Jay Gould made himself rich and his enemies ... When he wanted to buy the Manhattan Railway — a.k.a. New York City’s elevated trains — he had his New York World newspaper spread stories ...

The directory of the New-York Elevated Railroad Company met yesterday and authorized President Cyrus W. Field to arrange for the merging of the New-York into the Manhattan Company. View Full Artic ...

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Jason “Jay” Gould (1836-1892 ... Summing up, Steinmetz writes that Gould’s “takeover of Manhattan Railway robbed small investors who naively believed the scaremongering of [his] New ...

One of the most important figures in Texas railroad development was business titan Jay Gould ... in Austin and was named for the railway. By the 1890s, Gould’s companies promised passengers ...