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Children. 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.
- Hannah Heloise Trimble
Biography. Over the course of six decades, Will Durant enjoyed a remarkable career as a philosopher and historian, beginning with the publication of his book, The Story of Philosophy, in 1927. A few years after releasing that book, Durant took on the monumental task of writing an integrative account of human history, which became The Story of ...
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Imaginary Brightness is the first book in a trilogy - a Gilded Age drama about the lives of William West Durant and his sister Ella, the children of the powerful American industrialist and railroad tycoon Dr. Thomas C. Durant.
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.
Jan 1, 1979 · Recounts the accomplishments and misfortunes of the daring and original entrepreneur who formed General Motors in the early 1900s, founded and lost Durant Motors after his final break with GM, and died nearly penniless in 1947. Print length. 396 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Little Brown & Co. Publication date. January 1, 1979. ISBN-10.
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Jan 21, 2001 · The Deal Maker by Axel Maker is a wonderful history of the beginnings of General Motors and of the American auto industry. The book features GM founder William C. "Willie" Durant and how he, with wonderful imagination, put together America's largest auto company.
- Axel Madsen
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.
