page_title: Charles Yerkes
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Yerkes / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837&#8211;1905), Oil on panel 9¾ x 11¾ in.
context_page_description: Charles Tyson Yerkes was an American financier. He played a major part in developing mass-transit systems in Chicago and London.
context_section_description: Yerkes died in New York 1905, of kidney disease. The events of Yerkes' life served as a blueprint for the Theodore Dreiser novels, The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic, in which Yerkes was fictionalized as Frank Cowperwood.
  The crater Yerkes on the Moon is named in his honor.
  Yerkes and his wife Mary were painted by his favorite artist Jan van Beers (National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.).  His wife, the daughter of Thomas Moore of Philadelphia, was also painted in 1892 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947). In 1893 Müller-Ury painted from miniatures portraits of Yerkes' Quaker grandparents, Mr and Mrs Silas Yerkes.
caption: Charles Tyson Yerkes by Jan van Beers, c. 1893
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