LC control no. | n 90625111 |
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Personal name heading | Yerkes, Charles Tyson, 1837-1905 |
Variant(s) | Yerkes, C. T. (Charles Tyson), 1837-1905 |
Found in | NUCMC data from N.D. Inst. for Reg. Studies for Fleming, R.E. Papers, 1881-1900 (Charles Tyson Yerkes; C.T. Yerkes; Chicago financier) WwWA, 1897-1942 (Yerkes, Charles Tyson; b. 1837; d. 1905; capitalist; s. of Charles Tyson & Eliz. Link (Broom) Y.; m. Mary Adelaide Moore; exchange broker; convicted & imprisoned for misappropriation of public funds in Phila.; late pardoned; prominent in street railway operations, Philadelphia, Chicago, and London; gave large telescope to Univ. Chicago) |