William Cornelius Van Horne
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1843 – 1915
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Who was William Cornelius Van Horne?
Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, KCMG succeeded Lord Mount Stephen as President of Canadian Pacific Railway in 1888. He was a prominent member of the Whitney syndicate that created the Cuba Railroad Company, incorporated at Trenton, New Jersey, in 1900 with a capitalization of $8,000,000. He lived at the Van Horne Mansion in Montreal's Golden Square Mile.
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- Born
- Feb 3, 1843
Frankfort - Nationality
- Canada
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Joliet
- Montreal
- Died
- Sep 11, 1915
Montreal
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on July 23, 2013
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