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The Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York)
Page entitled : William Collins Whitney meets
Oliver Hazard Payne
Content of this page is about :
The origins of New York street railway promoter William C. Whitney and his
fateful acquaintance with Oliver H. Payne from Cleveland
Extract :
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William Collins Whitney
was at Yale, a brilliant student, he was admitted to Skull & Bones, the
fraternity which was founded by William H. Russell and Alphonso Taft, and
became the most famous of America’s secret societies, the clubs from which
are reared the future leaders in business and politics. At Yale he
socialized with fellow bonesmen William Graham Sumner, a future professor of
political and social science, and Henry Farnam Dimock, who eventually
married Whitney’s sister Susan Cornelia. He also got acquainted to Oliver
Hazard Payne, the son of a wealthy railroad and real estate
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