When his American companies were bought by Peter Widener and William Elkins in 1901, this businessman went to London to convert its subways from steam to electricity.  Rising from a clerk at a Philadelphia commission broker's to owner of his own banking house, this entrepeneur was jailed in 1871 for misappropriation of funds, but regained his wealth in the Panic of 1873, and developed the syndicate of companies that built Chicago's mass-transit system.  FTP, identify this financer who served as the basis for the character of Frank Algernon Cowp
When his American companies were bought by Peter Widener and William Elkins in 1901, this businessman went to London to convert its subways from steam to electricity.  Rising from a clerk at a Philadelphia commission broker's to owner of his own banking house, this entrepeneur was jailed in 1871 for misappropriation of funds, but regained his wealth in the Panic of 1873, and developed the syndicate of companies that built Chicago's mass-transit system.  FTP, identify this financer who served as the basis for the character of Frank Algernon Cowperwood in Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire.
When his American companies were bought by Peter Widener and William Elkins in 1901, this businessman went to London to convert its subways from steam to electricity.  
Charles Tyson Yerkes