Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The term Robber Baron was used to describe a (usually) 19th century American businessman who used unscrupulous tactics on the stock market to amass a huge personal fortune at the cost of others. Famous Robber Barons: Edward Henry Harriman James Fisk Leland Stanford Jay Gould Cornelius Vanderbilt This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.