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David Hoadley (February 13, 1806 – August 20, 1873) was an American businessman, and an executive in the banking and railroad industries. He is best known for taking over the Panama Railway in November 1851 as the company faced bankruptcy while attempting to build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama.〔Otis, ''Illustrated History of the Panama Railroad,'' New York: Harper, 1862.〕〔Bennett, ''History of the Panama Canal: Its Construction and Builders,'' 1915.〕 Hoadley was able to stabilize the company as well as complete the railroad a year ahead of schedule.〔Rigole and Langlois, ''Panama,'' 2003.〕 ==Early life== Hoadley was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1806.〔Trowbridge, ''The Hoadley Genealogy,'' 1894.〕 He was a direct descendent of William Hoadley, who had settled Branford, Connecticut, in 1666.〔〔His great-great-great-grandfather's name appears on the New Plantation Covenant of Branford dated November 20, 1667 or 1668, and which formally established the governance of the town of Branford. See: Trowbridge, ''The Hoadley Genealogy,'' 1894.〕 He was the eldest son of David and Rachel (Beecher) Hoadley. His father was a carpenter and architect who built several well-known Congregational churches and many fine homes (including the Samuel Wadsworth Russell House) in the area.〔 Hoadley worked in his future father-in-law's pharmacy in New Haven, Connecticut. In April 1827, he founded his own wholesale drug business in New York City, an enterprise which proved extremely profitable. He married Mary Hotchkiss, daughter of his old employer, on December 23, 1829. The couple had three children: Mary (born November 17, 1830), Sarah (born August 16, 1832), and Russell (born August 19, 1834). On April 5, 1854, Sarah married the wealthy mine owner William E. Dodge, Jr. of Phelps Dodge fame. Mary Hotchkiss Hoadley died June 9, 1837, at the age of 26.〔 David Hoadley then married Elizabeth Crannel Tappen, daughter of a Danbury, Connecticut, doctor, on June 12, 1838. The couple had three more children: Alice (born July 4, 1839), Tappen (born February 11, 1841), Elizabeth (born June 1, 1844), Olivia (born November 17, 1848), and Adelaide (born February 4, 1855).〔 Illness forced Hoadley to retired from the wholesale pharmaceutical supply business in 1848. But his health improved the following year, and he was named vice president of the American Exchange Bank (now part of the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation.He proved extremely adept at finance, and his leadership of the bank gained him widespread fame.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Hoadley (businessman)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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