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YERKES, CHARLES TYSON (1837-1905)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 918 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
YERKES, CHARLES TYSON (1837-1905) , American capitalist, was born of Quaker parentage, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
 , on the 25th of June 1837. He was a clerk in a grain-commission
house
 , an exchange broker (1858-61) and a banker (1861-86).
When he failed in 1871 he refused to give any preference to the city of Philadelphia for bonds sold on its account, and was convicted of " misappropriating city funds," and sentenced to two years and nine months in the penitentiary. After serving seven months of this sentence he was pardoned, and the City Council afterward passed an ordinance cancelling the municipality's claim against him. He established a banking business in Chicago in 1881; in 1886 got
control
  of the Chicago City Railway Company; and within the next twelve years organized a virtual monopoly of the surface and elevated railway service of Chicago. He disposed of his street railway interests in Chicago, and removed to London (1900). There he acquired in 1901 a controlling
interest
  in the Metropolitan
District
  railway, and by organizing the finances of the Under-ground Electric Railways Company he took an important initiative in extending the system of London electric railways. Yerkes gave to the university of Chicago the
great
  telescope installed in the Yerkes Observatory at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and gathered in his New
York
  residence a remarkable collection of paintings, tapestries and rugs, which were sold at auction in April 1910 for $2,034,450. He died in New
York
  on the 29th of December 1905.


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