President, Great North Western Telegraph Company of Canada
Organization(s)
Founder, Canadian Club of New York City
Known for
Owner of Metropolitan Baseball Club
Criminal charge(s)
Forgery, 1894
Criminal penalty
Five years and six months in state prison
Criminal status
Conviction overturned, 1896
Spouse
Eleanor Anne Galbraith (m. 1860)
Erastus Wiman (21 April 1834 – 9 February 1904) was a Canadian journalist and businessman who later moved to the United States. He is best known as a developer in the New York City borough of Staten Island, a founder of whiskey producer Canadian Club, and owner of the New York Metropolitans baseball team.
Olmsted–Beil House, 1924, property of Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Wiman
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ErastusWiman (21 April 1834 – 9 February 1904) was a Canadian journalist and businessman who later moved to the United States. He is best known as a...
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Mutrie sold the Mets to developer ErastusWiman who moved the team to the St. George Cricket Grounds on Staten Island. Wiman, who also owned a ferry line,...
purchased by Horace Theall. ErastusWiman, a Canadian entrepreneur, planned to develop Staten Island by adding transit. Wiman had become one of Staten Island's...
Association played baseball on Staten Island from April 1886 through 1887. ErastusWiman, the developer of St. George, brought the team to Staten Island at a...
producer. Wiman was born in Moline, Illinois, one of two boys born to William Wiman (son of ErastusWiman and Eleanor née Galbrith/Erastus was the son...
boating, and swimming at Woods of Arden. The resort also included an inn. ErastusWiman, who helped organize Staten Island Rapid Transit was directly involved...
Butterworth and president of Deere & Company, and to William Wiman, son of whiskey producer ErastusWiman, owner of Canadian Club and the New York Metropolitans...
return later in his life. After Olmsted left Tosomock Farm, businessman ErastusWiman bought it, renaming it "The Woods of Arden", which stands today at 4515...
to Tosomock Farm. It was later renamed "The Woods of Arden" by owner ErastusWiman. The house in which Olmsted lived still stands at 4515 Hylan Boulevard...
between Staten Island and Brooklyn. In 1890, Staten Island developer ErastusWiman, who controlled the railway, sponsored a plan by the Baltimore and Ohio...
General Hamilton Ward) to dissolve the company in May of that year.: 229 ErastusWiman, one of the island's most prominent residents, organized the Staten...
Frederick Williams, 65, Scottish-Irish writer and war correspondent ErastusWiman, 69, Canadian American journalist and businessman, died of paralysis...
reorganized into the Staten Island Railway Company in 1873. In the 1880s, ErastusWiman planned a system of rail lines encircling the island using a portion...
– The New York Metropolitans are sold to Canadian-born millionaire ErastusWiman for $25,000. December 24 – The St. Louis Browns sell the reserve rights...
railroad bridge over the Arthur Kill existed from at least 1886, when ErastusWiman, a developer who was founder and president of the Staten Island Railway...
politicians Sir Richard Cartwright and Solomon White, and journalist ErastusWiman for their support of free trade by reciprocity and for rekindling the...
(150 m) swing bridge over the Arthur Kill, after three years of effort by ErastusWiman. The start of construction was delayed for nine months by the need for...
Saskatchewan and Its People; 1924; Volume II. Accessed 9 October 2019 "From ErastusWiman, Esq., to Sir John Macdonald" Correspondence of Sir John Macdonald[...
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