# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-melville-whitney
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:15:51.193Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-melville-whitney"
name: "Henry Melville Whitney"
slug: "henry-melville-whitney"
description: "Henry Melville Whitney was an American industrialist, the founder of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and later the Dominion Coal Company Ltd. and the Dominion Iron and Steel Company Ltd. of Sydney, Nova Scotia. He was also president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, long an important transportation link between Boston and New York City."
tagline: "American industrialist (1839–1923)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_New_England_magazine_(1907)_(14776447725).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1839-10-22"
deathDate: "1923-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           16.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.200144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "هنري ميلفيل ويتني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Melville_Whitney"
    title: "Henry Melville Whitney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5725789"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations