#Railroads

People (4)

• Delano family Fairhaven shipping family whose Warren Delano Jr. headed Russell and Company at Canton, whose daughter Sara bore Franklin D. Roosevelt, and whose Frederic A. Delano chaired the National Resources Planning Board.
• Forbes family Boston family of China traders, railroad builders and Bell Telephone executives, whose members included a Governor-General of the Philippines and the mother of John Kerry.
• Frederic Adrian Delano Railroad executive and vice governor of the Federal Reserve Board who chaired the League of Nations opium commission in Persia and the National Planning Board, and was the uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• Perkins family Boston merchant family whose firm J. and T. H. Perkins traded from Saint-Domingue and Africa to Canton and Smyrna, merged its China house into Russell and Company, and chartered the Granite Railway.