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John Leander Billard
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Deep River, Middlesex County, Connecticut, U.S.A.
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82 years
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John Leander Billard (July 18, 1842 - December 18, 1924) was a coal merchant. He initiated a hostile takeover of the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1914.
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He was born on July 18, 1842 in Saybrook, Connecticut to John Denton Billard and Emeline E. Spencer. He attended Yale University. He married Harriet Yale Merriman on May 26, 1868 and they had a son, Frederick Howell Billard (1873-1906). In 1914 he attempted a hostile takeover of the Boston and Maine Railroad.
He died on December 18, 1924.
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