NEW YORK'S Democratic Governor William Averell Harriman, 66, is another multimillionaire who took the high road to politics. His famed father, E. H. Harriman, a onetime messenger boy, parlayed imagination and aggressiveness into a $5 billion empire (Union Pacific Railroad, Wells-Fargo Express Co., etc.), died in 1909, and left about $100 million to his wife and five children. Averell grew up at the zoo-room family mansion located on 20,000 acres near Arden, N.Y., learned to ride, shoot, swim, row, and play polo, prepped at fashionable Groton (average student), graduated from Yale (B.A. '13),...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
