E. H. Harriman - Legacy

Legacy

• The Union Pacific Harriman Dispatch Center in Omaha, Nebraska is named for Edward H. Harriman. In 1913, his widow created the E. H. Harriman Award to recognize outstanding achievements in railway safety. The award has been presented on an annual basis since then.

• His estate, Arden, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

• Harriman is mentioned in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as the commercial baron whose agents become the title characters' nemeses. In the film's second train robbery, a railroad employee ascribes his refusal to cooperate with the robbery to his obligations to Harriman personally, and one of Butch and Sundance's intimates describes Harriman's hiring of famed outlaw-hunters to track down the gang's leaders.

• In the movie The Wild Bunch, a railroad official named as "Harrigan" takes the same strategy.

• Two post offices in Oregon were named for Harriman, including the one at Rocky Point, where he maintained a summer camp for several years.

• Financial and business publisher Harriman House is named after Harriman.

• Harriman founded the Tompkins’ Square Boys’ Club, now known as The Boys’ Club of New York. The original club, founded in 1876 and located in the rented basement of the Wilson School in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, began with three boys. Harriman’s idea for the club was to provide a place "for the boys, so as to get them off the streets and teach them better manners." By 1901, the club had outgrown its space in the basement of the Wilson School, and Harriman purchased several lots on 10th and Avenue A, and a five-story clubhouse was completed in 1901.