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He was born on December 8, 1812 in East Andover (now Andover), Maine, United States, a son of Dr. Silvanus and Mary (Merrill) Poor.
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He was born on December 8, 1812 in East Andover (now Andover), Maine, United States, a son of Dr. Silvanus and Mary (Merrill) Poor.
He was educated at home and at Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1835. He subsequently studied law in the office of his uncle, Jacob McGaw.
He was admitted to the Maine bar.
A member of the Whig party, he campaigned for William Henry Harrison. He practised until 1849, when he went to New York City with his brother John Alfred Poor, who purchased the American Railroad Journal, the first periodical on railroads managed on a commercial basis, and made Henry its editor. Remaining as editor until 1863, he continued and elaborated the collection, compilation, and publication of data on railroad development, both in the United States and abroad.
In 1853 he collaborated with Israel D. Andrews in the preparation of material for the chapter on railroads and canals in Andrews' report on the commerce of British North America published as Senate Executive Document 112 and House Executive Document 136. Returns for railways in twenty-eight states were made, and this chapter is sometimes referred to as the "first Poor's Manual. " With the assistance of Dr. Richard Swainson Fisher, Poor undertook the preparation of an exhaustive history of internal improvements and in 1860 published Volume I of the History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States of America, Exhibiting their Progress, Cost, Revenues, Expenditures and Present Condition, covering the development of transportation in the New England and Middle Atlantic states and Maryland.
The outbreak of the Civil War prevented the publication of the other two volumes planned. Poor retired from the editorship of the American Railroad Journal in 1862, and for at least two years was an editorial writer on the staff of the New York Times. In 1864 he was elected the first secretary of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
In 1867 he formed a partnership with his son Henry William Poor in the firm of H. V & H. W. Poor, to import rails and railway supplies. The firm also, at first as a "sideline, " began to collect, compile, and publish in manual form railway statistics and annual reviews of the progress of railway development in the United States.
He died in Brookline, Massachussets.
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Like his brother, John Alfred Poor, he was interested in the extension of internal improvements, particularly railways, for the opening up of the West. He was an earnest advocate of a railroad to the coast.
Poor married Mary Wild Pierce on September 7, 1841. Of his seven children, three daughters and a son survived him. The son, Henry William Poor, his father's associate in the business of H. V & H. W. Poor, made a fortune as a member of the firm of Poor & Greenough, dealers in securities, later H. W. Poor & Company, but lost it when his firm failed in 1908.