In his early years he worked as a surveyor in preparing maps of Ulster, Albany and Delaware counties in New York, and worked alongside his father in a hardware business.
In his early years he worked as a surveyor in preparing maps of Ulster, Albany and Delaware counties in New York, and worked alongside his father in a hardware business. In 1879 he started building up a system of railroads in the Midwest, and gained control of the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads. In an 1869 scheme designed to increase the price of wheat, causing farmers to sell, he began to buy gold in an attempt to corner the market. FTP, name this robber baron who pioneered the practice of declaring bankruptcy as a strategic maneuver.
In his early years he worked as a surveyor in preparing maps of Ulster, Albany and Delaware counties in New York, and worked alongside his father in a hardware business.
Jay {Gould}