Editing Cyrus W. Field (section)

==Later years==
In the 1870s–80s, Field entered into transportation business. He served as president of the New York Elevated Railroad Company in 1877–1880 and collaborated with [[Jay Gould]] on developing the [[Wabash Railroad]].  Field also loaned [[Henry W. Grady]] the $20,000 used for Grady to buy a one-quarter interest in the Atlanta Constitution newspaper.  He also owned the ''[[New York Evening Mail|Mail and Express]]'', a New York newspaper. Bad investments deprived Field of his fortune.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/biography/Cyrus-W-Field Cyrus W. Field, American financier]. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved November 30, 2015.</ref> He lived modestly during the last five years of his life in his native [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts]],<ref>Ingham, J. N. (1983). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KRjPBj19i-4C&dq=Cyrus+West+Field&pg=PA372 Biographical dictionary of American business leaders]. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, pp. 372–374.</ref> and died in 1892 at the age of 72.