He became the oldest presidential candidate for any party ever when, at age (*) 85, he was the Greenback Party nominee in the 1876 election.
At a building named for this man, Clara Lemlich gave a Yiddish speech that sparked the Uprising of the 20,000. While fouling up the waterways of Gowanda with his glue factory, this man joined other Gramercy Park residents in backing Cyrus Field's planned transatlantic telegraph line. A demonstration by this man convinced the B&amp;O directors that steam power was feasible. He became the oldest presidential candidate for any party ever when, at age (*) 85, he was the Greenback Party nominee in the 1876 election. This inventor of Jell-O built the first American locomotive, Tom Thumb. He established an "open and free" college where Abraham Lincoln affirmed his opposition to the spread of slavery. For 10 points, name this industrialist, who founded a namesake "Union" in New York City.
At a building named for this man, Clara Lemlich gave a Yiddish speech that sparked the Uprising of the 20,000.
Peter Cooper