mother, Elizabeth Link Yerkes, died of puerperal fever when he was five years old, and soon thereafter his father Charles Tyson Yerkes Sr. remarried a non-Quaker...

Vanderbilt (2010) p 328 John Franch, Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes (2008) Charles O'Brien (2013). Death of a Robber Baron. Kensington. p. 289...

build and operate a line on the London Underground. Transit magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes thwarted Morgan's effort to obtain parliamentary authority to build...

Haupt, American railroad civil engineer (born 1817). December 29 - Charles Tyson Yerkes, American financier of rapid transit systems in Chicago and London...

downtown. This obstacle was overcome by the legendary traction magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes, who went on to play a pivotal role in the development of the London...

too expensive and politically inexpedient to build rapid transit. Charles Tyson Yerkes aggregated the competing rapid transit lines and built a loop connecting...

Mallet, inventor of the Mallet locomotive type (d. 1919). June 25 – Charles Tyson Yerkes, American financier of rapid transit systems in Chicago and London...

1929. Other works include Trilogy of Desire, based on the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837–1905), who became a Chicago streetcar tycoon. It is composed...

business partner, William L. Elkins, invested with businessmen such as Charles Tyson Yerkes, the streetcar czar of Chicago. Widener used the great wealth accumulated...

the company until 9 February 1905 when he stood aside in favour of Charles Tyson Yerkes,and became deputy chairman. He held that role until resigning from...