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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Thomas_CThomas C. Durant - Wikipedia

    William West Durant. Héloïse Durant Rose. 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 ...

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  3. www.thefamouspeople.com › profiles › thomas-c-durantThomas C. Durant Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life ...

    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.

  4. www.britannica.com › biography › William-Crapo-DurantWilliam Crapo Durant | Founder, Automaker, Entrepreneur

    Mar 14, 2024 · William Crapo Durant was an American industrialist and founder of General Motors Corporation, which later became one of the largest corporations in the world in terms of sales. After establishing a carriage company in Michigan in 1886, Durant took over a small firm in 1903 and began to manufacture.

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    Dr. Thomas C. Durant ships family (Mrs. Heloise Timbrell Durant, William West Durant and Ella Durant) to England on the SS Great Eastern as the U.S. is on the brink of a civil war, and while he develops the Transcontinental Railroad. William (age 11) educated in England.

  7. beyondthehistorytextbooks.com › 2015/11/13 › theThe Union Pacific Railroad’s Thomas Durant: Getting the Facts ...

    Nov 13, 2015 · The popular television show Hell on Wheels has part of it right – Thomas Durant was a stock manipulator and con man who did not hesitate to instruct his engineers to take the long way to get from Point A to Point B so as to maximize the railroad’s take at the government trough.

  8. www.encyclopedia.com › thomas-clark-durantThomas Clark Durant | Encyclopedia.com

    May 11, 2018 · views 2,612,079 updated May 11 2018. DURANT, THOMAS CLARK. As a financier and an executive of the Union Pacific Railroad in the early 1860s Dr. Thomas C. Durant (1820 – 1885) was instrumental in building the first railway spanning the western United States.

  9. www.encyclopedia.com › william-crapo-durantWilliam Crapo Durant | Encyclopedia.com

    Jun 27, 2018 · William Crapo Durant The American industrialist William Crapo Durant (1861-1947) was the founder of General Motors, an automobile manufacturing company. William C. Durant was born in Boston, Mass., on Dec. 8, 1861.