His father, Edgar, was an investment banker and heir to a railroad fortune.

Thaw, heir to a Pittsburgh coal and railroad fortune, shot White because he couldn't abide the thought that White had taken his wife's virtue when she was 16.

IN 1928, Templeton Crocker, a writer, naturalist and heir to a railroad fortune, went to Paris to commission fashionable furnishings and objects for his San Francisco penthouse.

It was built in about 1902 by Howard Gould, an heir to a railroad fortune, not for royalty but for horses and carriages.

This was the start of his railroad fortune.

In 1923 Helen Hope Montgomery married Edgar Scott, an investment banker and heir to a railroad fortune.

Harry's father had been married three times and his last wife, Harry's mother, had been an American heiress with a railroad fortune at her disposal.

The murderer was Harry Thaw, the probably insane heir to a railroad fortune.

Mr. Plummer was born in 1929 into the last remains of a Canadian railroad fortune.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - a sculptor, heiress to one of the largest railroad fortunes in America and wife of a prominent banker - started the museum in 1931.