biography
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| lived:
| (1821–1905)
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| biography:
| Economist, born in East Andover, Maine, USA. A lawyer and member of the Whig Party, he campaigned for William Henry Harrison before leaving law (and Maine) to join his brother John Alfred in New York City to edit the first commercial periodical on railroads, American Railroad Journal (1849–62). He collaborated on and wrote several important compilations of railroad statistics and histories, culminating in the so-called Poor's Manual, Manual of Railroads in the United States (1868), an annual publication which he wrote with his son, Henry William (1844–1915). In 1867 he opened the firm H V & H W Poor to import rails and railway supplies. He wrote many other books on economics, including Resumption and the Silver Question (1878), and argued in favour of protectionist tariffs. |
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