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Timeline of William West Durant's Life. Sunset on Raquette Lake, NY. 1850. William West Durant (WWD) born to Dr. Thomas C. Durant and Heloise Timbrell Durant in Brooklyn NY; Sister Ella (Heloise) born three years later (1853). 1858 Ralph Waldo Emerson is part of the Philosophers Camp; writes The Adirondacs poem.
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He is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. Heloise Hannah Trimble Durant. Heloise married Thomas Durant in 1847. She was from England. Her name appears as the owner of Adirondack Railroad property in North Creek in 1891 and she died in 1901. They had two children, William and Heloise. William West Durant.
Thomas Clark Durant (February 6, 1820 – October 5, 1885) was an American physician, businessman, and financier. He was vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in 1869 when it met with the Central Pacific railroad at Promontory Summit in Utah Territory. He created the financial structure that led to the Crédit Mobilier scandal.
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Born on February 6, 1820, in Lee, Massachusetts, USA, Thomas C. Durant was the son of Thomas Durant and Sybil Durant. He had at least two brothers, Charles Wright Durant and William F. Durant. He pursued a medical degree at Albany Medical College, from where he graduated cum laude in 1840. He taught as an assistant professor of surgery for a ...
Nov 23, 2010 · Legacy's online obit database has obituaries, death notices, and funeral services for 16 people named Thomas Durant from thousands of the largest funeral homes and newspapers in the...
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Nov 13, 2015 · Colm Meaney plays Thomas Durant on the AMC show “Hell on Wheels”. He was born in 1820, the son of a prosperous Massachusetts merchant – also at odds with the television show’s portrayal of him as someone who had to grovel for sustenance as a child. At 20 years old, he graduated from Albany Medical College with a specialty in ophthalmology.