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Charles Yerkes

1837 - 1905

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Charles Tyson Yerkes Jr. ( YUR-keez; June 25, 1837 – December 29, 1905) was an American financier. He played a part in developing mass-transit systems in Chicago and London. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Yerkes is the 445th most popular businessperson (down from 413th in 2019), the 5,774th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,965th in 2019) and the 144th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Charles Yerkes ranks 445 out of 847. Before him are Jakob Nielsen, S. Robson Walton, Jim Ratcliffe, Christopher O'Neill, Mark Cuban, and Uğur Şahin. After him are John Bryson, B. C. Forbes, Paul Rusesabagina, John D. Rockefeller III, Angus Ogilvy, and Victor Pinchuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Charles Yerkes ranks 83. Before him are Tigran Chukhajian, Georg von Kopp, Jacob Maris, Ignatz Kolisch, Robert Gould Shaw, and Jorge Isaacs. After him are Mubarak Al-Sabah, Wilhelm Lexis, Francis Marrash, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, and Ralph Copeland. Among people deceased in 1905, Charles Yerkes ranks 70. Before him are Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz, Konstantin Savitsky, John Hay, Hermann Usener, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, and Rudolf von Alt. After him are Hranush Arshagyan, Francesco Tamagno, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Ralph Copeland, Harold Mahony, and William Thomas Blanford.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Yerkes ranks 5,774 out of 20,380. Before him are George Andrew Reisner (1867), Tommy Franks (1945), Hank Jones (1918), Leon Fleisher (1928), Eugene Odum (1913), and James Burton (1939). After him are Robert Lockwood Jr. (1915), Robert Towne (1934), Jane Toppan (1854), George Ritzer (1940), Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893), and Eric Allin Cornell (1961).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Charles Yerkes ranks 144. Before him are William R. Orthwein (1881), Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (1951), Armand Hammer (1898), Alfred P. Sloan (1875), S. Robson Walton (1944), and Mark Cuban (1958). After him are John Bryson (1943), John D. Rockefeller III (1906), Maxwell Perkins (1884), Tim Sweeney (1970), Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), and William Henry Conley (1840).

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