early 1900s, the family owned 40,000 acres (63 sq mi; 160 km 2) in the area, half of it comprising the Arden Estate.
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United American Lines, the common name of the American Shipping and Commercial Corporation, was a shipping company founded by W. Averell Harriman in 1920. Intended as a way for Harriman to make his mark in the business world outside of his father, railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, the company was financed by the younger Harriman's mother, Mary Williamson Harriman.
Mary Williamson Averell Harriman (July 22, 1851 – November 7, 1932) was an American philanthropist and the wife of railroad executive E. H. Harriman. Born in New York to a successful family, Averell married Harriman in 1879.
Elizabeth Harriman 1st m. Alexander C. Northrop; 2nd m. Maximillian Bliss, Jr. Phyllis Harriman m. Frank Herbert Mason (1921–2009) Cornelia Neilson Harriman (1850-1926) m. Charles Dewar Simons (1847-1926) William MacCurdy Harriman (1854-1903) William Harriman (1816-1855) James Harriman (1820-1912) m. Sarah Ann Fotterall (1840-1917)
OR&N No. 197 was built in May 1905 for pulling passenger trains on E.H. Harriman's Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, a later subsidiary to the Union Pacific Railroad, in Oregon. The locomotive was first built as a Balanced Compound along with her four other classmates, those being No. 194, No. 195, and No. 196.