Samuel Thorne (1835-1915)
of 914 Fifth Avenue, New York; President of the Pennsylvania Coal Company
He was born in Philadelphia and worked in his father's leather business until 1872 when he became interested in the Pennsylvania coal fields and became President of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. He was a trustee of the Central Trust and the New York Life Insurance & Trust Company. He was also a Director of the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad, the Colorado & Southern Railway, the Great Northern Railway, the Sixth Avenue Railroad, the Northern Securities Company, the New York Dock Co., and the Bank of America. He married Phebe Van Schoonhoven and had 5-children.
