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3 unusual facts about E. Roland Harriman


Bear Mountain Bridge

The 11-member board of directors included financiers E. Roland Harriman and George W. Perkins.

E. Roland Harriman

In 1968, Harriman and three other senior partners at Brown Brothers (Robert A. Lovett, secretary of defense under President Harry Truman; Prescott Bush, former senator from Connecticut; and Knight Woolley -- all Yale men), moved "upstairs," literally and figuratively, to make way for the younger partners, one of whom was Robert Roosa, former undersecretary of the Treasury.

He was born on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1895 in New York City, the youngest of five surviving children of Mary Williamson Averell and Edward Henry Harriman.



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