Benjamin Franklin Yoakum
American railroad executive
Died when: 70 years 100 days (843 months)Star Sign: Leo
Benjamin Franklin Yoakum (August 20, 1859 – November 28, 1929) was an American railroad executive of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who attempted to join the Frisco and Rock Island Railroads into a great system stretching from Chicago to Mexico.
In 1909, when Yoakum controlled 17,500 miles of railroad, Railway World magazine called him an "empire builder" who had done as much for the Southwest as legendary James J.
Hill had done for the Northwest.
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