The community was named after Sir Edmund Boyd Osler (1845-1924), who was an Ontario-based explorer, railroad financier, and Member of Parliament.

Jay Gould, the stock manipulator and railroad financier, built four cottages; George F. Baker, longtime head of what is today Citibank, built two.

DeRidder was named for Ella de Ridder, the sister-in-law of a Dutch railroad financier.

In the end, it might have been the Minnesota community was named after William H. Starbuck, a railroad financier from New York.

In 1882, Henry Villard, a well-known railroad financier, hired McKim, Mead, and White to create six private brownstone townhouses surrounding a courtyard on Madison Avenue.

A. Russell Sage was a Wall Street speculator and railroad financier who died in 1906, leaving his widow a fortune estimated at more than $70 million (perhaps several billion in today's dollars).

It was later owned by Jay Gould, the railroad financier.

His son, Jay Cooke, was a prominent railroad financier.

Settlers homesteaded around Geraldine, a station named after the wife of railroad financier, William G. Rockefeller.

Alexander Mitchell (October 17, 1817 - April 19, 1887) was a Scottish-born banker, railroad financier and Democratic politician in Milwaukee.