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- E. Roland Harriman was a financier and philanthropist. For those who were very close to him, his nickname was "Bunny". He was the youngest of five surviving children of Mary Williamson Averell and Edward Henry Harriman, a financier and executive of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad. Among his siblings was W. Averell Harriman, the financier and government official, four years his senior. Edward H. Harriman's estate was substantial, variously estimated between $70 million and $100 million upon his death in 1909. Harriman was educated at Groton School, from which he graduated in 1913, and Yale University (B.A. , 1917), where he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity and a member of Skull & Bones with his classmate and friend Prescott Bush. He married Gladys C. C. Fries on April 12, 1917, and they had two children. During World War I, Harriman served for ten months as an inspector with the rank of lieutenant in the United States Army Ordnance Department. Stricken with pneumonia and influenza, he was honorably discharged in January 1919. After regaining his health in California, he joined the Merchants Shipbuilding Corporation that November, a firm in which his brother Averell had an interest. In 1922, Harriman joined W. A. Harriman Company, investment bankers in New York City, and the following year, he became vice-president. In 1927 the two brothers formed the banking firm Harriman Brothers and Company. In 1931 the firm was merged with Brown Bros. & Co. , with Roland as vice-president. Headquartered on Wall Street, Brown Brothers Harriman started with nine partners and about two hundred employees. The firm performed specialized banking services for customers, mainly medium-sized corporations; it was not a member of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. In 1968, Harriman and three other senior partners at Brown Brothers, moved "upstairs," literally and figuratively, to make way for the younger partners, one of whom was Robert Roosa, former undersecretary of the Treasury. In 1975, a few years prior to Harriman's death, there were twenty-nine partners and approximately one thousand employees. Harriman was a conservative Republican. An advocate of balanced budgets, he wrote articles on the subject for the Saturday Evening Post and the Review of Reviews in 1935; his speech on WEAF radio in August 1937 on the topic was reprinted in Vital Speeches of the Day (September 15, 1937). His brother was a Democrat who served under the Truman administration and was governor of New York. Harriman followed the philanthropic example of his parents. He and his wife established the Irving Sherwood Wright professorship in geriatrics at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and provided funds for cardiovascular research at the hospital. He joined the American Red Cross as a member of the board of governors in 1947, helped reorganize it after World War II, served as manager for the organization's North Atlantic area from 1944 to 1946, was its vice-president and national annual fund appeal chair in 1949, and was appointed its president by President Truman, to succeed General George Marshall in 1950. President Dwight Eisenhower reappointed him president in 1953. His other philanthropic board memberships included that of the American Museum of Natural History, for which he was also treasurer. Further Reading Harriman's autobiography is I Reminisce (1975). Roland Harriman joins Psi Upsilon, NYT 11/14/1914
- Edward Roland Noel Harriman, né le 24 décembre 1895 à New York - mort le 16 février 1978 à Arden, New York, était un financier et philanthrope américain. Il est le plus jeune des cinq enfants survivants de Mary Williamson Averell et Edward Henry Harriman, financier et directeur de l'Union Pacific Railroad et du Southern Pacific Railroad. Parmi ses frères, W. Averell Harriman, financier et politique, de quatre ans son aîné. Le patrimoine de Edward H. Harriman était substantiel, estimé entre 70 et 100 millions de dollars à sa mort en 1909. Harriman étudia à Groton School, où il fut diplômé en 1913 puis à Yale en 1917, où il était ami et membre de Skull & Bones avec son camarade de classe Prescott Bush. Il épousa Gladys C. C. Fries le 12 avril 1917 et en eut 2 enfants. Durant la Première guerre mondiale, Harriman servit 10 mois en tant qu'inspecteur avec rang de lieutenant dans le United States Army Ordnance Department. Frappé par la pneumonie et la grippe, il fut honorablement déchargé en janvier 1919. Après avoir retrouvé sa santé en Californie, il se joint à la Merchants Shipbuilding Corporation en novembre, une entreprise dont son frère Averell était actionnaire. En 1922, Harriman se joint à la W. A. Harriman Company, une banque d'investissement à New York, et l'année suivante, il en devient vice-president. En 1927, les deux frères s'associent dans une banque Harriman Brothers and Company, et en 1931 elle fusionne avec la Brown Bros. & Co. , avec Roland comme vice-president. Siégeant à Wall Street, Brown Brothers Harriman commencent avec neuf associés et 200 employés. L'entreprise se spécialise dans les services bancaires pour les clients particuliers, surtout pour les classes moyennes; il n'était pas membre du Federal Reserve System ou de la Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. En 1968, Harriman et ses trois anciens aînés à Brown Brothers (Robert A. Lovett, secrétaire à la défense sous la présidence de Harry Truman; Prescott Bush, ancien sénateur du Connecticut; et Knight Woolley --all Yale men), s'installent "au grenier", au sens littéral et figuré, pour prendre des associés plus jeune, parmi lesquels Robert Roosa, ancien sous-secrétaire au Trésor. En 1975, peu d'années avant sa mort, ils sont 29 associés et 1000 employés.
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- E. Roland Harriman was a financier and philanthropist. For those who were very close to him, his nickname was "Bunny". He was the youngest of five surviving children of Mary Williamson Averell and Edward Henry Harriman, a financier and executive of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad. Among his siblings was W. Averell Harriman, the financier and government official, four years his senior. Edward H.
- Edward Roland Noel Harriman, né le 24 décembre 1895 à New York - mort le 16 février 1978 à Arden, New York, était un financier et philanthrope américain. Il est le plus jeune des cinq enfants survivants de Mary Williamson Averell et Edward Henry Harriman, financier et directeur de l'Union Pacific Railroad et du Southern Pacific Railroad. Parmi ses frères, W. Averell Harriman, financier et politique, de quatre ans son aîné. Le patrimoine de Edward H.
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