Which of the following used his millions earned from a steamboat business to merge local railroads into the ny central railroad in 1867?
john d. rockefeller
cornelius vanderbilt
andrew carnegie
jay gould

the answer is richard nixion

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”