Stuyvesant Fish

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | 436 words | Copyright

Stuyvesant Fish , 1851–1923, American railroad executive, b. New York City; son of Hamilton Fish (1808–93). He became (1877) a director of the Illinois Central RR, and as its president (1887–1907) he built the railroad into a large system. Fish was ousted from the presidency by E. H. Harriman after Fish's participation in the state committee that investigated (1906) the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.

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