Edward Shearson

[2] At 19, he was an office boy for the Accounting Department of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.

Shearson advanced through the company, occupying several positions, until he relocated to Milwaukee in 1887.

There, he served as chief clerk of the Accounts Department of the Wisconsin Central Railroad.

In 1890, Shearson returned to Chicago, where he eventually retired from railroad service and entered the steel industry in 1898.

The couple resided on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and kept a house in Greenwich, Connecticut.