biography
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| lived:
| (1794–1872)
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| biography:
| Businessman and US representative, born in Norwich, Connecticut, USA. He moved to Albany, NY (1814), where he began to manufacture iron. He bought a foundry and formed a partnership with metallurgy expert John F Winslow, their products becoming renowned throughout the USA. He promoted an extension of the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad and became president of the Utica and Schenectady Railroad (1833–53). Taking the lead in consolidating the various New York railroad lines into the New York Central, he served as its first president (1853–64), and in 1853 founded the Corning Land Co. He served four terms as the mayor of Albany (1834–7), and later served in the New York state senate (1842–5) and in the US House of Representatives (Democrat, New York, 1857–9, 1861–3). |
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