Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 Volume 2: Entries K-Z Compiled and edited by Graydon M. Meints Michigan State University Libraries East Lansing, Michigan 2013 Michigan State University Libraries 366 West Circle Drive East Lansing, Michigan 48824 ©2013 by Graydon M. Meints. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America, on acid-free, SFI-certified paper (Sustainable Forestry Initiative, www.sfiprogram.org) ISBN-13: 978-1-62610-030-5 (paper, 2-volume set) ISBN-10: 1-62610-030-6 (paper, 2-volume set) Contents Volume 1 Introduction................................................. vii Bibliography ............................................... xiii Entries A-J ........................................................1 Volume 2 Entries K-Z.......................................................1 K First Director 1892 HistNP, 3:1415 Muskegon Traction Born Oct. 14, 1875, Ord, Nebr. KALK, Charles Newton # First Director 1901 1898 to Escanaba [Minneapolis] Muskegon Traction & Lighting ---- BiogRy1913, 295 Director 1902-17 Union Pacific Born June 29, 1860, Fond du Employee [various] Lac, Wisc. KANTER, Charles Edward # Escanaba & Lake Superior 1879-81 attended Univ. Wisc. [Detroit] Cashier 1898-1907 1883-87 and 1892-93 in BkDet, 260 Auditor 1902-07 private business Born Feb. 12, 1851, Mackinac General Superintendent ---- Island 1908-17 Northern Pacific When a child moved to Detroit Director 1908-17 Various work 1881-83 Banker; 1906 bank president Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & ---- KAUFFER, Hale Page # Atlantic Fort Wayne & Belle Isle [Kalamazoo] Construction work 1887-90 First Director 1892 Born Jan. 1, 1840, Wisconsin Central Massachusetts Asst. Engineer 1890-92 KANTERS, Abraham M. Pres., Kalamazoo Sled Co., Principal Asst. Engineer [Holland] Home Savings Bank 1893-1902 Grand Rapids & Lake Michigan Died Sept. 27, 1922, Chief Engineer 1902-4/09 First Director 1889 Kalamazoo Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault ---- Ste. Marie KARLSON, K. A. # Citizens Street of Battle Creek Asst. Engineer 4/1909- BiogRy1922, 336 First Director 1894 10/12 Born Sept. 12, 1882, Sweden Chicago & Kalamazoo Chief Engineer 10/1912-17 ---- Terminal Great Northern Director 1895 KAMARKE, Frank B. # Various work 1/1904-7/06 [Chicago] Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton KAUFMAN, Daniel Webster # Trans-Michigan Street Various work 7/1906-1/08 [Marquette] First Director 1906 Pere Marquette [Detroit] Born Jan. 8, 1866, Marquette Asst. Auditor 1/1908-(22) Son or Samuel R. Kaufman KAMARKE, Joseph F. # Auditor (1930-42) Brother of Louis G. and Nathan [Chicago] M. Kaufman Trans-Michigan Street KARSTE, Otto Emil [Ironwood] Died Aug. 31, 1921, Marquette First Director 1906 NPMemorial, 634-35 ---- Born Feb. 11, 1865, Traverse City, Leelanau & KANE, Thomas E. [Tecumseh] Sheboygan, Wisc. Manistique RR Detroit & Lima Northern 1883 to Chicago, in bank, one First Director 1901 Superintendent Telegraph year Vice President, Treasurer, 1897 1886 to Ironwood, founded Director 1906 Bank of Ironwood Manistique, Marquette & KANITZ, Louis # [Muskegon] ---- Northern CycMich, 160-62 Ironwood & Hurley Street First Director, Director Born Sept. 20, 1839, First Director 1886 1902-03 Brandenburg, Prussia Vice President 1902-03 1852 to Sheboygan, Wisc. KASSICK, William P. [Jackson] Treasurer 1902-04 1861-65 in Civil War Born May 1, 1806, N. Y. state 1869 to Muskegon 1839 to Jackson, merchant KAUFMAN, Louis G. # 1882 founded Muskegon Died July 6, 1857, Jackson BiogHBM, 317-18 Valley Furniture Co. ---- Born Nov. 13, 1870, Marquette Died Nov. 22, 1931, Muskegon Grand River Valley Son of Samuel R. Kaufman ---- Commissioner 1846 Brother of Daniel W. and Lake Harbor Nathan M. Kaufman KATES, Charles W. # [Wells] Pres. First Natl. Bank 2 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Marquette Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw lumber yard Died Mar. 19, 1942, West Palm Cashier 1899-03 Bell Telephone Co, 1881-1913 Beach, Fla. Secretary, Treasurer 1906- Died Aug. 10, 1915, Ann Arbor; ---- 08 buried in Buffalo Marquette City & Presque Isle General Freight Agent 1906- ---- Director, Treasurer 1903-06 08 Ann Arbor Street [Ann Arbor] First Director 1886 KAUFMAN, Nathan Myron # KEARNEY, Edward Francis # [Marquette] [St. Louis, Mo.] KEEFE, John St. Clair # NPMemorial, 113-15; BiogRy1913, 297 [Goshen, Ind.] BiogHBM, 173-74 Born Mar. 27, 1865, BiogRy1893, 203; Born July 4, 1862, Marquette Logansport, Ind. BiogRy1901, 294 Son of Samuel R. Kaufman Died Mar. 10, 1919, St. Louis, Born Jan. 24, 1864, Boston, Brother of Daniel W. and Louis Mo. Mass. G. Kaufman ---- Died Mar. 3, 1935, Oak Park, 1882 to Marquette, dry goods, Various roads Ill. 1884 iron mining Various work 1882-4/1904 ---- Became major owner of iron St. Louis-San Francisco Chicago & North Western mining land Superintendent of Various work 1880-11/87 Mayor of Marquette 1893-94 Transportation 4-10/1904 Canada & St. Louis Died 1918 Missouri Pacific General Freight & Passenger ---- Supt. of Terminals 4/1905- Agent 11/1887-3/90 Traverse City, Leelanau & 2/08 [St. Louis] Auditor 1889 Manistique RR Superintendent of St. Joseph Valley First Director 1901 Transportation 2/1908-1/13 First Director 1889 Manistique, Marquette & General Superintendent of Calumet & Blue Island and Northern Transportation 1/1913 Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern First Director, Director Wabash Secretary, Auditor 3/1893- 1902-03 Receiver 1915 1/99 Marquette City & Presque Isle President, Director 1915-19 Davenport, Rock Island & Director,Vice President Northwestern 1903-06 KEATING, George H. # [Bay Traffic Manager 1/1899- City] (1901) KAUFMAN, Samuel R. # AuSable & Northwestern [Marquette] General Freight Agent 1891- KEEGAN, James Edward # Born in Germany 1900 BiogRy1913, 298 Father of Daniel W., Louis G. Born May 5, 1850, Monroe and Nathan M. KEATING, Loftus N. ---- Kaufman [Muskegon] Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & 1849 to Marquette, merchant Born c.1841 Chicago [Ft. Wayne] ---- Died Apr. 8, 1914, Muskegon Machinist 4/1869-9/81 Manistique, Marquette & ---- Asst. Shop Foreman Northern Muskegon Lake 12/1881-1/82 First Director, Director First Director 1879 Grand Rapids & Indiana 1902-03 Secretary 1880 [Grand Rapids] Marquette City & Presque Isle Muskegon, Grand Rapids & General Shop Foreman Director 1903-06 Indiana 1/1882-3/92 Director 1886-1913 Master Mechanic 3/1892- KEALEY, William Joseph # Vice President 1905-13 4/1906 [Kalamazoo] Superintendent Motive Born Apr. 13, 1870, Kalamazoo KEECH, Thomas J. # Power 4/1906-17 Died Feb. 3, 1909, Kalamazoo Born 1840, Buffalo, N. Y. ---- 1869 to Ann Arbor, manage KEELER, Sanford # [East Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 3 Saginaw] 1812) BiogRy1885, 130; KEELEY, Thomas # [Lansing] Father of Chauncey Keep BiogRy1893, 204; CycMich, Lansing City Electric 1846 to Whitewater, Wisc, 52-53; Superintendent 1904 merchant BkChi, 324 1851 to Chicago, dry goods Born Dec. 21, 1837, Union, KEENAN, Edwin C. # merchant Broome Co., N.Y. BiogRy1913, 298, BiogRy1922, After 1857 real estate Oct 1855 to East Saginaw 337-38 Died May 13, 1907, Chicago 1859 bored first salt well in Born Apr. 20, 1868, Toledo ---- Saginaw ---- Michigan Southern & Northern 1897 with Nathan Mfg Lake Shore & Michigan Indiana (locomotive parts) Southern Negotiated r-o-w into Died Mar. 18, 1924, Saginaw Various work 8/1885-1901 Chicago ---- Lake Erie & Western Director 9/1865-5/69 Flint & Pere Marquette Engineering Dept. 1901-05 Lake Shore & Michigan Various work 4/1860-64 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Master Mechanic 1864- Southern [Cleveland] First Director, Director 12/73 Engineering Dept. 1905-10 4/1869-5/83 Asst. Superintendent Superintendent Telegraph Detroit, Monroe & Toledo 1/1874-6/75 1910-10/12 Director 1872-86 Superintendent 6/1875-91 General Superintendent Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Saginaw & Clare County Telegraph 10/1912-12/14 Rapids Director 1879-88 New York Central [Chicago] Director 1872 Saginaw & Mt. Pleasant General Superintendent Kalamazoo & White Pigeon Director 1879-88 Telegraph 1/1915-5/16 Director 1872-75 Iron Range & Huron Bay New York Central [New York Chicago & North Western Superintendent of City] President 6/1873-6/87 Construction 1891-93 General Superintendent Director 6/1873-5/1906 Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron Telegraph 5/1916-(22) Escanaba & Lake Superior General Manager 1893-95 First Director, Director Interurban Electric (Saginaw- KEENEY, Salmon [Erie] 1880-81 Bay City) (also misspelled KINNEY and President 1881 Superintendent of KENNEY) Iron River Construction 1896-97 Born July 24, 1794, Wyoming Director 1888 Co., Pa. Iron Range KEELEY, Edward S. # 1828 to Erie, Monroe Co., Director 1888 [Chicago] farmer Menominee River BkChi, 324; BiogRy1913, 298 Died Mar. 9, 1847, Erie Director 1877-81 Born Nov. 11, 1858, Peru, Ill. ---- President 1879-81 ---- Detroit & Maumee Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Various roads Commissioner 1835 Western Traffic Dept. 1874-83 Maumee Branch Director 1891-92 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Commissioner 1835 Various work 1883-87 Havre Branch KEEP, Chauncey # [Chicago] Division Freight Agent 1887- Commissioner 1836 BkChi, 325; WhosWhoFB, 378- 91 [Milwaukee 79 Asst. Gen. Frt. Agent 5/1891- KEEP, Albert # [Chicago] Born Aug. 20, 1853, 1/1900 [Chicago] DWH; BkChi, 325; Whitewater, Wisc. General Freight Agent BiogRy1893, 204; Son of Albert Keep 1/1900-1/07 HistChi3, 108-09 1878-83 in lumber business Freight Traffic Manager Born Apr. 30, 1826, Homer, N. 1888-1903 in lead 1/1907-4/09 Y. manufacturing Vice President 4/1909-17 Brother of William Keep (Born --- 4 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Chicago & North Western KELLER, W. A. # [Muskegon] Director 2/1906-17 KEEP, William F. # [Chicago] Muskegon Traction & Lighting Erie & Kalamazoo Manager 1902 KEEP, Henry [Chicago] Director 1915-17 Born June 22, 1818, Adams, N. KELLEY, Howard G. # Y. KEIGHTLEY, Edwin William # [Montreal] At age 20 began to arbitrage [Constantine] BiogRy1913, 299-300; currency MichBiog, 1:458; ABH-1,4:40; BiogRy1922, 338-39 Later a banker CongBiog Born Jan. 12, 1858, Died July 30, 1869, New York Born Aug. 7, 1843. Scott, Philadelphia City LaGrange Co., Ind. 1881 graduated Polytechnic ---- 1865 graduated Univ. Mich. Coll. of Pa. Michigan Southern & Northern Law school Died 1928 Indiana 1865 to White Pigeon, ---- Director 4/1857-9/57, attorney Various roads 4/1860-5/69 U. S. Representative 3/1877- Engineer Dept. 1881-98 Treasurer 1863-63 3/79 Minneapolis & St. Louis Chicago & North Western U. S. treasury dept. 3/1879- Chief Engineer 3/1898- Director 11/1867-7/69 4/85 7/1907 President 6/1868-7/1869 1885 to Chicgo, attorney Grand Trunk Ry Canada Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand 1899 to Constantine, farming [Montreal] Rapids Died May 4, 1926, Constantine Chief Engineer 7/1907-9/11 Director 1872 ---- Vice President 10/1911- Chicago & Canada Pacific 9/17 KEEP, John [Petoskey] First Director 1886 President 9/1917-8/22 Powers, 3:988-90 Grand Trunk Western Born Aug. 12, 1842, Schuyler KEITH, W. G. # [St. Joseph] Director 1912-18 Co., N. Y. Benton Harbor & St Joseph Chicago, Detroit & Canada 1861 to Beloit, Wisc. Electric Grand Trunk Jct. In Civil War First Director 1900 Vice President, Director 1864 to Grand Rapids, civil 1912-17 engineer KELIHER, Peter C. [Sault Ste. Detroit & Huron 1869 to Cedar Springs, Marie] Vice President, Director surveyor Sault Ste. Marie Street 1914-17 1875 to Petoskey, surveyor First Director 1887 Detroit & Toledo Shore Line ---- Vice President, Director Grand Rapids & Indiana KELLER, Harry Armstrong # 1912-17 Surveyor 1869-73 [Toledo] Detroit, Grand Haven & Detroit & Petoskey BiogRy1901, 295-96 Milwaukee First Director 1889 Born Feb. 28, 1861, St. Marys, Vice President, Director Ohio 1912-17 KEEP, William ---- Detroit Terminal Born May 20, 1812, Homer, N. Lake Erie & Western Director 1913-17 Y. Various work 1879-9/85 Grand Rapids Terminal Brother of Albert Keep Cincinnati Northern Vice President, Director Died July 29, 1865, Lockport, Traveling Auditor 4/1887- 1912-17 N. Y. 7/92 Michigan Air Line Ry ---- Accountant 7/1892-10/93 Vice President, Director Erie & Kalamazoo Paymaster 10/1893-9/1900 1912-17 Director 1852 Auditor 9/1900-1902 Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Michigan Southern & Northern Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Vice President, Director Indiana Auditor 1900-01 1912-17 Director 4/1861-8/65 St. Clair Tunnel Co. Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 5 Vice President, Director Ludington Southern Rapids] 1912-17 First Director 1906 Grand Rapids Herald, Sept. 18, Manager 1916-17 1935 Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon KELLIE, William Milroy # Born Mar. 27, 1863, Cascade Vice President, Director [Minneapolis] Twp., Kent Co. 1912-17 BiogRy1885, 131 1885 started with bank Born Feb. 1, 1849, Boston, 1891 and 1903 organized new KELLEY, Mark N. [Hadley] Mass. banks MichBiog, 1:459; HistLap, 125 Died Apr. 23, 1926, 1909 started buying utility Born Oct. 17, 1831, Pontiac Minneapolis, N. C. companies 1844 family to Lapeer ---- President, American Public 1873 built elevator at Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Utilities Co., 1912-16 Metamora Various work 5/1867-?? Died Sept. 17, 1935, Grand Mich. representative 1885-88 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Rapids Died 1922, Metamora Ste. Marie ---- ---- Div. Superintendent 1888- Grand Rapids & Indiana Lapeer & Holly 91 Clerk 1883-84 First Director 1872 Grand Rapids, Kalkaska & KELLOGG, Andrew J. [Allegan] Southeastern KELLEY, Martin B. [Elsie] Michigan Lake Shore First Director, Director, Owosso & Big Rapids Secretary 1869 Treasurer 1897 First Director 1869 KELLOGG, John Russell KELSEY, Edward R. # [Toledo] KELLEY, Samuel Harlan # MichBiog, 1:460-461 Very active in Rotary club [Benton Harbor] Born May 16, 1793, New ---- MichBiog, 1:459-460 Hartford, N.Y. Toledo & Western Born Mar. 27, 1861, Marion, 1836 to Allegan Director 1910-12 Ind. State representative 1838 Toledo, Ottawa Beach & 1866 family to Savannah, Mo. Died Mar. 13, 1868, Allegan Northern 1882-85 in Washington, D.C., ---- Director 1911-12 govt. employee Allegan & Marshall 1884 graduated Columbia Commissioner, First KELSEY, Sullivan Redfield Univ. Law School Director 1836 [Corunna] 1886 to Scott City, Kans. May be MichBiog, 1:462; ABH- 1889 to St. Joseph, attorney KELLOGG, Joseph Ely II/6:46-47 1893 to Benton Harbor, Born 1833 Born Aug. 16, 1805, Fair attorney ---- Haven, N. Y. State representative 1905-08 Cadillac & Evart 1833 to Birmingham, opened ---- First Director 1882 first store South Haven & Eastern Died Nov. 28, 1886, Corunna Director 1897 KELLY, William J. ---- Saugatuck & South Haven [Philadelphia] East Saginaw & Ann Arbor First Director 1898 Chicago, Saginaw & Canada First Director, Director Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Director 1875-82 1869-72 Columbus President 1876 Attorney 1899-1902 Treasurer 1878-82 KELSO, Clarence Eugene # Director 1902 [Manistique] South Haven & Eastern KELSEY, B. F. [Pontiac] HistNP, 3:1104-5 Attorney 1900-02 Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Born Oct. 3, 1859, Benton Harbor Terminal Superintendent Motive Morgantown, Morgan Co., Ind. First Director 1901 Power & Equipment 1884 1863 famiy to Illinois Michigan Shore & Eastern 1897 to Manistique, Asst. Secy. First Director 1903 KELSEY, Charles B. [Grand Chicago Lumbering 6 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Co. KENDALL, Lucius B. Wert, Oh.] 1910 Secy. Chicago Lumbering [Kalamazoo] Div. Superintendent 8/1912- Co, also Secy. Born 1842 in Michigan 14 Western Lumber Co Died Aug. 1899; buried in General Superintendent Died 1939, Escanaba Kalamazoo 1915-17 ---- ---- Manistique & Northwestern Kalamazoo & South Haven KENNEDY, Michael J. # [New Secretary, Treasurer 1897- First Director 1869 York City] 1901 Treasurer 1872-80 Detroit & Chicago Traction General Freight Agent 1899- Director 1872-87 First Director 1901 1901 Mackinac & Chicago First Director 1872 KENNEDY, Stiles [St. Louis] KELTY, John Wesley [Midland] BiogGrat, 88-89 Born June 1846, North Beaver, KENNEDY, Arthur # Born Apr. 1, 1838, Lebanon, Pa. [Pittsburgh] Ky. Bank accountant Braddock & Turtle Creek 1859 graduated Univ. Penn. Died Oct. 1910, Midland Street Ry medical school ---- Director, President 1892 Confederate army surgeon, Midland & Northern Indiana Ry 1861-65 First Director, Director Director, President 1901 1871 to St. Louis, physician 1894-97 Washington Street Ry and surgeon Secretary, Treasurer 1894- Director, Treasurer 1901 Died May 29, 1910, St. Louis 97 Niles & Buchanan ---- First Director 1904 Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis KEMP, F. W. # [Marquette] Southern Michigan First Director 1897 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Director, President 1906-09 Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Auditor 1916-17 First Director 1900 Hancock & Calumet KENNEDY, Harvey [New York Treasurer 1917 City] KENNEDY, Thomas John # Mineral Range Success, 1:365-66 [Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.] Auditor 1916-17 Born Dec. 28, 1826, West Canadian Pacific Sainte Marie Union Depot Galway, N. Y. Various work ??-1899 Director 1917 1859 to New York City, opened Trans-St. Marys Traction stock brokerage house Manager 1900-11 KENDALL, Charles # Died Dec. 9, 1889, New York Algoma Central & Hudson Bay [Hancock] City General Superintendent Born c.1855 --- 1900-14 Head mining captain, Quincy Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific President 1915 Mine, 1912-20 Major investor, early 1870s Died Oct. 25, 1920, Hancock Chicago & North Western KENNAN, Thomas L. ---- Director 6/1870-6/78 [Milwaukee] Quincy & Torch Lake Delaware, Lackawanna & Gogebic & Montreal River Director 1915-17 Western First Director 1883 Major investor, early 1880s KENDALL, David S. [Hancock] KENNEY, Salmon, see KEENEY HistUP, 294 KENNEDY, John V. # Born Oct. 15, 1828, New York BiogRy1913, 303 KENYON, Frank P. [Chesaning] City Born July 28, 1873, Cleveland East Saginaw & Ann Arbor 1859 to Hancock, mrchant ---- First Director, Director ---- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 1869-72 Mineral Range & St. Louis Director 1879-84 Various work 1888-/1912 KEPHART, Henry [Berrien Cincinnati Northern [Van Springs] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 7 HistBerr, 310-11 Mayor of Lansing, 1860 1866 to Saginaw in lumbering Born May 26, 1847, Berrien Died July 29, 1868, Lansing ---- Springs ---- Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw Son of Philip Kephart Lansing & Jackson First Director, Director 1874 made partner with father First Director 1863 1887-89 in store Died Nov. 23, 1934 KESSLER, C. S. # [Manistee] KETCHUM, Frank E. ---- Manistee Ry [Marquette] South Bend, Niles & St. Joseph General Manager 1914-15 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic First Director 1884 Div. Superintendent 1893- St. Joseph Valley KESSLER, Harry G. # [Saginaw] 97 Director 1885 Bay City Traction & Electric Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Auditor, Secretary 1909 Ste. Marie and KEPHART, Philip Saginaw Valley Traction Duluth, South Shore & HistBerr, 310-11 Auditor, Secretary 1909 Atlantic Born Jan. 7, 1807, Switzerland Saginaw-Bay City Ticket Agent ?-1907 Father of Henry Kephart Secretary 1910 Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co. 1842 to Berrien Springs, Auditor 1911-12 Superintendent 1905 merchant Grand Rapids, Holland & Died Sept. 23, 1880, Berrien Chicago KETCHUM, George [Marshall] Springs General Auditor 1915 HistCal2, 12 ---- Michigan United Rys Born Oct. 14, 1794, St. Joseph River General Auditor, Director Northumberland, N. Y. First Director 1867 1916-17 Brother of Sidney Ketchum Elkhart & Lake Michigan Michigan Ry Apr. 1831 to Marshall First Director 1868 Auditor 1917 Village president, 1846 Died June 29, 1853, Sonora, KERCHEVAL, Benjamin B. KETCHAM, George S. [Toledo] Calif. MichBiog, 1:465 Detroit & Toledo ---- Born Apr. 9, 1793, Winchester, First Director 1890 River Raisin & Grand River Va. Commissioner 1835 to Detroit "early age" KETCHAM, James Lewis [East 1821 to Fort Wayne, Ind., Saginaw] KETCHUM, James L. Pension Agent, 1821-23 Born Mar. 4, 1819, Mount (see James L. KETCHAM) 1823 to Detroit, merchant Hope, N. Y. State senator 1838-9 1857 to East Saginaw to check KETCHUM, Sidney [Marshall] Connected with several banks on timber investments Born Jan. 17, 1797, Peru, N. Y. Died March 23, 1855, Detroit Timberland owner Brother of George Ketchum ---- Mayor of East Saginaw, 1868- Died Sept. 17, 1862, Marshall Detroit & St. Joseph 69 ---- First Director 1835 Died Apr. 9, 1890, Milwaukee Allegan & Marshall Gilbralter & Clinton ---- Commissioner 1836 Commissioner 1837 Various roads Various work 1841-57 KEVIEN, James H., Jr. # KERENS, James H., Jr. # Salina Street Gogebic & Iron Counties Ry & [Bessemer] First Director 1863 Light Ontonagon Southern Saginaw & St. Clair River First Director, Director 1910 First Director 1907 First Director 1870 Secretary 1914 Gogebic Street KERR, John A. [Lansing] KETCHAM, Phillip H. [East First Director 1910-15 Political Graveyard Saginaw] Born June 7, 1825 Born Feb. 22, 1845, Staten KEYS, John Findlay # [Detroit] Printer; newspaper owner Island, N. Y. BkDet1914, 283; HistMich, 8 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 3:402-03 ---- AuSable & Northwestern Born Feb. 13, 1879, Cincinnati Rochester, Almont & Northern Superintendent Telegraph 1922 into real estate investing First Director 1879 1892-93 ---- Various Detroit street railways KILLAM, Powell C. [Addison KIMBALL, Charles Ford Various work 1895-1905 Twp., Macomb Co.] [Pontiac] Detroit, Jackson & Chicago PortraitOak, 897-98 PortraitOak, 335-37 General Passenger Agent Born May 7, 1819, Monroe Co., Born July 24, 1834, Piermont, 1908 N. Y. N. H. Detroit United Brother of Ira Killam 1871 to Pontiac, newspaper Special Car Agent 1905-07 1843 to Addison Twp. editor General Passenger Agent Died June 20, 1862 1875-80 postmaster 1908-1/22 ---- ---- Detroit & Port Huron Shore Rochester, Almont & Northern St. Clair River, Pontiac & Line First Director 1879 Jackson General Passenger Agent First Director 1872 1908-10 KILLEN, William H. # Secretary [Minneapolis] St. Clair & Chicago Air Line KIDDER, George Francis # Born c.1857 First Director 1872 [Kalamazoo] Died Nov. 5, 1919, Minneapolis Secretary 1872-74 Born June 5, 1824, ---- Pontiac & Oxford Weathersfield, Vt. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault First Director 1879 Died May 25, 1902, Kalamazoo Ste. Marie ---- Land Commissioner 1910- KIMBALL, David Pulsifer # Kalamazoo, Lowell & Northern 14 [Boston] Michigan General Land & Tax Agent WhosWhoFB, 388; Secretary, Treasurer 1872- 1915-17 WhosWhoNE, 559 73 Born Sept. 30, 1833, Boston KILLMASTER, John H. Attorney KIDDER, Nathan Broughton [Killmaster (Alcona Co.)] ---- [Chicago] Killmaster Chicago & North Western Born Oct. 12, 1803, First Director 1893 Director 9/1884-1917 Spencertown, N. Y. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Banker KILPATRICK, William Marvin Western Died June 27, 1875, Chicago # [Owosso] Director 1891-92 ---- MichBiog, 1:468-469; ABH- Fitchburg Michigan Southern II/6:47-48; Director 1887-97 Director 6/1847-6/1849 Republican, 2:250-51 Boston & Maine Peninsula RR Born Dec. 25, 1840, Middlesex, Director 1890-?? First Director 1862 N. Y. Nashua & Lowell 1866 graduated Univ. Mich. President KILETE, Harry D. # [Detroit] law school Detroit Connecting 1866 to Owosso, attorney KIMBALL, George Caleb # First Director 1918 Local offices, mayor Born Feb. 10, 1829, Dover, N. State senator 1881-82, 1895- H. KILLAM, Ira [Bruce Twp.] 96 Died Dec. 21, 1901, Grand HistMacomb, 753 Died Sept. 18, 1919, Ann Rapids Born Apr. 23, 1822, Arbor; buried in Owosso ---- Wheatland, Monroe Co., N. Y. ---- Cocheco Brother of Powell C. Killam Northern Michigan Central Superintendent 1857-63 1845 to Bruce Twp., Macomb First Director 1881 Boston & Maine Co., farmer Asst. Superintendent 1863- Died c.1904 KIMBALL, B. M. [AuSable] 65 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 9 Flint & Holly [Saginaw] 2/1899 First Director 1898 Superintendent 1865-68 Chief Engineer 9/1904-1/06 Green Bay Traction Co [Green Flint & Pere Marquette Pere Marquette [Detroit] Bay, Wisc.]. [Saginaw] Chief Engineer 3/1899- Superintendent 1907 Superintendent 1868-69 11/1902 General Superintendent KING, Amos A. [Ingham Twp., 1870-72 KIMBALL, Reuben [Saginaw] Ingham Co.] Chicago & Michigan Lake Born c.1840, New Hampshire Crystal Lake Shore [St. Joseph] Lumbering partner of Ammi First Director 1891 General Manager 1874-78 W. Wright Receiver 11/11/1876-78 ---- KING, C. B. # [Detroit] Chicago & West Michigan Ontonagon & Brule River Detroit & Port Huron Shore [Muskegon] First Director 1880 Line Vice President, Director Director 1903-05 1879-83 KIMBALL, Robert J. [New York General Manager 1879-83 City] KING, Charles A. [Toledo] White River [Muskegon] Detroit & Cincinnati Mayor, Toledo, 1867-68 First Director, Director First Director 1896 Died Jan. 1904, Toledo 1879-84 Detroit & Lima Northern ---- President 1879-84 Director 1897 Detroit & State Line First Director 1872 KIMBALL, George Henry # KIMBALL, Samuel H. [Erie, Pa.] Toledo, Canada Southern & BkDet, 267; BiogRy1913, 305- 1856, president, Sharon Iron Detroit 06 Co. Director 1872 Born Dec. 8, 1849, 1861, agent for Jackson Iron Newburyport, Mass. Co. KING, Charles D. [Bloomer 1876 graduated Mass. Inst. ---- Twp.] Technology Marquette & State Line Crystal Lake Consulting engineer 1891-98 First Director 1857 First Director 1891 Private consultant 1/1906-13 [Detroit] KIMMIS, Austin Noble [W. KING, Edward ---- Novi] Born Feb. 15, 1815, Newport, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Born Aug. 21, 1813, R. I. Louis Washington Co., N. Y. “China trader,” 1837-42 Superintendent Bridges & c.1836 to Washtenaw Co., Died Sept. 2, 1875, New York Buildings 1876-10/79 farmer City Columbus & Sunday Valley 1858 to Novi, farmer ---- Superintendent 10/1879- Sheriff, Oakland Co., 1861-65 Michigan Central 1/80 Supervisor, Novi Twp., 1868- Incorporator 1846 Little Miami 69 Engineer, Maintenance of Died June 13, 1897, Novi KING, Frank J. [Adrian] Way 1/1880-3/81 ---- Erie & Kalamazoo Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis Holly, Wayne & Monroe Treasurer, Director 1844-45 Chief Engineer 4/1881- First Director 1865 10/82 KING, George E. # [Chicago] New York, Chicago & St. Louis KINCH, Melvin John # BiogRy1913, 306 Superintendent 10/1882- Born 1862, Canada Born May 1, 1844 1/89 ---- 1864-65 in 130th Ohio Lake Shore & Michigan Holland & Lake Michigan Volunteers Southern [Cleveland] [Ironwood] ---- Chief Engineer 3/1889-7/91 First Director 1897 Michigan Southern & Northern Chicago & Alton Saugatuck, Douglas & Lake Indiana Chief Engineer 9/1898- Shore [Ironwood] Clerk 1863-5/64 10 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Detroit & Bay City Asst. Secretary, Asst. Treasurer, Cass Co., 1844-45 General Agent 5/1874- Treasurer 1912-14 1855 established bank, into 12/76 [Bay City] Director 1912-14 real estate Michigan Central [1887 Pere Marquette [Detroit] Died Mar. 10, 1883, Cassopolis Detroit] Receiver 1914-17 ---- Ticket Agent 12/1876-4/87 Fort Street Union Depot Peninsular Ry Extension Asst. General Ticket Agent Director 1915-17 First Director 1866 4/1887-3/89 Asst. General Passenger KING, Rufus Howard KINGSBURY, Solomon O. Agent 3/1889-4/1905 Born Nov. 30, 1794, Ridgefield, MichBiog, 1:471 Conn. Born May 2, 1812, Enfield, KING, Harvey [Detroit] Banker in Albany, N. Y. Conn. Grand River Street Died July 9, 1867, Albany, N. Y. No date to Grand Rapids, First Director 1869 ---- merchant Detroit, Howell & Lansing Michigan Central County treasurer, 1849-52 First Director, Director 1870 Incorporator 1846 State representative, 1867-68 Postmaster, Grand Rapids, KING, John E. [Detroit] KING, Willard V. [New York 1867-69 Detroit Western Transit City] Died May 16, 1886 First Director 1872 President, Columbia ---- Detroit Western Transit & Knickerbocker Trust Co., 1914 Grand Rapids, Traverse Bay & Junction ---- Mackinac First Director 1881 Lansing City Electric First Director 1856 First Director 1892 KING, John L. # [Syracuse, N.Y.] South Shore Traction Co. KINGSLEY, George Almon # Syracuse & Suburban Receiver 1912 [Minneapolis] President 1906 BiogRy1913, 307; HistMpls, Saginaw, Owosso & Lansing KING, Zena P. 3:151-52 First Director 1906 Ann Arbor Street Born Apr. 4, 1872, Madison, First Director 1886 Wisc. KING, N. # 1897 graduated Univ. Wisc. Jackson & Battle Creek KINGMAN, Richmond [Battle Law School Traction Creek] 1899 to Milwaukee First Director 1902 BiogCal, 64-65; PortraitCal, 1909 to Minneapolis 566-67 Died Mar. 2, 1953, Minneapolis KING, Paul H. # Born Jan. 21, 1821, ---- MichBiog, 1:470; CityDet, Cummington, Mass. Wisconsin Central 4:716-17 1880 to Battle Creek, banker Claim Agent 1899-1904 Born Aug. 22, 1879, Arapahoe, Died Jan. 28, 1895, Battle Asst. Tax Commissioner Nebr. Creek 1904-06 1891 with family to Wadena, ---- Asst. Attorney, Tax Commr. Minn. St. Louis, Sturgis & Battle 1906-4/09 1895 to Dowagiac Creek Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault 1897-1907 clerk, various state First Director 1884 Ste. Marie govt. offices Battle Creek & Bay City Attorney 4/1909-14 Died May 17, 1942, Highland First Director 1888 Asst. General Solicitor 1914- Park 16 ---- KINGSBURY, Asa [Cassopolis] Federal Attorney 1917-18 Grand Rapids Ry ABH-1,4:39-40; HistCass, 328- General Attorney 1919-(22) Secretary to President 1911- 30; HistCass2, 70 14 Born May 28, 1806, Newton KINGSLEY, James Grand Rapids, Holland & Heights, Mass. MichBiog, 1:471-72 Chicago [Grand Rapids] 1836 to Cassopolis, mercantile Born Jan. 6, 1797, Canterbury, Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 11 Conn. First Director 1890 4/1905-8/10 1826 to Ann Arbor Kansas City Terminal Mich. Legis. Council 1830-3, KINMAN, James K. President 8/1910-4/12 State senator 1838-39, ‘42; 1835 to Hillsdale Co. State representative 1837, Newspaper publisher KINNEY, Charles Franklin 1847, 1869-70 Died July 31, 1857, Joneesville [Angola, Ind.] Probate judge ---- Born c.1836 2nd Ann Arbor mayor Jonesville Died Apr. 3, 1873 Died Aug. 10, 1878, Ann Arbor Commissioner 1840 ---- ---- Fort Wayne, Jackson & Detroit & St. Joseph KINNE, Edward DeWitt # [Ann Saginaw Commissioner 1835 Arbor] Director 1872 MichBiog, 1:473; CycMich, 159- KINGSLEY, Willard # [Grand 60; HistMich1915, 2:784-85 KINNEY, Salmon, see KEENEY Rapids] Republican, 2:252-53 Attorney Born Feb. 9, 1842, East KINSMAN, Arthur Monroe # ---- Syracuse, N. Y. BiogRy1913, 308 Grand Rapids, Holland & 1864 graduated Univ. Mich. Born Nov. 19, 1856, Chicago 1867, Ann Arbor, attorney Leominster, Mass. Director 1912 State representative 1880-81; Died Nov. 28, 1939 Judge 1886-1917 ---- KINGSMILL, Nicol # [Toronto] Died July 25, 1921, Ann Arbor Various roads Born c.1847 ---- Engineering Dept. 1876- ---- Toledo, Ann Arbor & North 5/95 Michigan Midland Michigan Wisconsin & Michigan First Director 1870 First Director 1882 [Menominee, 1897 Chicago] Chicago & Canada Southern Chief Engineer 5/1895-3/99 Director 1874-75 KINNEAR, Wilson Sherman # Wisconsin, Michigan & Canada Southern Bridge Co. [Detroit] Northern Secretary, Director 1899- BkDet, 269; BiogRy1913, 307- First Director 1898 1905 08 Baltimore & Ohio Michigan Midland & Canada Born May 25, 1864, Circleville, Engineer of Construction Secretary, Director 1899- Ohio 3/1899-3/1909 1905 Attended Kansas State Univ. Chief Engineer 3/1909-4/10 Toledo, Canada Southern & 1912 into realty business [Baltimore] Detroit ---- Consulting Engineer Secretary, Director 1899- Various roads 4/1910-13 1905 Engineering Work 1883-90 Detroit River Tunnel Co. Michigan Central KINSMAN, George Chandler # Director 1910-12 Asst. Engineer-Maintenance BiogRy1906, 338 of Way 2/1890-5/95 Born Aug. 22, 1850, Ellington, KINGWILL, J. Henry [Chicago] Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo N. Y. Battle Creek & Sturgis Superintendent of ---- Secretary, Treasurer, Engineering 5/1895-1/96 Toledo, Wabash & Western Director 1889 MichiganCentral Various work 8/1868-79 Bay City & Battle Creek Asst. Engineer 1/1896- Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Secretary, Treasurer, 9/1901 Chief Train Dispatcher Director 1889 Asst. Superintendent [St. 1879-81 [Springfield, Ill.] Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis Thomas] 9/1901-6/02 Asst. Supt. Telegraph 1881- First Director 1889 Asst. General 3/84 [Decatur, Ill.] Superintendent 7-9/1902 Superintendent Telegraph KINKADE, R. R. [Marquette] Chief Engineer 9/1902-4/05 3/1884-86 Detroit & Toledo Asst. General Manager Wabash Western 12 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Superintendent Telegraph First Director 1898 1853 to Saginaw, began ship 1887-88 building; partner with Jesse Wabash KIRBY, John J. # [Toledo] Hoyt Superintendent Telegraph BiogRy1913, 308 Pioneer in salt-making in 1889-1908 Born Dec. 16, 1860, Dayton, Saginaw valley Ohio 1872 to New York City, KIPP, Charles [St. Johns] Died Jan. 7, 1924 engineer and builder ABH-1,6:48 ---- Died Jan. 29, 1906, New York Born March 6, 1824, Clarence, Pennsylvania-West City N. Y. Freight Clerk 1877-88 ---- 1836 to Lapeer Co. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Street of East Saginaw 1848 to Genesee Co., Michigan First Director 1878 mercantile Freight Agent 1888-91 1852 to Clinton Co., mercantile Traveling Passenger Agent KIRK, Marcus D. [Sturgis] 1856 to St. Johns, hardware 1891-96 Born 1841, Ohio merchandise Ann Arbor With 30th Ind. Infantry in Civil County treasurer, 1861-68 Asst. General Passenger War ---- Agent 1/1896-5/1901 1880, Sturgis postmaster Lansing, St. Johns & Mackinac General Passenger Agent Died 1909 First Director 1869 5/1901-13 ---- Lansing & St. Johns Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Sturgis & Indiana First Director 1871 General Passenger Agent First Director 1882 7/1905-5/10 KIPP, James Manistique & Lake Superior KIRK, Robert W. # [Adrian] MichBiog, 1:473 General Passenger Agent Toledo & Michigan Electric Born June 13, 1801, Cayuga 1911-13 First Director 1903 Co., N.Y. 1836 to Atlas Twp KIRBY, John KIRKBY, W. W. # [Toledo], see 1855 to Duplain Twp., Clinton BiogRy1885, 136; J. J. Kirby Co BiogRy1893, 210 1857 to St. Johns, farmer Born Oct. 22, 1823, Oxford, KIRKLAND, Joshua K. [LeRoy State representative 1857-8 England Twp., Ingham Co.] Many local offices 1848 to U. S. Born Jan. 15, 1821, Seneca Co., Co. Supt. of Poor 1866-84 Died Dec. 1915, Adrian N. Y. Died Oct. 22, 1884, St. Johns ---- Died Oct. 19, 1899 ---- Various roads ---- Genesee & Oakland Various work 8/1848-7/54 Howell & Lansing Commissioner 1848 Michigan Southern & Northern First Director 1868 Indiana KIRBY, Frank Eugene # Car Repairman 7/1854- KIRKMAN, Marshall Monroe # [Detroit] 10/70 [Adrian] [Chicago] Born July 1, 1849, Cleveland Master Car Builder BiogRy1885, 136-137; Son of Stephen R. Kirby 10/1870-10/92 [Cleveland] BiogRy1893, 210; 1870 to Detroit BkChi¸ 336 Ship designer and builder KIRBY, Stephen Russell [East Born July 10, 1842, Morgan Designed Mackinac Transp. Co. Saginaw] Co., Ill. ships: St. Ignace, HistMich1915, 3:1470-72 Wrote many technical books Ste Marie, Chief Wawatam. Born May 25, 1824, Spring on railroading Died Aug. 25, 1929, Bronxville, Port, N. Y. Died Apr. 17, 1921, Chicago N. Y.; Father of Frank E. Kirby, ---- buried Valhalla, N. Y. marine engineer Chicago & North Western ---- 1842 captain of ships for Various work 2/1857-6/81 Detroit, Utica & Romeo American Fur Co. Comptroller 6/1881-89 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 13 2nd Vice President 11/1889- Pittsburgh & Lake Superior BiogRy1893, 211; 1905 First Director 1884 BiogRy1913, 310 Vice President 1906-09 Born Dec. 11, 1856, North Escanaba & Lake Superior KIRKWOOD, Richard # Andover, Mass. First Director 1880 [Minneapolis] 1877 graduated Mass. Inst. Treasurer, Director 1881 Born Dec. 27, 1856, Technology Iron Range Manchester, England ---- Treasurer, Director 1888 Died Apr. 28, 1916, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Iron River Minneaoplis Louis Treasurer, Director 1888 ---- and Pennsylvania-West Menominee River Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Maintenance of Way Dept. Treasurer 1877-81 Ste. Marie 1880-90 Director 1879-81 Asst. Auditor 1908-12 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Auditor 1913-15 & St. Louis [Cinci.] KIRKPATRICK, David H. Asst. Chief Engineer 1890- Holly, Wayne & Monroe KIRWIN, Joseph # [Grand 7/91 Commissioner 1865 Rapids] Chief Engineer 7/1891- Chief Engineer 1865 Born April, 1870, Ingersoll, 4/1906 Ontario New York Central & Hudson KIRKPATRICK, James C. # 1892 grad. Univ. of Mich. law River [New York City] [Escanaba] school Chief Engineer 4/1906- HistNP, 3:1470 Attorney 12/14 Born Feb. 10, 1862, Pittsburgh, ---- New York Central [New York Pa. Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & City] Son of Joseph Kirkpatrick Muskegon Chief Engineer 1/1915-(22) 1874 to Palmer First Director 1899 Pres., Pittsburg & Lake Grand Rapids, Belding & Ionia KITZINGER, George [Manistee] Superior Iron Co. First Director 1901 Grass Lake & Manistee River ---- Director 1888-91 Escanaba Electric Street KISSAM, Samuel H. [New York Director 1904-08 City] KITZINGER, Gustav [Manistee] Escanaba Traction Born 1830 Born c.1854, Germany Treasurer, Director 1909-17 Brother-in-law of William H. Owner Beaver Island Lumber 1st Vice President 1909 Vanderbilt Co. ---- ---- KIRKPATRICK, Joseph Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Grass Lake & Manistee River [Palmer] Michigan Director 1886-87 HistNP, 3:1470 Director 1894 Treasurer 1886 Born 1821, Ireland Cheboygan Southern Father of James C. Kirkpatrick KITTON, John E. [St. Clair] First Director 1903 1874 to Palmer, iron dealer Born Sept. 30, 1810, England Died 1903 Died May 20, 1887, St. Clair KITZINGER, Otto [Milwaukee] ---- ---- Grass Lake & Manistee River Pittsburgh & Lake Superior Grand Trunk Ry of Michigan Director 1886-88 First Director 1884 First Director 1866 Vice President 1886 Michigan Air Line Extension President 1887 KIRKPATRICK, William M. First Director 1869 [Palmer] Michigan Midland KLEIN, John # [Chicago] MichBiog, 1:475 First Director 1870 Trans-Michigan Street Born Jan. 17, 1849, Allegheny Michigan Midland & Canada First Director 1906 City, Pa. Director 1872-75 State representative 1885-86 KLEINHAUS, Jacob # [Grand ---- KITTREDGE, George Watson # Rapids] 14 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Died 1918 Delray Connecting 1888 to Grand Rapids ---- Director 1916-17 Grad. Univ of Mich., 1898, then Grand Rapids, Greenville & studied law Alpena KNAPP, John Died Apr. 14, 1938, Grand Secretary Bonner, 2:673-74 Rapids Grand Rapids, Rockford & Born Aug. 22, 1784, ---- Greenville Mamaroneck, N.Y. Grand Rapids Terminal Belt Secretary 1875 1834 to Medina Twp., Hillsdale First Director 1905 Grand Rapids Terminal Belt co., farmer First Director 1905 1841 to Weston, farmer KNEELAND, David M. # Michigan East & West Died Jan. 17, 1874, Adrian [Lewiston] First Director, Director ---- BiogNM, 820-21 1913-17 Medina & Canandaigua Born Feb. 28, 1861, Eagle Secretary 1913-17 Commissioner 1838 Harbor, Orleans Co., N. Y. 1881 to Grayling, with Salling, KLEINSMITH, R. # [Detroit] KNAPP, Samuel Oliver Hanson & Co., Interstate [Jackson] bookkeeper First Director 1900 ABH-1,3:61; MichBiog, 1:477 1892 to Lewiston, Gen. Born Apr. 21, 1816 or 1817, Manager. Michelson & KLEYBOLTE, Rudolph # [New Royalton, Vt. Hanson Lbr. Co. York City] (maybe 1844 to Upper Peninsula Died 1915 KLEYBOLTE) Late 1850s to Jackson --- Ann Arbor Involved in copper mining Grayling, Twin Lakes & Director 1906-08 1875, a founder of Bay View; Northeastern built first cottage there First Director 1891 KLINE, Walter D. # Died Jan. 6, 1883, Jackson Lewiston & Southeastern Michigan RR ---- First Director, Director First Director 1919 Michigan Air Line RR 1896-1909 Director 1872-82 President 1896-1909 KLINE, William, Jr. # [Toledo] Lake Shore & Michigan KNAPPEN, Loyal E. # [Grand KNICKERBOCKER, Charles R. Southern Rapids] [Jackson] Superintendent Telegraph HistBarr, 144; HistMich1915, PortraitJack, 867-68 1869-1908 4:2268; Born July 23, 1827, Monroe MichBiog, 1:477 Co., N. Y. KLOECKNER, Daniel [Hancock] Born Jan. 27, 1854, Hastings 1835 to Jackson HistUP, 318 Father of Stuart E. Knappen Merchant, flour miller 1858 family to Houghton Co. Grad. Univ. of Mich., 1873, then Died 1903 Chief clerk, Quincy Mine 1872- studied law ---- (83) 1875 law practice in Hastings Jackson & Ohio Died March 1892, Hancock 1888 to Grand Rapids, law First Director, Director ---- partner of C. H. VanArman 1884-86 Quincy & Torch Lake Died May 14, 1930, Grand First Director, Director Rapids KNIGHT, Benjamin [Eaton 1890-91 ---- Rapids] Secretary, Treasurer 1890- South Grand Rapids Street MichBiog, 1:477; HistIngEat, 91 First Director 1888 478 1838 built first store in Eaton KNAPP, Edwin N. [Owosso] KNAPPEN, Stuart E. # [Grand Rapids Owosso & Big Rapids Rapids] State representative 1844, 47 First Director 1869 HistKent2, 2:216 ---- Born Aug. 30, 1877, Hastings Grand River Valley KNAPP, H. # [Syracuse, N.Y.] Son of Loyal E. Knappen Commissioner 1846 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 15 Erie & Kalamazoo KNIGHT, Milton # [St. Louis, KNIGHT, William [Marquette, Director 1852-55 Mo.] 1896 Cleveland] BiogRy1885, 137; NPMemorial, 466-69 KNOWLTON, Edward R. BiogRy1893, 212 Born Apr. 9, 1845, BkChi, 339; RyBiog1893, 213 Born June 19, 1837, Scio, N.Y. Philadelphia Born Oct. 9, 1877, Jackson ---- 1869 to St. Paul, Minn., ---- Atlantic & Great Western lumbering Michigan Central Various work 4/1862-1/72 1888 to Tacoma, Wash, Telegraph Operator 1875-81 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lumbering Northern Pacific Various work 1/1872-1/78 1890 to Marquette, manager Train Dispatcher 1881-83 Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Dead River Mill Trainmaster, Asst. General Freight Agent Investments in Chicago street Superintendent 1883-89 1/1878-1/83 & elevated rys Wisconsin Central [Waukesha, General Freight Agent ---- Wisc.] 1/1883-86 Dead River Div. Superintendent 1889- Wabash Western President, Director 1892-97 91 General Freight Agent 1887- Mineral Range Chicago Terminal Transfer 88 Vice President, Director Superintendent 1891- Wabash 1893-95 Vice President 1901-04 KNOWLTON, Willis Taylor # KNISKERN, Warren Bradford [Saginaw] KNIGHT, Roswell Wellman # [Chicago] HistSag, 2:15-17 Bonner, 1:102-03 BkChi, 339; BiogRy1893, 212; Born July 30, 1848, Born Apr. 11, 1792, Litchfield BiogRy1913, 311 Portsmouth, N. H. Co., Conn. Born July 7, 1851 or 1853, 1864 to Chicago, flour miller Served in War of 1812 Carlisle, N. Y. 1874 to Saginaw, clerk for 1837 to Blissfield, farmer, later Died Feb. 20, 1931 Wright merchant ---- Lumbering partner of Ammi Died Mar. 12, 1860, Riga Various roads W. Wright ---- Various work 1873-76 Died Jan. 1, 1925, Pasadena, Erie & Kalamazoo Louisville & Nashville Calif. Contractor General Passenger ---- Department 1876-85 Cincinnati, Saginaw & KNIGHT, Samuel B. # [St. Chicago & North Western Mackinaw Louis, Mo.] Asst. General Passenger Director 1900-17 BiogRy1893, 212; Agent 1/1885-1/95 Secretary, Treasurer 1903- BiogRy1913, 311 General Passenger Agent 17 Born Dec. 13, 1845, Scio, N. Y. 1/1895-8/1902 ---- Passenger Traffic Manager KNOX, Reuben # [Chassell] Various roads 8/1902-5/10 Born c.1849 Various work 6/1864-2/81 Died c.1934 Wabash KNOTT, William A. [Patterson ---- Division Freight Agent Mills] Houghton, Chassell & 2/1881-7/87 Patterson Southwestern General Freight Agent First Director 1870 Secretary, Director 1910-11 2/1887-7/89 1st Asst. General Freight KNOWER, Benjamin [Albany, KOBUSCH, George J. [St. Louis, Agent 7/1889-1/90 N. Y.] Mo.] General Freight Agent Erie & Kalamazoo Born Aug. 23, 1866, St. Louis 1/1890-1/1906 Director 1855 Pres., St. Louis Car Co., 1889- Industrial Commissioner 1- (1906) 10/1906 KNOWER, John [Albany, N. y>] ---- 16 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Citizens Street [Kalamazoo] Minneapolis Born Jan. 11, 1881, Manistee First Director 1893 ---- ---- Michigan Traction Minneapolis Street Ry Manistee & Northeastern First Director 1896 Attorney 1886-90 Clerk 6/1900-5/10 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Auditor 5/1910-(22) KOCH, August # [Chicago] Ste. Marie Director 1913-(22) Trans-Michigan Street General Counsel 1889-(93) First Director 1906 KURN, James M. # KOSS, Otto A. # [Chicago] BiogRy1922, 356 KOEPCKE, A. F. # Wisconsin & Michigan Born Oct. 4, 1870, Mt. Clemens Marquette City & Presque Isle Auditor 1895-1904 ---- Asst. Treasurer 1905-06 Secretary 1900-04 Michigan Central Quinnesec & Western Telegrapher 1885-10/87 KOLLEN, Gerrit J. [Holland] First Director 1905 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe PortraitMuskOtt, 166; Telegrapher 10/1887-1903 MenProgress, 480 KRARUP, Helmut # [Elk Train Master 1903-9/05 Born Aug. 9, 1843, Rapids] Div. Superintendent 9/1905- Netherlands Elk Short Line 10/10 1851 came to U. S. First Director 1906 General Superintendent Graduated from and taught at 10/1910-2/14 Hope College KRECH, Alvin William # [New Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Pres., Hope College, 1893- York City] [Detroit] 1911 WhosWhoFB, 396; PPA, 1:199- President, Director 2/1914- Died 1915, Holland 200 3/18 ---- Born May 25, 1858, Hannibal, St. Louis-San Francisco Holland South Shore Mo. President 3/1918-(22) First Director 1890 1874-88 in flour milling 1888-94 ry contractor KUTZER, Henry [Newaygo] KOON, Ezra Lafayette 1894 with Mercantile Trust Co. Newaygo [Hillsdale] 1903 with Equitable Trust Co. First Director 1886 MichBiog, 1:480; PortraitLegis, Director of many railroads 219 Died May 3, 1928, New York KYLE, J. H. # [Van Wert, Oh.] Born Dec. 31, 1832, Tyrone, City Cincinnati Northern Pa. ---- Superintendent Telegraph Brother of Martin B. Koon Wabash 1910, 1912 1844 to Allen Twp., Hillsdale Director 1912-17 Co. State senator, 1869-70, 1883- KREMER, Israel [Coloma] 84 Benton Harbor, Coloma & Paw Mayor of Hillsdale, 1881-82 Paw Lake Died Feb. 9, 1892, Hillsdale First Director 1895 ---- Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana KRESS, Charles B. [St. Louis] Director 1872-74 Saginaw Valley & St. Louis First Director 1871 KOON, Martin Buren # [Minneapolis] KUECH, A. W. # [New York BiogRy1893, 213 City] Born Jan. 22, 1841, Altay, Ann Arbor Schuyler Co., N. Y. Director 1902 Brother of Ezra L. Koon c.1859 grad. Hillsdale Coll. KUEHL, Carl F. # [Manistee] Died Aug. 20, 1912, BiogRy1922, 356 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 17 L 1869-79 in Montana Auditor 1905 1879 to Sault Ste. Marie, Cashier 1905-07 LaBAR, H. T. [St. Louis] druggist Chicago, Saginaw & Canada ---- LAING, Samuel [London, Engl.] General Freight Agent Sault Ste. Marie Street Detroit, Grand Haven & 1879-82 First Director 1887 Milwaukee Director 1878 LaBROUCHE, Neal # [Blaney] LADD, Sanford Webb # Blaney & Southern [Jackson] LAKE, Henry W. # [Detroit] Asst. General Manager 1908- HistMich1915, 3:1440-41; Huron & Michigan 09 BkDet, 293 First Director 1903 Born Dec. 2, 1877, Milford Adrian & Ann Arbor Electric LACEY, Edward S. # [Charlotte, 1901 graduated Univ. Mich.; First Director 1904 1892 Chicago] 1902 studied at U. Mich. law MichBiog, 2:5; BkChi, 345 school LAMB, Aldus J. # [Toledo] Born Nov. 26, 1835, Chili N.Y. 1902 attorney at Port Huron Toledo, Ottawa Beach & 1842 to Union City 1908 to Detroit Northern 1843 to Kalamo Died Aug. 31, 1920, Detroit Director 1910 1857 to Charlotte, banker ---- U. S. Representative 1881-85 Michigan United Rys LAMB, Frank J. [Grand Rapids] U. S. Commr. of Currency 1889 First Director 1906 Grand River RR Died Oct. 2, 1916, Evanston, Ill. Attorney 1908-14 First Director 1891 ---- Lansing Southern Grand River Valley First Director 1907 LAMB, Fred S. [Cadillac] Secretary 1872-74 Lansing & Northeastern Born Sept. 28, 1863, St. Johns Treasurer 1875-80 First Director 1910 Circuit court judge Director 1872-1902 Michigan United Traction Died Dec. 28, 1951, Cadillac First Director 1911 ---- LACEY, Samuel S. [Marshall] Attorney 1912-14 Osceola, Lake & Wexford MichBiog, 2:6 Michigan Ry First Director 1892 Born May 28, 1815, General Counsel 1916-17 Bennington, Vt. Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & LAMB, Otis E. [Washington Graduate, Hamilton Coll. Chicago Twp., Macomb Co.] 1846 to Homer, farmer Attorney 1912-13 PastMacomb, 279 c.1855 to Marshall, various Born Oct. 16, 1790, Greenfield, work LaDUE, John [Bloomer Twp.] Mass. Died Feb. 2, 1892 Carson City & Palo 1824 to Macomb Co., farmer, ---- First Director 1871 tanner Jonesville, Marshall & Grand Died Feb. 2, 1881, Macomb Co. River LADUE, Pomeroy # [Lansing] ---- First Director, First Michigan United Rys Shelby & Belle River President 1867 Treasurer 1907-09 Commissioner 1836 LACKEY, George A. # [Three LADUS, J. T. LAMEI, Charles F. [New York Oaks] Detroit Western Transit City] New Buffalo & Lakeside First Director 1872 Chicago & Canada Southern First Director 1913 Director 1877 LAING, George L. # [Boyne LACY, Edward I. M. [Sault Ste. City] LAMOND, Robert D. [Flint] Marie] Boyne City & Southeastern MichBiog, 2:9; HistGen2, 2:832 HistUP, 226 Cashier 1902-04 Born Feb. 5, 1804, Middlefield, Born 1848, Ireland Auditor 1903-04 N. Y. 1864 to Macomb Co. Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Graduate Vermont Medical 18 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Coll. and Fairfield Medical Coll. Vice President of Alma Village, Litchfield Co., Conn. c.1830 to Pontiac, physician Sanitarium May 9, 1832 to Niles 1838 to Flint, physician ---- Niles postmaster, 1838-41; State representative 1844 Cincinnati, Saginaw & mayor, 1860-62 Died Aug. 14, 1872, Flint Mackinaw Berrien Co. treasurer 1843- 52 ---- Director 1901-17 State senator 1863-4 Flint & Pere Marquette Real estate dealer First Director 1857 LANDMAN, Louis Wiler # Died Dec. 26, 1886, Niles BiogRy1922, 361 ---- LAMPEY, C. P. (see C. P. Born Dec. 6, 1868, Grand Trunk Ry of Michigan LAMPREY) Waynetown, Ind. First Director 1866 ---- Michigan Air Line LAMPORT, Martin Guitteau Various roads Treasurer [Benton Harbor] Passenger Dept. 1886- Michigan Air Line RR Born July 29, 1823, Waterford, 9/1904 Director 1872-85 Pa. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago St. Clair & Chicago Air Line Hardware merchant & St. Louis Director 1872-74 Died Mar. 22, 1894 General Agent 9/1904-8/05 ---- [Toledo] LANE, M(oses) Henry # Chicago, Lake Michigan & New York Central & Hudson [Kalamazoo] Eastern River CycMich, 141-42; First Director 1891 General Agent 8/1905-06 MenProgress, [Toledo Born Jan. 21, 1849, Genoa LAMPORT, Ovid W. # Lake Shore & Michigan Twp, Cayuga, N. Y. (or July 6, BiogRy1885, 140; Southern 1849) BiogRy1893, 216 General Passenger Agent c. 1870 to Charlotte Co. Born Jan. 26, 1845, 1906-09 [Chicago] Brother-in-law of Frank B. Lay Mishawaka, Ind. Lake Erie & Western 1881 inc. Corland Buggy Co. in Died July 4, 1922, Wabash, Ind. General Passenger Agent Kalamazoo ---- 1910-1/11 1883 inc. Michigan Buggy Co. Lake Shore & Michigan Michigan Central [Chicago] in Kalamazoo Southern General Passenger Agent Died Dec. 2, 1921, Cheshire Various work 7/1863-12/80 1/1911-3/20 Twp., Allegan Co. Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Passenger Traffic Manager ---- [Wabash, Ind.] 3/1920-(24) Chicago & Kalamazoo Superintendent 12/1880-92 General Passenger Agent Terminal Chicago & South-Eastern 1930 President, Director 1895 General Superintendent 8- New York Central [Chicago] Chicago, Kalamazoo & Eastern 10/1892 Passenger Traffic Manager First Director 1905 3/1920-(22) Grand Trunk Western LAMPREY, C. P. # [Toledo] Director 1913-17 Detroit, Toledo & Ironton LANDON, George M. # General Traffic Manager [Monroe] LANE, William P. [Detroit] 5/1905-06 HistMonr2, 2:753 Landmarks, 262 Ann Arbor Born July 4, 1837, Monroe Born Feb. 13, 1860, Detroit General Traffic Manager ---- Wayne Co. clerk, 1887-90 1906-07 Detroit River & Lake Erie Attorney specializing in Terminal medical field LANCASHIRE, J. (for JAMES) First Director 1902 ---- HENRY # Detroit Suburban Street [Alma, 1914 Manchester, LANDON, Rufus W. First Director 1890 Mass.] MichBiog, 2:10; ABH-1,4:43 Physician Born May 3, 1815, Falls LANG, H. # [Chicago] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 19 Pere Marquette Haven, Vt. U. S. representative 1831-37 Traveling Passenger Agent 1848 began working in Died Jan. 3, 1862, Albany, N. Y. 4/1901-02 railroad construction ---- LANG, Lawrence F. # [Detroit] 1866 to Minneapolis, Michigan Central BkDet, 277; BkDet1914, 296 construction contractor Incorporator 1846 Born Apr. 6, 1860, Detroit Minn. state senator 1872-78, ---- 1880-85 LAPHAM, Jared S. [Northville] Grand Trunk Ry Canada Died July 24, 1895, CycMich, 296-97 Various work 1874-98 Minneapolis Born Feb. 4, 1822, Farmington, Michigan Central ---- N. Y. Auditor 1898-1900 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault 1844 to Northville, merchant Grand Trunk Western Ste. Marie 1869 organized bank Traveling Auditor 1900-03 Director 1888-94 Died Jan. 18, 1893, Northville Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Vice President 1890-93 ---- Auditor 9/1903-17 Holly, Wayne & Monroe LANGE, Herman O. # First Director 1865 LANG, Milton Bradford # [Elk [Muskegon] Bay City & East Saginaw Rapids] Born 1855, Bromberg, Director 1871 Born Dec. 1, 1848, Kilworth, Germany Ontario Owned Ferguson & Lange LARAWAY, William In 65th N. Y. Infantry Foundry, Chicago Born 1833, Plymouth Died May 18, 1919, Elk Rapids Died 1931, Chicago Died Dec. 26, 1885, Grand ---- ---- Rapids Elk Short Line West Branch & Moorestown ---- First Director 1906 Vice President, Director Fulton St. & Reeds Lake 1885-86 First Director 1875 LANG, William Bailey [New York City] LANGLEY, William C. LARDS, Charles H. # [Adrian] Born c.1801 Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Born June 27, 1844, Iron dealer Director 1857 Stavenhagen, Germany Died Aug. 5, 1887, Scarsdale, Chicago & North Western 1878 to Adrian, surgeon N. Y. Director 1859 ---- ---- Toledo & Michigan Electric Chicago & Lake Huron LANGLOIS, Joseph E. First Director 1903 First Director 1873 [Kaukauna, Wisc.] President, Director 1873 Born Dec. 25, 1850, Fond du LARIMORE, James C. [Niles] Lac, Wisc. ---- LANGAN, Frank L. [Lima, Ohio] Died 1912 Constantine & Niles Born Sept. 1852, Ohio ---- Commissioner 1836 Banker Various roads Elkhart, Niles & Lake Michigan ---- Train service 1869-(80) First Director 1880 Columbus & Lake Michigan Milwaukee, Lake Shore & First Director 1888 Western LARIMORE, Joseph Clark Columbus, Lima & Michigan Asst. Superintendent 1885 [Niles] First Secretary, First Div. Superintendent 1886 HistBerVB, 172-73 Treasurer 1889 Born May 5, 1807, Lima Street Ry LANMAN, J. C. Steubenville, Ohio Secretary 1892 Constantine & Niles 1834 to Niles, dry goods seller, First Director 1836 then drug store LANGDON, Robert Bruce 1872 one of founders of First [Minneapolis] LANSING, Gerrit Yates Natl. Bank HistMpls, 3:26-30 Born Aug. 4, 1783, Albany, N. Officer of Niles Paper Co. Born Nov. 24, 1826, New Y. Died Dec. 24, 1891, Chicago; 20 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) buried in Niles 1899 to Arcadia, with Stark First Director, Director ---- Land & Timber Co. 11/1884-87 St. Joseph River ---- President 11/1884-87 First Director 1867 Arcadia & Betsey River Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Elkhart & Lake Michigan Auditor 1908-12 Chief Engineer 11/1886-88 First Director 1868 Niles & South Bend LARSON, Elven T. [Ironwood] LATHAM, Daniel D. [New First Director 1869 Holland & Lake Michigan London, Conn.] First Director 1897 Mineral Range LARKE, Thomas Harris # Superintendent 1897 Director 1886 [Duluth] RyBiog1906, 351 LARSON, O. L. # [Manistee] LATHROP, Alanson P. # [New Born Apr. 17, 1864, Markesan, Manistee & Northeastern York City] Wisc. Director 1911-12 Muskegon Traction & Lighting Died Dec. 25, 1927, San Asst. Treasurer 1907 Francisco LARZELERE, John Y. Director 1908-17 ---- Born c.1812, Youngstown, N. Vice President 1910-12 Various roads Y. Telegrapher, Clerk 1881-89 1842 started woolen mill, LATHROP, Charles Bradley Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Ypsilanti (See LOTHROP, Charles Secretary to General Died July 30, 1847, Ypsilanti Bradley) Manager 1889-90 ---- Commercial Agent 1890- Ypsilanti & Tecumseh LATHROP, George H. [Jackson] 2/1901 Commissioner 1838 HistJack2, 266 Asst. General Passenger Born Mar. 13, 1825, Elyria, Agent 1899-2/1901 LASH, A. A. # [Suttons Bay] Ohio Leelanau Transit 1848 to Jackson LARMOUR, R. [Stratford, Ont.] First Director 1919 c.1874 to Traverse City Chicago, Detroit & Canada Died May 21, 1900, Traverse Grand Trunk Jct. LATCHA, Jacob Albert [Toledo] City; buried Jackson Div. Superintendent BiogRy1885, 141 ---- 1879-80 Born June 19, 1844, Lycoming Romeo & Western Asst. General Co, Pa. First Director 1870 Superintendent 1881-83 ---- Various roads LATHROP, Horace Newton LARNED, Charles [Detroit] Engineer 7/1865-11/82 MichBiog, 2:13 MichBiog, 2:12; ABH- Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Born Mar. 9, 1805, Norwich, I:part1:91; Red, 458-59 Michigan Conn. Born Dec. 28, 1791, Pittsfield, Director 1873-74 1836 to Lapeer Co., farmer Mass. Toledo & Milwaukee State representative 1853-54 Studied law with Henry Clay First Director 1878 Died May 9, 1871, Lapeer Served in War of 1812 President, Director ---- Mich. attorney general, 1831- 10/1878-11/82 Auburn & Lapeer 34 Chief Engineer 10/1878- Commissioner 1838 Died Aug. 13, 1834, Detroit 11/82 ---- New York, Chicago & St. Louis LATHROP, Kirke # [Detroit] Detroit & St. Joseph Chief Engineer 11/1880- HistMich1915, 4:1793-94 Commissioner 1832 1/85 Born Sept. 12, 1873, Detroit Michigan & Ohio 1896 graduate Univ. Mich. LARSON, Edward # [Arcadia] President, Director 1897-1900 vice consul in (sometimes missp. LARSEN) 11/1883-11/5/84 Hanover, Germany Powers, 3:1316 Receiver 9/1884-6/1/86 ---- Born Mar. 27, 1881, Manistee Toledo, Marshall & Northern Lansing & Northeastern Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 21 First Director 1910 Detroit & Lake Orion Died Aug. 20, 1928, Michigan United Rys First Director 1899 Hyannisport, Mass; buried Secretary 1912-14 North Detroit Electric Pittsburgh Director 1912-15 First Director 1899 ---- Detroit, Lake Orion & Flint Lake Superior & Ishpeming LATIMER, Charles First Director 1899 Vice President, Director BiogRy1885, 141; TwenCent, Grand Rapids, Holland & Lake 1896-1917 6:no page Michigan Born Sept. 7, 1827, First Director 1900 LAUGHLIN, Robert [East Washington, D.C. Howell & Lansing Saginaw] 1848 grad. U. S. Naval First Director 1901 Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron Academy Detroit, Lansing & Grand Superintendent 1888 U. S. Military RR Svc., engineer, Rapids 1861-65 First Director 1909 LAWHEAD, N. M. # Died Mar. 23, 1888, Cleveland [Pittsburgh] ---- LAU, William J. [Manistee] Ohio & Southern Michigan Various roads PortraitNMich, 163-64; First Director 1907 Engineer 1854-69 HistMpls, 2:546; Chicago & Michigan Lake BiogRy1893, 218 LAWLER, Charles M. Shore Born May 23, 1865, Mequon or BiogRy1885, 142; Asst. Engineer 1870 Thiensville, Wisc. BiogRy1893, 218 Chief Engineer 1871 1880 to Manistee, worked for Born 1839, Jersey City, N.J. Various roads Buckley & Douglas (maybe Mar. 17, 1840) Engineer 1872-(85) c.1895 to Minneapolis, ---- Shevlin-Carpenter Co. Various roads LaTOURETTE, David Lewis Died Dec. 15, 1955, Various work 1853-62 [Fenton] Minneapolis Chicago & North Western MichBiog, 2:13 ---- Various work 1862-73 Born Aug. 26, 1823, Seneca Buckley & Douglas Chicago & Michigan Lake Co., N.Y. Director 1886-88 Shore 1835 to Mich.; eventually into Manistee & Northeastern Div. Superintendent banking Auditor 1888-92 1874-78 [St. Joseph] c.1879 to Prescott, Ark. Secretary, Treasurer, Chicago & West Michigan Died Sept. 22, 1885, Prescott, Director 1888-94 Div. Superintendent Ark. 1879-80 [St. Joseph] ---- LAUBENGAYER, John F. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Ohio & Lake Superior [Owosso] Agent 1881-82 First Director 1865 Died Mar. 23, 1887, Owosso Sioux City & Pacific and Toledo, Ann Arbor & Saginaw ---- Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri First Director 1866 Owosso & Northwestern Valley First Director, Director General Superintendent LATTAMER, Emery [Bryan, 1871-77 1882-5/87 Ohio] Philadelphia & Reading Lima Northern LAUDER, James B. Div. Superintendent 6/1887- Director 1896 Springwells, Ecorse & 3/92 Wyandotte General Superintendent 3- LAU, George H. # [Detroit] First Director 1887 10/1892 Detroit, Pontiac & Owosso Asst. General Manager First Director 1914 LAUGHLIN, James B, Jr. 10/1892-3/93 [Pittsburgh] General Superintendent LAU, Oliver H. # [Detroit] Born Aug. 20, 1864 3/1893-(93) Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti Electric Grandson of founder of Jones First Director 1896 & Laughlin Steel Co. LAWRENCE, Charles 22 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) South Lyons & Northern 1850 to Utica, farmer Served with 4th Mich. Caavalry First Director 1890 1855-57 in California Probate judge, 1868-76 Served with 2nd Mich. Cavalry Died Feb. 7, 1887, Lawton LAWRENCE, Curtis J. [New 1861-65 ---- York City] Died July 30, 1888, Detroit; Lawton, Paw Paw & South Ann Arbor buried Utica Haven Director 1895 ---- First Director 1868 Mackinac & Lake Superior Paw Paw Valley LAWRENCE, Cyrus J. # [New [Detroit] First Director 1869 York City] First Director 1873 Paw Paw BiogNY, 261 Director 1872-74, 1884-86 Born Feb. 28, 1832, New York LAWRENCE, James # [New Toledo & South Haven City York City] Attorney 1877 Died Jan. 9, 1908, New York Muskegon Traction & Lighting Director 1878-86 City Asst. Auditor 1909-12 ---- Auditor 1913-17 LAWTON, Swaby L. # Wabash Western [Hancock] Director 1887-88 LAWRENCE, Wolcott Born Oct. 5, 1872, Lawton Wabash Red, 460; MichBiog, 2:14 1896 grad. Univ. Mich. law Director 1889-1902 Born Nov. 1, 1786, Pittsfield, school Detroit & State Line Wabash Mass. Attorney, Quincy Mining Co. First Director 1889 Father-in-law of Gov. Alpheus Died Mar. 4, 1948 Detroit Southern Felch ---- Director 1901-02 1816 to Monroe Quincy & Torch Lake Ann Arbor Mich. Legisl. Council, 1824-31 Director 1906-17 Director 1902-05 1824, one of founders of Attorney 1911 Vice President 1902-05 Tecumseh Died Apr. 29, 1843, Monroe LAWYER, Justin LAWRENCE, E. ---- PortraitBranch, 463-64 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North- Monroe & Ypsilanti Born Mar. 9, 1824, Schoharie eastern Commissioner 1836 Co., N. Y. First Director 1878 River Raisin & Lake Erie 1846 to Union City, attorney Commissioner 1836 1854 to Coldwater, attorney LAWRENCE, Edward F. Mayor, Coldwater, 1864-66, [Chicago] LAWSON, John L. # [Escanaba] 1871-72 Born Oct. 29, 1835, Groton, Escanaba Electric Street Died 1894, Coldwater Mass. Director 1907 ---- 1858 to Chicago, commission Ohio & Michigan [Coldwater] merchant LAWTON, Charles L. # First Director 1870 Into Great Lakes shipping [Hancock] Died Dec. 23, 1898, Chicago Born 1864, Auburn, N. Y. LAY, Frank B. [Kalamazoo] ---- General Manager, Quincy CompKal, 276-77 Battle Creek & Sturgis Mining Co. Born Nov. 29, 1856, Monterey Director 1889 ---- Twp., Allegan Co. Bay City & Battle Creek Quincy & Torch Lake Brother-in-law of M. Henry Director 1889 General Manager 1905-17 Lane Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis Vice President 1906-17 Died Oct. 6, 1933, Kalamazoo First Director 1889 Director 1906-17 ---- Chicago & Kalamazoo LAWRENCE, Erastus W. LAWTON, George Whitfield Terminal Born Dec. 22, 1805, [Lawton] Treasurer, Director 1895 Canajoharie, N. Y. HistVanB, 415 1838 to Pontiac Born Oct. 20, 1834, Mass. LAY, James B. [Brighton] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 23 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Saginaw Beech Creek LEACH, Gordon A. First Director 1866 General Manager 12/1890- Shelby & Detroit Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Commissioner 1834 LAYNG, George W. [Toledo] Vice President 1891-92 Born c.1839 Director 1892 LEACH, Gurdon Clement Clark Died July 31, 1894 Bingham, 412; MichBiog, 2:19 ---- LAYTON, Frederick # (Second source has name as Allegan & Southeastern [Milwaukee] LEECH) First Director 1877 Born May 18, 1827, Little Born Feb. 8, 1811, West Toledo & Ann Arbor Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, Bloomfield, N. Y. General Passenger & Freight England Brother of Payne K. Leach Agent 1878-79 1845 to Milwaukee, meat 1830 to Utica, milling and dry Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand market goods businesses Trunk Meat packer State representative 1841 General Passenger & Freight Died Aug. 16, 1919, Milwaukee Died May 10, 1841, Utica Agent 1880 ---- ---- Milwaukee & Northern Shelby & Belle River LAYNG, James D. # [1881- Director 1891-92 Commissioner 1836 Chicago] Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul BiogRy1885, 142; PPA, 2:137- Director 1893-1910 LEACH, Gurdon Clark # 38 Born Feb. 9, 1845, Utica Born Aug. 30, 1833, Columbia, LEA, Joseph Tatnall # Son of Payne K. Leach Lancaster Co., Pa. [Philadelphia] Died July 27, 1920, 1849 grad. Western Univ. of Born c.1839 Birmingham Penn. Died May 12, 1916, ---- Died Feb. 11, 1908, New York Philadelphia Mackinac & Lake Superior City ---- First Director 1873 ---- Pennsalt Pennsylvania-East First Director 1901 LEACH, Payne Kenyon, Jr. # predecessors Trans-St. Marys Traction [Utica] Various work 8/1849-10/65 Director 1905-06 Bingham, 412; MichBiog, 2:16 Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Wyandotte Southern Born Jan. 31, 1809, West Superintendent 10/1865- Director 1908-15 Bloomfield, N. Y. 7/71 Brother of Gurdon C. C. Leach; Pennsylvania-East LEACH, DeWitt Clinton father of Gurdon C. Leach Asst. General Manager [Traverse City] 1830 to Utica, milling; 1836 7/1871-8/74 MichBiog, 2:15-16; Red, 461 began farming General Manager 8/1874- Born Nov. 23, 1822, Clarence, State representative 1846 7/81 N.Y. Died Mar. 30, 1901, Utica Chicago & North Western no date to Genesee Co. ---- General Superintendent State representative 1850 Northern Michigan RR 7/1881-12/83 1855 to Lansing; state First Director, First New York, West Shore & librarian 1855-56, U. S. President 2/1867 Buffalo Representative 1857-60, ed General Manager 1/1884- Lansing Republican LEADLEY, John W. # 4/87 ca.1861 to Traverse City, ed [Manistee] Cleveland, Columbus & newspaper Pensacola (Fla.) Electric Co. Cincinnati Died Dec. 21, 1909 General Manager, 1907 President. 4/1887-7/90 ---- Manistee Light & Traction Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Traverse City General Manager 1909-12 & St. Louis First Director, Director LEAN, Joseph C. Vice President, Director 1871-1902 Grand Trunk Ry of Michigan 7/1890-1904 First Director 1866 24 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1873 moved to Ann Arbor Director 1872 LeANCE, James Bendry 1875 grad. Univ. of Mich. law Flint & Pere Marquette NOTE. This entry may refer to school Various work 12/1864-69 James Bendry of L’Anse 1875 to Elk Rapids Director 9/1867-6/76 ---- 1880 to Bellaire Auditor 1869-94 Marquette & Ontonagon State senator 1889-90 Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron First Director 1857 Died Feb. 14, 1937, Elk Rapids Auditor 1882-84 ---- LEASOR, B. L. # Detroit, Charlevoix & Escanaba LEDYARD, Henry Michigan & Chicago [Bellaire] MichBiog, 2:17 First Director 1912 First Director 1887 Born March 3, 1812, New York City LEAVENWORTH, Edmund C. # LeBOEUF, Delphis [Muskegon] Married Sept. 19, 1839, BiogRy1893, 219; Born 1837, Canada Matilda F. Cass BiogRy1913, 323-24 Father of Eugene LeBoeuf (daughter of Lewis Cass) Born 1852, Detroit Died 1921 Father of Henry B. and Lewis 1869-70 with Western Union ---- C. Ledyard Died Apr. 2, 1935, Grand Muskegon Street Mayor, Detroit, 1855-56 Rapids First Director 1880 Extensive public career ---- Died 1880, London, Engl. Lake Shore & Michigan LeBOEUF, Eugene [Muskegon] ---- Southern Born Sept. 8, 1862, Trois Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Clerk 1870-71 Riviers, Quebec First Director 1855 Allegan & Southeastern Son of Delphis LeBoeuf [Allegan] Died 1923, Musekgon LEDYARD, Henry Brockholst # Agent 1871-79 ---- [Detroit] Michigan Lake Shore [Allegan] Muskegon Street BiogRy1885, 143; RRLeaders, General Freight Agent First Director 1880 377; BkDet, 280; 1877-78 BiogRy1913, 324 Grand Haven [Allegan] LEDEBOER, Bernardus Born Feb. 20, 1844, Paris, General Freight Agent [Holland] France 1878-80 Born Feb. 21, 1812, Oud Son of Henry Ledyard; brother General Passenger Agent Beijerland, Zuid Holland, of Lewis C. Ledyard 1880 Netherlands 1865 graduated U. S. Military Grand Rapids & Indiana Physician Acad. [Grand Rapids] Holland Twp. Supervisor, Married Mary R. L’Hommedieu Clerk 1880-89 1862-66 1867 General Freight Agent Mayor of Holland, 1868-70, 1865-70 in U. S. Army 4/1889-1913 1871-72 Died May 25, 1921, Detroit Traverse City Died Oct. 10, 1879, Holland ---- Director 1912-13 ---- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Allegan & Holland Various work 7/1870-10/74 LEAVITT (sp?), I. E. First Director 1868 Michigan Central Houghton Michigan Lake Shore Asst. General First Director 1860 Director 1869 Superintendent 10/1874-3/76 General Superintendent LEAVITT, Roswell # LEDLIE, Gilbert W. [East 3/1876-7/77 MichBiog, 2:16; BenchMich, Saginaw] General Manager 453-54; Traverse, 275 BiogRy1885, 142-143; 8/1877-1904 Born Dec. 2, 1843, Turner, BiogRy1893, 219 Director 5/1883-1917 Androscoggin Co., Me. Born Utica, N.Y. President 5/1883-1904 Maine state representative ---- Chairman Board of Directors 1868 Bay City & East Saginaw 1905-17 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 25 Battle Creek & Sturgis Michigan Midland & Canada LEE, Andrew E. # Director 1890-1917 Director 1904 Ohio & Michigan Interurban President 1890-07 Vice President 1905 First Director 1908 Vice President 1908-17 Saginaw Bay & Northwestern Bay City & Battle Creek Director 1883-1900 LEE, Fred E. # Director 1890-1917 St. Clair & Western PortraitBerrCass, 151-52 President 1890-1907 Vice President, Director Born Dec. 6, 1858, Dowagiac Vice President 1908-17 1906-17 Manager, Round Oak Stove Co. Buchanan & St. Joseph River Toledo, Canada Southern & Mayor, Dowagiac, 1890 President, Director 1900-11 Detroit Died Sept. 23, 1937, Dowagiac Canada Southern Bridge Director 1901-16 ---- Director 1889-1917 Vice President 1905-16 Buchanan & St. Joseph River President 1897-1904 Detroit Suburban President, Director 1895-97 Vice President 1905-17 First Director 1892 [Dowagiac] Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Traverse City, Leelanau & President, Director 1906-17 Manistique Ry LEE, George P. Detroit & Bay City First Director, Director Chicago & North Western Director 1889-1916 1908-17 Treasurer 1860-4/64 President 1889-1909 First Secretary,Secretary Asst. Treasurer 1868-69 Vice President 1910-16 1908-13 Detroit & Charlevoix First Treasurer,Treasurer LEE, George W. [Detroit] President, Director 1907-16 1908-17 Grand River Street Detroit Belt Line Pere Marquette First Director 1869 First Director, Director Director 1908-13 1909-16 Manistique LEE, Gilbert Wilson # President 1911-16 Director 1909-11 HistMich1915, 2:1080-81; Detroit, Delray & Dearborn BkDet1914, 299 First Director, Director LEDYARD, Lewis Cass # [New Born Mar. 28, 1861, Romeo 1895-1916 York City] 1885 bought wholesale President 1895-1916 WhosWhoNY, 584, BiogNY, business Detroit Manufacturers 263 1892 renamed business as Lee Director 1911-17 Born Apr. 4, 1851, Detroit & Cady (wholesale grocers) Detroit River Tunnel Co. Son of Henry Ledyard, brother 1898 founded Peninsular Vice President, Director of Henry B. Ledyard Sugar Co. at Caro (Pres. to 1910-17 Died Jan. 29, 1932 or June 5, 1906) Detroit Terminal 1932, New York City ---- President, Director 1911-17 ---- Caro & Lake Huron Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee (positions below may have First Director 1901 Director 1902-17 been those of son of the above: Grand River Valley Lewis Cass Ledyard, Jr.) LEE, Jay P. [Lansing] Director 1911-16 Lake Shore & Michigan BenchMich, 520 Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Southern Born Apr. 11, 1859, Wakeshma Director 1885-1916 Director 1910-13 Twp., Kalamazoo Co. President 1895-1909 Michigan Central 1861 to Branch Co. Vice President 1910-16 Director 1910-14 1878 to Athens Kalamazoo & South Haven Canada Southern Bridge Co. 1884 admitted to bar Director 1881-1916 Director 1911-13 Died Apr. 8, 1900, Lansing President 1905 Detroit River Tunnel Co. ---- Vice President 1906-16 Director 1912-13 Capitol Street Michigan Air Line RR Toledo, Canada Southern & First Director 1892 Director 1887-1916 Detroit Lansing City Electric President 1887-1908 Director 1911-13 First Director 1892 Vice President 1909-16 26 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) LEE, John C. General Storekeeper (1922- General Ticket Agent BiogRy1893, 220 24) 7/1861-6/69 Born Oct. 14, 1842, New York Mineral Range Lake Shore & Michigan City General Storekeeper (1922- Southern ---- 24) Auditor 6/1869-93 Various roads Detroit & Chicago Various work 1858-80 LEISEN, Jacob [Menominee] Secretary, Treasurer 1889- Michigan Central NPMemorial, 225-26 93 Asst. Trainmaster 1880-81 Born May 7, 1828, near Director 1889-93 [Jackson] Coblentz, Germany Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Asst. Div. Superintendent 1853 to New York City Secretary, Treasurer 1872- 1881-(93)[Mich.Cy.] 1854 to Chicago 93 1855 to Centerville, Wisc. Director 1872-93 LEET, Allen Brown [Grand 1873 to Menominee, started Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Rapids] brewery Rapids (Spelled LEETE by some ---- Director 1880-93 genealogists) Menominee Electric Ry & Secretary 1887-93 Born Jan. 15, 1840, Pittsburgh Power Kalamazoo & White Pigeon ---- First Director 1891 Secretary, Treasurer Grand Rapids & Indiana Menominee Electric Light Ry & 1876-93 General Passenger & Freight Power Director 1887-93 Agent 1877-81 First Director 1892 Northern Central Michigan Allegan & Southeastern Secretary, Treasurer General Passenger & Freight LEITER, Titus Benton 1887-93 Agent 1878-80 [Sheridan, Mont.] Director 1890-93 Born c.1864 Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis LEFFINGWELL, Frank Pierce # Extensive mine owner Secretary, Treasurer 1890- [Chicago] Died Dec. 12, 1899, Baltimore; 93 BkChi, 352 buried Hagerstown, Md. Director 1890-93 Born Mar. 25, 1853, Clinton ---- Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Co., Iowa Escanaba Western Director 1883-89 1876 became lawyer First Director 1893 1879 to Chicago, attorney LELAND, E. R. [New York City] ---- LEITH, William H. # [AuSable] Born c.1835 Manistee & Grand Rapids AuSable & Northwestern Died Jan. 20, 1898, New York Director 1910-13 General Passenger Agent City Michigan East & West 1901-02 ---- First Director, Director Cashier 1900, 1902 Cincinnati Northern 1913-17 Secretary, Treasurer 1897 President 1913-17 LELAND, Cyrus Powers Director 1897 [Cleveland] LEIGH, George W. # BiogRy1885, 144; LS&MSHist, LeLOTTE, F. F. [Pinconning] [Minneapolis] 153-154 Saginaw Bay & Northwestern BiogRy1922, 370 Born July 31, 1836, Irving, N.Y. Auditor 1880 Born June 22, 1879, Orillia, Died June 20, 1894, Cleveland; Ont. buried ?Milwaukee LENNON, John ---- ---- Muskegon River & Rose Lake Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Milwaukee & Chicago First Director 1878 Ste. Marie Ticket Agent 5/1855-6/60 General Storekeeper (1922- Michigan Southern & Northern LEONARD, Alton W. # 29) Indiana [Houghton] Purchasing Agent 1929-39 General Accountant 6/1860- Born 1873, Maine Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic 1/69 1895 began with Stone & Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 27 Webster (utility holding co.) 1879-88 ---- Died Mar. 11, 1859, Seattle Pontiac & Southern Traverse City, Kalkaska & ---- First Director 1883 Grayling Houghton County Street First Director 1888 Manager 1905 LEROY, Daniel Minneapolis General Electric MichBiog, 2:22-23 LEUTE, William H. # [New Co. Born May 17, 1775, Nova York City] Vice President, Manager Scotia Fort Wayne & Jackson 1907-10 Father of Robert LeRoy Director 1897-1901 Puget Sound Traction Light & 1800 to Pontiac, first lawyer in Power county LEWIS, Beloit Newell # District Manager 1911 State Legisl. Council 1830-31, BiogRy1922, 373 President 1911-31 Atty. Gen. 1836-37 Born Aug. 22, 1883, Austin, Pros. Atty., judge; lawyer Minn. LEONARD, John # [Jackson] Died Feb. 11, 1858, Fenton ---- Jackson & Suburban Traction ---- Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Superintendent 1903 Detroit & Pontiac Ste. Marie [Minneapolis] Commissioner 1834 Machinist work 6/1901- LEONARD, Joseph C. [Pontiac] 7/03 MichBiog, 2:22 Roundhouse Foreman Born Aug. 11, 1817, Smyrna, LEROY, Herman S. # [New 2/1909-6/11 N.Y. York City] Machinist Engineering 1842 to Union City Born Apr. 8, 1856, New York 6/1911-11/17 State senator 1853-4 City Asst. Mechanical Postmaster; farmer; some 1879 grad. Harvard Univ. Superintendent 11/1917-48 other trades Attorney Erie Railroad Died Dec. 28, 1893, Union City Died June 10, 1911, New York Machinist work 7/1903- ---- City 1/08 Michigan Air Line RR [Union ---- City] Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul LEWIS, Benjamin Whitehead Director 1872-86 Director 1906 [St. Louis, Mo.] Born 1840, Glasgow, Mo. LEONARD, W. B. [New York LEROY, John P. Iron and coal dealer City] Lake Superior ---- Chicago & Canada Southern First Director 1857 Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Director 1877 Director 1881-82 LEROY, Robert LEOPOLD, Aaron F. [Chicago] Born Dec. 11, 1807, Broome LEWIS, Charles T. [Toledo] Houghton & Rockland Co., N. Y. Pleasant Bay First Director 1883 Son of Daniel LeRoy First Director 1898 Merchant LEPP, Martin F. # [Detroit] Died Dec. 12, 1892, Fenton LEWIS, Daniel F. # [New York Bay City, Caro & Eastern ---- City] First Director 1910 Pontiac & Genesee BiogNY, 269 Commissioner 1846 Born Mar. 28, 1849, Brooklyn, LEROY, Abram Ward [Pontiac] [Fenton] N. Y. Born Apr. 17, 1819, Fulton, N. ---- Y. LETELLIER, Francis # [Grand Jackson, Plymouth & 1879 to Pontiac Rapids] Northville Died Oct. 6, 1894, Pontiac Born July 25, 1839, Antwerp, Vice President 1903 ---- Belgium Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Died Nov. 4, 1903, Grand LEWIS, E. A. [Ironton] First Director, Director Rapids Detroit, Charlevoix & Escanaba 28 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1887 Died Aug. 17, 1884, Clifton 1882-86 in Wyoming for Springs, N. Y.; buried in health LEWIS, Edward Rowland # Coldwater ---- BiogRy1913, 330 ---- Lake Shore & Michigan Born Nov. 20, 1869, Raritan, N. Ohio & Michigan Southern J. First Director, First Clerk 1879-3/82 [Toledo] 1890 graduated State Univ. of President 1870 Various work 12/1886-2/87 Iowa Marshall & Coldwater Empire Line (fast freight line) Died Aug. 13, 1944 First Director 1870 Traveling Agent 2/1887-95 ---- Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan Central Various roads Michigan Traveling Freight Agent Engineering Dept. 1885- Director 1872-76 1895-1/1903 [Detroit] 1905 Vice President 1872 Asst. General Freight Agent Keweenaw Central [Hancock] President 1873-76 1/1903-1/11 [Chicago] Asst. Engineer 1905-06 Coldwater, Marshall & Division Freight Agent Michigan Central [Bay City] Mackinaw 1/1911-16 [Bay City] Division Engineer 8/1906- Director 1875 6/12 LEWISOHN, Leonard # [New Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic LEWIS, Hobart P. # York City] [Duluth] [Muskegon] Born Hamburg, Germany Asst. to General Manager Muskegon Traction & Lighting ---- 6/1912-17 Auditor 1908-12 Detroit Southern Mineral Range [Duluth] Secretary, Treasurer 1913- Director 1901 Asst. to General Manager 17 6/1912-17 LEYNE, George [Pittsburgh] LEWIS, Stewart R. # Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake LEWIS, Harry M. # BiogRy1922, 374-75 Michigan BiogRy1922, 374 Born Feb. 14, 1869, Ontario Director 1875-76 Born Aug. 2, 1875, Austin, ---- Minn. Canadian Pacific L'HOMMEDIEU, Richard Henry Died Nov. 14, 1946, Houston, Various work 10/1886-7/87 # [Detroit] Tex. Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic BkDet, 287; BiogRy1913, 331 ---- [Duluth] Born Dec. 29, 1850, Cincinnati Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Stenographer 7/1887-5/90 ---- Ste. Marie [Minneapolis] Clerk 5/1890-9/1907 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Clerical 3/1890-1903 Asst. General Freight Agent Shops Dept. 1870-72 General Traveling Agent 9/1907-12/11 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 1903-06 General Freight Agent Clerk to Superintendent Asst. General Passenger 12/1911-9/20 1872-73 Agent 1906-7/19 Traffic Manager 9/1920- Michigan Central General Passenger Agent (30) Trainmaster 1873-77 3/1919-41 Mineral Range Trainmaster 6/1878-80 Asst. General Freight Agent Div. Superintendent 1880- LEWIS, Henry Clay 1908 81 [Grand Rapids] [Coldwater] General Freight Agent Div. Superintendent ABH-II/4:64-65 12/1911-9/20 1881-89 [Chicago] Born May 5, 1820, Albion, Traffic Manager 9/1920- Asst. General Orleans Co., N. Y. (30) Superintendent 9/1890-4/96 1844 to Coldwater, involved in [Detroit] several businesses LEWIS, William Clark # General Superintendent 1865 president, First National BiogRy1913, 331 4/1896-7/1903 [Detroit] Bank Born Oct. 21, 1861, Columbus, General Manager 7/1903- Avid art collector Ohio 5/12 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 29 Asst to Vice President 1912-13 Born Sept 4., 1831, Wareham, Operating Dept. 5/1912-13 Saginaw-Bay City Ry Mass. Battle Creek & Sturgis Asst. to General Manager 1868 into lumbering Director 1901-12 1916-18 Member, Vt. representative, Bay City & Battle Creek 1876-78, 1888 Director 1901-12 LILLEY, Francis [Ontonagon] ---- Buchanan & St. Joseph River Born c.1845, England Frankfort & South Eastern Director 1901-11 N.d. to Spring Lake Director 1890-92 Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw 1882 to Ontonagon, Escanaba, Frankfort & Director 1906-12 lumberman Southeastern Detroit & Charlevoix ---- First Director 1895 Director 1907-12 Ontonagon, Gogebic & Detroit Belt Line Wisconsin LINCOLN, George H. [Big First Director, Director First Director 1882 Rapids] 1909-11 Born 1831, N. Y. state Detroit, Delray & Dearborn LILLIE, James [Kankakee, Ill.] Lumberman Director 1912 Escanaba Electric Street Died Apr. 6, 1911, Big Rapids Detroit Terminal First Director 1892 ---- Director 1911-12 Mecosta Kalamazoo & South Haven LILLIE, Walter Irving # [Grand Director 1886-88 Director 1911-17 Haven] Vice President 1912-17 PortraitMuskOtt, 282-83; LINCOLN, Leander C. [Big Michigan Air Line RR MenProgress, 418 Rapids] Director 1911-15 Born Oct. 9, 1856, Tallmage Born c.1845, N. Y. state Twp., Ottawa Co. Lumberman LIGGETT, John C. # [Detroit] Attorney ---- Detroit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor Died May 20, 1921, Grand Mecosta First Director 1897 Haven Director 1886-88 Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & ---- Jackson Grand Rapids Electric LINCOLN, William S. [St. Louis, First Director 1901 General Counsel 1908 Mo.] Died May ?16, 1902, St. Louis LIGGETT, Sidney Byron # LILLIS, Michael F. [Pontiac] ---- [Pittsburgh] Bloomfield & Orchard Lake Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific BiogRy1885, 145; First Director 1898 Chief Engineer 1881-86 BiogRy1913, 331-32 Wabash Western Born May 10, 1849, Pittsburgh, LILLOTTE, Franklin T. Chief Engineer 1887-88 Pa. [Pinconning] Wabash Died Jan. 8, 1915, Pittsburgh (also misspelled LeLOTTE) Chief Engineer 1889-1901 ---- Born c.1854 Pennsylvania-East subsidiaries ---- LINDSAY, Gratz Brown # Various work 3/1871- Saginaw Bay & Northwestern BiogRy1913, 333 Allegan & Southeastern Auditor 1880-82 Born Mar. 6, 1860, Ironton, Asst. Secretary 1881-82 General Freight Agent Mo. Pennsylvania-West 1881-82 1880-5/1906 U. S. Post Office Secretary 2/1881-1913 railway mail service Grand Rapids & Indiana LILLY, Lucius [Tecumseh] Died Aug. 21, 1939, St. Louis, Asst. Secretary 1897-1909 Adrian & Detroit Mo. Director 1876-77 ---- LILLEY, C. A. # [Saginaw] Wabash [St. Louis. Mo.] Saginaw & Flint LINCOLN, Benjamin F. General Agent Mail Service General Freight Agent, [Lyndon, Vt.] 5/1906-8/10 General Passenger Agent Traverse, 311 General Baggage Agent 30 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 8/1910-16 Saginaw & Southwestern LISMAN, Frederick J. # [New First Director 1905 York City] LINDSEY, Theodore S. WhosWhoFB, 418 Born c.1813, West Brookfield, LINTON, William Seelye # Born July 21, 1865, Budlingen, Mass. [Saginaw] Germany ---- MichBiog, 2:28; CycMich, 193- 1881 to U. S.; 1890 became Lake Shore & Michigan 94; bond broker Southern TwenCent, 6:no page Died Jan. 10, 1914, Escanaba Asst. Superintendent 1865 Born Feb. 4, 1856, St. Clair ---- [Toledo] Brother of Charles E. Linton New Haven, Hartford & Div. Superintendent 1869 1859 with family to Saginaw Springfield [Toledo] No date to Farwell Various work 1866-69 Paymaster 1889-93 1879 to Saginaw Chicago & North Western [Cleveland] State representative 1887-88 Various work 1869-72 U. S. Representative 1893-97 [Escanaba] LINDSLEY, William B., see Worked for Thomas Nester in Station Agent 1872-75 William B. LINSLEY lumbering Div. Superintendent Died Nov. 22, 1927, Saginaw 1875-82, 1886-1905 LINSLEY, J. B. # [Grand Rapids] ---- Asst. Gen. Superintendent Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Saginaw & Southwestern 1883, 1906[Chicago] Muskegon First Director 1905 General Freight Agent 1912 LINTON, Charles E. # LINTZY, James T. [New York [Saginaw] LINSLEY, William B. City] Saginaw Southern (Some genealogy sources Detroit & Cincinnati First Director 1900 incorrectly have LINDSLEY) First Director 1896 Saginaw & Southwestern HistUP, 245; BiogRy1885, 146 First Director 1905 Born June 10, 1845, Meriden, LIPPINCOTT, Jesse H. Conn. [Pittsburgh] LINTON, William Seelye # ---- Born Feb. 18, 1842, Mt. [Saginaw] New Haven, Hartford & Pleasant, Pa. MichBiog1924, 2:28; CycMich, Springfield Civil War, 28th Pa. Volunteers, 193-94 Various work 1866-69 1863-65 Born Feb. 4, 1856, St. Clair Chicago & North Western Made his fortune in the glass 1859 with family to Saginaw Various work 1869-72 industry No date to Farwell [Escanaba] 1888-94 had control of 1879 to Saginaw Station Agent 1872-75 phonograph manufacturing State representative 1887-88 [Escanaba] Died Apr. 18, 1894, Newton U. S. Representative 1893-97 Div. Superintendent Centre, Mass. worked for Thomas Nester 1875-82, 1886-1905 ---- Died Nov. 22, 1927, Saginaw [Escanaba] Pittsburgh & Lake Superior ---- Asst. General First Director 1884 Saginaw & Southwestern Superintendent 1883, First Director 1905 1906[Chicago] LIPPITT, Costello [Norwich, Conn.] LINTZY, James T. [New York LINTON, Charles E. # Born Dec. 12, 1842, East City] [Saginaw] Killingly, Conn. Detroit & Cincinnati Born c.1858, St. Clair Died Aug. 21, 1924, Norwich, First Director 1896 Brother of William S. Linton Conn. 1859 with family to Saginaw ---- LIPPINCOTT, Jesse H. ---- Mineral Range [Pittsburgh] Saginaw Southern Director 1888-92 Pittsburgh & Lake Superior First Director 1900 First Director 1884 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 31 Brother of Elisha C. and Edwin Saginaw & Genesee LIPPITT, Costello [Norwich, C. Litchfield Commissioner 1837 Conn.] c.1845 to New York City Saginaw & Lansing Born Dec. 12, 1842, East Died May 12, 1889, Brooklyn, First Director 1855 Killingly, Conn. N. Y. Died Aug. 21, 1924, Norwich, LITTLE, Robert [Lovell (now Conn. LITCHFIELD, Elisha Cleveland Fruitport)] ---- [Detroit] Fruitport & Lake Shore Mineral Range Born Oct. 11, 1810, Pompey, N. First Director 1870 Director 1888-92 Y. or Canterbury, Conn. Brother of Edwin C. and LITTLE, Sherrerd J. LISMAN, Frederick J. # [New Electus B. Litchfield [Marquette] York City] c.1845 to New York City BiogRy1885, 146 WhosWhoFB, 418 Died Nov. 28, 1873 Born Mar. 29, 1855, Warren Born July 21, 1865, Budlingen, ---- Co., N.J. Germany Michigan Southern 1874 to Marquette 1881 to U. S.; 1890 became First Treasurer 12/1846 Died Sept. 23, 1888, Chicago bond broker First Director, Director ---- 1895 started own stock 12/1846-4/1855 Marquette, Houghton & brokerage house Michigan Southern & Northern Ontonagon ---- Indiana Clerk 1874-77 Detroit Southern First Director, Director General Passenger Agent Vice President, Director 4/1855-9/57 1877-81 1901-02 Cashier 1882-84 Michigan Traction LITTELL, John [Muskegon] Auditor 1882-84 Director 1904-05 Born Jan. 30, 1822, Somerset Michigan Traction Extension Co., N. J. LITTLE, William L. P. [East First Director 1903 Father of Stafford H. Littell Saginaw] Detroit, Toledo & Ironton ---- HistSag, 1:53 Director 1906-13 Houghton Lake & Eastern Born Nov. 26, 1814, Avon, N. Y. First Director 1877 Brother of Norman Little LITCHFIELD, Edwin Clark 1836 to Saginaw, merchant, [Detroit] LITTELL, Stafford H. later a banker Born Jan. 21, 1815, Pompey, N. [Muskegon] Died Dec. 9, 1867, Saginaw; Y. Born 1855, New Jersey suicide Brother of Electus B. and Son of John Littell ---- Elisha C. Litchfield ---- East Saginaw City 1831 graduated Hamilton Houghton Lake & Eastern First Director 1863 College First Director 1877 c.1845 to New York City LIVERMORE, Charles Died July 20, 1885 LITTLE, Norman [East Frederick ---- Saginaw] Born Mar. 13, 1830, Michigan Southern MichBiog, 2:29; HistSag, 1:48- Cambridge, Mass. Director 12/1848-4/55 53 Son of Isaac Livermore Michigan Southern & Northern Born Mar. 21, 1806, Avon, N. Y. 1853 graduated Harvard Coll. Indiana Brother of William L. P. Little In Mass. Heavy Artillery, 1862- First Director, Director 1836 to Saginaw, started first 65 4/1855-9/57, 4/1858-4/60 newspaper 1867 to Detroit President 4/1857-9/57 State representative 1839, Died Apr. 1899, Detroit 1842 ---- LITCHFIELD, Electus Backus Died Nov. 8, 1859, Saginaw, Michigan Central Born Feb. 15, 1813, Pompey, drowned in Saginaw River Treasurer 1875-77 [Detroit] N. Y. ---- Chicago & Northeastern 32 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Cashier 1878-79 [Lansing] Manchester 73-4 Detroit, Bay City & Alpena c.1883 to Ashtabula, Ohio Local offices; lumber merchant No details 1883-98 c.1890 to Marietta, Ohio; Died July 9, 1882, Put-in-Bay, Detroit & Mackinac Lobdell & Bailey Mfg. Co. Ohio; buried in Sandusky, Ohio No details 1899-1907 1900 to Alpena, moved ---- company there Alpena & South-Western LIVERMORE, Isaac [Boston] 1901 to Onaway, moved First Director 1876 Born Nov. 21, 1797, Waltham, company there First President 1876 Mass. Died June 21, 1927, Hudson, Alpena & Michigan South- Father of Charles F. Livermore Ohio Western Made most of his money ---- First Director 1874 dealing in wool Onaway & North Michigan Died Nov. 9, 1879, Pittsfield, Vice President 1901-03 LOCKWOOD, LeGrand Mass. General Manager,Director Born Aug. 14, 1820, Norwalk, ---- 1901-11 Conn. Michigan Central President 1906-11 1857 founded his own Treasurer 1854-74 brokerage house Chicago & Michigan Lake LOBDELL (nee Dunbar), Grace Died Feb. 24, 1872, New York Shore A. # [Onaway] City; buried Norwalk, Conn. Treasurer 1870-73 Wife of Edward J. Lobdell ---- Detroit & Bay City ---- Michigan Southern & Northern Treasurer, Director 1873-75 Onaway & North Michigan Indiana Director 1901-05 Director 4/1863-5/69 LIVINGSTONE, William, Jr. # Lake Shore & Michigan [Detroit] LOCKWOOD, Closson Lyman # Southern BkDet1914, 309-10; [Grand Rapids] First Director, Director Republican, 255-56 BiogRy1885, 146; 6/1869-10/69 Born Jan. 21, 1844, Dundas, BiogRy1913, 335 Danbury & Norwalk Ont. Born Feb. 10, 1851, Rochester, Owner 1872 Great Lakes shipping, bank N.Y. president Died Aug. 4, 1931, Grand LOEFFLER, August C. # State representative, 1875-76 Rapids [Wyandotte] Died Oct. 17, 1925 ---- Adrian & Ann Arbor Electric ---- Grand Rapids & Indiana First Director 1904 St. Aubin Avenue Clerk 4/1873-12/83 First Director 1873 General Passenger Agent LOGAN, James F. # [Benton Central Market, Cass Avenue & 1/1884-1917 Harbor] Third St. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Benton Harbor-St. Joe Ry & First Director 1873 Indiana Light Director 1912-16 Mechanical Superintendent LLOYD, Marvin [Rockford] 1913-17 Grand Rapids, Rockford & LOCKWOOD, F. T. # [Jackson] Greenville Michigan, Ohio & Indiana LOMAX, Joseph # First Director 1870 First Director 1905 Born Dec. 19, 1809, Blue’s Creek, Stokes Co., N. C. LOAR, M. L. [Bear Lake] LOCKWOOD, James Kent In 1850 lived in Grant Co., Ind. Bear Lake & Eastern MichBiog, 2:31; ABH-2,8:29 1854 to Sturgis Director 1885 Born July 31, 1819, Ottawa, In 1860-70 lived in Ohio Kalamazoo, 1880 Richmond, LOBDELL, Edward James # 1848 to Port Huron Ind, [Onaway] 1859 to Alpena, lumbering 1900 in Grand Rapids Powers, 3:1353-55 One of founders of Alpena Died Apr. 26, 1914, Born Jan. 20, 1859, State representative 1867-8, Indianapolis Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 33 ---- Saginaw & Lansing Director 1872-95 Grand Rapids & Indiana (Ind. First Director 1855 Vice President 1883 corp) Amboy & Traverse Bay Main Street (Jackson) First President 1854 First Director 1856 First Director 1873 Grand Rapids & Southern Jackson City First Director 1855 LOOMIS, Archibald G. # First Director 1881 Grand Rapids & Indiana [Chicago] Detroit, Toledo & Jackson First Director, First BiogRy1922, 378 First Director 1881 President 1855 Born June 20, 1848, Hartford, Jackson & Ohio President 1855-66 Conn. First Director, Director President, Nat. Bank of 1884-86 LONG, George H. [Grand Hartford, ??-1899 Cincinnati, Jackson & Rapids] VP, Nat City Bank of NY, 1899- Mackinaw Traverse City, Kalkaska & 1906 First Director 1886 Grayling VP, Union Trust, 1906-15 First Director 1888 ---- LOOMIS, Robert Bickford # Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul [Grand Rapids] LONG, William M. # [Deerfield] Treasurer 6/1917-(22) MichBiog, 2:35 Ann Arbor Interurban Born Sept. 25, 1832, First Director 1904 LOOMIS, Francis B. [New York Newcastle, Me. City] 1838 to Boston, 1862 to LONGWELL, George W. [Paw Mineral Range Washington DC Paw] President, Director 1887 1866 to Grand Rapids, boot & Born Aug. 13, 1832, shoe business Kalamazoo LOOMIS, Peter Burr # 1881 started insurance Died Aug. 15, 1919, Paw Paw [Jackson] business ---- MichBiog, 2:35 HistMich1915, State senator 1897-1902 Paw Paw 2:1102-05 Died Jan. 16, 1907, probably Vice President, Director Born Apr. 14, 1820, Grand Rapids 1876-84 Amsterdam, N.Y. ---- Toledo & South Haven 1843 to Jackson, merchant Alaska First Director 1876 State representative 1859-60 First Director 1886 Began bank; pres. Jackson Gas Lowell & Hastings LONGWELL, James M. [Paw Co First Director 1887 Paw] Died Dec. 30, 1905, Jackson Director 1890 70th N. Y. Infantry, 1861-?? ---- City Street of Grand Rapids ---- Amboy & Traverse Bay First Director 1887 Paw Paw Valley First Director 1856 Central Michigan First Director 1869 Lansing & Jackson First Director 1888 First Director 1863 LONGYEAR, John Wesley Jackson, Fort Wayne & LORANGER, Ubald R. # [Bay [Lansing] Cincinnati City] MichBiog, 2:33-34: ABH- First Director 1868 MenProgress, 414 1,1:92; Republican, 2:258-59 Fort Wayne, Jackson & Born May 11, 1863, L’Avenir, Born Oct. 22, 1820, Saginaw Quebec Shandaken, Ulster Co., N. Y. Director 1871-79 1875 to Bay City 1844 to Mason, studied law President, General Manager 1887 grad. Univ. Mich. law 1847 to Lansing, attorney 1872-79 school U. S. Representative 1863-67 Fort Wayne & Jackson Died Oct. 21, 1854, Bay City 1871 to Detroit President, Treasurer ---- Died Mar. 11, 1875, Detroit; Grand River Valley Hecla Belt Line buried in Lansing Treasurer First Director 1902 ---- Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw 34 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) LORD, Alfred W. # City, Ill. LORING, Stanton Dunston BiogHBM, 86-87 1877 graduated Rutgers Coll. Born Dec. 1851, Brookline, Born 1832, Lancashire, 4/1899-4/91 pres. American Mass. England Ry. Assn. Father of Homer Loring 1846 to Canada Died Sept. 6, 1940 ---- 1866 to U. P., mining machinist ---- Saginaw Valley Traction ---- Pennsylvania-East First Director 1899 Quincy & Torch Lake Engineering Dept. 1877-79, Locomotive Engineman 1883-89 LOTHROP, Arthur P. [St. Paul] 1889-98 Superintendent 1889-1/96 Detroit & Northern Superintendent 1898- General Manager 1/1896- First Director 1897 (1903) 1/1901 4th Vice President 1/1901 LOTHROP, Charles Bradley LORD, Franklin B. # [New York Baltimore & Ohio BiogRy1893, 217 City] President 6/1901-1/04 Born May 16, 1852, Detroit BiogNY, 275 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Son of George VanNess Born Sept. 18, 1850, New York President 1-10/1904 Lathrop City Kansas City Southern Died Oct. 15, 1893, Detroit 1870 grad. Columbia College President 1906-07 ---- Lawyer Delaware & Hudson Detroit, Lansing & Northern ---- President 4/1907-38 [Detroit] Ann Arbor Pere Marquette Solicitor 1885-93 Director 1896-97, 1902 Director 1910-13 LOTHROP, Cyrus L. # LORD, Henry W. LORIMER, John S. [Detroit] Caro & Lake Huron Lake Superior Detroit, Grand Haven & First Director 1901 First Director 1857 Milwaukee Purchasing Agent 1884 LOTHROP, Edwin Howard LORD, Henry W. [Pontiac] Chicago & Grand Trunk [Three Rivers] MichBiogs, 2:36 General Storekeeper MichBiog, 2:36 Born Mar. 8, 1821, 1890-95 Born March 22, 1806, Easton, Northampton, Mass. Mass. 1839 to Detroit LORING, Caleb William Brother of George V. N. 1842 to Pontiac [Boston] Lothrop U. S. consul, in England, 1861- Born July 31, 1819, 1830 to Schoolcraft, leading 67 Dorchester, Mass. farmer c.1875 to Detroit 1842 grad. Harvard law school 1857 to Three Rivers U. S. Representative, 1881-83 Attorney State representative 1835-7, Died Jan. 25, 1891, Butte, Died Jan. 29, 1897, Camden, S. 42-4, 48 Mont. C. Died Feb. 17, 1874, Three ---- ---- Rivers St. Clair River, Pontiac & Detroit, Hillsdale & South ---- Jackson Western Erie & Kalamazoo First Director 1872 Director 1875-78, 1880-96 Commissioner 1833 St. Clair & Chicago Air Line Kalamazoo & Lake Michigan Vice President, Director LORING, Homer # [Boston] Incorporator 1836 1872-74 Born Oct. 1875, Mass. Michigan, Internal Son of Stanton D. Loring Improvement Board LOREE, Leonor Fresnel # [New ---- President 5/1838-4/1839 York City] Saginaw Valley Traction Schoolcraft & Three Rivers WhosWhoFB, 424; PPA, 1:211- First Director 1899 First Director 1855 12; BHB20, 259-67 Director, President 1902-03 Born Apr. 23, 1858, Fulton LOTHROP, George H. Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 35 Rochester & Romeo LOTT, John V. H. [Lansing] LOUD, George Brewster # First Director 1869 Lansing & Lake Michigan [AuSable] First Director 1872 Born June 28, 1882, Au Sable LOTHROP, George H. [Detroit] Son of Henry N. Loud Born Apr. 18, 1850, Detroit LOUD, Edward Francis # Died Feb. 14, 1948, Calif. Son of George V. N. Lothrop [AuSable] ---- 1870 grad. Cornell Univ. Born Sept. 15, 1858, Lowell, AuSable & Northwestern Patent attorney Mass. First Director, Director Died Nov. 1896, Detroit Son of Henry M. Loud 1907-13 ---- Died Jan. 19, 1952, Oscoda Auditor 1909-13 East Detroit & Grosse Pointe ---- First Director 1887 AuSable & Northwestern LOUD, Henry Martyn # General Passenger Agent [AuSable] LOTHROP, George Van Ness 1891-99 Born Dec. 11, 1824, [Detroit] Director 1891-97 Westhampton, Mass. MichBiog,,2:36-37; ABH- General Freight Agent 1900- Father of Henry N., George A., 1,1:92-94; 05 Edward F., William F., and CycMich, 43-44 Secretary 1902-05 Herbert Loud Born Aug. 8, 1817, Easton, First Director, Director Died May 13, 1905, Flint Mass. 1907-13 ---- Brother of Edwin H. Lothrop AuSable & Northwestern Father of George H. Lothrop LOUD, Frederick Hale # President, Director 1 year at Amherst Coll.; 1838 [AuSable] 1891-1900 graduated Brown Univ. Born Dec. 3, 1877, Au Sable 1839 to Schoolcraft Son of Henry N. Loud LOUD, Harry (or Henry) 1843 to Detroit, studied law Died Sept. 28, 1943 Kimble # [AuSable] with Joy & Porter ---- Born Nov. 17, 1875, Au Sable State Atty. Gen. 1848-51 AuSable & Northwestern Son of Henry N. Loud 1885-88 Minister to Russia General Freight Agent 1909- Died Aug. 15, 1976, Oscoda Died July 12, 1897, Detroit 10, 1912 ---- ---- General Superintendent AuSable & Northwestern Detroit River RR Tunnel 1912 Asst. General First Director 1871 Superintendent 1905 Lapeer & Northern LOUD, George Alvin # First Director, Director First Director 1872 [AuSable] 1907-13 Michigan Central MichBiog, 2:37; HistMich1915, Asst. General Manager 1909- Attorney 1877-81 4:2293-94; CongBiog 10 Detroit & Bay City Born June 18, 1852, Secretary 1909-10, 1913 Attorney 1877-80 Bracebridge, Oh. Treasurer 1909-13 Grand River Valley Son of Henry M. Loud General Freight Agent 1911 Attorney 1877-80 1867 to AuSable, lumberman Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw U. S. Representative 1903-13, LOUD, Henry Nelson # Attorney 1877-80 1915-17 [AuSable] Kalamazoo & South Haven Died Nov. 13, 1925, Myrtle Born Aug. 22, 1850, Attorney 1877-80 Point, Ore.; buried in AuSable Huntsburg, Ohio Director 1881-88 ---- Son of Henry M. Loud Michigan Air Line RR AuSable & Northwestern Father of Harry K., Frederick Attorney 1878-80 Vice President, Director H., and George B. Loud Detroit, Lansing & Northern 1891-1913 Died Aug. 25, 1938, Van Etten Attorney 1877-84 General Manager 1891-1906 Lake, Mich. Saginaw Valley & St. Louis First Director, Director ---- Attorney 1879-80 1907-13 AuSable & Northwestern Secretary, Director 36 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1891-1901 Auditor 1891-97 1835 to Climax President 1900-13 Practiced medicine, then First Director, Director LOUNSBURY, Horace farmed 1907-13 Ohio, Quincy & Grand Haven Died Jan. 29, 1896, Climax First Director 1872 ---- LOUD, John William # [Detroit, Ohio, Quincy & Grand Haven 1896 Montreal] LOUNSBURY, Robert J. # First Director 1872 BiogRy1913, 37; BiogRy1922, [Pontiac] 380 HistOak2, 1:145-46 LOVERIDGE, Henry C. # Born 1846, Warwickshire, Born Putnam Co., N. Y. [Coldwater] England 1875 grad. Columbia law Born Aug. 13, 1856, Cuba, N. Y. 1872 to Canada school Died Mar. 2, 1934, Coldwater Died 1937, Portland, Me. 1875 to Pontiac, attorney ---- ---- Mayor, Pontiac, 1911-12 Michigan-Indiana Traction English railways ---- First Director 1911 Various work 8/1861-9/72 Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Grand Trunk Ry Canada Receiver 1906-09 LOVETT, Robert Scott # [New Various work 9/1872-8/89 York City] General Freight Agent LOVELAND, William P. WhosWhoFB, 426 5/1900-9/11 Saginaw & Montcalm Born June 22, 1860, San Detroit & Milwaukee First Director 1871 Jacinto, Tex. Freight Agent 8/1889-2/96 Died June 19, 1932, New York Chicago & Grand Trunk LOVELL, Cyrus City General Freight Agent MichBiog, 2:38; ABH- ---- 2/1896-4/1900 1:part5:74 Texas & Pacific Grand Trunk Western Born Sept. 9, 1804, Grafton, Vt. Attorney 1889-92 Freight Traffic Manager 1829 to Detroit Southern Pacific of Texas 4/1900-09 1831 to Galesburg General Counsel 1892-1903 Traffic Manager 1910-9/11 1832 to Kalamazoo Union Pacific Chicago, Detroit & Canada 1836 to Ionia General Counsel 1909-(22) Grand Trunk Jct. State representative 1849-55 Michigan Central Director 1908-12 Died Sept. 4, 1895, Ionia Director 1914-17 Detroit, Grand Haven & ---- Detroit River Tunnel Co. Milwaukee Detroit & St. Joseph Director 1914-17 Director 1901-12 Commissioner 1832 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Michigan Air Line Ry & St. Louis Director 1908-12 LOVELL, Enos Taft # Director 1916-17 Pontiac, Oxford & Northern MichBiog, 2:38; ABH-1,4:42 New York Central Director 1910-12 Born Jan. 22, 1821, Grafton, Vt. Director 1915-16 St. Clair Tunnel Co. Brother of Lafayette W. Lovell Director 1908-12 1835 to Climax LOWE, Edward [Grand Rapids] Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Physician, farmer Grand Rapids Belt Line Director 1908-12 Died Jan. 19, 1906, Climax First Director 1891 ---- LOUD, William Fairchild # Peninsular Ry Extension LOWELL, George Kaime # [AuSable] First Director 1866 [Toledo] Born Nov. 8, 1862, Huntsburg, BkDet, 292; BkChi, 367; Ohio LOVELL, Lafayette Washington BiogRy1913, 339 Son of Henry M. Loud [Climax] Born Mar. 19, 1856, Dover, N. Died May 25, 1950, Detroit ABH-1,4:43; MichBiog, 2:38 H. ---- Born May 27, 1823, Grafton, ---- AuSable & Northwestern Vt. Various roads Treasurer, Director 1891-97 Brother of Enos T. Lovell Various work 1876-90 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 37 Louisville, Evansville & St. Toledo street railways Louis Air Line LUCE, B. [Grand Rapids] Investor Superintendent Grand Rapids RR Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Transportation 1890-91 First Director 1871 Investor Louisville, New Albany & Chicago LUCE, Carlton W. # LUCE, E. C. Asst. Superintendent, BiogNM, 711-12; BiogRy1913, LS&MSHist, p. 594, 597 Superintendent 1891-93 339; Powers, 2:938-39 ---- General Superintendent Born Oct. 24, 1853, Jonesville Lake Shore & Michigan 1893-1906 Died Jan. 17, 1925, East Tawas; Southern Ann Arbor buried in Detroit General Passenger & Ticket General Manager 1907-09 ---- Agent 1/1886-2/87 Vice President 1907-09 Peninsular Asst. General Passenger Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Various work c.1868 Agent 1902 General Manager 1906-12 Detroit, Lansing & Lake Vice President 1908-13 Michigan and LULING, Charles Receiver 1908-11 Detroit, Lansing & Northern Born Oct. 6, 1830, Minden, Manistique & Lake Superior Train Service 10/1869-8/83 Westphalia, Germany Vice President, Director Detroit, Lansing & Northern 1849 to Chicago 1910 Trainmaster 9/1883-89 1859 to Manitowoc, Wisc. General Manager 1910 Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Died June 25, 1892, Manitowoc Trainmaster 9/1889-92 [E. ---- LOWETH, Charles Frederick # Tawas] Milwaukee, Lake Shore & BkChi, 367; BiogRy1922, 381 General Superintendent Western [Manitowoc] Born Mar. 3, 1857, Cleveland, 9/1892-94 Director 1883-90 Ohio Detroit & Mackinac ---- General Superintendent LULL, Alba A. # [Pontiac] Various roads 1895-1917 Born June 13, 1817, Hartland, Engineering Dept. 1880- Erie & Michigan Ry & Vt. 1901 Navigation Organizer, cashier, Pontiac Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul General Superintendent, Savings Bank [Chicago] Director 1908-17 Died Dec. 10, 1905, Pontiac Superintendent of Bridges ---- 1901-11 LUCE, Charles Leverett Toledo & Saginaw Bay Chief Engineer 1911- [Toledo] First Director 1881 HistTol, 764 LOWRY, Thomas # Born Aug. 12, 1826, Windsor, LUNDEN, Herman # [Minneapolis] Ashtabula Co., Ohio [Lewiston] HistMpls, 2:20-24 Brother of Mich. governor Born 1859, Sweden Born Feb. 27, 1843, Logan Co., Cyrus G. Luce Died 1929 Ill. 1836 to Steuben Co., Ind. ---- 1867 to Minneapolis, lawyer 1865 to Toledo, dry goods Lewiston & Southeastern Died Feb. 4, 1909 merchant First Director, Director ---- Died Sept. 15, 1886, Toledo 1896-1909 Minneapolis Street Ry ---- Vice President 1902-08 Investor 1875 Detroit, Toledo & Jackson Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault First Director 1881 LUTHER, George [Lamont] Ste. Marie Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand MichBiog, 2:42 Director 1888-1917 Trunk Born May 3, 1823, Bristol, R. I. Vice President 1888 Director 1881-83 1841 to Grand Rapids President 1889, 1891-1908 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North State representative 1863-65 Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co. Michigan Died Dec. 23, 1884, Lamont Director 1902-08 Director 1884-85 ---- 38 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Grand Rapids & Lake Shore Missouri, Kansas & Texas practice First Director 1869 Director 1880 Died May 16, 1930 Marquette, Houghton & ---- LUTHER, George E. # Ontonagon Chicago & North Western Michigan RR Director 1881-85 General Attorney 1901- First Director 1919 Secretary, Treasurer 10/10 1883-85 Vice President 10/1910- LUXTON, William # [Bay City] Marquette & Western (30) Bay Cities Consolidated Secretary, Treasurer 1885 Assistant Secretary 1923- Superintendent 1902-03 Director 1885 (30) LYMAN, Alexander Steele # LYNCH, John [Muskegon] LYON, Emery S. # [New York BiogRy1913, 341 West Branch & Moorestown City] Born Apr. 8, 1860, New Director 1885-86 Ann Arbor Orleans, La. General Manager 1885-86 Director 1911-17 1886 graduated Columbia Univ. law school LYNCH, Warren J. # LYON, Gilbert R. # [Owosso] 1901-03 in private practice BiogRy1913, 342 Born Aug. 31, 1835, Dearborn ---- Born Apr 2, 1864 Attorney Manhattan Ry After 1911 with American Died Feb. 2, 1915, Owosso Law Dept. 1890-96 Steel Foundries ---- New York Central & Hudson Died Aug. 4, 1949, prob. New Owosso & Big Rapids River York City First Director, First Special Counsel 1897-1901 ---- Secretary 1869 Asst. to General Attorney Various roads Owosso & Northwestern 6/1905-1/08 Various work 1883-3/96 Secretary, Director 1872-77 General Attorney 1/1908- [Cleveland] 12/14 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago LYON, John B. [Chicago] New York Central & St. Louis ChicagoHist, 4:97-98 General Attorney 1/1915- Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent Born Apr. 16, 1829, (30) 3/1896-4/97 [St. Louis] Canandaigua, N. Y. Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent 1831 family to Conneaut, Ohio LYMAN, Edward Hutchinson 4/1897-4/99 [Cincinnati] 1857 to Chicago, grain dealer Robbins [New York General Pass. & Ticket Agent In many real estate and City] 5/1899-12/1905 business ventures Born Feb. 10, 1819, Cincinnati Northern Died Dec. 20, 1904, Chicago Northampton, Mass. General Passenger Agent ---- Died Jan. 20, 1899, Brooklyn, 1902-04 Lake County N. Y. Lake Shore & Michigan Director 1880-93 ---- Southern [Chicago] Michigan & Ohio Passenger Traffic Manager LYON, Lemon A. [Carson City] First Director, Director 12/1905-5/11 Crystal Lake 1883-11/5/1884 Michigan Central [Chicago] First Director 1891 Passenger Traffic Manager LYMAN, John Pickering # 12/1905-5/11 LYON, Theodatus Timothy [Boston] Born Jan. 23, 1813, Lima, BiogRy1885, 148 LYNDE, Samuel Adams # [New Livingston Co., N. Y. Born Feb. 8, 1847, Portsmouth, York City] 1828 family to Plymouth, N.H. BiogRy1922, 385 teacher, then farmer 1868 graduated Harvard Univ. Born Dec. 14, 1855, Rock 1844 started nursery business Iron and steel wholesaler Island, Ill. 1874 to South Haven, fruit Died Nov. 1, 1914, Portsmouth 1877 graduated Harvard Univ. grower ---- 1882-1901 general law Died Feb 6, 1900 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 39 ---- Born Sept. 28, 1847, Director 1901-17 Detroit & Howell [Plymouth] Chippawa, Ontario President 1916-17 First Director, First c.1872 to Manistee, lumber President 1864 inspector Howell & Lansing 1890 to Ludington, cashier for First Director 1868 Butters & Peters Salt Detroit, Howell & Lansing & Lumber Co. First Director, Director 1870 Died Aug. 23, 1924, Ludington ---- LYON, Thomas Rice # Mason & Oceana [Ludington] Director 1890-1909 CycMich, 228-29; BkChi, 370 Secretary 1890-94, 1903-06 Born May 31, 1854, Conneaut, Treasurer 1890-91 Ohio 1872, worked for Eber Brock LYSTER, Henry Laurence # Ward in Ludington mills [Detroit] 1875 managed for E. B. Ward HistMich1915, 4:2241-42; estate BkDet1914, 317 c.1891 to Chicago, securities; Born Dec. 22, 1872, Detroit also in banking 1896 graduated Univ. Mich. Died Jan. 28, 1909 law school ---- Died Oct. 21, 1948, Detroit Lake County ---- Director 1880-93 Toledo & Michigan Terminal General Manager 1888-93 First Director 1901 President 1892-93 Detroit, Ann Arbor & Adrian First Director 1901 LYON, Truman F. Detroit Manufacturers Detroit, Howell & Lansing First Director 1902 Secretary 1871 Detroit, Lansing & Lake LYTLE, Charles Edwin # Michigan [Marquette] Secretary 1871 BiogRy1922, 386 Born Mar. 2, 1859, Newark, LYON, Truman Hawley, Jr. Ohio [Grand Rapids] ---- ABH-1.3:73-74 Various roads Born Feb. 24, 1826, Parishville, Various work 1873-4/88 N. Y. Lake Erie & Western 1836 family moved to Mich. Trainmaster 1-4/1892 1850 to Grand Rapids, hotel Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic owner Trainmaster 4/1888-1/92 ---- Superintendent Grand Rapids RR 4/1892-7/99 First Director 1871 General Superintendent 7/1899-(1924) LYONS, H. D. [Marquette] Assistant to President Marquette, Houghton & (1930) Ontonagon Mineral Range Master Car Builder 1884 General Superintendent 7/1899-(1924) LYONS, James Hayes # Hancock & Calumet [Ludington] Vice President 1901-02 40 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) M New York Central [Cleveland] Mich. Lt. Gov. 1887-89 Superintendent Motive Died Jan. 19, 1889, Elmwood, MAAS, John P. [Negaunee] Power 1/1915-16 railroad accident Negaunee & Ishpeming Street ---- First Director 1891 MacLEAN, R. T. [Munising] Chicago & Michigan Lake Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Munising Shore Ry & Electric Cashier 1895-96 Contractor 1868 First Director 1892 Hancock & Calumet MacDONALD, F. P. # Contractor 1873 MAASE, J. Edward # [Chicago] BiogRy1893, 241 Mineral Range Manistee & Grand Rapids Born Jan. 9, 1851, Inverness, General Superintendent Director 1912-13 Scotland 1873-74 [Hancock] ---- Chicago & North Western MACARD, Grenville # [Battle Scottish and Canadian roads Roadmaster Creek] Various work 1866-75 Escanaba, Twin Cities & Born 1851 Detroit, Grand Haven & Western Son-in-law of Leonidas D. Milwaukee First Director 1889 Dibble Train Dispatcher 1875-76 Died Mar. 2, 1921, Battle Creek Toledo, Canada Southern & MacDUFFIE, Rufus L. [New ---- Detroit York City] Michigan Inter-Urban Trainmaster 1876-83 BiogNY, 282 First Director 1901 Michigan Central Born Dec. 30, 1866, Battle Creek & Coldwater Trainmaster 1883-88 [St. Cambridge, Mass. Electric Thomas, Ont.] 1890 grad. Harvard Univ. First Director 1904 Asst. Superintendent 1888- Railway equipment merchant (93) ---- MacBAIN, Donald Robertson # Div. Superintendent 1900- Houghton County Street BiogRy1913, 343 02 [Jackson] First Director 1899 Born Oct. 23, 1865, Queenston Heights, Ont. MacDONALD, Gordon [New MacEDWARD, William G. # Author, Locomotive York City] BiogRy1913, 351 Management, publ. 1917 Capitol Street Born July 5, 1868, Ottawa, ---- First Director 1892 Canada Canada Southern Lansing City Electric ---- Various work 10/1876-90 First Director 1892 Erie RR Michigan Central Various work 1886-4/1903 Various work 1890-7/1900 MacDONALD, James Allan # Detroit & Mackinac [Bay City] Master Mechanic 7/1900- [New York City] Division Freight & Passenger 4/01 [Mich. Cy, Ind.] WhosWhoFB, 431-32; BiogNY, Agent 8/1903-3/09 Master Mechanic 4/1901- 282 General Passenger Agent 1/02 [St. Thomas, Ont.] Born Mar. 16, 1844, New York 3/1909-15 Master Mechanic 1/1902- City General Freight & Passenger 7/06 [Jackson] 1863 grad. Columbia College Agent 1916 Asst. Supt. Motive Power ---- 7/1906-4/08 [Detroit] Erie & Kalamazoo MacFARLANE, Andrew New York Central & Hudson Director 1915-17 Muskegon River & Rose Lake River [Albany, N.Y.] First Director 1878 Asst. Superintendent Motive MacDONALD, James H. Power 4/1908-5/10 [Escanaba] MacFARLANE, Peter C. Lake Shore & Michigan MichBiog, 2:68; ABH-1,9:18-19 Muskegon River & Rose Lake Southern [Cleveland] Born May 15, 1832, First Director 1878 Superintendent Motive Iverness-shire, Scotland Power 5/1910-12/14 1869 to Escanaba MacINTYRE, A. D. # [Joliet, Ill.] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 41 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Jackson Louisville, Evansville & St. Toledo, Adrian & Jackson Treasurer, Director 1914-15 Louis First Director 1900 President 4/1889-94 Toledo & Western MACK, Addison H. [Carson Director 1902-06 City] MACKIE, James S. # [New York Carson City & Palo City] MacMILLAN, J. H. # [LaGrange, First Director 1871 Toledo, St. Louis & Western Ill.] Secretary 1905 Michigan City, Lakeside & St. MACK, Almon Hocking Valley Joe Electric MichBiog, 2:69 Secretary (1912-(16) First Director 1912 Born Apr. 28, 1805, Tunbridge, Treasurer (1912-13) Vt. Chesapeake & Ohio MACOMBER, L. Jud. 1822 to Pontiac [Greenville] 1830 to Rochester, merchant Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Grand Rapids, Greenville & State representative 1848 Director 1913-17 Alpena Died Jan. 20, 1885, Rochester First Director 1872s ---- MACKIE, Thomas H. # [Sault Grand Rapids, Rockford & Troy & Rochester Ste. Marie] Greenville Commissioner 1844 Sault Ste. Marie & Lake Huron Director 1872, 1875 First Director 1916 Vice President 1875 MACKAY, Alexander Alpena & Michigan South- BiogRy1885, 156; MACKINTOSH, John W. Western BiogRy1893, 241 [Boston] First Director 1874 ---- Flint & Pere Marquette Various roads Director 1888-93 MacNAUGHTON, James # Various work ??-2/1883 [Calumet] Chicago & Atlantic MACLAURY, James # [Detroit] (Sometimes spelled General Freight Agent Delray Connecting McNAUGHTON) 2/1883-9/84 Treasurer 1904-11 CentHist, 4:624; MenProgress, Michigan Central [Chicago] 316; Republican, General Freight Agent MACLAY, Isaac Walker # 2:276-77 9/1884-93 [Yonkers, N.Y.] Born Mar. 9, 1864, Bruce Born May 14, 1841, New York Mines, Ont. MacKENZIE, C. A. # {Sarnia, City 1864 family to Hancock Ont.] Died Dec. 29, 1908 1867 family to Lake Linden St. Clair Tunnel Co. ---- 1886, mining engineer Calmet Director 1901 Detroit & Chicago Traction & Hecla First Director 1901 1889, mining engineer Chapin MACKEY, David James Mine, Iron Mountain [Evansville, Ind.] MACLURE, John W. 1907 degree from Univ. Mich. BiogRy1885, 156; [Manchester, Engl.] President, Calumet & Hecla BiogRy1893, 242; Born Apr. 22, 1835, Died May 26, 1949, Calumet HistEvansville, 398 Manchester, England ---- Born Dec. 17, 1832, Evansville Insurance broker Hecla & Torch Lake Died Apr. 9, 1915, Evansville Member Parliament, 1886-?? General Manager, Director ---- Died Jan. 28, 1901 1901-09 Evansville & Terre Haute ---- Hancock & Calumet Director 1870-(85) Detroit, Grand Haven & Director 1910-17 President 1881-(85) Milwaukee Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Director 1879-81 Director 1917 President, Director 1889 Mineral Range Peoria, Decatur & Evansville MacMILLAN, Francis C. # Vice President, Director President 1881-12/92 [Cleveland] 1909-17 42 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1842 to Cincinnati, Ohio Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & MacPHERSON, Edgar W. # 1845 to Fond du Lac, Wisc. Columbus [Marquette] U. S. Representative, Wisc., Vice President, Director 1890 graduated Univ. Mich. 1853-55 1901-02 Attorney Died Sept. 24, 1857, Lake General Manager 1902 ---- Michigan, sinking of South Haven & Eastern Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Niagara Director 1901-02 Land Commissioner 1908- ---- President 1901 15 Erie & Kalamazoo Vice President, General Mineral Range Director 1838 Manager 1902 Land Commissioner 1908- President 5/1840-?? Michigan Shore & Eastern 13 First Director 1903 MAGEE, H. L. [St. Louis, Mo.] MACRAE, C. C. [London, Engl.] BiogRy1885, 157; MAIN, James Porte(o)us # Wabash BiogRy1893, 243; [Detroit] Director 1892-97 BiogRy1913, 360 BkDet, 312; DSA, 437; Born Feb. 18, 1847, BiogRy1922, 393 MacRAE, John Alexander # Canajoharie, N.Y. Born Dec. 25, 1869, Portland, BiogRy1913, 359 ---- Me. Born Aug. 20, 1869, Various roads ---- Kewaunee, Ill. Various work 3/1861-82 Grand Trunk Ry Canada 1896 graduated Univ. Ill. Texas & Pacific Clerk 1885-1904 ---- Div. Superintendent 1882- Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Chicago & North Western 85 Superintendent 4/1904-11 [Chicago] Wabash Traffic Manager 4/1904-11 Mechanical Dept. 1896-99 Div. Superintendent 1885- General Manager 1912-(30) New York Central & Hudson 7/89 River [Albany, N.Y.] General Superintendent MAIN, John [Detroit] Mechanical Dept. 11/1899- 7/1889-8/1905 BiogRy1885, 157 6/1907 Born Feb. 3, 1844, Ednam, Boston & Albany [Boston] MAGEE, Michael.Jarden # Roxburgshire, Scotland Mechanical Engineer [Sault Ste. Marie] ---- 6/1904-8/06 Born Oct. 1862, Philadelphia Grand Trunk Ry Canada Michigan Central [Detroit] Newspaper editor, real estate Clerk 3/1867-6/82 Mechanical Engineer dealer Chicago & Grand Trunk 8/1906-13 Avid student of birds Asst. General Freight Agent Died Aug. 22, 1947, Sault Ste. 6/1882-87 MACY, Frederick W. [New York Marie City] ---- MAITLAND, Alexander W. Born June 17, 1808, Hudson, N. Sault Ste, Marie & Lake Huron [Negaunee] Y. First Director 1916 HistUP, 461; HistNP, 2:779-80; Insurance co. executive MichBiog, 2:71; ---- MAGINN, J. J. # [Van Wert, Oh.] Republican, 2: 279-80 Michigan Southern Cincinnati Northern Born June 20, 1844, Ayrshire, Incorporator 1846 Equipment Maint. Scotland First Director, Director Superintendent 1915-17 1864 to Negaunee 5/1846-12/1846 General Manager of several MAHAN, W. A. [Marquette] mining cos. MACY, John B. [Buffalo, N.Y.] Marquette, Houghton & State senator 1897-1900 CongBiog Ontonagon Mich. Lt. Gov. 1903-06 Born Mar. 26, 1799, Nantucket Master Mechanic 1884 Died June 12, 1925, Negaunee Island, Mass. ---- 1826 to Buffalo, N. Y. MAHER, Edward # [Chicago] Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 43 First Director 1891 Asst. Superintendent [Grand MANCHESTER, Albert E. # Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Rapids] 1897-99 [Milwaukee] Ry & Electric Pere Marquette BiogRy1893, 244; First Director 1892 Asst. Superintendent BiogRy1913, 363 [Detroit] 1/1900-10/00 Born Feb. 12, 1847, Beaver MALBONE, John S. # [South Dam, Wisc. Haven] MALONEY, Walter J. # Died May 3, 1917, Milwaukee HistVanB, 2:920-21 [Wilmington, Del.] ---- Born Apr. 15, 1846, Franklin Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Co., Ohio Director 1914 Various work 1864-4/93 Hardware merchant; fruit Asst. Supt. Motive Power grower MALTBY, E. B. # [New York 4/1893-6/1901 Died June 14, 1940, South City] Superintendent Motive Haven Michigan Traction Power 6/1901-13 ---- Auditor 1904 Mechanical Superintendent South Haven & Lake Shore 1916-17 First Director 1901 MALTBY, E. B. # [Boston] Copper Range MANCHESTER, William D. # MALLOY, J. M. # [Watertown, Director 1902 [Manistee] Wisc.] Born Feb. 17, 1882, in Canada Escanaba Traction MALTZ, George L. # ---- Director 1910-17 ABH-II/8:33; CycMich, 64-65; Manistee & Northeastern MichBiog, 2:72; Chief Engineer 1913-17 MALLORY, Charles F. [Romeo] MenProgress, 132-33 MichBiog, 2:72 Born Sept. 30, 1842, Brooklyn, MANDELL, Edward D. [New Born Jan. 11, 1811, Albany, N. N. Y. Bedford, Mass.] Y. 1846 to Detroit Born Oct. 28, 1821, New Hardware merchant In Civil War 1861-65 Bedford State representative 1863-66 1872 to Alpena, organized first Business partner of William W. ---- bank Crapo Detroit & Saginaw River Mich. state treasurer 1887-91 Died Dec. 16, 1897, New First Director 1871 Died Aug. 1, 1910, Detroit Bedford ---- ---- MALONE, Thomas H. [Ionia] Grand Trunk Ry Canada Flint & Fentonville BiogRy1901, 356 Ticket Agent 1858-60 First Director 1863 Born July 15, 1852, Waverly, [Detroit] Flint & Holly N. Y. First Director 1863 ---- MALTZ, George S. Atlantic & Great Western Grand Rapids, Grayling & MANDEVILLE, Edward E. various work 11/1863-3/79 Alpena [Chicago] Kansas City, St. Joseph & First Director 1891 Union Street of Benton Harbor Council Bluffs First Director 1892 Station agent 6/1879-4/80 MAN, Harry V. [Monroe] Detroit, Lansing & Northern Born c.1810 MANEY, James # [Duluth] Telegrapher 5/1880-2/81 Attorney BiogRy1922, 394 Asst. Train Dispatcher Mayor, Monroe, 1848 Born May 5, 1868, Marquette 2/1881-3/84 1887 to Davenport, Iowa ---- Chief Train Dispatcher ---- Marquette, Houghton & 3/1884-12/92 Michigan Southern [Monroe] Ontonagon Asst. Superintendent [Ionia] Incorporator 1846 various work 5/1886-87 12/1892-12/99 First Director, Director Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Detroit, Grand Rapids & 5/1846-12/1846 various work 1887-1905 Western Passenger Dept. 1905-12 44 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) General Passenger Agent ---- 1/08 1912-(30) Bay City & Midland Choctaw Ry & Lighting Mineral Range First Director 1882 [McAlester, Okla.] Asst. General Passenger General Superintendent Agent 1905-12 MANN, R. C. # [Cleveland] 1/1908-12/12 General Passenger Agent Marquette & Southeastern 1912-(30) Director 1901-11 MANTZ, George # [Lewiston] Lake Superior & Ishpeming ?Son of Henry Mantz MANN, Alexander # Asst. Secretary 1916-17 ---- [Berkshire, Sanilac Co.] Munising Lewiston & Southeastern Sanilac Secretary 1900-11 General Manager 1902-06 First Director 1901 Munising, Marquette & Southeastern MANTZ, Henry [Lewiston] MANN, Alexander V. # Asst. Secretary 1912-16 Lewiston Journal, Apr. 28, [Muskegon] Director 1912-17 1898 CycMich, 233-34; Secretary 1917 Born 1847, Germany MenProgress, 449 ?Son of William Mantz, ?father Born Jan. 18, 1834, Somerville, MANNING, Franklin M. [Paw of George Mantz N. J. Paw] 1856 family to Milwaukee 1855 to Grand Rapids, clerk Born Mar. 26, 1817, Essex Co., 1867 to Manistee 1857 to Muskegon, buying N. Y. Partner of Rasmus Hanson in timberland, logging Owned flour mill lumbering 1868 partnership with John W. No date, moved to Albion from No date to Lewiston Moon Paw Paw ---- Died July 17, 1910, Muskegon Died Mar. 6, 1897, Albion; Lewiston & Southeastern ---- burial Paw Paw First Director, Director Muskegon Lake ---- 1896-1909 First Director 1879 Paw Paw Vice President 1896-1901 Muskrat Lake & Clam River First Director 1857 General Manager 1896-1901 First Director 1881 General Superintendent President, Director 1882-85 MANNING, Franklin S. [Paw 1896-97 Paris & Pere Marquette River Paw] First Director, Director Paw Paw MANTZ, William [Lewiston] 1882-88 General Superintendent ?Father of Henry Mantz South Grand Rapids Street 1874 ---- Director 1902 Lewiston & Southeastern MANNING, Henry [Fort First Director, Director MANN, Alvin [Pinckney] Wayne] 1896-1909 Born June 7, 1809, Salem, N. Y. Fort Wayne, Jackson & 1838 to Pinckney, merchant Saginaw MAPES, Cyrenius A. [Lansing] Died Oct. 3, 1876, Pinckney Director 1878-79 Lansing, Dexter & Ann Arbor ---- First Director 1897 Grand Trunk Ry of Michigan MANNING, Lawrence # First Director 1899 First Director 1866 Born Sept. 22, 1879, Clarendon Co., S. C. MAPES, E. D. [Maple Rapids] MANN, Edwin [Otsego] Two years at Virginia Maple Rapids & Southern Grand Rapids & Mackinaw Polytechnic Inst. First Director 1877 First Director 1857 1913 and later, engineering work MARAN, James P. # [Escanaba] MANN, George W. [Bay City] ---- Escanaba Electric Street 1873 grad. Univ. of Mich. law Owosso & Corunna Electric Director 1907-08 school [Owosso] Attorney Superintendent 5/1904- MARANTETTE, Patrick Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 45 [Mendon] Director 1887-89 MichBiog, 2:75 Republic Branch MARSCH, Emil # [Chicago] Born Mar. 11, 1807, Sandwich, First Director 1881 Wisconsin & Michigan Ontario Ontonagon & Brule River Director 1910-16 1833 to Nottawa, trading post Secretary, Director 1882-89 Vice President 1911-16 superintendent Menominee Branch No date to Mendon First Director 1883 MARSCH, John # [Chicago] Died May 21, 1878, Mendon Wisconsin & Michigan ---- MARKLE, John R. [Detroit] Director 1910-16 Grand Rapids & Mackinaw Columbus & Lake Michigan Secretary 1911-16 First Director 1857 First Director 1888 First Director 1918 Columbus, Lima & Michigan MARBLE, G. L. [Van Wert, First Director 1889 MARSCH, Nicolas # [Chicago] Ohio] Wisconsin & Michigan Cincinnati, Jackson & MARQUARDT, Charles W. # Director 1911-16 Mackinaw BiogRy1913, 365 First Director 1918 Secretary, Attorney 1887 Born Aug. 12, 1881, Germany Director 1887 No date to Green Bay, Wisc. MARSCHNER, Adolph F. # Died ?1917 Southern Electric MARBLE, Herbert # [Owosso] ---- First Director 1911 Albion, Charlotte, Northern Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul First Director 1914 Various work 8/1901-2/07 MARSH, G. C. # [Chicago] Copper Range [Houghton] Michigan City, Lakeside & St. MARBLE, J. M. C. [Toledo] Clerk 2/1907-8/11 Joe Electric Cincinnati, Jackson & Asst. Gen. Freight & Pass. First Director 1912 Mackinaw Agent 8/1911-10/12 First Director, Director Gen. Freight Agent and Pass. MARSH, George Samuel 1886-87 Agent 10/1912-16 [Milwaukee] President 1887 BkChi, 394 MARQUARDT, W. L. [Ypsilanti] Born Oct. 13, 1855, Craftsbury, MARCHANT, S. F. # [Chicago] Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti Street Vt. West Michigan Traction First Director 1890 Died May 25, 1906, Warrick, First Director 1901) England MARR, Charles S. [Sherman] ---- MARCY, Thomas K. [New York Cadillac, Manistee Valley & Various roads City] Lake Michigan Various work 1868-12/87 Flint & Lansing First Director 1884 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & First Director 1872 Western Lansing & Lake Michigan MARR, George A. [Detroit] General Passenger Agent First Director 1872 Monroe, Dundee & Lake Erie 12/1887-3/89 First Director 1896 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul MARCY, William L. Asst. General Passenger Michigan Southern MARR, William N. # [Detroit] Agent 3/1889-1/1900 Director 6/1850-4/53 Alpena & Western 1st Asst. General Passenger First Director 1900 Agent 1/1900-(05) MARINER, Ephraim [Milwaukee] MARRINANE, Edward J. # MARSH, Henry Whitney # Born Mar. 27, 1827, Penn Yan, [Grass Lake] Born Feb. 8, 1847, Racine, N. Y. Jackson & Battle Creek Wisc. n.d. to Milwaukee, attorney Traction 1864 to Manistee Died Jan. 24, 1911 First Director 1902 Officer in several other ---- Wolf Lake Ry & Resort Manistee businesses Milwaukee & Northern First Secretary 1902 ---- 46 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Hobart & Manistee River 2/06 [Hobart] MARTIN, George First Director 1879 MARSHALL, W. J. # [Toledo] MichBiog, 2:79 General Superintendent Toledo & Western Born 1815, Middlebury, Vt. 1879-90 Vice President, Director to Grand Rapids 1836, Director 1879-90 1913 Justice Mich. Supr. Ct. 1857-67 Manistee & Grand Rapids Toledo, Ottawa Beach & Died Dec. 15, 1867 [Manistee] Northern ---- Asst. Auditor 1896-97 Vice President, Director Kalamazoo & Grand River General Freight Agent 1913 Commissioner 1847 1896-97 Auditor 1898-1900 MARSTON, Edwin S. # [New MARTIN, George H. B. # Director 1901-02 York City] [Camden, N. J.] Detroit, Hillsdale & South Saginaw-Bay Ry & Light MARSHALL, A. C. # [Detroit] Western Director 1904 Delray Terminal President, Director 1902-17 Vice President, Director Fort Wayne & Jackson MARTIN, Henry [Grand 1913-17 Secretary, Treasurer 1897- Rapids] 1901 Grand Rapids RR MARSHALL, Clinton [Duluth] President, Director 1902-17 First Director 1855 Ontonagon & Montreal River First Director 1880 MARTIN, David B. [Cincinnati] MARTIN, J. H. [Grand Rapids] BiogRy1885, 159 Lowell & Hastings MARSHALL, David B. # Born Mount Joy, Pa. Director 1897 [Sheridan, Wyo.] ---- Erie & Kalamazoo Various roads MARTIN, John [Milwaukee] Director 1915-17 Clerk, Agent 10/1867-11/78 Gogebic & Montreal River Cleveland, Columbus, Director 1892-97 MARSHALL, Hannibal M. Cincinnati & Indianapolis Chicago & Michigan Grand General Agent 11/1878-(85) MARTIN, John [Minneapolis] Trunk Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago HistMpls2, 2:628-30; First Director 1865 & St. Louis HistMpls3, 310 General Passenger Agent Born Aug. 18, 1819, Peacham, MARSHALL, W. H. # 1892-96 Vt. [Cleveland] 1855 to Minneapolis BiogRy1913, 366 MARTIN, Edward [Hamilton, Steamboat captain, then into Born June 7, 1864. Ont.] lumbering 2/1906 became pres. Detroit, Grand Haven & Director, 1st Natl. Bank. Mpls, American Locomotive Co. Milwaukee 1864-?? ---- Director 1878 Died May 25, 1905, Chicago & North Western Minneapolis Asst. Superintendent Motive MARTIN, Edwin [Paw Paw] ---- Power 5/1897-6/99 Paw Paw Menominee & Sault Ste. Marie Lake Shore & Michigan Director 1872-75, 1879-86 First Director 1885 Southern President 1875 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Superintendent Motive Treasurer 1883-86 Ste. Marie Power 6/1899-2/1902 Vice President 1885-86 Director 1888-1902 General Superintendent Toledo & South Haven Vice President 1894-1904 2/1902-7/03 Director 1877-89 Minneapolis & St. Louis General Manager 7/1903- Treasurer 1878-85 Director, Vice President 2/06 Vice President 1884-85 Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Toledo & South Haven/S MARTIN, John L. [Chicago] General Manager 7/1903- First Director 1882 Citizens Street (Kalamazoo) Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 47 First Director 1893 Vice President 1908-17 First Director 1889 Director 1906-17 MARTIN, John T. [New York MASON, E. G. [Chicago] City] MARTIN, William L. # [Boyne Canada, Michigan & Chicago Michigan & Ohio City] First Director 1871 First Director, Director Boyne City & Southeastern 1883-11/5/1884 Director 1901-04 MASON, Earl P. [Providence, Cincinnati, Jackson & Secretary 1902-04 R.I.] Mackinaw Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Director 1887 First Director, Director First Director 1872 1905-17 MARTIN, Louis I. [Toledo] Secretary 1905-17 MASON, Germain H. Michigan & Mackinaw Superintendent 1908-12 [Centreville] First Director 1891 Born Aug. 8, 1831, Rutland, Vt. MARTINDALE, James J. # 1843 to Orland, Ind., then to MARTIN, R. C. # [New York [Lansing] Mendon City] Lansing Southern 1860 admitted to bar Ann Arbor First Director 1907 1872 to Kalamazoo, attorney Director 1895-1901 Died Feb. 20, 1889, Kalamazoo MARVIN, Charles R. [New York ---- MARTIN, S. K. [Grand Rapids?] City] Air Line Ry of Michigan Consolidated Street of Grand Chicago & North Western First Director 1869 Rapids Secretary, Treasurer Manchester & Homer First Director 1891 10/1872-6/73 First Director 1870 Director 6/1870-3/77 Kalamazoo, Lowell & Northern MARTIN, Seldon Michigan Mottville & White Pigeon MARX, Oscar E. [Detroit] Attorney 1879 [?] Commissioner 1838 Monroe, Dundee & Lake Erie First Director 1896 MASON, Henry C. # MARTIN, W. A. [LaPorte, Ind.] Benton Harbor & St Joseph Munising MASON, Alanson L. Electric Director 1895 [Centreville] First Director, Director Manchester & Homer 1900-04 [St. Joseph] MARTIN, W. J. [Bay City] First Director 1870 Superintendent 1902-04 Michigan Central Benton Harbor-St Joe Ry & Div. Superintendent MASON, Charles # [Cleveland] Light 1890-97 Detroit United First Director 1906 [Benton Director 1907 Harbor] MARTIN, William L. # Director 1907-15 [Minneapolis] MASON, Charles Edward General Manager 1906-15 BiogRy1913, 367 [Gladstone] St. Joe River Traction Born Nov. 15, 1854, Lee Co., Ill. NPMemorial, 305, HistNP, First Director 1904 1874 graduated Northwestern 2:912 Dowagiac Univ. Born Mar. 22, 1854, First Director 1908 ---- Masonville, Delta Co. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Half brother of Richard Mason, MASON, Hezekiah D. [Toledo] Ste. Marie Jr.; son of R. P. Mason Erie & Kalamazoo Secretary, Treasurer c.1882 to Escanaba, lawyer, Director 1838-39, 1844-46 1890-1902 newspaper publisher Treasurer 1839 Freight Traffic Manager c.1887 to Gladstone, 1903-04 newspaper publisher MASON, James [Cleveland] Traffic Manager 1905-17 ---- Lake Shore & Michigan 2nd Vice President 1905-07 Gladstone Street Southern 48 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Attorney 1877-80 Principal Asst. Engineer Kalamazoo & White Pigeon 1880-92 MATHER, Asaph [Matherton] Director 1876-83 Asst. Purchasing Agent Westphalia, Hubbardston & 1892-(93) Northern MASON, Lyman Gates First Director 1869 [Muskegon] MASON, Thomas F. # [New Born June 22, 1829, York City] MATHER, Edward L. # [Caro] Belchertown, Hampshire, President, Quincy Mining Co. Bay City & Caro Mass. ---- First Director 1904 Died Dec. 14, 1898, Muskegon Mineral Range Ry ---- First Director 1864 MATHER, Henry R. Muskegon & Ferrysburg L'Anse & Ontonagon Born May 17, 1824, First Director 1868 First Director 1865 Middletown, Conn. Muskegon & Greenville Quincy & Torch Lake Brother of Samuel L. Mather First Director 1870 First Director, Director (#1) Muskegon & Big Rapids 1890-1902 Died Jan. 13, 1888, Marquette First Director 1871 President 1891-1902 ---- Chicago & Michigan Lake Iron Bay Shore MASON, Worden B. [Spring First Director 1866 Director 1872-73 Lake] Michigan Lake Shore Fruitport & Lake Shore MATHER, Samuel Livingston Director 1872-78 First Director 1870 (#1) Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Born July 1, 1817, Middletown, First Director, Director MASSEY, D. [Clare] Conn. 1886-97 Flint & Pere Marquette Father of Samuel L. (#2) and Muskegon Terminal Div. Superintendent 1892 William G. Mather First Director 1892 Brother of Henry R. Mather MASSON, George [Detroit] Pres. Cleveland Iron Mining MASON, Richard (Jr.) BiogRy1885, 160 Co. 18xx-90 [Gladstone] Born Jan. 27, 1831, Kingston, Died Oct. 11, 1890, Cleveland NPMemorial, 513-14, Ont. ---- HistNP,3:1348, MichBiog, 2:84 ---- Lake Superior Iron Mountain Half brother of Charles E. Great Western Ry Canada First Director 1862 Mason; son of R. P. Mason Engineer 6/1851-4/53 Munising early 1870s to Masonville, Atlantic & Great Western Director 1900-11 lumber mill opr Asst. Engineer 9/1863-7/64 1886 to Gladstone, lumber Tomah & St. Croix MATHER, Samuel Livingston mill; founder of Gladstone Engineer 8/1864-5/66 (#2) [Cleveland] State senator 1895-98 Detroit & Milwaukee BkClev, 179-80 ---- Engineer 5/1866-6/71 Born July 13, 1851, Cleveland Gladstone Street Chief Engineer 12/1874-78 Son of Samuel L. Mather; First Director 1889 Detroit, Grand Haven & brother of William G. Mather Milwaukee Officer of Pickands-Mather Co. MASON, Sampson D. Engineer 1878-82 Died Oct. 17, 1931, Cleveland BiogRy1893, 249 Chief Engineer 1883-87 ---- Born July 31, 1849, Concord, Chicago & Grand Trunk Street Ry Construction Mass. Chief Engineer 1885-96 First Director 1886 ---- Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Electric Ry Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana Director 1888-92 First Director 1890 Asst. Engineer 1871-74 Detroit, Eel River & Illinois MASTERS, C. H. # [Toledo] MATHER, William Gwinn # Cashier, Treasurer 1874-80 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Detroit [Cleveland] Northern Pacific First Secretary 1904 Born Sept. 22, 1857, Cleveland Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 49 Son of Samuel L. Mather; 1859 to Grand Rapids, First Director 1869 brother Samuel Mather furniture maker 1877 graduated Trinity Coll. Died Apr. 5, 1905, Grand MAXWELL, John c.1878 began as clerk, Rapids Chicago & North Western Cleveland Iron Mining Co. ---- Director 6/1860-6/61 1890 pres. Cleveland Iron Grand Rapids RR Mining Co. First Director 1871 MAXWELL, William Cochrane 1891 merged with Iron Cliffs # Co to form Cleveland-Cliffs MATTHEWS, J. H. [Berrien BiogRy1893, 250; 1891-1933 president Springs] BiogRy1913, 370 Cleveland-Cliffs (sometimes spelled Born Feb. 20, 1865, Keokuk, 1930 a founder of Republic MATHEWS) Iowa Steel Co. BiogRy1885, 161 ---- Died Apr. 5, 1951, Cleveland Born Sept. 17, 1847, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy ---- Lexington, Oh. Various work 1881-9/1905 Lake Superior & Ishpeming ---- Wabash [St. Louis, Mo.] President, Director Various roads Asst. Traffic Manager 1896-1917 Various work 1865-68 9/1905-8/08 Marquette & Southeastern St. Joseph Valley Traffic Manager 8/1908-15 First Director, Director First Director, Director Vice President-Traffic 1916- 1900-11 1880-3/83 17 President, Treasurer 1901- Vice President, General Supt. 11 3/1883-9/83 MAY, Abraham [Grand Rapids] Munising Secretary, Gen. Pass. & Frt. Grand Rapids, Belding & President, Director 1900-11 Agent 9/1883-(85) Greenville Treasurer 1900-11 South Bend, Niles & St. Joseph First Director 1899 Munising, Marquette & First Director 1884 Southeastern MAY, Frederick Henry # President, Treasurer, MAUNTLER, Henry # [Arcadia] [Allegan] Director 1912-17 Powers, 3:1153-54 HerrNL, 4:75 Born Nov. 23, 1850, Germany Born Mar. 22, 1826, Isle of MATHEWS, Abram B. 1868 to U.S. Man, Great Britain Lake Superior 7/1880 to Arcadia, managed Contractor and RR builder: First Director 1857 Henry Starke Lumber Co. store parts of Erie; n.d. partnership w/Henry Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & MATHEY, Leon [State Island, Starke Chicago; Missouri Pacific; N.Y.] ---- and Illinois Central Allegan & State Line Arcadia & Betsey River Train Built Chicago breakwater for First Director 1887 First Director 1883 Illinois Central Vice President, Director Died 1908, Newark, N. J. MATHEY, Louis A. [Staten 1895-1917 ---- Island, N.Y.] Detroit River RR & Bridge Allegan & State Line MAXEY, James # [Oshkosh, First Director 1872 [Detroit] First Director 1887 Wisc.] Muskegon Lake Lake Superior Southern President 1880 MATTE, August [Hancock] First Director 1905 South Eastern Michigan Houghton & Rockland First Director 1871 First Director 1883 MAXEY, John O. # [Marquette] [Chicago] Lake Superior Southern Chicago & Canada Southern MATTER, Elias [Grand Rapids] First Director 1905 First Director 1871 ABH-1,5:77 [Chicago] Born Oct. 6, 1833, Dauphin Co., MAXWELL, Andrew C. Grand Haven Pa. Northern Michigan Ry First Director, Director 50 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1878-81 ---- Va. General Manager 1878-80 Marquette & Iron Range ---- Muskegon Lake First Director 1895 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. First Director 1879 Louis MAYO, B. C. # [New York City] Various work 7/1870-8/92 MAYBURY, William C. [Detroit] Lakewood Street {various] Port Huron & Lexington First Director, Director General Freight Agent First Director 1894 1913-16 8/1892-4/97 Detroit & River St. Clair Vice President 1914-16 Freight Traffic Manager First Director 1895 4/1897-1/1907 MAYO, G. G. # [New York City] Pennsylvania-West MAYER, Jesse # [New York Lakewood Street Various work 1/1907-6/18 City] Secretary, Treasurer, Grand Rapids & Indiana Ann Arbor Director 1914-16 Director 1908-17 Treasurer 1914-15 Traffic Manager 1914 Vice President 1914-17 MAYNARD, Aaron B. [Detroit] McALLISTER, James W. # McCAFFERY, John [Chicago] Detroit & Saginaw River [Philadelphia] Chicago & Grand Trunk First Director 1871 Pennsalt Director 1880-87 Michigan Air Line Ry First Director 1901 Director 1878-90 McCALL, Joseph G. [Hersey] Vice President 1881-90 McARTHUR, William Muskegon River & Cat Creek Detroit, Grand Haven & MichBiog, 2:5 First Director 1878 Milwaukee Born Apr. 13, 1825, Steuben Director 1882-90 Co., N.Y. McCALL, Samuel W. # [Boston] Detroit & South Lyon 1860 to Rochester, N.Y. Frankfort & South Eastern First Director 1883 Head of Cheboygan lumber co. Treasurer, Director 1889-92 Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon after 1866 Escanaba, Frankfort & Director 1888-90 1870 to Chicago Southeastern 1873 to Cheboygan First Director 1895 MAYNARD, Charles H. State representative 1877-78 Grand Rapids, Kalkaska & [Portland] ---- Southeastern Ionia & Lansing 1865 Contractor RRs and canals First Director 1897 First Director after 1850 President 1899-1900 Lowell & Hastings MAYNARD, Charles S. McBAIN, N. Vice President 1899-1900 Kalamazoo, Paw Paw & Lake Northern Michigan Central Michigan First Director 1881 McCAMLY, Sands First Director 1885 MichBiog, 2:47; BiogCal, 683 McBRIDE, P. Hamilton Born Oct. 16, 1793, Warwick, MAYNARD, Effingham # [New Grand Rapids & Lake Michigan N.Y. York City] First Director 1889 1831 to Nottawa Detroit, Hillsdale & South Grand Rapids, Chicago & St. n. d. to Marshall Western Louis 1834 to Battle Creek, built saw Director 1902-17 First Director 1890 mill Holland South Shore State representative 1837, ‘43 MAYNARD, Matthew H. First Director 1890 State senator 1839-40 [Marquette] Died Apr. 30, 1864, Battle ABH-1,9:19 McCABE, Daniel Trigg # Creek Born Apr 13, 1832, [Pittsburgh] ---- Brownsville, Ind. BiogRy1893, 229; Battle Creek & Grand Rapids 1855 to Marquette, first BiogRy1913, 344 Commissioner 1846 attorney in county Born Nov. 25, 1849, Abingdon, Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 51 McCANCE, James B. # [South 1893-94 President 11/1836-10/1837 Bend] South Bend & Southern McCHESNEY, Joseph H. McCOLLOUGH, J. N. Michigan [Chicago] [Coldwater] First Director, Director Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake 1901-04 First Director 1872 Michigan Secretary 1904 General Manager 1873 Southern Michigan McCLAVE, Harry # [Hillsdale] First Director, Director Tri-State of Michigan McCOMBER, Fred [Berrien 1906-08 First Director, First Springs] Treasurer 1906-08 President 1913 South Bend, Niles & St. Joseph First Director 1884 McCANCE, R. L. # [South Bend] McCLEAN, Joseph # [New York Southern Michigan City] McCOMBS, William B. Auditor 1907-09 Detroit & Chicago Traction [Marquette] First Director 1901 BiogRy1885, 150 McCARRON, Michael A. # Born Oct. 29, 1855, Forestville, [Detroit] McCLELLAN, C. A. O. Mich. Port Huron & Port Austin [Waterloo, Ind.] ---- Electric Fort Wayne, Jackson & Marquette, Houghton & First Director 1899 Saginaw Ontonagon Detroit, Lexington & Lake Director 1872-79 Various work 8/1871-1/83 Huron General Passenger Agent First Director 1900 McCLURE, J. F. [Detroit] 1/1883-84 Detroit, Grand Haven & General Ticket Agent McCARTHY, J. J. # [Chicago] Milwaukee 1885-86 Manistee & Grand Rapids Asst. General Passenger Director 1908-09 Agent 1878 McCONNELL, Abiram P. General Passenger Agent [Pontiac] McCAUL, A. P. [East Tawas] 1879 Port Huron & Milwaukee Detroit, Bay City & Alpena First Director 1855 General Passenger Agent McCLURE, William C. [East Detroit, Port Huron & Sarnia 1883 Saginaw] First Director 1857 BiogNM, 811 McCAUL, James C. # [Detroit] Born Oct. 17, 1842, Lima, Ohio McCONNELL, John BiogRy1893, 230 ---- ABH-II/5:78-79; Baxter, 446- Born Jan. 21, 1842, Ontario, Saginaw Bay & Northwestern 47 Canada Director 1881-82 Born Sept. 22, 1821, Newbury, ---- President 1882 Berkshire, England Tawas & Bay County Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw 1842 to New York state First Director 1880 First Director, Director 1847 to Grand Rapids, Secretary, Director 1882 1887-89 mercantile Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Secretary 1889 Died May 11, 1899, Grand Auditor 1883-9/30/93 Ann Arbor Rapids General Freight Agent Director 1895-97 ---- 1883-9/30/93 Grand Rapids & Holland Director 1883-9/30/93 McCLUSKIE, John [Paris] [Grand Rapids] Manistique Paris & Pere Marquette River First Director 1871 Secretary, Treasurer, Asst. General Director 1886-1906 Superintendent 1888 McCONNELL, Willard M. Alpena & Northern [Pontiac] Secretary 1893-94 McCOLLUM, Joel Port Huron & Milwaukee First Director, Director Erie & Kalamazoo First Director 1855 52 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Lake Superior Died Nov. 1, 1923 First Director 1857 ---- McCREA, James # [Pittsburgh] Various roads BiogRy1885, 151; HerrNL, McCONNELL, William M. Various work 1879-5/89 4:100 St. Clair River, Pontiac & Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Born May 1, 1848, Jackson [Cincinnati] Philadelphia First Director 1872 General Passenger & Ticket 1913 resigned due to poor St. Clair & Chicago Air Line Agent 5/1889-6/93 health First Director 1872 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago ---- & St. Louis [Cincinnati] Pennsylvania-East McCOOL, Daniel [Marquette] Passenger Traffic Manager Engineer 6/1865-1/75 BiogRy1885, 151 9/1893-5/99 Div. Superintendent 1/1875- Born Jan. 9, 1850, Canada Southern Pacific [San 5/82 ---- Francisco] General Manager 5/1882- Various roads Passenger Traffic Manager (85) [New York City] Engineer 5/1868-10/80 5/1899-4/1904 Director 6/1899-3/1913 Michigan Central Asst. Traffic Director President 1/1907-1/1913 Secretary to General 4/1904-5/10 Grand Rapids & Indiana Manager 10/1880-11/82 Vice President 5/1910-16 Director 1890-1906 Detroit, Mackinaw & President 1896-1906 Marquette McCOY, Daniel # Indiana & Lake Michigan General Superintendent MichBiog, 2:50; CycMich, 164- Director 1894-97 11/1882-84 65; Republican, 2:268-69 Vice President 1896-97 Chief Engineer 11/1882-84 Born July 17, 1845, Marquette & Western Philadelphia McCREARY, Lewis A. [Detroit] General Superintendent 1868 to Romeo, grain & Detroit & Toledo 1884 produce business First Director 1890 1870 entered lumbering McCORD, Seely [Benton w/James A. Remick McCREE, James Harbor] 1873 to Cadillac, owned Chicago & Lake Huron South Bend & Benton Harbor sawmill Div. Superintendent First Director 1886 1890s to Grand Rapids 1875-76 [Battle Creek] Benton Harbor & Eastman Died Nov. 7, 1908, Grand Port Huron & Northwestern Springs Rapids General Superintendent First Director 1897 ---- 1879 [Port Huron] Grand Rapids, Chicago & St. McCORMICK, Cyrus Hall (Jr.) # Louis McCREERY, William Barker [Chicago] First Director 1890 [Flint] WhosWhoFB, 451; HistChi3, Reeds Lake Electric MichBiog, 2:50; ABH-1,6:53- 229 First Director 1890 54; CycMich, 133-34 Born May 16, 1859, Born Aug. 27, 1826, Mt. Morristown, N. J. McCRACKEN, Tracy Morris, N.Y. Son of Cyrus Hall McCormick Michigan, Internal 1838 to Flint; became attorney (1809-1884) Improvement Board Officer in Civil War Died June 2, 1936 Chief Engineer [Northern] Mich. State Treasurer 1875-79 ---- 5/1837-4/1840 Died Dec. 9, 1896, Flint Chicago & North Western ---- Director 6/1895-1917 McCRACKEN, W. V. [New York Chicago & Northeastern City] Director 1876, 1878-79 McCORMICK, Ernest O. # Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Chicago & Northeastern BiogRy1913, 347 Michigan Secretary 1878-79 Born Apr. 3, 1858, Lafayette, Vice President, Director Ind. 1885 McCULLOUGH, Hiram Rudolph Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 53 # [Chicago] President 9/1890-(93) Benton Harbor Street BkChi, 376; BiogRy1893, 232; Pere Marquette First Director 1888 BiogRy1913, 349 Director 1906-09 Born Oct. 7, 1850, Elkton, Md. McDONALD, James D. # Marr. Jan. 7, 1880, Martha McCULLOUGH, J. N. BiogRy1913, 350 Hughitt (dau. of Marvin [Pittsburgh] Born Aug. 27, 1855 Hughitt) Michigan Lake Shore ---- Died Aug. 21, 1932, Chicago Director 1872-78 Grand Trunk Ry Canada ---- General Manager 1872-73 Various work 1868-5/1902 Illinois Central Grand Rapids & Indiana District Passenger Agent Freight Dept. 1873-79 Director 1870-89 5/1902-3/11 [Toronto] Chicago & North Western General Manager 1870-73 Grand Trunk Western Division Freight Agent 1880- President 1873 [Chicago] 85 Allegan & Southeastern Asst. General Passenger Asst. General Freight Agent First Director, Director Agent 3/1911-16 1885-86 1878-82 General Freight Agent McDONALD, John [Bay City] 1886-91 McCURDY, Hugh [Corunna] Glencoe, Pinconning & Lake General Traffic Manager MichBiog, 2:51 Shore 1896-97 Born 1829, Hamilton, Scotland First Director 1876 3rd Vice President 1898- 1837 to Birmingham Secretary, Treasurer 1876 1905 1854 to Corunna, attorney Director 1876 Vice President 1906-17 ---- East Saginaw & Ann Arbor McDONALD, Malcolm # McCULLOUGH, John Griffith # First Director, Director Northern Michigan Traction [New York City] 1869-72 Superintendent 1905 BiogRy1893, 233; HerrNL, President 1871-72 4:103 General Manager 1872 McDONALD, William [Chicago] Born Sept. 16, 1835, Welsh Toledo & Northwestern Tract, Del. McDANNEL, A. C. # [Bay City] Director 1898 1858 grad Univ. of Penna. Law Detroit, Bay City & Western school Auditor 1911-17 McDONALD, William L. 1859 to California [Detroit] 1863-67 attorney general of McDERMOTT, Martin # Detroit Transit RR Calif. [Ludington] First Director 1892 1873 to North Bennington, Vt. Mason & Oceana 1902-04 governor of Vt. General Superintendent McDONALD, Willard W. Died May 29, 1915, N. 1888-1901 [Chicago] Bennington, Vt. Director 1890-91, 1893-94 Union Street of Benton Harbor ---- First Director 1892 Panama RR McDONALD, A. F. # [Hancock] Vice President, General Quincy & Torch Lake McDONELL, John Manager 1874-83 Secretary, Treasurer 1899- Detroit & Maumee Preskident 4/1883-4/88 1900 Commissioner 1835 Central Vermont Auditor, Director 1899-1900 Director 1873-74 McDOWELL, Joseph S. # Bennington & Rutland McDONALD, Alexander # Michigan United Rys Vice President 1877-83 [Cincinnati] First Director 1906 President 1883-(93) Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago New York, Lake Erie & & St. Louis McELROY, Crockett [St. Clair] Western Director 1892-1902 MichBiog, 2:53; ABH-1,7:16- President 11/1884-(93) 18; CycMich, 310-12 Chicago & Erie McDONALD, James Born Dec. 31, 1835, Dundas, 54 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Ontario Director 1889 Director 1888-11/7/1889, 1853 to Ira (St. Clair), clerk Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis 1892-93 Died Dec. 7, 1919, Baltimore, First Director 1889 Md. McGINLEY, J. R. # [Pittsburgh] ---- McFARLAN, Alexander [Flint] Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Detroit & St. Clair River ABH-1,6:50; CycMich, 298-99 Muskegon First Director 1885 Born Feb. 14, 1812, Director, President 1906 Montgomery Co., N. Y. McEVANS, William [Bay City] 1850 to Flint, lumbering and McGINN, John W. [Cheboygan] Bay City & Portsmouth saw mill owner Cheboygan & East Michigan First Director 1865 Died Apr. 21, 1881, Flint First Director 1891 ---- McEVOY, Bartholomew [Sault Chicago & Northeastern McGRATH, Newcomb Ste. Marie] Director 1876-77 [Muskegon] Sault Ste. Marie Street Muskegon Lake First Director 1887 McGAFFEY, Neal First Director 1879 MichBiog, 2:54 Muskegon, Grand Rapids & McEWAN, W. Born June 26, 1794, Sandwich, Indiana Bay City & East Saginaw N. H. Director 1886-1904 Director 1872 1829 to White Pigeon Vice President 1904 n.d. to Texas McEWAN, William State representative 1837 McGRATH, William H. # Northern Michigan Ry Platted vil, 1st lawyer in St Jos [Houghton] First Director 1869 Co; many local offices Houghton County Street Died July 7, 1867, Sabine Pass, Manager 1906-07 McEWEN, Roscoe E. [Branch] Tex. Houghton County Traction BiogRy1893, 234 ---- Manager 1908 Born July 31, 1869, Locke Mottville & White Pigeon Twp., Ingham Co. Commissioner 1838 McGRAW, T. H. [Bay City] ---- Saginaw Bay & Northwestern Danaher & Melendy McGAWN, M. G. # [Three Oaks] Director 1880-82 Locomotive fireman New Buffalo & Lakeside 9/1886-9/87 First Director 1913 McGREGOR, James [Detroit] Lake County BkDet, 302 Locomotive fireman McGEE, M. B. [Marquette] Born May 10, 1830, 9/1887-6/89 Marquette, Houghton & Kincardine, Scotland Chief Engineer 6/1889-(93) Ontonagon 1858 to Hamilton, Ont.; 1860 Purchasing Agent 1884 to Detroit McFADGEN, Edward # 1889 on involved in banking [Manistee] McGHEE, Charles McClung # and BiogRy1893, 234 [New York City] with Detroit & Cleveland Born Oct. 19, 1849, Canada BiogRy1893, 234 Nav. Co. ---- Born Jan. 23, 1828, Knox Co., Michigan Car Works. Gen. Buckley & Douglas Tennessee Supt. 1879-9/92 Various work 1884-90 Died May 5, 1907, Knoxville Michigan-Peninsular Car Co. Manistee & Northeastern ---- Gen. Supt. 9/1892-97 Asst. General East Tennessee, Virginia & ---- Superintendent 1890-1904 Georgia Great Western Ry Canada Receiver Car Department 1858-59 McFADON, Robert D. [Chicago] Memphis & Charleston [Hamilton, Sarnia] Battle Creek & Sturgis President, Receiver Detroit & Milwaukee Director 1889 Cincinnati, Jackson & Superintendent Car Bay City & Battle Creek Mackinaw Department 1860-9/78 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 55 [Detroit] 1872 bought seat on N. Y. ---- Detroit, Grand Haven & Stock Exchange Grand Trunk Ry Canada Milwaukee Died 1941 Various work 1866-68 Superintendent Car ---- Chicago & Grand Trunk Department 9/1878-79 Wabash Western Telegraph Operator Director 1888-89 12/1869-4/70 McGUIGAN, Francis H. # Wabash Train Dispatcher 4/1870- Wabash [Kansas City] Director 1890-1902 12/76 Div. Superintendent Detroit & Mackinac Trainmaster 12/1876-88 1890-94 Director 1902-17 [Chicago] Chicago & Grand Trunk President 1909-17 Asst. Superintendent [Montreal 1888-97 [Battle Creek] General Superintendent McHARG, Henry King, Jr. # 1896-99 [Stamford, Conn.] McINTYRE, Donald Eacher # St. Clair Tunnel Co. Born Oct. 30, 1883 [Cadillac] General Superintendent Son of Henry K. McHarg PortraitNMich, 134-35 1899-1902 ---- Born June 14, 1852, Ann Arbor Director 1900-02 Detroit & Mackinac 1871 grad Univ. Mich. Law Manage 1903-05 Director 1911-16 School; to Big Rapids Grand Trunk Western 1872 to Cadillac, attorney General Superintendent McHENRY, James [St. Louis] Died Oct. 15, 1921, Cadillac 1900-02 Saginaw Valley & St. Louis ---- Manager 1903 First Director 1871 Toledo & Cadillac 4th Vice President 1904 First Director 1886 Director 1900-06 McHUGH, Bernard [Chicago] Toledo, Ann Arbor & Cadillac Detroit, Grand Haven & BiogRy1885, 153 First Director 1886 Milwaukee Born May 8, 1842, Marshall Director 1901-02 ---- McINTYRE, Thomas A. [New Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Michigan Central York City] Director 1901-02 Various work 8/1856-8/81 BiogNY, 303 Northern Pacific Born Oct. 19, 1855, New York McGUIRE, David J. [Detroit] Superintendent 8/1881- City Riverdale & Lake Michigan 10/81 Produce merchant First Director 1884 Superintendent 10/1881- ---- 4/1883 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North McGUIRE, Howard Chicago & Atlantic Michigan [Milwaukee] Freight Agent 4/1883-7/84 Director 1895 Wisconsin Central [Chicago] Cashier 1889 Michigan & Ohio McKAY, Alexander A. # [Battle General Freight & Passenger Creek] McGUIRE, T. # [Grand Rapids] Agent 7/1884-(85) [Toledo] Kalamazoo, Gull Lake & Pere Marquette Toledo, Marshall & Northern Northern Traveling Freight Agent First Director 1884 First Director 1906 1902 McINNES, Donald [Hamilton, McKAY, J. T. R. [Cleveland] McHARG, Henry King # [New Ont.] BiogRy1885, 153; York City] Detroit & Milwaukee BiogRy1893, 235 WhosWhoFB, 458-59; BiogNY, Director 1870-73 Born March 31, 1838, Toronto, 302 Ont. Born Feb. 6, 1851, Albany N. Y. McINTYRE, Abraham Robert ---- Father of Henry K. McHarg, Jr. BiogRy1893, 235 Various roads 1866 to New York City, bank Born Jan. 24, 1851, Coteau Clerk 12/1854-3/67 clerk Landing, Que. Merchants Dispatch Transp. 56 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) (not RR) Director 1892-93 General Manager 3/1900- Various work 3/1867-7/69 Terre Haute & Indianapolis 1911 Lake Shore & Michigan Div. Superintendent 1/1894- Vice President 10/1905-11 Southern 4/1902 [various] Director 1902-12 Freight Dept. 7/1869-1/77 Vandalia Asst. General Freight Agent General Manager 1903-12 McKENNA, Edward W. # 1/1877-4/85 [St. Louis] [Milwaukee] General Freight Agent Pennsylvania-West BiogRy1885, 153; BkChi, 383; 4/1885-(93) General Manager 1913-20 BiogRy1913, 354-55 Vice President 1/1917-3/20 Born Oct. 24, 1848, Pittsburgh, McKEE, Allen # [Manistee] Pennsylvania RR Pa. Crawford & Manistee River Vice President 3/1920-2/34 Pres Director 1886-1904 McKenna Steel [Joliet, Ill] McKEEN, Silas [Almont] 1895-1903 McKEE, J. G. # [Lafayette, Ind.] MichBiog, 2:60 ---- Southern Michigan No date to Lapeer Co. Pennsylvania-West and Auditor 1911-12 State representative 1837 subsidiaries ---- Various work 5/1862-2/71 McKEE, James Henry # [Grand Auburn & Lapeer Indianapolis & Vincennes Rapids] Commissioner 1838 Div. Superintendent 2/1871- ABH-1,5:80 4/80 Born June 19, 1823, Arlington, McKEEN, William Riley # Jeffersonville, Madison & Vt. [Terre Haute, Ind.] Indianapolis c.1843 graduated Yale BiogRy1885, 153; Div. Superintendent 4/1880- University BiogRy1893, 236 85 1852 to Grand Rapids, lawyer Born Oct. 12, 1829.,Terre Pennsylvania-West and real estate Haute, Ind. General Manager’s office Died Aug. 31, 1908 Father of Benjamin McKeen 1886-67 [Pittsburgh] ---- Died Feb. 18, 1913, Terre New York, Lake Erie & Reeds Lake Street Haute, Ind. Western First Director 1880 ---- General Manager’s office 2- Terre Haute & Indianapolis 6/1887 McKEE, Joseph C. [Grand President 6/1867-(93) Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rapids] Indiana & Lake Michigan Div. Superintendent 1887- South Grand Rapids Street Director 1892-97 89 First Director 1888 Asst. General McKEEVER, R. Townsend # Superintendent 1890-94 McKEEN, Benjamin [Terre BiogRy1913, 354 Milwaukee & Northern Haute, Ind.] Born July 20, 1866, New York Asst. General WhosWhoFB, 458; City Superintendent 1890-92 BiogRy1913, 354 Died Apr. 20, 1927, Stockholm, Great Northern Born Jan. 23, 1864, Terre Sweden General Superintendent Haute, Ind. ---- 8/1894-10/95 [St.Paul] Son of William R. McKeen Various roads Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 1885 graduated Rose Various work 1888-4/93 Asst. to President 2/1904- Polytechnic Inst. Fonda, Johnstown & 9/05 Died Dec. 1947 Gloversville Vice President 9/1905-14 ---- General Superintendent Terre Haute & Indianapolis 4/1893-2/99 McKENZIE, C. F. # Motive Power Dept. 1885-86 Rutland RR Michigan & Chicago Terre Haute & Logansport General Passenger Agent First Director 1912 Engineering Dept. 1886-94 2/1899-3/1900 Indiana & Lake Michigan Copper Range [Houghton] McKENZIE, Charles [Sarnia, Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 57 Ont.] McKIM, C. E. # [Pittsburgh] McKINNEY, Napoleon B. Port Huron Tunnel Co. Grand Rapids & Indiana [Lawton] First Director 1886 Superintendent Telegraph Paw Paw 1899-1903 Director 1875 McKENZIE, I. C. [New York City] McKINLAY, Charles V. McKINNEY, Robert J. [Detroit] L'Anse & Ontonagon (sometimes missp. Jefferson Avenue First Director 1865 McKinley) Auditor 1891-92 BiogRy1893, 237 Wyandotte & Detroit River McKEONE, Richard J. [Sault Born, Philadelphia First Director 1892 Ste. Marie] ---- Sault Ste. Marie Street Various roads McKINSTRY, David Charles First Director 1887 Various work 1863-81 Born Aug. 12, 1778, Ypsilanti? Wheeling & Lake Erie c.1816 to Detroit McKEOWN, Thomas General Freight & Passenger Died Sept. 9, 1856 [Marquette] Agent 1881-83 ---- HistUP, 432 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Michigan, Internal Born May 5, 1844, Western [Milwaukee] Improvement Board Southampton, Engl. General Passenger Agent Commissioner [Central] ---- 10/1885-88 5/1837-4/1838 Wellington, Grey & Bruce General Claim Agent (Ontario) 1/1888-(93) McKNIGHT, Lucius L. [Detroit] Engineer 1870-74 L'Anse & Ontonagon London & Huron (Ontario) McKINLAY, James McQuan First Director 1865 Surveyor, Contractor 1875 [New York City] Hamilton & North-Western BiogRy1893, 237 McKNIGHT, Sheldon [Sault Ste. (Ontario) Born Feb. 28, 1826, Marie] Chief Engineer 1876-80 Dunfermline, Scotland MichBiog, 2:61 Detroit, Mackinaw & Died May 10, 1911, New York Born 1810, Herkimer Co., N. Y. Marquette City 1820 to Detroit; printer 1827-, Chief Engineer 1880-81 ---- editor Free Press 1830-36; General Superintendent Milwaukee & Northern postmaster 1836-41 12/1881-(83) Asst. Secretary 1890 1845 to Sault Ste Marie Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul State representative 1857-8 McKEY, Anthony Director 1893-96 Died July 21, 1860, MichBiog, 2:60 Washington D. C. Born Jan. 3, 1800, Delhi, N.Y. McKINLEY, Charles V. ---- 1826 to Monroe (see Charles V. McKinlay) chief factor in building tram 1828 to Deerfield, postmaster RR around Soo rapids before State senator 1837-8 McKINLEY, John A. locks Died Jan. 28, 1849, Deerfield [Centreville] ---- Toledo & South Haven/S McKNIGHT, Thomas Harlan Michigan, Internal First Director 1882 Bird # [Pittsburgh] Improvement Board WhosWhoFB, 459; Surveyor, Contractor McKINLEY, William B. BiogRy1913, 355-56 [Southern] [Chicago] Born Nov. 15, 1859, Bay Cities Consolidated Pittsburgh, Pa. McKIBBEN, G. L. [Van Wert, First Director 1898 ---- Ohio] Pennsylvania-West Cincinnati, Jackson & McKINNEY, John # [AuSable] Treasurer Office 1877-91 Mackinaw AuSable & Northwestern [Pittsburgh] Chief Engineer 1889 Chief Engineer 1901-05 Treasurer 5/1891-4/1928 [Pittsburgh] 58 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Grand Rapids & Indiana Southern Treasurer 1913-17 First Director 1889 McLEOD, J. A. [Ironwood] Muskegon, Grand Rapids & NPMemorial, 523-24 Indiana McLAUGHLIN, Joseph R. Born Nov. 11, 1854, Lancaster, Treasurer 1913-16 [Detroit] Canada Traverse City MichBiog, 2:63 1878 graduated Univ. Mich. Treasurer 1913-16 Born June 4, 1851, Detroit medical dept. 1879 graduated Univ. Mich. 1878 with Menominee Mining McKNIGHT, William F. # Law School Co. [Grand Rapids] 1882 org. Edison Electric Light 1887 to Ironwood, surgeon Born July 23, 1863, Cascasd Co. ---- Twp., Kent Co. 1892 one of developers of Twin City 1884 graduated Valparaiso Boston-Edison plat First Director 1889 Coll. ---- 1887 graduated Univ. Mich. Detroit, Rouge River & McLIMONT, A. W. # [Jackson] law school Dearborn Michigan United Rys Died May 19, 1918, Grand First Director 1889 Vice President 1910-11 Rapids Ann Arbor Street General Manager 1910 ---- President 1890 Michigan United Traction Manistique, Marquette & First Director 1911 Northern McLAUGHLIN, Robert J. Attorney 1902-03 [Detroit] McLOUTH, Willis # [DeWitt] Traverse City, Leelanau & Detroit, Rouge River & Crystal Lake Manistique RR Dearborn First Director 1900 Director 1906 First Director 1889 McMAHAN, Joel McLAIN, Frederick Jay # McLAUGHLIN, William B. Capac & Northern [Hancock] Lake Harbor First Director 1879 Born Mar. 28, 1861, Omaha, First Director 1892 Nebr. Muskegon Terminal McMAHON, James [Ann Arbor] Officer in Quincy Mining Co. First Director 1892 (incorrectly as McMAHAN) Died Feb. 17, 1931, Quincy MichBiog, 2:64; HistWash, Twp., Houghton Co.; McLAUGHLIN, William M. 1019 buried in Houghton [Sturgis] Born Apr. 4, 1819, County ---- Sturgis, Indiana & Ohio Clare, Ireland Quincy & Torch Lake First Director 1889 1837 to Ann Arbor, Secretary, Treasurer, blacksmith, later studied law Director 1905-17 McLEAY, Donald # State representative 1857-60 Auditor 1905-11 [Prairieville] Died July 10, 1885, Ann Arbor Battle Creek & Grand Rapids ---- McLAUGHLIN, James J. (, Jr.) # Inland Toledo, Ann Arbor & Saginaw [Elk Rapids] First Director 1904 First Director 1866 PortraitNMich, 462-63 President 1908 Born Apr. 2, 1835, Brockport, McMARSH, Robert # [Sault Ste. N. Y. McLELLAN, W. B., Jr. # Marie, Ont.] 1836 to Allegan [Toledo} (may be W. H.) Trans-St. Marys Traction 1844 to Saugatuck Toledo & Western Director 1904 1851 to Elk Rapids; local Vice President, Director offices 1912 McMASTER, Thomas Peters In Civil War Toledo, Ottawa Beach & [Ludington] Died June 26, 1908, Elk Rapids Northern PortraitNM, 207-08 ---- Vice President, Director Born Feb. 25, 1846, County Elk Rapids, Williamsburg & 1912 Antrim, Ireland Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 59 1871 to Saginaw from New Clerk 1861-64 1855 to Detroit, worked for York state Detroit, Mackinaw & Christian H. Buhl 1872 to Ludington, into Marquette Marr. 1860, Mary L.Wetmore, newspaper business Secretary, Treasurer Detroit Died Aug. 7, 1899, Ludington 1880-86 1864 partner in founding of ---- Director 1880-86 Michigan Car Co. Pere Marquette & Big Rapids Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette U.S. Senator 1889-1902; First Director 1892 First Director 1880 Active in Republican national Sault Ste. Marie Bridge politics McMASTER, William [Toronto] First Director 1881 Died Aug. 10, 1902, Detroit & Milwaukee Mackinaw & Marquette Manchester, Mass.; buried in Director 1875-78 Secretary, Treasurer 1886 Detroit Director 1886 ---- McMECHAN, Gerald J. # Marquette & Western Detroit & Milwaukee Manistique & Northern First Director, Director Purchasing Agent, First Secretary, Secretary 1883-84 Contractor c.1857-58 1908-09 Secretary, Treasurer 1884 Cass Avenue Ishpeming, L'Anse & First Director 1877 McMICHAEL, James G. # Ontonagon Detroit, Mackinaw & [Chicago] First Director 1885 Marquette Benton Harbor-St Joe Ry & Metropolitan Electric First Director 8/1879, Light First Director 1885 9/1879 First Director, Director Marquette, Houghton & Northwestern Grand Trunk 1906-12 Ontonagon Director 1879 Vice President 1906 Director 1885-89 Michigan Ry St. Joe River Traction Wisconsin, Sault Ste. Marie & First Director 1880 First Director 1904 Mackinac Chicago & Grand Trunk First Director 1886 Director 1880-87 McMILLAN, Clark S. [Saginaw] Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Michigan Air Line Ry Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron Director 1887 Director 1881-88 General Superintendent Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Detroit Belt Ry & Depot 1882-83 Director 1887-9/30/93 First Director 1881 Bay City Belt Line Negaunee & Palmer Detroit Union Depot Director 1897 First Director 1888 First Director 1881 Flint & Pere Marquette Portage Bay City & Alpena Auditor 1895-97 First Director 1888 First Director 1881 Bay City & Battle Creek Detroit, Bay City & Alpena McMILLAN, Hugh [Detroit] Director 1890-1902 Director 1887-9/30/93 Farmer, 1064-65; Republican, Detroit River Terminal Detroit, Butler & St. Louis 2:273-74 First Director 1899 First Director 1880 Born Sept. 28, 1845, Hamilton, Detroit, Mackinaw & Ont. McMILLAN, James # [Detroit] Marquette Brother of James McMillan Detroit President, Director 1880-86 1861 to Detroit MichBiog,,2:64-65; ABH- Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette 1864, clerk in hardware store 1,1:98; CycMich, 56-58; First Director 1880 1872 named secretary, HistMich1915, 2:692-96; Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Michigan Car Co., CongBiog; Farmer, 1063-64; First Director 1881 later vice president and Republican, 2:274-75 Ishpeming, L'Anse & general manager Born May 12, 1838, Hamilton, Ontonagon ---- Ont. First Director 1885 Great Western Ry Canada Brother of Hugh McMillan; Marquette, Houghton & Clerk 1859-61 father of James A.and Ontonagon Detroit & Milwaukee William C. McMillan Director 1885-89 60 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) President 1886-89 Died Feb. 21, 1907, Detroit First Director 1882 Marquette & Western ---- Port Huron & St. Clair River First Director, Director East Detroit & Grosse Pointe First Director 1890 1883-89 First Director 1887 President 1884, 1886-89 Negaunee & Palmer McNAB, John [Chicago] Mackinaw & Marquette First Director 1888 Milwaukee & Northern President, Director 1886 Portage Asst. Treasurer 1890 Wisconsin, Sault Ste. Marie & First Director 1888 Mackinac Grand River Ry McNAIRY, Amos B. [Cleveland] First Director 1886 First Director 1890 Detroit Electric Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Detroit Suburban First Director 1896 President, Director 1887-89 First Director 1892 Hamtramck & Grosse Pointe Detroit River Terminal McNAMARA, J. D. # [St. Louis, First Director 1887 First Director 1899 Mo.] Negaunee & Palmer Caro & Lake Huron Wabash First Director 1888 First Director 1901 General Passenger Agent Portage Detroit Southern 1909-17 First Director 1888 Director 1901-02 Detroit Street Detroit Union RR Depot & McNAMARA, James # [Detroit] First Director 1890 Station Detroit & Mackinac Detroit Union RR Depot & Director 1901-16 Attorney 1906-07 Station Detroit Manufacturers General Attorney 1908-13 Director 1901-02 First Director 1902 General Counsel 1914-17 McMILLAN, James W. [Detroit] McMILLEN, Emerson # [New McNAUGHTON, Dougall W. Detroit & River St. Clair York City] [Big Rapids] First Director 1895 BiogNY, 306 Born c.1856, Canada Born Apr. 16, 1844, Ewington, ---- McMILLAN, Philip H. # Ohio Mecosta [Detroit] Banker Secretary, Director 1886-88 Saginaw, Owosso & Lansing ---- First Director 1906 Muskegon Traction & Lighting McNAUGHTON, James Manistique & Northern Vice President 1907-09 BiogRy1893, 239 First Director, Director Director 1907-17 Born Aug. 1859, Queensville, 1908-09 Ont. First Treasurer, Treasurer McMORRAN, Henry Gordon # ---- 1908-09 [Port Huron] Chicago & West Michigan Detroit Union RR Depot & BiogRy1885, 154, MichBiog, Machinist 1880 Station 2:65; Various roads Director 1908-17 HistMich1915, 3:1559-60; Mechanical Dept. 1880-5/90 Detroit Manufacturers CongBiog Wisconsin Central [Waukesha, Treasurer, Director 1911-17 Born June 11, 1844, Port Wisc.] Huron Superintendent Motive McMILLAN, William Charles # U. S. Representative 1903-13 Power 5/1890-(93) [Detroit] Pres., Great Lakes Foundry Co. Republican, 2:275-76 Died July 19, 1929, Port Huron McNAUGHTON, James # Born Mar. 1, 1861, Detroit ---- [Calumet] Son of James McMillan Port Huron & Northwestern (See James MacNaughton) 1884 graduated Yale Univ. First Director, Director 1887 made gen. mgr. Michigan 1878-88 McNAUGHTON, John [Big Car Co. General Manager 1879-88 Rapids] Investor in wide variety of Auditor 1888 Born c.1841 companies Port Huron & Southwestern ---- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 61 Mecosta Mecosta Secretary 1897 President, Director, General Treasurer, Director 1886-88 South Haven & Eastern Manager 1886-88 Director 1897 McNEAL, E. # [Chicago] Saugatuck & South Haven McNAUGHTON, L. R. # Erie & Michigan Ry & First Director 1898 [Fruitport] Navigation Lake Michigan & Eastern Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Director 1910-15 First Director 1901 Muskegon Benton Harbor Terminal General Superintendent McNICOLL, David # First Director 1901 1908-15 BiogRy1893, 240 Born April 1852, Arbroath, McPHERSON, Charles # McNAUGHTON, Moses Forwar, Scotland [Detroit] Archibald # 1874 to Canada Sanilac MichBiog, 2:66 Died Nov. 26, 1916, Guelph, First Director 1901 Born Jan. 3, 1813, Argyle, N.Y. Ont. Pere Marquette 1841 to Jackson, prac. ---- Attorney 1908 medicine Scottish, English and Canadian 1851 began in real estate roads McPHERSON, R. Reuben [East State senator 1853-4 Various work 8/1866-83 Saginaw] Mayor 1866-67 Canadian Pacific BiogRy1885, 155; Died Jan. 18, 1900, Jackson General Passenger Agent Saginaw1881, 568-69 ---- 1883-(93) Born Apr. 10, 1831, Michigan Southern Vice President ??-1/1915 Cherryville, N. J. Promoter, Jackson Branch Sainte Marie Union Depot 1853-55 with American Car. Amboy & Traverse Bay First Director 1900 Co. First Director 1856 ---- Grand Trunk Ry of Michigan McNUTT, George [Muskegon] Various roads First Director 1866 Chicago & West Michigan Repair Service 10/1855- Grand Trunk RR of Michigan Div. Superintendent 1881 6/71 First Director 1868 Flint & Pere Marquette Air Line Ry of Michigan McOMBER, Fred # [Berrien Shop Foreman 6/1871-3/73 First Director 1869 Springs] Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Rochester & Romeo HistBerr, 1000-01 Louis First Director, First Born Jan. 23, 1846, Gaines, N. Foreman 3/1873-1/78 Secretary 1869 Y. [Pittsburgh] Romeo & Almont In Civil War Flint & Pere Marquette First Director 1870 Studied medicine, began Shop Foreman 9/1879-8/80 Romeo & Western manufacturing “remedies” Master Carbuilder 8/1880- First Director 1870 1869 to Berrien Springs (85) Michigan Air Line RR 1876-1901 newspaper Treasurer, Director 1872-86 publisher McPHERSON, William Michigan Air Line Ry ---- ABH-II/6:54; HistMich1915, Director 1872-90 St. Joseph Valley 3:1478-79 Vice President 1872 Secretary, Director 1884-6 Born Jan. 16, 1804 Davoit, Secretary 1872-74 General Passenger Agent Scotland Grand River Valley 1884-85 (ABH has June 16, 1815, Vice President, Director First Director 1889 Deaviot, Scotland) 1873-82 General Passenger & Freight 1836 to Howell Jackson & Eastern Agent 1890 Died Mar. 16, 1890 or 1891, First Director 1880 General Manager 1890-93 Howell Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & ---- McNAUGHTON, William [Big Columbus Detroit & Howell Rapids] First Director, Director 1897 First Treasurer 1864 62 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Detroit, Howell & Lansing McROBERTS, Samuel # [New MEAD, Darius First Director, Director 1870 York City] MichBiog, 2:90 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Born Jan. 27, 1798, Lanesboro, McPHERSON, William, Jr. Director 1913-17 Mass. [Howell] 1833 to Lenawee Co. Republican, 2:277-78 McVEAN, John J. # Died 1859, Blissfield Born Mar. 9, 1834, Inverness, BiogRy1893, 241 ---- Scotland Born June 13, 1850, Darien, N. River Raisin & Lake Erie Son of William McPherson Y. Commissioner 1836 1836 family to Howell 3/1876-3/78 city engineer, 1856 with father in general Lansing MEAD, George L. # [Boston] store Died 1910 Detroit, Hillsdale & South ---- ---- Western Commissioner of Railroads Various roads Director 1901 Michigan, 1/15/1885- Engineering Dept. 5/1872- 1/12/1887 3/76 MEACHAM, A. R. # [Detroit] Detroit, Lansing & Northern Detroit, Toledo & Ironton McQUEEN, James, Jr. [Detroit] Asst. Engineer 3/1878-81 Auditor 1916-17 Chicago & Grand Trunk Engineer 1881-82 [Ionia] Asst. General Freight Agent Chief Engineer 1883-88 MEAD, Frank Day # 1889 [Ionia] [Escanaba] Detroit, Grand Haven & Chief Engineer 1889-96 HistUP, 245; Republican, Milwaukee [Grand Rapids] 2:280; HistNP, 3:1497-98; Asst. General Freight Agent Chicago & West Michigan MichBiog, 2:90 1890 Chief Engineer 1888-97 Born Jan. 27, 1856, Ann Arbor [Grand Rapids] 1879 graduated Univ. Mich. McQUEEN, M. A. # Detroit, Grand Rapids & 1881 admitted to bar in Soo-Snows Western Escanaba First Director 1916 Chief Engineer 1897-99 ---- [Grand Rapids] Blaney & Southern McRAE, Duncan P. # Director 1911-12 [Escanaba] McVITTIE, Alexander [Detroit] Escanaba Electric Street Detroit, Utica & Romeo MEAD, James H. [Sheboygan, Superintendent 1907 First Director 1898 Wisc.] Asst. General Born Dec. 6, 1831, Montpelier, Superintendent 1908 McWOOD, William # Vt. Escanaba Traction [Montreal] Died Sept. 22, 1891, General Superintendent BiogRy1913, 360 Sheboygan 1909 Born 1830, Montreal ---- Traffic Manager 1910-11 ---- Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Grand Trunk Ry Canada Western McREYNOLDS, B. F. [St. Louis] Car Dept. 1855-1/1908 Director 1883-90 Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Chicago & Grand Trunk General Passenger Agent Superintendent Cars MEALLARY, Charles F. 1879-81 1896-97 [Romeo] Grand Trunk Western Northern Michigan Ry McROBERTS, Minos [Leslie, Superintendent Cars 1901 Commissioner 1869 1872 Mason] Lansing & Jackson McWOOD, W. H. [San MEANS, William G. [Boston] First Director 1863 Francisco] Saginaw & Grand Rapids Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Toledo & South Haven Director 1881-93 Director 1872-78 Vice President 1888-89 Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Director 1887 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 63 Grand Trunk Jct. ---- MECHEM, George W. # [Battle Attorney 1872-1903 Detroit, Charlevoix & Escanaba Creek] Director 1877-1902 First Director 1887 Born Dec. 18, 1860, Nunda, N. Northwestern Grand Trunk Y. Attorney, Director 1879 MEECH, Horace [Albany, N.Y.] Died Jan. 17, 1933, Battle Detroit, Mackinaw & Erie & Kalamazoo Creek Marquette Manager 1842 ---- First Director 8/1879, Jackson, Ann Arbor & Detroit 9/1879 MEEK, William Traction Capac & Northern Constantine & Niles First Director 1903 First Director 1879 First Director 1836 Michigan & Chicago Michigan Ry First Director 1912 First Director 1880 MEGEATH, S. A. # [New York Michigan Ry Chicago & Grand Trunk City] Vice President 1914-15 Attorney 1880-1899 (Samuel Addison Megeath; b. Director 1914-17 Director 1880-1897 Mar 17 1870 Baltimore; d. Sep Michigan RR Detroit, Grand Haven & 25 1932, Bellport LI NY) First Director 1919 Milwaukee Grand Trunk Western Director 1882-1902 Director 1917 MEDALIE, Phineas Attorney 1890-1903 Detroit, Grand Haven & [Mancelona] Detroit & South Lyon Milwaukee Mancelona & North Western First Director 1883 Director 1917 First Director 1892 Port Huron Tunnel Co. St. Clair Tunnel Co. First Director 1886 Director 1917 MEDBURY, Lucetta F. [Grand Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Rapids] Attorney, Director 1888- MEGRUE, E. G. [New York City] Reeds Lake Street 1902 Grand Haven & Southeastern First Director 1880 Cincinnati, Saginaw & First Director 1897 Mackinaw MEDBURY, Samuel [Detroit] Attorney, Director MEGRUE, J. R. [Detroit] Born 1805, New Berlin, N. Y. 1890-1903 Detroit & Cincinnati Died July 20, 1874, Detroit; Detroit Belt RR First Director 1896 buried in N. Y. First Director 1892 Lima Northern ---- Detroit Union Bridge Director, President, 1896 Michigan Northern RR First Director 1898 Detroit & Lima Northern First Director 1869 St. Clair Tunnel Co. Director, General Manager Street Ry of Grand Rapids Attorney 1899-1902 1897 First Director 1869 Director 1900-02 Grand Trunk Western MEIGS, Arthur [Grand Rapids] MEDDAUGH, Elijah W. # Solicitor, Director 1900-03 Michigan Northern RR [Detroit] First Director 1887 Born July 16, 1834, Roxbury, MEECH, Frederick James # N. Y. [Charlevoix] MELDRAM, F. C. # [Boston] Died 1903 BiogNM, 332-34; Manistee Light & Traction ---- HistMich1915, 4:2096-98 Director 1910-12 Detroit Western Transit Born Jan. 15, 1840, Shelburn, First Director 1872 Vt. MELENDY, Richmond W. Cass Avenue 1868 to Albany, N. Y., florist [Centreville] First Director 1877 1871 to Norwood, Mich., (sometimes spelled Michigan Air Line Ry partner with father in sawmill MELLENDY) Attorney 1878-1902 1897-1906 postmaster at Manchester & Homer Director 1881-1902 Charlevoix First Director 1870 Chicago, Detroit & Canada Died 1918, Charlevoix 64 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) MELICK, J. M. [Toledo] Northern Pacific Glencoe, Pinconning & Lake Toledo, Ann Arbor & North General Manager 7/1889- Shore Michigan (93) Superintendent, Director Cashier 1887-89 1878 MELLIN, August # MELLEN, Harvey [Romeo] Marquette City & Presque Isle MERCEREAU, William L. # MichBiog, 2:91 Superintendent 1902 BiogRy1913, 373 Born April 3, 1822, Born Nov. 2, 1865, Union, Middlebury, N.Y. MELROSE, Robert [Wabash, Broome Co., N. Y. 1837 to Mich; surveyor in U.P. Ind.] Died 1957 with Wm. A. Burt Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan ---- 1848 appointed U. S. surveyor Roadmaster 1884 Flint & Pere Marquette 1848 to Macomb Co. Various work 1887-8/1899 State representative 1889-92; MENZEL, W. G. # [Fond du Lac, Pere Marquette [Ludington] State senator 1893-4 Wisc.] Superintendent Steamships Died Aug. 8, 1893, Romeo BiogRy1913, 373 8/1899-1931 ---- Born 1862, Oneida, N. Y. Grand Trunk Ry of Michigan 1/1899-7/1902 with Brooks MEREDITH, Martin VanBuren First Director 1866 Locomotive Co. # [East Saginaw] Romeo & Almont ---- BiogRy1885, 163 First Director 1870 Various roads Born Oct. 4, 1835, Coshocton, Detroit & Saginaw River Machinist 1882 Ohio First Director 1871 Wisconsin Central Died Jan. 10, 1901, Saginaw St. Clair & Chicago Air Line Machinist 8/1882-87 ---- Div. Superintendent Foreman 1887-1/99 Various roads 1872-73 [various places] Various work 6/1852-70 Michigan Air Line RR Superintendent Motive Flint & Pere Marquette Director 1872-86 Power & Equip. 7/1902-11/08 Transportation Master 1871-74 MELLEN, William Solon MERCER, James [Ontonagon] # Asst. Superintendent [Chicago] HistUP, 541, NPMemorial, 1874-80 BiogRy1885, 162; 449-50, HistNP, 1130; Div. Superintendent BiogRy1893, 252 MichBiog, 2:92 1881-84 Born Feb. 26, 1846, Crete, Ill. Born Sept. 9, 1830, London, Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron ---- England Superintendent Chicago & North Western 1833 family to Detroit, then to 1889-3/31/1895 Various work 12/1865-1/73 Canada General Passenger & Freight General Agent 10/1874- 1845 to Detroit, clerk Agent 1890-3/31/1895 11/75 [Winona, Minn.] 1857 to Ontonagon, clerk, then Director 1894-3, 1896-97 Asst. General Freight Agent warehouse owner South Haven & Eastern 11/1875-12/81 State representative 1881-82, General Passenger & Freight Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe state senator 1883-84 Agent 1896 Asst. General Died Feb. 26, 1913, Ontonagon Auditor 1897 Superintendent 12/1881- ---- 11/82 Ontonagon, Gogebic & MERKLE, William G. [Belding] Chicago & North Western Wisconsin Belding Street General Freight Agent First Director 1882 First Director 1892 11/1882-2/85 Ontonagon & Brule River Asst. General Dock Agent (1883) MERRIAM, Charles # [Boston] Superintendent 2/1885-10/86 General Agent 1887-88 (?born Oct. 6, 1832, Newton or Wisconsin Central Weston, Mass.) General Manager 10/1886- MERCER, William Chicago & Michigan Lake 4/89 [Pinconning] Shore Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 65 Director 1872-78 17 Born Oct. 2, 1812, Falmouth, Secretary, Treasurer Director 1911-17 Me. 1874-78 Fort Street Union Depot 1837 to Grand Rapids Chicago & West Michigan Director 1913-17 1844 to Muskegon, lumbering Director 1879-97 State representative 1857-58, Secretary, Treasurer MERRIAM, Seward L. # state senator 1965-66 1879-97 [Marine City] Died ?1902 Detroit, Lansing & Northern Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo & ---- Director 1873-96 South Haven Traction Muskegon & Ferrysburg Secretary, Treasurer First Director 1900 First Director 1868 1873-96 Detroit, Grand Rapids & MERRICK, Alvie R. # [Saginaw] MERRILL, F. E. # [Ypsilanti] Western BiogRy1913, 374 Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Director 1897-99 Born Dec. 9, 1874, Port Austin Jackson Secretary, Treasurer 1897- ---- Manager 1902-03 99 Flint & Pere Marquette Superintendent 1904 Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Train service 1891-12/1899 Director 1879-96 Pere Marquette MERRILL, G. W. [Hillsdale] Secretary, Treasurer Train service 1/1900-3/02 Lake Shore & Michigan 1879-83 Trainmaster 3/1902-3/04 Southern White River Div. Superintendent 3/1904- Roadmaster 1884 Secretary, Treasurer 1/13 1880-84 Western Maryland MERRILL, Harry P. [Bay City] Director 1881-84 General Superintendent CycMich, 227-28 Saginaw & Grand Rapids 1/1913-13 Born Mar. 10, 1839, Darien, Director 1881-95 Genesee Co., N. Y. Secretary, Treasurer MERRICK, Benjamin P. # Son of Theodore S. Merrill 1881-83 [Grand Rapids] 1843 to Shiawassee Co. Saginaw & Western Manistee Light & Traction 1859-65 in West, trader; in Director 1883-96 Director, Vice President Civil War Secretary, Treasurer 1907 1871 to Bay City, wholesale 1883-85 grocer Grand Rapids, Lansing & MERRILL, David B. Died Nov. 17, 1891, Bay City Detroit [Kalamazoo] ---- Director 1888-96 Born June 6, 1833, Peru, Bay City & Midland Secretary, Treasurer Clinton Co., N. Y. First Director 1882 1890-96 Owned Merrill Milling Co.- Bay City, Caro & Port Huron Pere Marquette important in its field First Director 1886 Secretary, Treasurer 1899- Died Jan. 6, 1899, Kalamazoo Battle Creek & Bay City 1904 ---- First Director 1888 Director 1900-02 Kalamazoo & Schoolcraft Grand Rapids, Belding & First Director 1866 MERRILL, Henry (or Harry) Saginaw Kalamazoo & White Pigeon [Toledo] Secretary, Treasurer 1901 Director 1887-1902 Michigan & Ohio Ry Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis First Director 1873-75, MERRIAM, Seward L. # President 1899-1903 1878-79 [Detroit] Kalamazoo, Lowell & Northern BkDet, 322; BiogRy1913, 373 Michigan MERRILL, Ira [Owosso] Born Mar. 18, 1862, Romeo First Director 1871 Port Huron & Owosso 1885 graduated Univ. Mich. Director 1874-78 First Director 1869 ---- Pere Marquette MERRILL, Elias W. [Muskegon] MERRILL, Nathan W. General Solicitor 10/1909- MichBiog, 2:93 [Saginaw] 66 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Co Asst. Superintendent 1874 MERRIMAN, O. C. Also in Weston Furnace Co., General Superintendent [Minneapolis] Manistique Lumber co. 1875-79 Born July 27, 1827, St. In banking; held county offices General Passenger & Freight Lawrence Co., N. Y. 1907 to California Agent 1877-78 1854 to Wisconsin Died June 29, 1915 Detroit, Lansing & Northern 1859 to Minneapolis ---- Div. Superintendent ---- Manistique & Northwestern 1884-88 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault First Director 1891 Ste. Marie Director 1896 MERRILL, Parker Director 1888-89 Secretary, Treasurer 1896 Kalamazoo, Lowell & Northern Michigan MERRITT, Daniel H. MERSHON, C. E. # [Saginaw] Chief Engineer 1879 [Marquette] Saginaw Valley Traction NPMemorial, 43-44; BiogHBM, Secretary, Treasurer 1907 MERRILL, Parker 321-22 Grand River RR Born Sept. 29, 1833, Greene MERTON, John # [Bangor] First Director 1891 [Grand Co., N.Y. Trans-Michigan Street Rapids] 1856 to Marquette for 6 mos., First Director 1906 Central Michigan Spring 1858 permanently Director 1895-97 [St. Louis] 1874 to manage his MESERVY, S. T. # [Chicago] investments Erie & Michigan Ry & MERRILL, Thomas ---- Navigation [Ferrysburg] Cleveland & Pittsburgh Director 1909-17 Muskegon & Ferrysburg ?? 1849-1856 Vice President 1910-17 First Director 1868 Michigan Southern Ontonagon & Brule River ?? 1856-57 [Cleveland, MESHACK, W. A. # [Cincinnati] First Director 1880 Adrian] Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Bellefontaine & Indiana & St. Louis MERRILL, Thomas [East ?? 1857 [Galion, Oh.] Director 1910 Saginaw] Muskingum Valley Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw ?? 1857-58 [Lancaster, Oh.] MESSER, Richard B. [Sturgis] First Director 1887 Bay de Noquet & Marquette Sturgis & Indiana ?? 1858---- First Director 1882 MERRILL, W. F. # [Chassell] Marquette & Ontonagon St. Louis, Sturgis & Battle Houghton, Chassell & Superintendent 1871 Creek Southwestern Marquette, Houghton & First Director 1884 Superintendent 1910-17 Ontonagon General Superintendent MESSLER, Thomas Doremus MERRIMAN, Dwight [Jackson 1872 [Pittsburgh] Co.] BiogRy1885, 163 Born Aug. 17, 1825, Onondaga, MERRYMAN, R. C. # Born May 9, 1833 or 1834, N. Y. Menominee & Marinette Light Somerville, N.J. Died Apr. 17, 1905, Jackson & Traction Died Aug. 11, 1893, Pittsburgh, ---- Director 1906 Pa. Jackson, Fort Wayne & ---- Cincinnati MERSEREAU, John D. # New York & Erie First Director 1868 [Manistique] Clerk 8/1853-8/56 Fort Wayne, Jackson & NPMemorial, 164-67 Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Saginaw Born June 20, 1854, Portville, Secretary 8/1856-4/58 Director 1871-79 N. Y. Auditor 8/1856-5/62 Fort Wayne & Jackson Spr. 1876 to Manistique, Comptroller 5/1862-3/71 Director 1885, 1888-1902 secy-treas Chicago Lumbering Asst. to President 7/1866- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 67 3/71 ---- Traverse City Pennsylvania-West Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Secretary, Director 1913-16 Comptroller 4/1871-5/76 Station Agent 1868-77 3rd Vice President 5/1876- [Lima, Oh.] METHEANY, Richard Rolliston (83) Grand Rapids & Indiana # [Grand Rapids] Michigan Lake Shore Station Agent BiogRy1913, 375 President, Director 1872-78 2/1877-(1912) Born Feb. 4, 1855, Lima, Ohio Grand Rapids & Indiana Brother of Eldon L. Metheany Director 1870-92 METHEANY, John Milton (#1) and #1 John M. Metheany Allegan & Southeastern BiogRy1885, 164 Father of Benjamin B. First Director, Director Born Feb. 26, 1839, Allen Co., Metheany and #2 John Milton 1877-82 Ohio Metheany President 1878-82 Brother of Eldon L. and Died Apr. 7, 1913, Grand Richard R. Metheany Rapids MESSMORE, J. E. [Grand Died Dec. 18, 1889, ??Lima, ---- Rapids] Ohio Grand Rapids & Indiana Grand Rapids, Rockford & ---- Secretary, Auditor 1895- Greenville Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & 1913 First Director 1870 Chicago Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Various work 8/1858-12/72 Indiana METCALF, Theophilus Grand Rapids & Indiana Secretary 1895-1912 Michigan, Internal Div. Superintendent Director 1895-1912 Improvement Board 12/1872-5/76 [1872 Fort Traverse City Chief Engineer [Southern] Wayne, Ind.] Secretary 1896-1912 5/1840-4/1841 Div. Superintendent Director 190-12 5/1876-89 [Grand Rapids] Traverse City, Leelanau & METHEANY, Benjamin Bay View & Crooked Lake Manistique RR Bradford # [Grand Rapids] First Director 1880 First Director, Director Born Aug. 11, 1876, Grand Bay View, Little Traverse & 1901-06 Rapids Mackinaw President 1906 Son of Richard R. Metheany Director 1882-87 Manistique, Marquette & Died Aug. 29, 1920 Grand Rapids, Indiana & Northern ---- Mackinaw First Director, Director Traverse City, Leelanau & First Director, Director 1902-03 Manistique RR 1881-83 President 1902-03 First Director, Director Grand Rapids, Indiana & Vice President 1905 1901-06 Manistee Secretary 1906 First Director 1885 METTE, Theodore A. Manistique, Marquette & Muskegon, Grand Rapids & [Tecumseh] Northern Indiana Detroit & Lima Northern First Director, Director Director 1886-89 Cashier 1897 1902-03 Secretary 1902-03 METHEANY, John Milton (#2 ) MEYER, Charles J. L. General Manager 1902-03 # [Grand Rapids] Born Minden, Germany Born Aug. 11, 1885, Lima, Ohio Father of Herman P. Meyer METHEANY, Eldon L. # Son of Richard R. Metheany Father -in-law of George W. [Cadillac] ---- Earle Powers, 3:1108-09 Grand Rapids & Indiana 1849 to Fond du Lac, Wisc. Born Dec. 5, 1850, Lima, Ohio Secretary, Auditor 1914-17 1878 founded Hermansville brother of #1 John M. and Muskegon, Grand Rapids & 1883 inc. Wisconsin Land & Richard R. Metheany Indiana Lumber Co. 1877 to Cadillac Secretary 1913-16 ---- Many local offices Director 1913 Hermansville & Western 68 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1881 1856 to Fenton, miller [Adrian] n.d. to Flint, miller ABH-1,2:53 MEYER, Christopher [New c.1871 to Greenville, built flour Born March 6, 1814, Moravia, York City] mill N. Y. Hancock & Calumet ---- 1836 to Ann Arbor, studied Vice President, Director Greenville, Stanton & St. Louis law 1886 First Director 1871 1837 to Dexter Mineral Range Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon 1841 to Adrian, attorney Director 1886 First Director, Director Died Jan. 11, 1900, Adrian 1886-1917 ---- MEYER, Herman P. Erie & Kalamazoo Son of Charles J. L. Meyer MIDDLETON, George F. Secretary 1844-47 ---- [Greenville] Hermansville & Western Son of Edward W. Middleton MILLARD, Charles Sterling # First Director 1881 ---- BiogRy1913, 376 Grand Rapids, Greenville & Born May 3, 1874, Louisville, MICHAEL, Edward F. [LaPorte, Bay City Ky. Ind.] First Director 1880 Died June 5, 1942 Munising ---- First Director, Director MIDGLEY, W. D. # [Detroit] Various roads 1895-97 Bay City, Caro & Eastern Engineering Dept. 1896- First Director 1910 10/1912 MICHELSON, Nels [Grayling] Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago CityDet, 3:238-41 MILBANK, Joseph # [New York & St. Louis Born Nov. 25, 1840, Denmark City] Div. Superintendent 1866 to New York, then Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 10/1912- [Wabash, Ind.] Racine, Wisc. Director 1893-1909 Div. Superintendent 1916 c.1867 to Manistee, lumber [Mattoon, Ill.] jack MILES, Charles E. # 1869 partner w/Rasmus [Columbus, Ohio] MILLARD, J. B. [Three Rivers] Hanson, logging Battle Creek & Southeastern Michigan Northern RR 1878 to Grayling, logging First Director 1905 First Director 1869 w/Hanson and E N Salling Canada Southern & Chicago 1912 bought land in Detroit to MILES, H. D. # [Jackson] First Director 1870 subdivide Michigan Central ---- Asst. Superintendent 1902 MILLBURY, Franklin S. Grayling, Twin Lakes & [Menominee] Northeastern MILES, Thomas D. # [Chicago] Deer Creek & Marble Quarry First Director 1891 Michigan West Shore Traction Director 1873-74 First Director 1901 MIDDLETON, C. A., see MILLEN, Chauncey H. [Ann MIDDLETON N, Charles W. MILHAM, Frank H. # Arbor] [Kalamazoo] Born Feb. 19, 1821, Newtown, MIDDLETON, Charles W. CompKal, 209-10 Conn. Son of Edward W. Middleton Born Apr. 25, 1864, Kalamazoo c.1838 to Ann Arbor, 1839 to Pres. several paper companies sea MIDDLETON, Edward W. Pres. Kalamazoo Ry. Supply 1844 returned, into dry goods [Greenville] Co. business, later insurance ABH-II/8:36-37 ---- Died Jan. 17, 1891, Ann Arbor Born n.d. England Chicago, Kalamazoo & Eastern ---- father of Charles M. and First Director 1905 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern George M. Middleton Treasurer 1872-74 1854 to Greenville, owned mill MILLARD, Alfred Leonard Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 69 MILLEN, John # Bay City Belt Line General Passenger Agent (? Born c.1846, Canada) President 1890-96 10/1900-1/13 ---- First Director, Director Passenger Traffic Manager Alpena & Northern [Black 1889-97 1/1913-16 River] General Superintendent MILLER, C. F. [Battle Creek] MILLER, George [Detroit] 1893-94 Peninsular Ry Street Ry of Grand Rapids First Director, Director Chief Engineer 1872-73 First Director 1869 1893-94 General Superintendent Manistique 1872-73 MILLER, George W. [Isabella General Superintendent Chicago & Lake Huron Co.] 1891-1900 Chief Engineer 1878 Lansing, St. Johns & Mackinac General Manager 1901-11 First Director 1869 [1900 Duluth] MILLER, Charles R. # [Adrian] Director 1897-1911 Onaway & North Michigan MILLER, H. H. C. [Chicago] President 1908-11 First Director 1901 Battle Creek Street Adrian & Ann Arbor Electric First Director 1886 MILLER, Albert Edward # First Director 1904 [Marquette] Detroit & Adrian Traction MILLER, H. I. # [New York BiogRy1913, 377 First Director 1906 City] Born Sept. 21, 1861, Ypsilanti Ann Arbor 1883 graduated Univ. Mich. MILLER, Dan(iel) Bramble 1st Vice President 1914-15 ---- [Monroe] Director 1914-17 Hancock & Calumet c.1791, N. Y. Director 1893-1917 Father of Sidney D. Miller MILLER, H. S. Secretary 1893-1917 Mayor of Monroe Amboy, Lansing & Traverse Mineral Range Died Jan. 11, 1853, Monroe Bay Secretary 1893-1917 ---- First Director 1857 General Attorney 1912-16 Detroit & Maumee Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Commissioner 1835 MILLER, H. S. # [Syracuse, Asst. to General Counsel Michigan Southern N.Y.] 9/1888-90 Incorporator 1846 Delray Connecting Attorney 1890-1912 Attorney 1916-17 General Attorney 1913-16 MILLER, Edward [East Sainte Marie Union Depot Saginaw] MILLER, Henry # [St. Louis, Secretary 1900-17 Flint & Pere Marquette Mo.] Superintendent Telegraph WhosWhoFB, 470; MILLER, Albert [Bay City[] 1880-82 BiogRy1913, 379 MichBiog, 2:98; ABH-1,8:35- Born Feb. 24, 1863, Hannibal, 36; CycMich, 267-68 MILLER, Frederic A. # Mo. Born May 10, 1810, Hartland, BiogRy1913, 378 Died c.1956 Vt. Born Apr. 10, 1858, Hartford, ---- 1831 to Grand Blanc, 1833 to Pa. Various roads Saginaw ---- Various work 1878-7/1904 1836-7 built 2nd saw mill at Various roads Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Saginaw Various work 8/1874-83 General Superintendent State representative 1847 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 7/1904-5/05 First president Historical [Chicago] Wabash Society of Michigan Clerk, Passenger Dept. 1883- General Manager 5/1905-15 Died Sept 19, 1893, Bay City 85 Vice President 5/1907-15 ---- General Agent 1885-87 Director 1915 Bay City & East Saginaw Asst. General Passenger First Director 1864 Agent 1887-10/1900 MILLER, Homer A. # [Des 70 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Moines, Ia.] Born Oct. 28, 1843, Hartford, First Director 1887 Pres. Iowa National Bank Pa. Detroit Street ---- 1862-65 in Civil War First Director 1890 Chicago & North Western 1883 to Milwaukee Grand River Ry Director 10/1909-17 1889 to Chicago First Director 1890 1903 to New York City MILLER, J. J. [Benton Harbor] Died 1913, New York City MILLER, Sidney Trowbridge # Eastern & Northwestern ---- [Detroit] First Director 1899 Cairo & Vincennes WhosWhoFB, 472; General Superintendent HistMich1915, 2:1124-25; MILLER, James Francis Chicago & Western Indiana BkDet, 325 [Adrian] 2nd Vice President, Born Jan. 4, 1864, Detroit HistLen, 364-65 Treasurer 5/1882-4/83 Son of Sidney D. Miller Born June 29, 1868, Portland, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul c.1885 graduated Harvard Law Me. Asst. to General Manager School 1883 to Raisin Twp. 4/1883-3/84 Died May 19, 1940, Detroit ---- Asst. General Manager ---- Adrian City Electric Belt 4/1884-85 Detroit Street Asst. Superintendent 1891- General Manager 1885-88 First Director 1890 93 Milwaukee & Northern Grand River Ry Director 1891-92 First Director 1890 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Jefferson Avenue MILLER, James G. # [Detroit] President 1893-1899 First Director, Director Detroit Union RR Depot & Director 1893-1912 1891-92 Station Hecla Belt Line Secretary 1899-1913 MILLER, Samuel F. # Secretary 1906 Director 1906-13 BiogRy1913, 380 Born Jan. 17, 1867, Wenona, MILLER, W. G. # [Sault Ste. MILLER, John E. [Port Huron] Ill. Marie] Port Huron & Saginaw Valley ---- Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co. Treasurer 1873-74 Chicago & North Western Superintendent 1915-17 Director 1873 Various work 7/1881-1902 Asst. General Freight Agent MILLER, W. H. [Bay City] MILLER, L. M. 1902-06 [Chicago] Bay City, Caro & Port Huron Chicago & North Western General Freight & Passenger First Director 1886 Director 6/1860-6/61 Agent 1909-9/1912 [Omaha] General Freight Agent MILLER, W. J. [Muskegon] MILLER, Robert [Detroit] 9/1912-17 [Chicago] Lake George & Muskegon BiogRy1885, 165 River Born Apr. 18, 1839, Ithaca, N.Y. MILLER, Sidney Davy [Detroit] General Freight Agent 1877 ---- HerrNL, 4:185; HistMich1915, Saginaw Bay & Northwestern Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 2:1122-24 Vice President 1880 Various work 1/1858-4/84 Born May 12, 1830, Monroe General Manager 1880 Michigan Central Son of Dan B. Miller; father of Secretary, Director 1880-81 Asst. General Sidney T. Miller Superintendent 4/1884-89 Marr. 1861, Katherine Rodgers MILLER, William [South Bend, General Superintendent (dau. of C. C. Trowbridge) Ind.] 1890-95 ---- Peninsular Ry St. Aubin Avenue Director 1872-73 MILLER, Roswell # [1883 First Director 1873 Indiana & Lake Michigan Milwaukee, 1889 Chicago] Cass Avenue First Director 1887 BiogRy1885, 165; DWH; First Director 1877 HerrNL, 4:185 Hamtramck & Grosse Pointe MILLERD, A. L., see MILLARD, Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 71 Alfred L. ---- Light Michigan Traction Extension First Director, Director MILLIGAN, Frank [Marquette] First Director 1903 1906-07 BiogRy1885, 165; HistUP, 432 Treasurer 1906 Born Apr. 1, 1846, MILLS, Barney # Philadelphia Lansing & Suburban Traction MILLS, George A. # [Benton ---- President 1905 Harbor] Philadelphia & Erie Michigan Terminal Transfer Various work 1867-1872 MILLS, Darius Ogden # [New First Director 1905 Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana York City] General Freight Agent HerrNL, 4:189; PPA, 1:230-35; MILLS, J. H. [Kalamazoo] 1872-77 BiogNY, 316 Allegan & Lake Shore Great Western of Canada Born Sept. 5, 1825, North Treasurer, Director 1886-88 Not given 1878-81 Salem, N. Y. Detroit, Mackinaw & Father of Ogden Mills MILLS, James K. Marquette 1848 joined bank in Buffalo Born Apr. 18, 1799, General Passenger & Freight 1849- in Calif., started Cambridge, Mass. Agent 9/1881-84 mercantile business Died 1863 Marquette & Western 1850 very profitable, back to ---- General Passenger & Freight Buffalo to close that business Michigan Central Agent 1884 1864-73, 1875-78 pres. Bank Incorporator 1846 of California Director 9/1846-6/1847 MILLINGTON, Abel 1880 to New York City MichBiog, 2:103 Died Jan. 3, 1910, Millbrae, MILLS, John Edgar # [Port Born Feb. 5, 1787, Rutland, Vt. Calif. Huron] 1826 to Ypsilanti ---- Born Sept. 24, 1864, Mich. Leg. Council 1834-35 Lake Shore & Michigan Marysville 1838 to St. Charles, Ill. Southern Son of Nelson M. Mills Died Nov. 1838, St. Charles, Ill. Director 6/1879-1909 Died Aug. 3, 1903; buried in ---- Chicago & North Western Port Huron Detroit & St. Joseph Director 6/1880-6/89 ---- Commissioner 1832 Lansing & Northern MILLS, David [Holly] First Director 1900 MILLINGTON, E. H. # [Detroit] Lapeer & Holly Michigan Suburban Michigan Central First Director 1872 First Director 1901 Superintendent Telegraph 1902-08 MILLS, David Williams # MILLS, Merrill B. # [Detroit] [Cleveland] BkDet, 326; CycMich, 318 MILLS, A. G. Born July 22, 1879, Marysville Born Oct. 12, 1853 or 1854, Kalamazoo & Schoolcraft Son of Nelson Mills Detroit First Director 1866 Died Aug. 27, 1957, Pasadena, Son of Merrill I. Mills Calif. 1872 worked for father’s MILLS, Alfred James # ---- Detroit Stove Co. [Kalamazoo] Lansing & Suburban Traction In many other businesses CycMich, 107-08; Republican, Director 1905 Died 1929 2:281-83 Lansing & Jackson Ry ---- Born Jan. 9, 1851, near First Director 1905 Detroit Terminal Ry Cambridge, England First Director 1901 c.1871 to Kalamazoo, farmed, MILLS, Frank M. # [Benton Detroit Manufacturers studied law Harbor] First Director, Director 1875 to Paw Paw, attorney Resident of Des Moines, Iowa 1902-17 c.1882 to Kalamazoo, judge ---- Died Apr. 12, 1923, Kalamazoo Benton Harbor-St Joe Ry & MILLS, Merrill Isaac [Detroit] 72 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ABH-1,3:99-100; CycMich, ---- HistNP, 2:636-37 184-85 Port Huron & St. Clair River Born Sept. 23, 1845, Toulon, Born Nov. 4, 1818 or 1819, First Director 1890 Stark Co., Ill. Canton, Conn. Michigan Suburban 1884 to Ishpeming, officer, Father of Merrill B. Mills First Director 1901 First Natl. Bank 1845 to Detroit, merchant Lansing City Electric ---- 1861 became cigar maker President 1904 Negaunee & Ishpeming Street 1864 one of inc. of Detroit Lansing & Suburban Traction Director 1902-04 Stove Works First Director, President Secretary, Treasurer 1902- Died Sept. 14, 1882, Detroit 1904 04 ---- Manager 1902-03 Hamtramck Street MILLS, Ogden # [New York First Director 1868 City] MINER, Martin J. [Bloomer Detroit, Howell & Lansing WhosWhoFB, 474; BiogNY, Twp.] First Director, Director 1870 316 Carson City & Palo Detroit River Street Born 1857, Sacramento, Calif. First Director 1871 First Director 1872 Son of Darius O. Mills Detroit Transit Ry Died Jan. 29, 1929, Dutchess MINARY, Charles K. # First Director 1872 Co., N. Y. [Springfield, Ill., 1907 Benton ---- Harbor] MILLS, Myron William # New York Central St. Joe River Traction [Marysville, Jackson] Director 1915-16 First Director 1904 Born Apr. 8, 1866, Marysville Benton Harbor-St Joe Ry & Son of Nelson Mills MILLS, Samuel M. [New York Light Died Jan. 2, 1947, Port Huron City] First Director, Director ---- Chicago & North Western 1906-17 Michigan Suburban Director 6/1875-6/78 President 1907-17 First Director 1901 General Manager 1916-17 Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis MILLS, Willis N. # Dowagiac Treasurer 1904 [Menominee] First Director 1908 Lansing City Electric MichBiog, 2:104 Director, Treasurer 1904 Born Oct. 1, 1881, Anamosa, MINK, Oliver W. # [Boston] Jackson & Battle Creek Iowa BiogRy1893, 259 Traction 1894 graduated Hamilton Coll. Born, Albany, N. Y. Director, President 1905 No data to Menominee, ---- Lansing & Suburban Traction attorney New York Central & Hudson First Director, Director State senator 1905-06 River 1904-05 ---- Clerk 1865-72 Treasurer 1904-05 Menominee & Escanaba Union Pacific Lansing & Jackson Ry First Director 1905 Bookkeeper 1872-77 First Director 1905 Asst. Secretary, Asst. President 1906 MILLSPAUGH, J. L. # [Battle Treasurer 1877-85 Jackson Consolidated Creek] Comptroller 1885-(93) Director, President 1907 Michigan United Rys Pere Marquette Michigan United Rys Div. Superintendent 1908- Director 1901 Director, President 1906-17 09 MINNIS, James L. # MILLS, Nelson # [Marysville] MILTON, John [New York City] Born Nov. 6, 1866, Carroll, Mo. Born Jan. 15, 1823, Halifax, N. Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti Street 1887 admitted to bar S.,. Canada First Director 1890 Mo. State legislature 1896-98 Father of David W., John E., 1904 to St. Louis, law practice and Myron W. Mills MINER, Anson B. # Died Jan. 1, 1965, Long Beach, Died Mar. 15, 1904 [Ishpeming] Calif. Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 73 ---- Born Oct. 18, 1817, Wabash [St. Louis, Mo.] Aberdeenshire, Scotland MITCHELL, C. E. [Ludington] General Attorney 1906-07 1839 to Milwaukee, secy Mason & Oceana General Solicitor 11/1907- Wisconsin insurance co Chief Engineer 1886 5/19 U. S. Representative 1871-75 Vice President 1916-17 Died Apr. 19, 1887, New York MITCHELL, Charles Tennant City; buried in Milwaukee [Hillsdale] MINOT, Charles ---- Republican, 2:284-85 Michigan Southern & Northern Milwaukee & St. Paul Born June 24, 1817, Root, Indiana President 1865-74 Montgomery Co., N. Y. Director 4/1857-9/57 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Father of Austin W. and President 2/1874 -1887 William W. Mitchell MINSHAL, D. W. [Terre Haute, Chicago & North Western Son-in-law of Austin E. Wing Ind.] Director 6/1868-6/70 1838 to Adrian Indiana & Lake Michigan President 9/1869-6/1870 1843 to Hillsdale Director 1892-93 1855 est. first bank in Hillsdale MITCHELL, Austin Wing Died Dec. 29, 1898, Hillsdale MINTURN, Edward [New York [Cadillac] ---- City] PortraitNMich, 161-62 Michigan, Internal Michigan Central Born July 5, 1852, Hillsdale Improvement “Southern” Director 1860 Son of Charles T. Mitchell, Contractor 1838-41 brother of William W. Mitchell; Amboy & Traverse Bay MINTURN, Rowland R. nephew of George A. Mitchell First Director 1856 BiogRy1893, 259 Attend. Hillsdale Coll. and Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana Born Aug. 27, 1849, Univ. of Mich. First Director 1869 Ferrisburgh, Vt. 1880 began making lumber, Northern Central Michigan ---- from his land, Bonds Mill Director 1887-1901 Chicago & North Western Died Aug. 12, 1902 Various work 1872--?? ---- MITCHELL, Frank Asa # Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Cadillac & Evart [Manistee] [Green Bay] First Director 1882 HistMich1915, 3:1583-84; Div. Superintendent Toledo & Cadillac BiogRy1913, 382 1894-97 First Director 1886 Born Oct. 31, 1855, Auburn, Toledo, Ann Arbor & Cadillac Me. MINTY, Robert Horatio George First Director 1886 1877 graduated Bowdoin Coll. # 1878 to Manistee, Buckley & HerrNL, 4:195 MITCHELL, Barrett B. [Detroit, Douglas Lumber Co. Born Dec. 4, 1831, Westport, 1905 Chicago] Died ?1930 Co. Mayo, Ireland BiogRy1885, 166 ---- c.1859 to Jackson Born Sept. 24, 1846, Pittsford, St. Johnbury & Lake Champlain in Civil War N.Y. Engineering Dept. ?1870-78 c.1883 to St. Louis, Mo. ---- Manistee & Northeastern 1887 to Butte City, Mont. "Blue Line" Fast Freight Line General Passenger & Freight Died Aug. 24, 1906, Yavapai Various work 1867-(85) Agent 1891-1906 Co., Ariz., buried Ogden, Utah Michigan Central Traffic Manager 1908-14 ---- General Freight Agent Director 1909-17 Grand River Valley 1894-99 Vice President, Secretary General Superintendent General Freight Traffic 1913-17 c.1870 Manager 1900-09 Lake Shore & Michigan MITCHELL, George Anson MITCHELL, Alexander Southern [Grand Rapids] DWH; BHB19, 260-62; General Freight Traffic ABH-1,9:19-20; PortraitNMich, CongBiog Manager 1905-10 151-52 74 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Born Jan 8, 1824, Montgomery MITCHELL, William T. [Port Co., N. Y. MITCHELL, Robert # [Battle Huron] Brother of William H. C. Creek] MichBiog, 2:107 Mitchell Michigan & Chicago Born May 27, 1817, Uncle of Austin W. and William Westbound Middlebury, N. Y. W. Mitchell First Director 1909 ---- 1861 to Kendallville, Ind Director Chicago 1871 to Cadillac, platted town, MITCHELL, Samuel # & Grand Trunk 1882-87 real estate & lumber business [Negaunee] Investor in Continental NPMemorial, 595-97; HerrNL, MITCHELL, William Whittier Improvement Co. 4:200; Republican, 2:285-87 [Cadillac] ---- Born Apr. 11, 1846, PortraitNMich, 231-33; Grand Rapids & Indiana Bridestowe, Devonshire, Powers, 2:591-93 Director 1873 England Born Jan. 3, 1854, Hillsdale 1864 to Keweenaw Co., copper Brother of Austin W. Mitchell; MITCHELL, Henry Haller miner nephew of George A. Mitchell [Toledo] 1870 to Negaunee, mining on 1873 to Cadillac, much BiogRy1885, 167 contract; later with other involved in lumbering Born Aug. 10, 1859, Mount mines 1876 foreman for George A. Vernon, Ohio Discovered National Mine; Mitchell ---- 1/1887 1877 partner with Jonathan W. Merchant's Dispatch Co. Pres & Gen Manager Jackson Cobbs Various work 1877-81 Mine; dir. several banks ---- "Bee Line" Died May 19, 1908, Chicago Cadillac & Evart Various work 1/1881-6/82 ---- First Director 1882 New York, Chicago & St. Louis Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Secretary to Chief Engineer First Director 1891 MITSHKERN, Mark # [Detroit] 9/1882-12/83 Negaunee & Ishpeming Street (also spelled MITSHKUN) Michigan & Ohio Ry & Electric BkDet, 328 Asst. General Freight Agent First Director 1892 Born Sept. 15, 1855, Wilno, 12/1883-(85) Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Russia Toledo, Marshall & Northern Director 1902-03 1871 to Detroit First Director 1884 President 1902 1872 began dealing in RR supplies and equip. MITCHELL, John A. # MITCHELL, William Henry ---- [Ludington] Clay # Detroit, Flint & Saginaw Arcadia & Betsey River [East Bay, 1880 Reed City, Treasurer, Director 1907 Chief Engineer 1895-1917 1883 Traverse City] Saginaw & Flint MichBiog, 2:106 First Director, Director MITCHELL, Preston [Marshall] Born May 30, 1825, Perry Co., 1908-11 MichBiog, 2:106 Ohio Secretary 1909-11 Born Apr. 24, 1812, Meredith, Brother of George A. Mitchell Southern Electric N. Y. 1866 to East Bay First Director 1911 1836 to Marshall State representative 1869-72; 1837 to Marengo, merchant State senator 1873-76 MIX, R. E. [Cleveland] 1842 to Marshall; held local Tinsmith, furniture maker, Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan offices lumberman, farmer Director 1882-88 State representative 1871-74 Died Feb. 11, 1901, Traverse Died Oct. 23, 1877, Marshall City MIZNER, Lansing Bond ---- ---- Born July 22, 1794, Mendham, Grand Rapids, Traverse Bay & Traverse City Morris Co., N. J. Mackinac Director 1872-97 Died July 3, 1866, Detroit First Director 1856 ---- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 75 Macomb & Saginaw MOLSON, W. [Montreal] Commissioner 1835 Chicago, Detroit & Canada MONROE, F. L. # [Grand Michigan, Internal Grand Trunk Jct. Haven] Improvement Board Director 1872-76 Grand Haven Street Commissioner [Central] Treasurer, Manager 1902 5/1838-6/1838 MONAT, John # [Arcadia] Arcadia & Betsey River MONROE, James [Kalamazoo] MOATS, John S. [Chicago] Asst. General Manager 1905- Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Benton Harbor Electric Ry & 07 Director 1895-96 Transit First Director 1897 MONJO, Domingo M. [New MONROE, Jay R. [Lawrence] York City] ABH-1,4:47 MOBON, James Brown # [New BiogRy1885, 167 Born Apr. 11,1806, Surrey, N. York City] Born March 20, 1847, Algiers, H. Detroit & Mackinac Africa Father of Charles J. Monroe Director 1915-17 ---- and Lyman S. Monroe U. S. Rolling Stock Co. 1826 to Detroit MOELLER, Herman F. # Various wrok 5/1873-3/83 1830 to Prairie Ronde BkDet, 329, DSA, 102; Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand (Schoolcraft) BiogRy1913, 383-84 Trunk 1833 to South Haven, built Born Jan. 17, 1866, Saginaw Treasurer, Director first house in town ---- 3/1883-83 Died Oct. 30, 1876, South Flint & Pere Marquette Vice President 10/1883 Haven Clerk 1889-93 [Saginaw] Toledo, Ann Arbor & North ---- District Passenger Michigan Lawton, Paw Paw & South Agent1893-96 [Detroit] Auditor 1884-87 Haven Asst. General Passenger First Director, Director First Director 1868 1898-1900 1882-84 Pere Marquette Chippewa Valley MONROE, John General Passenger Agent First Director 1888 Michigan, Internal 1/1900-3/12 Improvement Board Charles Jay # [South Haven] Contractor [Central] MOFFATT, Isaac MichBiog, 2:110; ABH-1,4:48; Born c.1791 HerrNL, 4:207 MONROE, Lyman S. # [South ---- Born Nov. 20, 1839, Lawrence Haven] Kalamazoo & Grand River Son of Jay R. Monroe, father of Born Mar. 28, 1851, Lawrence Commissioner 1847 Stephen B. Monroe Son of Jay R. Monroe 1866 to South Haven, real Died Feb. 7, 1919, South Haven MOFFLY, John W. # [Sault Ste. estate, insurance, banking ---- Marie] State senator 1883-88 South Haven & Lake Shore Sault Ste. Marie & Lake Huron Died Oct. 2, 1919, South Haven First Director 1901 First Director 1916 ---- Toledo & South Haven/B MONROE, Robert J. # [Lansing] MOLONEY, James F. First Director 1876 Lansing Southern [Cheboygan] Toledo & South Haven First Director 1907 Cheboygan & East Michigan Vice President, Director First Director 1891 1890-92 MONROE, Stephen B. # Toledo & South Haven/L [Kalamazoo] MOLONY, John B. First Director 1884 Born June 11, 1869, South Springwells, Ecorse & South Haven & Eastern Haven Wyandotte Director 1895-96 Son of Charles J. Monroe First Director 1887 South Haven & Lake Shore ---- First Director 1901 Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & 76 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Chicago ---- 1882-88 Treasurer, Director 1909-11, Escanaba Electric Street President 1884-88 1914-17 Owner 1898-1908 Lake Harbor Secretary 1914-17 President 1902-07 First Director 1892 Manager 1902-06 Muskegon Street MONROE, Stephen L. [Grand General Manager 1907 First Director 1897 Haven] Director 1902-08 Grand Haven Street Escanaba Traction MOORE, Charles [Pinconning] First Director 1895 Director 1909 Saginaw Bay & Northwestern Superintendent 1881 MONROE, Thomas # MOON, Dewitt Clinton # [Muskegon] [Cleveland] MOORE, Edward S. [Three Muskegon Traction & Lighting BkClev, 187; BiogRy1913, 386 Rivers] Director 1904-05 Born July 24, 1856, Stockton, MichBiog, 2:115; ABH-1,4:46 Chautauqua Co., N. Y. Born June 4, 1805, Trenton, MONTAGUE, Charles # [Caro] ---- N.J. Bay City, Caro & Port Huron Various NYC properties 1834 to Three Rivers, First Director 1886 Various work c.1875-1903 merchant Caro & Lake Huron Lake Shore & Michigan Died May 2, 1885, Three First Director 1901 Southern Rivers Asst. General ---- MONTGOMERY, J. R. # Superintendent 9/1903-11/05 St. Joseph Valley [Chicago] General Superintendent President Wisconsin & Michigan 11/1905-2/06 Director 1910 Asst. General Manager MOORE, Edward W. # 2/1906-12/07 [Cleveland] MONTGOMERY, Richard A. General Manager 12/1907- Born July 1, 1864, Canal Dover, [Lansing] 12/14 Ohio Northern Central Michigan New York Central 1880 to Cleveland, worked in a Director 1887-97 General Manager 1/1915-17 bank Lansing, Dexter & Ann Arbor 1891 on of organizers of Dime First Director 1899 MOON, James [Otisco Twp.] Saavings Bank Patterson Died May 8, 1928 MONTGOMERY, Richard H. First Director 1870 ---- [Lansing] Detroit Electric Lansing, St. Johns & Northern MOON, John Wesley First Director 1896 First Director 1888 [Muskegon] Detroit & Port Huron Shore MichBiog, 2:113; CycMich, Line MOODY, William J. [Jackson] 172-73; CongBiog President 1902 MichBiog, 2:113 Born Jan. 18, 1836, Van Buren Detroit United Died 1953, Racine, Wisc. Twp., Wayne Co. Director 1902-09 ---- Lumberman Vice President 1907-09 Palmyra & Jacksonburgh 1868 partnership with Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Commissioner 1836 Alexander V. Mann Short Line State senator 1885-88; U. S. Director 1906-09 MOON, Alvin R. # [Escanaba] Representative 1893-95 Toledo, Ottawa Beach & HistNP, 2:844-45 Died April 5, 1898, Muskegon Northern Born Aug. 14, 1860, Madison, ---- First Director 1906 Maine Muskrat Lake & Clam River Monroe Connecting 1879 to LaCrosse, Wisc., then First Director, Director First Director 1917 several other places 1881-85 1890 to Escanaba, in real Paris & Pere Marquette River MOORE, Eli C. [Corunna] estate First Director, Director East Saginaw & Ann Arbor Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 77 Director 1871-72 MOORE, George William [Cadillac, 1885 Lake City] MOORE, Joseph, Jr. # MOORE, Fred T. Republican, 2:288-89 [Philadelphia] Muskrat Lake & Claim River Born Apr. 12, 1859, Fort Pennsalt Cashier 1882-84 [Cadillac] Gratiot First Director 1901 General Manager 1885 [Lake 1874 family to Hersey Wyandotte Southern City] 1877 to Muskegon, worked in President, Director 1916-17 saw mill MOORE, George F. [Detroit] 1881 to Missaukee Co., MOORE, Leroy [Greenville] Farmer, 2:1161-62 lumbering Grand Rapids, Greenville & Born Dec. 10, 1832, Berkshire 1888 to Port Huron, organized Bay City Co., Mass. bank First Director 1880 1847 to Batavia, N. Y. Also into real estate and 1859 to Detroit, dry goods manufacturing MOORE, Silas W. [Lima, Ohio] store clerk ---- Columbus, Lima & Michigan 1872 est. his own store Muskrat Lake & Clam River First Director 1889 ---- First Director, Director Detroit, Grand Haven & 1881-85 MOORE, Stephen [Port Huron] Milwaukee Secretary, Treasurer Muskrat Lake & Clam River Director 1884-93 1882-85 First Director, Director 1881-85 MOORE, George F. [Boyne City] MOORE, Henry C. [Bangor Vice President 1882-85 Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Twp.] General Superintendent Bay City & East Saginaw MOORE, Thomas [New York 1907 First Director 1864 City] Auditor 1907 Hancock & Calumet MOORE, James Director 1886 MOORE, George G. # [Port Michigan Southern [Monroe] Huron] Superintendent MOORE, W. G. # [Milwaukee] Lansing City Electric 5/1854-4/1855 Wisconsin Central Director, Vice President Michigan Southern & Northern Asst. Treasurer 1902 1904 Indiana [Monroe] Lansing & Suburban Traction Superintendent MOORE, William First Director, Director 4/1855-5/56 MichBiog, 2:119 1904-05 Born Apr. 9, 1787, Peterboro, Vice President 1904-05 MOORE, John G. [New York N.H. Lansing & Jackson Ry City] 1831 to York Twp., First Director 1905 Marquette, Houghton & Washtenaw Co. Jackson & Battle Creek Ontonagon State representative 1843; Traction Director 1886-87 farmer; in War of 1812 Director,Vice President 1905 President, Director 1890 Died Dec. 4, 1850 Jackson Consolidated Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic ---- Director 1907 Director 1888-89 Monroe & Ann Arbor Michigan United Rys Marquette & Western Commissioner 1836 Director 1906-14 Director 1886-87 Ypsilanti & Tecumseh Lansing & Northeastern Cincinnati, Jackson & Commissioner 1838 First Director 1910 Mackinaw Michigan United Traction Director 1897 MOORE, William A. Director 1912-14 Houghton & Ontonagon Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & MOORE, Joseph H. First Director 1870 Chicago Michigan Southern [Monroe] Director 1912-13 Superintendent MOORES, Emil [East Saginaw] 3/1852-5/1854 Street of East Saginaw 78 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1878 Born c.1855, Canada Detroit, Pontiac, Lapeer & Died ?1933, Escanaba Northern MOORES, J. H. # [Lansing] ---- First Director 1901 Lansing Connecting Escanaba Electric Street First Director 1914 First Director 1892 MOREHOUSE, Philo [Chicago] Director 1902-08 Michigan Southern & Northern MOORES, J. Henry [Lansing] Delta Traction Indiana PortraitIngLiv, 801-02 First Director, Director Director 4/1860-5/69 Born Apr. 2, 1846, Licking Co., 1909-17 Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Ohio Director 1872-80 1866 attended Mich. Agr. Coll. MORAN, William Benjamin 1871 into real estate business [Detroit] MOREY, Charles H. # 1881 began lumbering near CityDet, 5:243-44 [Manistee] Moorestown Born May 24, 1844, Detroit Manistee & Grand Rapids 1887 lumbering mostly in 1866 graduated St. Johns Coll. General Passenger Agent Mississippi (Fordham) 1906 ---- 1870 admitted to bar General Freight Agent 1906 West Branch & Moorestown A founder of Peninsular Stove Traffic Manager 1908-09 First Director, Director Works Vice President 1908-13 1881-84 Died Dec. 6, 1895, Detroit Director 1910-13 President 1883-84 ---- Michigan East & West General Manager 1883-84 Detroit, Mackinaw & First Director, Director General Superintendent Marquette 1913-17 1883-84 First Director 9/1879 Vice President 1914-17 General Freight Agent Director 1880-86 1883-84 Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette MORFORD, John B. [St. First Director 1880 Thomas, Ont.] MORALEE, Mat(t)hew M. Sault Ste. Marie Bridge BiogRy1885, 169 [Hancock] First Director 1881 ---- HistUP, 295 Marquette & Western Central RR of New Jersey Born Feb. 28, 1829, First Director, Director and Sabine & East Texas Springfield, Mass. 1883-84 Superintendent 1859 to Keweenaw Co., at Cliff Ishpeming, L'Anse & Michigan Central Mine Ontonagon Div. Superintendent 1861 to Hancock, built saw First Director 1885 10/1883-91, 1893-1904 mill Mackinaw & Marquette Later a lumber dealer and Director 1886 MORGAN, Benjamin F. # owned grist mill Jefferson Avenue [Battle Creek] Died Aug. 23, 1897, Hancock First Director, Director Battle Creek & Coldwater ---- 1891-92 Electric Portage Lake & Keweenaw First Director 1904 First Director 1868 MORDAUNT, Frederick S. Mineral Range & L'Anse Bay [Chicago] MORGAN, C. E. # [Grand First Director 1871 Chicago, Detroit & Toledo Rapids] Mineral Range First Director 1898 Michigan United Traction Director 1873-78 General Superintendent MORE, John E. [Grand Rapids] 1912-14 MORAN, Amedee # [New York Grand Rapids, Belding & Michigan Ry City] Greenville General Superintendent Detroit & Mackinac First Director 1899 1916-17 Director 1912-16 MOREHOUSE, Lyman F. # [Ann MORGAN, D. P. [New York MORAN, James B. # [Escanaba] Arbor] City] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 79 Chicago & North Western Bay de Noquet & Marquette Died Dec. 20, 1935, Saginaw Director 6/1878-6/81 First Director 1856 ---- Marquette & State Line Saginaw Valley Traction MORGAN, Edwin D. First Director 1857 Director 1902-07 Michigan Southern & Northern Marquette & Ontonagon Indiana Promoter 1862 MORLEY, George Walter First Director, Director [Saginaw] 4/1855-4/57 MORGAN, O. P. [Fort Wayne] Born Jan. 10, 1831, Weedsport, Fort Wayne, Jackson & N. Y. MORGAN, Elijah W. [Ann Saginaw Died Apr. 10, 1914, Saginaw Arbor] Director 1878-79 ---- Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Saginaw Valley & St. Louis First Director 1869 MORGAN, Seward D. Vice President, Director Secretary 1872-74 Michigan Extension 1872-73 First Director 1878 Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron MORGAN, John Pierpont # First Director 1881 [New York City] MORGAN, V. K. # Vice President, Director HerrNL, 4:231; PPA, 1:246-48 Ontonagon 1882-89, 1895-97 Born Apr. 17, 1837, Hartford, Asst. Auditor 1908 Saginaw Valley Traction Conn. First Director 1899 1854 to London, partner in MORGAN, W. F. # [Marquette] bank Lake Superior & Ishpeming MORLEY, P. F. H. # [Saginaw] 1857 to New York, banking Superintendent 1916-17 Cincinnati, Saginaw & 1860 started J. P. Morgan & Co. Munising, Marquette & Mackinaw Died Mar. 31, 1913, Rome, Southeastern Director 1913-17 Italy Superintendent 1917 ---- MORLEY, William B. [Marine Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago MORGAN, William J. City] & St. Louis BiogRy1885, 169 Detroit & St. Clair River Director 1892-1902 Born 1848, Toronto First Director 1885 Lake Shore & Michigan ---- Southern Grand Trunk Ry Canada MORLEY, Wilmot K. # Director 1901-13 and Great Western Ry Canada BiogRy1913, 389 Michigan Central Various work 1860-2/75 Born Nov. 15, 1852, Director 1905-13 Detroit, Grand Haven & Youngstown, Ohio Detroit River Tunnel Co. Milwaukee [Detroit] ---- Director 1913 Secretary to Superintendent Chicago & Alton 2/1875-78 Various work 1867-8/93 MORGAN, Lewis H. [Rochester, Superintendent 1878-85 Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Gulf N.Y.] Chicago & Grand Trunk General Superintendent Born Nov. 21, 1818, Cayuga Asst. Superintendent 8/1893-1/98 Co., N. Y. 1886-87 [Battle Creek] Louisville, Evansville & St. 1844 to Rochester, N. Y. Louis [Princeton, Ind.] N. Y. state assemblyman 1861, MORLAN, Thomas [Montreal] Superintendent 1/1898- N. Y. state senator 1867-68 Chicago, Detroit & Canada 1/1901 Died Dec. 17, 1881, Rochester, Grand Trunk Jct. Southern Ry [Louisville, Ky.] N. Y. Director 1872 Superintendent 1/1901- ---- 2/03 Iron Mountain RR MORLEY, George Bidwell # Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & First Director 1855 [Saginaw] Muskegon [Grand Rapids] Iron Mountain & Wisconsin Born Oct. 16, 1857, Painesville, Vice President 2/1903-13 State Line Ohio General Manager 2/1903-15 First Director 1856 Pres., Second Natl. Bank Director 1912-15 80 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 10/06 Mechanical Superintendent MORRELL, Charles M. Gogebic & Montreal River 6/1902-4/04 Paw Paw First Director 1883 First Director 1857 Director 1891-97 MORRISON, Alexander Secretary 1891-1902 Hamilton MORRIS, Charles M. # Receiver 1893 MichBiog, 2:122; ABH-1,4:48 [Milwaukee] General Solicitor 1903-05 Born Feb. 22, 1822, Berthier, Born Mar. 6, 1865 Vice President 1905 Quebec Brother of Howard Morris 1838 to Chicago ---- MORRIS, Joseph H. [Pontiac] 1841 public works ontractor Gogebic & Montreal River St. Clair River, Pontiac & in Illinois & Iowa Director 1901-02 Jackson 1850 to St. Joseph, merchant & Secretary 1903-05 First Director 1872 manufacturer Ontonagon Southern St. Clair & Chicago Air Line State senator 1857-8, State First Director 1907 Director 1872-74 representative 1861-2 Died Sept. 4, 1890, Chicago MORRIS, Delbert C. # [Detroit] MORRIS, Jacob S. [Coldwater] ---- Alpena & Western BiogRy1885, 169 Chicago & Michigan Grand First Director 1900 Born May 7, 1838, Troy, N.Y. Trunk ---- First Director 1865 MORRIS, Edwin A. [Rockford] Pennsylvania-West Lake Shore of Western Michigan Northern RR Various work 4/1857-5/73 Michigan First Director 1887 Superintendent 5/1873-(85) First Director 1869 [Toledo] Chicago & Michigan Lake MORRIS, Frederick C. # [Port Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Shore Huron] Michigan First Director, Director Lansing & Northern General Superintendent 1869-1873 First Director 1900 1873 First President 1869 Vice President 1870-73 MORRIS, Hezekiah MORRIS, Lyman D. General Manager 1870-73 Jonesville Toledo, Ypsilanti & Saginaw Dakota Southern RR Commissioner 1840 Air Line Owner First Director 1869 MORRIS, Howard # MORRISON, Ezekiel [Milwaukee] MORRIS, Robert W. Michigan Southern & Northern BiogRy1913, 390 [Muskegon] Indiana Born Oct. 6, 1856, Madison, Grand River & Muskegon First Director, Director Wisc. First Director 1857 4/1855-9/57, 4/1858-4/1860 Brother of Charles M. Morris 1879 graduated Univ. Wisc. MORRIS, William S. # MORRISON, F. [Boston] law school BiogRy1913, 390 Flint & Pere Marquette Died Oct. 23, 1922, Milwaukee Born Mar. 4, 1857, Chicago Director 1893-95 ---- ---- Wisconsin Central Various roads MORRISON, Finley [Manistee] Law Dept. 1880-86 Various work 1874-7/89 Mecosta Asst. General Solicitor 1886- Chicago & West Michigan and Director 1885 90 Detroit, Lansing & Northern Director, Secretary 1890-93 Superintendent Motive MORRISON, G. A. [New York Receiver 1893-7/99 Power & Cars 7/1889-4/93 City] Counsel 7/1899-3/1901 Chesapeake & Ohio Grand Haven & Southeastern General Counsel 3/1901- Superintendent Motive First Director 1897 10/06 Power 4/1893-6/1902 Vice President 10/1905- Erie RR MORRISON, James E. # Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 81 [Lansing] Various roads Lansing Southern Mechanical Dept. c.1884- MORSE, William E. # [Chicago] First Director 1907 5/96 (or Willis E.) Grand Trunk Ry of Canada Chicago & North Western MORRISON, Robert, Jr. # Superintendent Motive General Superintendent [Jackson] Power 5/1896-7/1901 1906-10 Lansing & Jackson Ry 3rd Vice President 7/1901- Asst. General Manager 1911 Secretary 1906 1/05 Jackson Consolidated Vice President, General MORTIMER, Richard # [New Secretary 1907 Manager 1/1905-5/11 York City] Michigan United Rys Chicago & Grand Trunk Detroit, Hillsdale & South Secretary 1906-11 Superintendent Motive Western Auditor 1908-09 Power 5/1896-97 Director 1902-12 Treasurer 1910-14 Grand Trunk Western Director 1912 3rd Vice President 1900-02 MORTON, Henry Cotton Asst. Secretary 1913-14 Asst. General Manager 1900- [Benton Harbor] Michigan United Traction 02 MichBiog, 2:126; First Director 1911 Director 1902 HistMich1915, 4:1954 Chicago, Detroit & Canada Born Jan. 27, 1817, Genesee MORRISON, R. M. Grand Trunk Jct. Co., N.Y. Michigan, Internal Director 1901-02 Father of J. Stanley Morton Improvement Board Detroit, Grand Haven & 1834 to Benton Harbor Superintendent Milwaukee State representative 1863-64 [Southern]5/1840-4/1841 Director 1901-02 Died Mar. 25, 1895 Michigan Air Line Ry ---- MORRISON, Robert E. Director 1901-02 St. Joseph [LaPorte, Ind.] St. Clair Tunnel Co. Commissioner 1850 Munising Director 1902 Chicago & Michigan Grand First Director, Director Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Trunk 1895-97 Director 1901-02 First Director 1865 Chicago & Alton Elkhart & Lake Michigan MORROW, E. D. # [Benton Vice President, General First Director 1868 Harbor] Manager 5/1911-8/12 Elkhart, Niles & Lake Michigan Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & First Director 1880 Columbus MORSE, H. [Port Huron] Claim Agent 1900-01 Chicago, Detroit & Canada MORTON, Henry Ellsworth # Grand Trunk Jct. [Muskegon] MORROW, J. W. [New York Div. Superintendent HistMich1915, 3:1451-52 City] 1873-78 Born Sept. 16, 1863, Lapeer Marquette, Houghton & 1891 v.p. in father’s company: Ontonagon MORSE, Herbert A. [Chicago] Morton Mfg. Co. Treasurer 1890 Escanaba Western Died Sept. 28, 1936 First Director 1893 ---- MORSE, F. W. # [Chicago] Muskegon Traction & Lighting Detroit & Toledo Shore Line MORSE, Jay C. [Marquette] Director 1914-17 Director 1912 1865 to Marquette, supt. Muskegon Ry. & Navigation Cleveland Mine First Director 1918 MORSE, Frank Watrous # ---- [Montreal] Marquette & Peninsula MORTON, Hudson T. BiogRy1913, 391-92 First Director 1871 Ann Arbor Street Born Dec. 31, 1864, Lafayette, Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie & Investor 1894 Ind. Mackinac ---- First Director 1872 MORTON, J. (for James) 82 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Stanley # [Benton Harbor] MORTON, Sterling # [Chicago] Ohio HistMich1915, 4:1953-55 Born Aug. 25,1885, Chicago ---- Born Sept. 16, 1850, Benton Son of Joy Morton Cincinnati, Jackson & Harbor Died Feb. 24, 1961, Chicago Mackinaw Son of Henry C. Morton ---- Director 1888-11/7/1889 1874 chartered ship to trade Port Huron Southern to Chicago Secretary, Director 1908-09 MOTT, Richard [Toledo] 1875 partnered with John H. HerrNL, 4:251 Graham to found Graham & MORTON, William D. Born July 21, 1804, Morton Transp. Co. Secy- Central Market, Cass Avenue & Mamaroneck, N. Y. Treas 1875-93, 1898-1907 Third St. No date to Toledo, merchant Other ventures between 1893- First Director 1873 1845-46 mayor of Toledo 98 1855-59 U. S. Representative Pres. Graham & Morton 1907- MOSELY, William F. Died Jan. 22, 1888, Toledo; (15) MichBiog, 2:126 burial Rochester, N. Y. G&M owned “Eastland” when Born n.d., Conn. ---- it capsized in Chicago in 1915 c.1825 to Oakland Co., lawyer Erie & Kalamazoo Died Oct. 1, 1936, Benton Mich. Leg. Counc. 1826-7, State Director 1837-39, 1844-46 Harbor representative 1837 President 5/1838-4/1839 ---- No date to Fenton St. Joseph & Benton Harbor c.1842 to Shiawassee Cos. MOULTON, Sewell [Pentwater] Street Train Died 1860 Montague, Pentwater & First Director 1888 ---- Manistee Benton Harbor & Eastman Pontiac & Detroit First Director 1871 Springs Commissioner 1830 First Director 1897 MOUNT, James H. # [Detroit] Chicago, Michigan & Indiana MOSES, C. S. # [Ontonagon] Detroit & Mackinac First Director 1903 Ontonagon Cashier 1895-1905 Asst. General Manager 1910- Detroit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor MORTON, Joy # [Chicago] 11 First Director 1897 HistChi3, 271-72 Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Born Sept. 27, 1855, Detroit MOSHER, Charles Jackson Father of Sterling Morton; [Mosherville] First Director 1901 brother of Mark Morton MichBiog, 2:126; CycMich, 292 1880 bought salt distributing Born Jan. 2, 1822, Chatham, N. MOUNT STEPHEN, Lord company Y. [Montreal] 1910 founder of Morton Salt 1841 to Mosherville, in milling Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Co. State representative 1863-64, Director 1891-95 1922 established Morton 1877-80 Arboretum, Lisle, Ill. Died May 14, 1889, MOYERS, John Died May 10, 1934, Chicago Mosherville Michigan Air Line ---- ---- Director Port Huron Southern Amboy, Lansing & Traverse President, Director 1904-09 Bay MOZELEY, Brandon [Toledo] First Director 1857 Toledo, Canada Southern & MORTON, Mark # [Chicago] Detroit Born Nov. 22, 1858, Chicago MOSS, Edgar D. [Maple Rapids] Div. Superintendent Brother of Joy Morton Maple Rapids & Lansing 1874-75 Died June 18, 1951, Milton, Ill. First Director 1880 ---- MUDGE, Elisha # [Maple Port Huron Southern MOSS, Jay O. [New York City] Rapids] Director 1908 BiogNY, 327 MichBiog, 2:129 Born Nov. 1839, Sandusky, Born Apr. 11, 1834, Blenheim, Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 83 Ontario MUHLER, Charles F. [Fort Secretary 1901-05 1838 family to Kent Co. Wayne] 1857 ordained as minister Mayor of Ft. Wayne, Ind. 1885- MUIR, William Ker [St. No date to Belding 89 Thomas, Ont., 1872? Hamilton, 1882-87 president, Union Died May 24, 1899, Fort Ont.] Christian Coll. Wayne ABH-1,1:104-05 State senator 1895-98 ---- Born Mar. 29, 1829, Died Jan. 19, 1918, Grand Rapids & Indiana Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Farmersville, Calif. Director 1885-89 Brother of James H. Muir ---- 1855 to Hamilton, Ontario Grand Rapids & Saginaw MUIR, James H. # [Detroit] Died June 23, 1892, Detroit Director 1873-76 Leake, 527-29 ---- Maple Rapids & Lansing Born Nov. 12, 1835, Detroit & Milwaukee First Director 1880 Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Superintendent 1857-66 Brother of William K. Muir Director 1870-74 MUDGE, Melvin [Quincy] 1855 to Hamilton, Ontario Port Huron & Lake Michigan Ohio, Quincy & Grand Haven Died Nov. 27, 1906, Detroit, Director 1872-73 First Director 1872 buried in Hamilton, Ont. Cass Avenue ---- First Director 1877 MUELLER, William # [Chicago] Scottish railways Canada Southern Blaney & Southern Various work 1850-55 General Manager First Director 1902-09 Great Western Ry Canada Canada Southern Bridge Treasurer 1908-09 Clerk 1855-3/58 General Manager 1878 Detroit & Milwaukee Chicago & Canada Southern MUELLER, William, Jr. # Various work 3/1858-66 General Manager 1875-78 [Blaney] Secretary 1866-78 Michigan Midland & Canada Blaney & Southern Treasurer 1870 General Manager 1878 First Director 1902-09 Detroit, Grand Haven & Toledo, Canada Southern & President 1908-09 Milwaukee Detroit General Manager 1908-09 Secretary 1878-1905 General Manager 1875-78 East Shore & Southwestern Treasurer 1890-1905 Detroit, Mackinaw & First Director 1905 Chicago, Detroit & Canada Marquette Grand Trunk Jct First Director 8/1879, MUELLERWEISS, Fred # Accountant . 1882-99 9/1879 [Onaway] Secretary 1901-05 Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette Onaway & North Michigan Chicago & Grand Trunk First Director 1880 Cashier 1901-05 Treasurer 1884-99 Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Auditor 1904-08 Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon First Director 1881 Secretary, Treasurer 1888- Detroit Street MUENSCHER, Emory W. # 1905 First Director 1890 BiogRy1893, 266; Cincinnati, Saginaw & Grand River Ry PortraitNMich, 153-54 Mackinaw First Director 1890 Born Feb. 6, 1834, Fall River, Secretary, Treasurer Mass. 1890-1902 MULCRONE, P. [St. Ignace] 1886 to Manistee, city Detroit Belt RR St. Ignace, Sault Ste. Marie & engineer First Director 1892 Northern ---- Michigan Air Line Ry First Director 1888 Various roads Director 1894-1900 Engineering Dept. 1851-86 Secretary 1901-05 MULHERN, John William # Manistee & Grand Rapids Grand Trunk Western BiogRy1913, 394 [Manistee] Secretary, Treasurer 1900- Born Nov. 25, 1862, Naples, Ill. Chief Engineer 1891-1904 05 ---- St. Clair Tunnel Co. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 84 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Various work 1879-8/1904 Died Nov. 23, 1892, Detroit Div. Superintendent 8/1904- ---- MUNGER, Orrin W. 10 Various roads MichBiog, 2:130 Chicago & Alton Various work 2/1855-10/74 Born Nov. 17, 1837, Huron Co., Div. Superintendent 1910- Chicago & North Western Ohio 11 Div. Superintendent 1856 to St. Johns, merchant Western Pacific 10/1874-5/1875 [Escanaba] State representative 1865-6 Div. Superintendent 1911- Detroit, Lansing & Northern ---- 12 General Superintendent Lansing & St. Johns Denver & Rio Grande 5/1875-5/77 First Director 1871 General Superintendent General Manager 5/1877-89 Secretary 1911-12 Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Pere Marquette [Grand Director 6/1879-89 MUNRO, Alexander # [Detroit] Rapids] General Manager 6/1879-80 Toledo & Michigan Terminal Div. Superintendent President 1884-89 First Director 1901 11/1912-13 Chicago & West Michigan Vice President, Director MUNRO, George Clinton MULHOLLAND, Samuel [Erie] 7/1884-89 ABH-1,2:52-53 MichBiog, 2:129 General Manager 7/1884-89 Born Jan. 22, 1814, Elbridge, N. Born Feb. 10, 1811, Erie, Grand Rapids, Lansing & Y. MonroeCo. Detroit 1834 to Jonesville, mercantile State representative 1849, Director 1888-89 and real estate 1857-60 Detroit Citizens Street Died Aug. 16, 1883, Jonesville Died Sept. 24, 1898, Monroe First Director 1891 ---- ---- Jonesville Toledo & Northern MUMFORD, Samuel C. # Commissioner 1840 First Director 1869 [Detroit] Fort Wayne, Jackson & Delray Terminal Saginaw MULKEY, John M. # [Detroit] Comptroller 1908-11 Contractor Monroe Traction Auditor 1912-17 First Director 1901 Director 1913-17 MUNROE, Thomas # Toledo & Monroe [Muskegon] Treasurer 1902-03 MUNGER, Algernon Sidney CycMich, 225-26; Secretary 1903 [Bay City] HistMich1915, 2:861-63 Detroit & Monroe CycMich, 211-12 Born Oct. 26, 1844, Rushville, First Director 1901 Born Mar. 1, 1821 or 1822, Ill. Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Bergen, N. Y. Brother of William Munroe Short Line 1839 to Oakland Co., cooper 1870 to Muskegon, clerk for First Director, Director 1842 to Adrian, farming Lyman G. Mason 1902-05 1844 to Cass Co., farming 1878 supt., Thayer Lumber 1849 to Elkhart, Ind., grocer Co. (owned by Nathanial MULLEN, D. J. # [Indianapolis] 1854 to Bay City, general store Thayer of Boston who bought Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Died Apr. 26, 1899, Bay City it from Lyman G. Mason) & St. Louis ---- Died Oct 17, 1906, Muskegon Superintendent Motive Bay City & East Saginaw ---- Power 1916-17 First Director 1864 Lake Harbor Director 1872 First Director 1892 MULLIKEN, John Burritt Grand Rapids & Bay City Muskegon Traction & Lighting [Detroit] First Director 1871 Director n.d. BiogRy1885, 171; Farmer, 2:1221-22 MUNGER, E. [Maple Rapids] MUNROE, William [Chicago] Born May 30, 1837, Campbell, Maple Rapids & Southern HistMich1915, 2:863-65 Steuben Co., N.Y. First Director 1877 Born Apr. 29, 1860, Rushville, Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 85 Ill. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Brother of Thomas Munroe Div. Superintendent 1882 MURPHY, William J. # [New 1885 to Muskegon, with York City] Thayer Lumber Co. MURPHY, J. P. # Erie & Kalamazoo 1906-11 Secy, Treas, supt. BiogRy1913, 396 Director 1915-17 Thayer Lumber Co. Born Oct. 20, 1863, Waukesha, ---- Wisc. MURPHY, William W. Chicago & Grand Trunk ---- Amboy, Lansing & Traverse Director 1880-87 Various roads Bay Stores Dept. 1882-? First Director 1857 MUNSON, Dale # [Deerfield] Lake Shore & Michigan Ann Arbor Interurban Southern MURRAY, C. E. # [Toledo] First Director 1904 Storekeeper no date Toledo & Western [Elkhart, Ind.] Secretary, Treasurer 1913- MUNSON, H. N. [St. Clair] General Storekeeeper 17 St. Clair & Romeo 2/1902-13 [Cleveland] Auditor,Director 1913-17 Commissioner 1836 Toledo, Ottawa Beach & MURPHY, J. William [Battle Northern MURDOCK, Charles M. # Creek] Secretary, Treasurer 1913- [Lafayette, Ind.] Michigan Inter-Urban 17 Southern Michigan First Director 1901 Auditor,Director 1913-17 Vice President, Director 1910-17 MURPHY, John J. # [South MURRAY, Charles E. # Bend, Ind.] [Traverse City] MURDOCK, George H. [Berrien Southern Michigan Born Oct. 5, 1847, Waukesha Springs] General Auditor 1913 Co., Wisc. Mackinac & Chicago 1849 family to Montcalm Co., First Director 1872 MURPHY, Martin E. # then Ionia Co. St. Joseph Valley [Columbus, Ohio] 1883 to South Boardman, First Director 1880 Battle Creek & Southeastern mercantile business First Director 1905 1891 to Traverse City MURDOCK, Gilson E. [Albion] ---- Toledo & Northwestern MURPHY, Thomas [Muskegon] Traverse City & Leelanau First Director 1897 Chicago & West Michigan First Director 1900 General Roadmaster 1884 Traverse City, Leelanau & MURDOCK, Samuel T. # Manistique RR [Lafayette, Ind.] MURPHY, Thomas [Paris] First Director, Director Died Apr. 19, 1921, Paris & Pere Marquette River 1901-06] Indianapolis Div. Superintendent 1888 ---- MURRAY, Edward Porter Southern Michigan MURPHY, William C. # [Toledo] Secretary, Director 1910-17 Detroit United BiogRy1885, 172 Div. Superintendent 1908 Born March 6, 1846, Geneva, MURDOCK, William L. # [Sault N.Y. Ste. Marie] MURPHY, William H. [New ---- Soo-Detour York City] Various roads First Director 1901 Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Various work 7/1861-4/79 Director 1887-88 Toledo, Canada Southern & MURPHY, Athony J. [Chicago] Secretary 1888 Detroit Arms Lake Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Div. Superintendent First Director 1885 Secretary, Director 1889-97 4/1879-2/83 Detroit, Pontiac & Northern Michigan Central MURPHY, E. C. [Peru, Ind.] First Director 1892 Div. Superintendent 86 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) [Canada Div.] 2/1883-12/83 Born 1836, Vermont Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis MURRAY, Robert D. [New York ---- General Superintendent City} Southern Minnesota 12/1883-(85) BiogNY, 332 Various work 1877-?? Born Nov. 3, 1863, Gardner, Milwaukee & Northern MURRAY, George W. [Goshen, Me. Secretary 1890-92 N.Y.] 1885 grad. Columbia Coll. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Toledo, Ann Arbor & North ---- Secretary 1893-1903 Michigan Ann Arbor Director 1895 Director 1895-97 MURRAY, J. W. # [Manistee] MURRAY, Robert H. # [Detroit] Manistee & Grand Rapids Detroit & Flint General Freight Agent 1899- First Director 1901 1904 General Passenger Agent MUSGRAVE, Joseph 1902-04 MichBiog, 2:134-135; ABH- 1,1:73-74 MURRAY, Oscar G. # Born May 20, 1811, Lancaster BiogRy1893, 268; Co, Pa. BiogRy1913, 397; HerrNL, Ohio state representative 4:269 1845-47, Ohio state senator Born May 20, 1847, 1855-56 Bridgeport, Conn. 1857 to Charlotte, merchant, ---- banking Various roads Died 1880, Charlotte Traffic Dept. 1/1872-9/86 ---- Missouri Pacific [St. Louis, Mo.] Peninsular Ry Freight Traffic Manager First Director 1865 9/1886-10/88 Treasurer Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Grand River Valley Traffic Manager 1892 ?? Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis [Cincinnati] MYERS, Austin Freight Traffic Manager Detroit City 11/1888-11/92 First Director 1863 2nd Vice President Saginaw Street 11/1892-2/96 First Director 1864 Baltimore & Ohio [Baltimore] 1st Vice President 2/1896- MYERS, F. R. [Pittsburgh] 12/1903 Grand Rapids & Indiana Receiver 2/1896-5/1900 Director 1870 President 1/1904-1/1910 Chairman Board of Directors MYERS, H. G. # [Detroit] 1/1910-16 Fort Street Union Depot Pere Marquette Auditor 1908-17 Director 1910 Pere Marquette Auditor Disbursements MURRAY, R. H. 1909-13 Michigan, Internal Improvement Board MYERS, Peter M. # Asst. Engineer [Central] [Milwaukee] 5/1841-4/1842 BiogRy1893, 269 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 87 N Mass. [Ludington; San Bernardino, Merchant/trader in India, Calif.] NAGEL, William G. # [Toledo] Dutch East Indies, 1812-40 Lake County 1895 grad. Ohio State Univ. Died Aug. 5, 1861, Salem Director 1880-93 --- ---- Toledo & Jackson Electric Eastern RR of Massachusetts NELLES, Nelson # [Bay City] First Director 1905 President 1841-51 HistBay3, 623-24 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Jackson Michigan Central Born Mar. 2, 1830, York, First Director, Director Incorporator 1846 Canada 1911-15 Director 9/1846-9/1851 1870 to Bay City, lumber Portland, Saco & Portsmouth manufacturer NALL, A. A. [Detroit] Director 1847-51 Died Apr. 22, 1901, Bay City Alpena & Michigan South- Illinois Central ---- Western First Director, Director Tawas & Bay County First Director 1874 3/1851-3/56 First Director, Director Vice President 1853 1880-81 NALL, Frank C. [Detroit] Detroit, Lake Shore & Mt. NEFF, Stewart Smith # NELLIS, Frank E. # [Mt. Clemens BiogRy1906, 441; HistChi3, Clemens] First Director 1896 137 Born Mar. 27, 1857, Born Oct. 24, 1858, Cincinnati Waterdown, Ontario, Canada NASH, George Richard Grad. Rensselaer Polytechnic Editor Mount Clemens [Detroit] Inst. Independent BiogRy1885, 174 Died July 12, 1912 Died Sept. 2, 1923, Mt. Born Dec. 18, 1837, Toronto ---- Clemens ---- Pennsylvania-East ---- Various roads Engineer, 1881-87 Detroit, Mt. Clemens, Romeo & Engineer 8/1852-76 Cornwall Armada Great Western Ry Canada Superintendent 1887-91 First Director 1900 Purchasing Agent 1875-80 Great Northern Asst. to General Manager Superintendent 3/1891- NELSON, Charles D. 1880-82 6/92 [Muskegon] Detroit, Grand Haven & Pacific Navigation Co. CycMich, 205-06; MichBiog, Milwaukee General Manager 1893-94 2:138; ABH-II/5:85 Manager 1882-83 Vandalia Born May 12, 1824, Newbury, Asst. Engineer 1894-10/95 Vt. NATHAN, Benjamin S. [New Lake Superior & Ishpeming 1857 to Muskegon, lumbering York City] [Marquette] State senator 1875-78 Born 1813, New York City Superintendent, Chief ---- Partner, brokerage house Engineer 10/1895-5/96 Muskegon Lake Died July 28, 1870, New York Union Elevated of Chicago First Director 1879 City, murdered Superintendent10/1897- ---- 5/1900 NELSON, Douglas H. [Mt. Chicago & North Western Boston Elevated Pleasant] Director 6/1865-6/70 Engineer 5/1900-2/01 Supervisor, Isabella Twp., Superintendent 2/1901- 1861-63, 1865 NAYLOR, George [Toledo] 11/01 ---- Michigan & Ohio Mexican Tramways [Mexico Saginaw & Mt. Pleasant Cashier 1883 City] Director 1879-81 Superintendent 9/1904- NEAL, David Augustus 1/05 NELSON, Edward D. # HistIC, 48-51 [Ironwood] Born June 7, 1793, Salem, NEILAN, Michael A. Banker 88 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ---- buried in Detroit Twin City NESTER, Arthur S. # [Saginaw] ---- First Director 1889 Son of Timothy Nester Ontonagon & Brule River Twin City General Electric ---- First Director 1880 First Director 1893 Detroit, Flint & Saginaw Director 1882-89 Director, President 1902-06 Director 1904-06 Ontonagon, Gogebic & General Manager 1902-06 Secretary 1904-05 Wisconsin Secretary, Treasurer 1906 Ontonagon & Southwestern First Director 1882 Bessemer & Ironwood First Director 1904 Interurban NETTLETON, George A. First Director 1904 NESTER, Timothy # [Saginaw] Born c.1858, Ohio HistUp, 541; NPMemorial, Died Oct. 31, 1915; burial NELSON, J. F. # [Chicago] 580-82; HistNP, 388-90 Pontiac Port Huron Southern Born Dec. 25, 1847, Kingston, ---- Director 1908 Ont. Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Father of Arthur S. Nester [Pontiac] NELSON, John M. # 1851 to Sanilac Co. Chief Engineer 1883-88 Houghton County Traction 1864 at Saginaw, lumbering Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Chief Engineer 1909 c.1875 to Marquette, Chief Engineer 1889 lumbering Ann Arbor [Toledo] NELSON, Thomas [Boston] 4/1880 to Ontonagon Chief Engineer 1896 Mineral Range Associates: Dan P. Eells, Joseph Director 1893-97 Colwell, Fayette NEVILLE, Maurice A. # Brown (all Cleveland), E. H. BiogRy1913, 403 NELSON, Thomas M. Scott (LaPorte, Ind.) Born Oct. 9, 1877, London, Grand Rapids & Lake Shore 1895 founded Munising Ohio Secretary 1870 ---- 1899 graduated Univ. Notre Grand Rapids, Newaygo & Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Dame Lake Shore Contractor c1872 (20 mis. N 1916 to Lafayette, Ind., Secretary 1870 of Grayling) founded Western Indiana Flint & Pere Marquette Gravel Co. NELSON, Thomas W. Contractor c1873 (16 mis. E Died Jan. 1963; burial [Fruitport] of Ludington) Indianapolis Fruitport & Lake Shore Ontonagan & Brule River ---- First Director 1870 Promoter 1881 Peoria & Eastern Marquette City & Presque Isle [Indianapolis] NELSON, William [Ithaca] (or First Director, First Vice Engineering Dept. 10/1899- Wilbur) President 1890 8/1903 Ithaca & Alma Munising Superintendent 8/1903-13 First Director 1882 Contractor (Munising-Little Cincinnati Northern [Van Ann Arbor Street Lake) Wert, Oh.] First Director 1888 Ontonagon & Southwestern General Superintendent First Director 1904 1913-15 NESMITH, Malcolm Brown # Detroit, Flint & Saginaw BiogRy1922, 458 Director 1904-06 NEVINS, William, Jr. [New York Born Nov. 21, 1874, Cape Vice President 1904-05 City] Girardeau, Mo. Toledo & South Haven ---- NESTER, Thomas [Detroit] Director 1890 Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia CycMich, 279-80 Various work 2/1911-?? Born c.1835, Ireland NEWARD, Frederick H. # Ann Arbor [Owosso] 1881 began lumbering in the BiogRy1906, 442-43 General Claim Agent 1920- Upper Peninsula Born June 3, 1858 (30) Died May 17, 1890, Baraga; ---- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 89 Lake Shore & Michigan 1844 graduated Univ. Mich. State senator 1853-4 Southern [Adrian, Elkhart] 1844 to Detroit, 1853 became Died May 13, 1877, Rochester Shop and Locomotive Work lawyer ---- 4/1876-83 Pres. Michigan Car Co, Detroit & Pontiac Various roads involved in other Commissioner 1834 Engineman, Machinist 1883- manufacturers Troy & Rochester 12/87 U. S. Representative 1879-81 Commissioner 1844 Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Died Jan. 2, 1887, Detroit [Pontiac] ---- NEWBERRY, Truman Handy # Master Mechanic 12/1887-- Cass Avenue [Detroit] (1906) First Director 1877 MichBiog, 2:141-42; BkDet, Detroit Belt Ry & Depot 342; NEWBERRY, Arthur St. John # First Director 1881 WhosWhoFB, 496 [Cleveland] Detroit Union Depot Born Nov. 5, 1864, Detroit Born Dec. 17, 1853, Cleveland First Director 1881 Son of John S. Newberry Died Nov. 30, 1912 Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Much public service after 1887 ---- Treasurer, Director 1883-86 U. S. Senator 1919-22 Munising Secretary 1883-85 Died Jan. 18, 1943, Grosse Attorney 1895-97 Detroit, Mackinaw & Pointe Marquette ---- NEWBERRY, Helen Hall First Director 8/1879, Detroit, Bay City & Alpena [Detroit] 9/1879 Secretary 1886-9/30/93 Born June 9, 1869, Detroit Director 1880-86 Director 1887-9/30/93 Daughter of John S. Newberry Vice President 1883-86 Caro & Lake Huron Wife of Henry B. Joy Marquette & Western First Director 1901 Died Mar. 13,, 1958 First Director, Director Detroit Union RR Depot & --- 1883-84 Station Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Vice President 1884 Director 1901-17 Director 1883-85 Ishpeming, L'Anse & Ontonagon NEWCOM, L. C. [Columbus, NEWBERRY, Harrie Robinson First Director 1885 Ohio] [Detroit] Columbus, Lima & Michigan Born Sept. 1, 1856, Detroit NEWBERRY, Oliver [Detroit] First Director 1889 Son of John S. Newberry HerrNL, 4:288 Died Sept. 19, 1909, Dover, Born Nov. 17, 1789, East NEWCOMB, Cyrenius Adelbert England Windsor, Conn. # [Detroit] ---- In War of 1812, then to Buffalo Leake, 2:448-50 Detroit, Bay City & Alpena 1826 to Detroit, opened store; Born Nov. 10, 1837, Cortland, Vice President, Director agent American Fur Co. N. Y. 1883-85 1833 built steamboat 1868 to Detroit, major dry Michigan; owned 8 other ships goods merchant NEWBERRY, John Stoughton Died July 30, 1860, Detroit Died Mar. 9, 1915, Detroit [Detroit] ---- ---- MichBiog,,2:140-141; ABH, Detroit & St. Joseph Baraga & Western 1:part1:108; Commissioner 1832 First Director 1891 CycMich, 144-45 First Director 1835 HistMich1915, 2:673-75; NEWCOMB, Henry [Boston] CongBiog NEWBERRY, Seneca Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Born Nov. 18, 1826, MichBiog, 2:141; HistOak2, Director 1890-96 Waterville, N.Y. 1:220 Saginaw & Grand Rapids Father of Hairrie R., Helen H. Born Dec. 23, 1802, Windsor, Director 1894-95 and Truman H. Newberry Conn. Chicago & West Michigan Father-in-law of Henry B. Joy 1826 to Rochester, merchant Director 1897 90 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) grocery business Ashtabula NEWCOMB, Howard R. # Died Nov. 15, 1921, Vice President 1868 [Cleveland] Minneapolis New York Central & Hudson Detroit United ---- River Director 1902-06 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Engineer, Superintendent Ste. Marie 1868-69 NEWCOMB, William Director 1902-17 Illinois & Central Houghton President 1871-74 First Director 1860 NEWELL, G. W. Lake Shore & Michigan Erie & Kalamazoo Southern NEWELL, Ashbel Barney # Director 1852 General Manager LS&MSHist, 201; BkChi, 430; 7/1875-1893 BiogRy1922, 460 NEWELL, James J. [Adrian] President, Director Born Apr. 26, 1868, Buffalo Born 1816 4/1883-8/94 Son of John Newell Jeweler Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 1890 graduated Yale Univ. Died 1894, Adrian President In railway supply business, ---- Detroit, Monroe & Toledo 1906-4/07 Adrian & State Line General Manager 1876-81 ---- First Director 1871 President 1887-93 Lake Shore & Michigan Secretary ?? Director 1876-77, 1887, Southern 1890-8/94 Secretary to President 1890 NEWELL, James W. # Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Div. Superintendent 1891 Born May 29, 1875, Rapids [Grand Rapids] Plattsmouth, Neb. General Manager 1875-80 Div. Superintendent ---- Director 1887-8/94 1892-2/93 [Youngstown] Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Kalamazoo & White Pigeon Div. Superintendent 2/1893- Various work 6/’1893- President, Director 1900 [Chicago] 3/1910 1876-8/94 General Superintendent Wabash Northern Central Michigan 1901 [Cleveland] Auditor, Freight Accounts Director 1877-8/94 White Pass & Yukon 3/1910-1/17 President 1881-8/94 Vice President, General General Auditor 1/1917- Chicago & Canada Southern Manager 1901-12/05\ (22) General Manager 1879-80 Arkansas, Louisiana & Gulf Director 1879-88 Asst. to President, 8/1907- NEWELL, John Detroit & Chicago 4/08 Michigan Central President, Director Mexican Central Auditor 1859-75 1889-8/94 Superintendent 5/1908- Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis 9/09 NEWELL, John [1875 President, Director Tennessee Central Cleveland] 1890-8/94 President 9/1909-1/13 RRLeaders, 408, LS&MSHist, Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Toledo Terminal 135-137; Director 1887-91 President, General Manager BiogRy1893, 272 1/1914-(22) Born March 31, 1830, West NEWHALL, Walter Symonds # Newbury, Mass. HistClev2, 3:20 NEWELL, George R. # Father of Ashbel B. Newell Born May 2, 1866, [Minneapolis] Died Aug. 26, 1894 Philadelphia, Pa. HistMpls, 2:358-61 ---- 1905 to Cleveland, railway Born July 31, 1845, Essex Co., Various roads supplies dealer N. Y. Engineer 1846-65 1908 formed Cleveland 1866 to Minneapolis, store Cleveland & Toledo Railway Supply Co. clerk President 1865-68 c.1916 formed Walter S. 1874 started wholesale Cleveland, Painesville & Newhall Co., engineering firm Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 91 Died Sept. 1, 1947, Cleveland Great Northern Director 1902-17 ---- Freight Dept. 6/1897- Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Pennsylvania-West [Various] 8/1902 Rapids Division Engineer 1893- New York Central & Hudson Director 1901-12 5/1900 River Kalamazoo & White Pigeon Wheeling & Lake Erie Freight Dept. 8/1902-6/11 President 1900-13 Division Engineer 5/1900- Lake Shore & Michigan Director 1900-14 9/05 Southern [Cleveland] Northern Central Michigan Wabash [St. Louis, Mo.] General Freight Agent President 1899-1912 Chief Engineer 1902-9/05 9/1911-12/14 Director 1899-1914 New York Central [New York Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis NEWMAN, Almeron City] President, Director 1899- MichBiog, 2:143 General Freight Agent 1914 Born Feb. 26, 1804, Newfane, 1/1915-16 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago N.Y. & St. Louis to Portland 1836, built first NEWMAN, William H. # President 1904-2/09 woolen mill [Cleveland, 1910 New York Director 1904-17 State representative 1859-60 City] Cincinnati Northern Several county offices; clothier LS&MSHist, 901-902; President 1904-08 by trade BiogRy1893, 272; Director 1906-17 Died Nov. 13, 1876 BiogRy1913, 404; Michigan Central ---- WhosWhoNY, 701 President 1905-2/09 Ionia & Lansing Born Sept. 6, 1847 Prince Director 1905-17 Promoter William Co., Va. Battle Creek & Sturgis Died Aug. 19, 1918, New York President 1908-15 NEWMAN, E. R. # [Chicago] City Director 1908-17 Wabash ---- Bay City & Battle Creek Asst. General Freight Agent Various roads President 1908-15 1902 Various work 1869-85 Director 1908-17 Missouri Pacific Canada Southern Bridge Co. NEWMAN, H. G. [Van Wert, Traffic Manager 12/1885- President 1905-11 Ohio] 8/87 Director 1905-17 Cincinnati Northern 3rd Vice President 8/1887- Detroit & Bay City Superintendent Telegraph 6/89 Director 1910-15 1897-99, 1901 Chicago & North Western Detroit River Tunnel Co. [Chicago] President 1911 NEWMAN, James [Portland] 3rd Vice President 11/1889- Director 1910-17 ABH, 1:part5:86 5/98 Kalamazoo & South Haven Born Jan. 7, 1812, Gorham, N. Lake Shore & Michigan President 1906-11 Y. Southern [Cleveland] Director 1906-16 1836 to Portland, saw mill, President 5/1898-2/1909 Michigan Midland & Canada grist mill Director 5/1898-1914 President, Director 1905 Died Apr. 2, 1877, Portland New York Central & Hudson St. Clair & Western ---- River [New York City] President 1906-08 Ionia & Lansing President 6/’1901-2/1909 Director 1906-17 First Director 1865 Detroit & Chicago Toledo, Canada Southern & President 1899-1913 Detroit NEWMAN, William Albert # Director 1899-1914 President 1905-08 BiogRy1913, 404-05 Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Director 1905-16 Born Mar. 30, 1878, Metcalfe President 1899-1913 New York Central Co., Ky. Director 1899-1914 Director 1915-16 Died maybe Dec. 13, 1924 Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee ---- President 1902-12 NEWMAN, William H. 92 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) [Chicago] NICHOLS, Effingham Howard Milwaukee, Lake Shore & NICHOLAS, Louis [New York City] Western Gladstone Street Born Nov. 17, 1821, Bedford, Director 1892 First Director 1889 Westchester Co., N. Y. 1841 graduated Yale Univ. NEWTON, Alfred W. [East NICHOLS, Andrew Morton Died Nov. 4, 1899, Greenfield Saginaw] [Grand Rapids] Hill, Conn. Born June 13, 1840, Norwalk, B iogRy1887, 231 ---- Ohio Born Dec. 7, 1837, Alexander, Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific 1861 graduated Western Genesee Co., N.Y. Director 1885-87 Reserve College ---- Wabash Western Attorney Great Western Ry Canada Director 1888 c.1865 to Saginaw, attorney Telegraph Operator 1856-59 Detroit & State Line Wabash Died Nov. 6, 1902, Saginaw Detroit, Grand Haven & First Director 1889 ---- Milwaukee Saginaw & Mt. Pleasant Telegraph Operator 1859-71 NICHOLS, Ezra C. # [Battle Secretary, Director 1882-88 Chicago & Michigan Lake Creek] Manistee RR Shore St. Louis, Sturgis & Battle Director 1883-88 General Passenger & Freight Creek Flint & Pere Marquette Agent 1877-78 First Director 1884 Asst. to Land Commissioner Chicago & West Michigan Battle Creek & Sturgis 1870-85 General Passenger & Freight Director 1890-1917 Land Commissioner 1885-?? Agent 1879-82 Asst. Superintendent 1882- NICHOLS, George R. # NEWTON, Isaac [Grand 84 [Chicago] Rapids] General Superintendent Erie & Michigan Ry & Division Street & Reeds Lake 1/1884-5/86 Navigation First Director 1874 Chicago & Indiana Coal Director 1910-15 Winsor Street General Freight & Passenger First Director 1874 Agent 5/1886- NICHOLS, J. T. G. # [Boston] Houghton County Traction NEWTON, James F. [St. Louis] NICHOLS, Edwin C. [Battle Asst. Treasurer 1912-17 # Creek] HistGrat, 1005 MichBiog, 2:144; NICHOLS, John [Charlevoix] Born Sept. 10, 1822, Lenox, N. HistMich1915, 4:1783-84; Detroit, Charlevoix & Escanaba Y. ABH, 1:part3:74-75 First Director 1887 No date to St. Johns Born July 20, 1838, Clinton 1866 to St. Louis, developer, 1840’s to Battle Creek NICHOLS, John J. [Greenville] hotel owner 1857 founded Nichols & Paris & Pere Marquette River Died Feb. 11, 1905, St. Louis Shepard First Director, Director ---- Died May 29, 1924, Battle 1882-88 Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Creek First Director, Director ---- NICHOLS, Walter [Toledo] 1871-73 Peninsular Ry Michigan & Mackinaw Director 1873 First Director 1891 NEWTON, John [Bear Lake] Chicago & Lake Huron Bear Lake & Eastern First Director 1873 NICHOLS, William [Detroit] Chief Engineer 1885 Director 1873-79 Port Huron & Lexington Battle Creek Ry First Director 1894 NEWTON, William H. First Director 1882 Erie & Kalamazoo Battle Creek & Bay City NICHOLSON, Macy # General Manager 1848-49 First Director 1888 BiogRy1922, 463 Director 1849 Born Oct. 20, 1874, Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 93 Hagerstown, Ind. Garrettsville, Ohio Clerk in mines, 6/1896-6/98 1848 family to St. Clair NILES, Orange J. ---- 1863 to Detroit, into banking. Born Sept. 29, 1818 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Ship captain, 1869-71 Son of Johnson Niles Western 1887 started bank Died Apr. 12, 18t67 Clerk 5/1891-8/93 ---- ---- Chicago & North Western Union Street of Saginaw Troy & Rochester Clerk 8/1893-6/96 First Director 1893 Commissioner 1844 Great Northern Riverside Park of Saginaw Clerk 6/1898-1903 First Director 1894 NILES, Tracy Worden # Asst. Division Inter-Urban of Saginaw LS&MSHist., 856-857; BkDet, Superintendent 1903-05 First Director 1895 345;BiogRy1913, 407 Division Superintendent Born March 9, 1851, Buffalo, 1905-13 NILES, De Courcy F. # N.Y. Asst. General Manager 1913- Ohio & Michigan Interurban Died Feb. 28, 1915, Buffalo 17 [Duluth, Minn.] ---- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul First Director 1908 Buffalo & Erie Asst General Manager First Vice President 1908 Various work 1866-69 11/1917-3/20 [Chicago] Lake Shore & Michigan General Manager 3/1920- NILES, Franklin A. # [Flushing] Southern (22) [Seattle] Born Apr. 4 1838, Darien, N. Y. Various work 1869-88 Bank president 1881 Div. Superintendent 1888- NICKELS, M. P. [Corunna] Died 1924 89 [Youngstown, Oh.] Long Lake, Durand & Corunna ---- Div. Superintendent 1893- First Director 1898 Flushing 1902 [Buffalo] First Director 1886 Div. Superintendent NICKERSON, Roy A. # 11/1902-(13) [Detroit] [Eastlake] NILES, G. Casper # [New York Manager lumbering operations City] NILES, William E. # [Sioux in Ariz., 1917-30 Ann Arbor Falls, S. D.] ---- Secretary, Treasurer 1906- Ohio & Michigan Interurban Manistee & Luther 09 First Director 1908 Asst. General Manager 1908- Detroit, Toledo & Ironton 14 Secretary, Treasurer 1906- NIMS, Frederick Augustine # Director 1908-14 13 [Muskegon] Secretary, Treasurer 1912- Page, 75; ABH, 2:part5:89; 14 NILES, Johnson CycMich, 116-18; MichBiog, 2:145 BenchMich, 1:338-39 NICOL, Eugene L. Born May 2, 1794, Richfield, Born June 15, 1839, Clinton BkDet, 345 N.Y. Attended Albion College Born Dec. 28, 1867, St. Clair Father of Orange J. Niles 1858 to Grand Rapids, studied Real estate and insurance 1821 to Mich., to Troy 1822, law, began practice dealer farmer Served in 1st N. Y. Cavalry, ---- State representative 1835-6, 1861-64 Iron Range & Huron Bay State senator 1844-5 1865 to Muskegon, lawyer; Cashier, Paymaster 1890-92 Died March 23, 1872, Troy partner of D. D. Erwin ---- Died Jan. 27, 1914, Muskegon NICOL, John [St. Clair] Detroit & Pontiac ---- Michigan Air Line Extension Commissioner 1834 Muskegon & Ferrysburg First Director 1869 Incorporator NILES, Joseph, Jr. Secretary, Attorney NICOL, John M. [Detroit] Detroit & Pontiac Michigan Lake Shore Born Jan. 21, 1846, Commissioner 1834 Attorney 94 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Partner in Muskegon Brewing ---- Attorney, Director 1875-82 Co. Gibralter & Clinton Vice President 1876-77 1882 partner forming Commissioner 1837 Houghton Lake & Eastern Muskegon Valley Furniture Co. Michigan Southern First Director 1877 Died Dec. 12, 1897, Muskegon Incorporator 1846 Chicago & Michigan Lake ---- First Director, Director Shore Muskegon Street 1846-6/1852 Attorney 1877-78 First Director 1880 President 12/1848-8/1849 Chicago & West Michigan Attorney 1879-97 NIZER, Abram [North Branch] NOBLE, Charles Wing [Detroit] White River Lapeer & Port Austin Farmer, 1224-25 First Director, Director 1879 First Director 1872 Born Feb. 13, 1828, Monroe Vice President 1879-81 Son of Charles Noble Chicago & North Michigan NOBLE, Alonzo 1848 to Cleveland, studied law First Director, Director BiogCal, 330-35 1866 to Savannah, Ga., 1891-97 Born June 3, 1809, Richmond, attorney Lake Harbor Vt. 1867 to Detroit, attorney First Director 1892 1836 to Battle Creek, began Died Feb. 18, 1891, Detroit Muskegon Street dry goods store ---- First Director 1897 Died Mar. 27, 1874, Battle Alpena & South-Western Detroit, Grand Rapids & Creek First Director 1876 Western ---- Attorney 1897 Battle Creek & Grand Rapids NOBLE, David A. Muskegon Traction Commissioner 1846 MichBiog, 2:146-47; ABH- First Director 1901 1,2:54; CongBiog West Michigan Interurban NOBLE, Bostwick Roberts # Born Nov. 9, 1802, First Director 1903 [Lexington] Williamstown, Mass. Muskegon Traction & Lighting BiogStCl. 520-21 1831 to Monroe, lawyer Director 1902-13 Born Aug. 31, 1848, Franklin, State representative 1846-7, U. President 1902-05, 1913 N. Y. S. Representative 1853-5 Secretary, Treasurer 1910- 1886 returned to Yale, pres. of Many local offices 12 five banks Died Oct. 13, 1876, Monroe Died Sept. 12, 1902, Yale ---- NIMS, William Reuben # ---- New Albany & Salem [Lexington] Fort Gratiot & Lexington President 2/1859-1865 MichBiog, 2:145 Director 1878 (renamed as Louisville, New Born June 7, 1829, Richmond, Lexington & Utica Albany & Chicago) Vt. First Director 1883 1853 to Lexington Utica & Lexington NOBLE, Edwin Stilson [Elk Died Oct. 5, 1903, Lexington First Director 1883 Rapids] ---- BiogNM, 251-54 Fort Gratiot & Lexington NOBLE, Charles Born July 21, 1838, Dexter General Manager 1878 MichBiog, 2:146 Brother of Henry H. Noble Utica & Lexington Born July 4, 1797, 1866 to Elk Rapids, ofc mgr First Director 1883 Williamstown, Mass. Noble & Dexter Lexington & Utica Father of Charles W. Noble Sec., Treas. Elk Rapids Iron Co. First Director 1883 c.1820 to Monroe; 1867 to n.d.-1891 Detroit Died 1922, Elk Rapids NINNEMAN, Gottlieb Leg. Counc. 1828-30, State ---- [Muskegon] representative 1855-6 Elk Rapids, Williamsburg & Born Oct. 27, 1839, Many offices in Monroe; in Southern Ragenwater, Germany Detroit dealer in pine lands First Director 1889 1877 to Muskegon Died Dec. 26, 1874, Detroit Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 95 NOBLE, Henry Hobart [Elk Lansing City Electric Conn. Rapids] First Director 1892 Son of Seth D. North PortraitNMich, 371-72; c.1855 family to Ontonagon BiogNM, 251-54 NORRIE, Gordon # [New York Co. Born Aug. 25, 1823, Palmyra, City] c.1868 clerk at Quincy Mine N. Y. Born Aug. 6, 1830 1883 opened store with his Brother of Edwin S. Noble Father of Adam G. Norrie father 1824 to Ann Arbor Died Aug. 4, 1909 1926 went bankrupt 1855 to Elk Rapids ---- ---- 1873 mgr Elk Rapids Iron Co. Vieux Desert & Lake Superior Quincy & Torch Lake Partner with Wirt Dexter in First Director 1881 First Director, Director sawmills Milwaukee, Lake Shore & 1890-1917 Died Feb. 14, 1897, Elk Rapids Western ---- Treasurer, Director 1883-90 NORTH, Seth Doud [Hancock] Elk Rapids, Williamsburg & NPMemorial, 549; MichBiog, Southern NORRINGTON, Henry H. [West 2:149;HistUP, 319 First Director 1889 Bay City] Born Apr. 9, 1823, Middlesex HistMich/Bay, 3:123 Co., Conn. NOBLE, Russell # [Boston] Born 1847 Father of George S. North Houghton County Traction Served in 1st Mich. Light c.1855 to Rockland, Director 1911 Artillery 1861-c.64 Ontonagon Co. 1867 admitted to bar; moved 1866 to Quincy Mine, opened NOLAN, John E. # [Saginaw] to Bay City general store PortraitSagBay, 2:922 1872 organized bank State representative 1877-78, Born May 6, 1854, Saginaw ---- 1881-86 18876 grad. Univ. Mich. law Bay Cities Consolidated State senator 1879-80 school First Director 1898 Died Aug. 26, 1893, Hancock ---- ---- Flint, Saginaw & Bay City NORRIS, Fred C. # [Port Mineral Range First Director 1901 Huron] Director 1878-79 Crystal Lake NOLAN, L. H. # [Detroit] First Director 1900 NORTH, Townsend [Vassar] Grand Trunk Western Michigan Suburban MichBiog, 2:149; HistTusBay, Superintendent Terminal First Director 1901 44-45 1916 Born Sept. 24, 1814, NORRIS, Mark [Ypsilanti] Marbletown, N. Y. NORMAN, George H. # HistWash, 1222-23 1836 to Washtenaw Co. [Boston] Born Feb. 16, 1796, 1850 to Vassar, many Pere Marquette Deweysburgh, Orange Co., Vt. occupations Chairman Board of Directors 1816 to Genesee Co., Died June 11, 1889, Vassar 1903-04 mercantile ---- 1827 to Ypsilanti, mercantile, Northern Michigan Ry NORMAN, S. A. [Grand Rapids] postmaster First Director 1869 Grand Rapids Belt Line Died Mar. 6, 1862, Ypsilanti Detroit & Bay City First Director 1891 ---- Director 1873-76 Detroit & St. Joseph NORRIE, Adam Gordon # [New First Director 1835 NORTHWAY, Fred J. [Durand] York City] Born Dec. 8, 1866, Genesee Co. Born Oct. 25, 1868, New York NORTH, George Smith # Prosecuting attorney, City [Hancock] Montmorency Co., 1892-96 Son of Gordon Norrie NPMemorial, 549, HistNP, Lawyer Died Aug. 25, 1927 3:1330 Died July 24/27, 1916, Durand ---- Born Sept. 5, 1852, Cornwall, ---- 96 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Long Lake, Durand & Corunna Farmington Director 1909-11, 1914-17 First Director 1898 1878 admitted to bar in Grand Ledge NOUSE, John P. [East Saginaw] NORTON, David J. 1879 to Boyne City, attorney Flint & Pere Marquette Northwestern Grand Trunk 1884 to Charlevoix, attorney General Passenger Agent [Albany, N.Y.] By 1907 to St. Johns, attorney 1877-80 Director 1879 ---- Chicago & Grand Trunk Spring Harbor & Boyne Falls NOWLEN, Albert Russell # Director 1880-81 First Director 1882 [Benton Harbor] Toledo & Saginaw Bay HistBerr, 707-08 [Pontiac] NORVELL, Freeman [Detroit] Born Oct. 19, 1831, Durham, N. First Director 1881 Born Jan. 15, 1827, Y. Philadelphia 1859 to Boone Co., Ill., nursery NORTON, Denis J. # Served in both Mexican and stock salesman [Ontonagon] Civil Wars 1861 to Benton Harbor, fruit HistUP, 200 Died May 13, 1881, Detroit farmer Born Aug. 24, 1857, Ireland ---- Died 1908, Benton Harbor 1870 to U. S.; 1877 to L’Anse Marquette, Houghton & ---- ---- Ontonagon Elkhart & Lake Michigan Ontonagon & Southwestern Secretary 1872 First Director 1868 First Director 1904 NOTLEY, John H. # NOYEE, Frederick T. # NORTON, John Dudley [Kalamazoo] # [Boston] [Pontiac] Born Mar. 11, 1874, Houghton County Traction ABH, 2:part6:56-57; CycMich, Schoolcraft Vice President, Director 180; PortraitOak, 215-16 1898 grad. Univ. of Mich. law 1911 Born Dec. 18, 1842, Van Buren, school Onondaga Co., N. Y. Attorney NOYES, Edwin 1868 to Pontiac, buyer to pine Died Jan. 1920; burial in Born Feb. 21, 1812, South lands Kalamazoo Kingston, R. I. State representative 1875-78 ---- Graduate of Harvard Law 1887-88 Pres. First Natl. Bank Lake Michigan & Kalamazoo School Pontiac First Director 1910 Died Mar. 23, 1888, Boston Owned timberlands, Calif. real ---- estate NOUD, Patrick # [Manistee] Androscoggin & Kennebec Died Mar. 18, 1895 PortraitNMich, 523-25; [Waterville, Me.] ---- Powers, 3:990-91; Treasurer 1847-53, 1855- Oxford & Port Austin MenProgress, 448 Superintendent 1855-62 First Director 1879 Born Jan. 19, 1845, Arnprior, Michigan Central [Detroit] Pontiac & Oxford Ont. Superintendent First Director 1879 1865 to Manistee 6/1853-1854 1879 major lumberman & mill Maine Central [Waterville, NORTON, Myron H. owner Me.] [Greenville] Into many other ventures in Superintendent 1862-72 Kalamazoo, Lowell & Northern Manistee Michigan Died Apr. 13, 1925, Manistee NUTT, Henry Clay # First Director 1871 ---- BiogRy1913, 409 Director 1876-79 Grass Lake & Manistee River (Do not confuse with father, Vice President, Director Henry C. Nutt, NORTON, William A. # 1887-91 b. 1833, d. 1892, also a MichBiog, 2:151; Traverse, General Manager 1887-91 railroadman) 204 Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Born Nov. 12, 1863, Council Born Oct. 21, 1853, Chicago Bluffs, Iowa Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 97 ---- Ottawa Beach & Southern Died Aug. 18, 1896, Bangor Burlington & Missouri River First Director 1905 ---- [Various places] Toledo, Ottawa Beach & Lawton, Paw Paw & South Engineering Dept. 1883- Northern Haven 5/1902 First Director, Director First Director 1868 Asst. Superintendent 1906-11 Toledo & South Haven/B 5/1902-5/05 First Secretary, Secretary First Director 1876 Superintendent 5/1905- 1906-09 5/06 First Treasurer, Treasurer Michigan Central [Detroit] 1906-09 General Superintendent Traffic Manager 1910-11 5/1906-6/07 Vice President 1910 Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Toledo & Western Director 1906 Director 1907-11 Northern Pacific [Tacoma, Treasurer 1907-09 Wash.] 1st Vice President 1907-11 General Manager 6/1907- Toledo Railways & Light Co. 5/12 General Freight & Passenger 4th Vice President 9/1909- Agent ??-1912 5/12 San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt NUTTALL, William H. # Lake [Los Angeles] [Manistee] General Manager 5/1912-16 PortraitNMich, 421-22; BiogRy1922, 467 NUTT, Joseph Randolph # Born Feb. 17, 1864, Eureka, [Cleveland] Wisc. BiogRy1922, 466-67 1871 to Manistee Born Mar. 9, 1869, Uniontown, Also worked on narrow gauge Pa. RR near Manistee before 1888 1893 to Akron, bought jewelry ---- store Manistee & Northeastern c.1897 to Cleveland, into and Master Mechanic 1888- founder of banks (1895) Involved in electric rys Director 1909-17 Died Dec. 18, 1945, Cleveland Mechanical Superintendent ---- 1915-(26) Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Rapids NYE, F. O. [Holland] Vice President, Director Chicago & Michigan Lake 1904-17 Shore New York, Chicago & St. Louis Superintendent Telegraph Vice President, Director 1877-78 7/1916-(26) Chicago & West Michigan Lake Erie & Western Superintendent Telegraph Vice President 5/1922-(26) 1879-90 NUTT, William F. # [Toledo] NYMAN, Joseph Hollenback Springfield & Xenia [Bangor] [Springfield, Ohio] ABH-1,4:49 General Manager Born Feb. 22, 1814 or 1815, Rockford & Interurban Ontario Co., N. Y. [Rockford, Ill.] 1832 to Niles General Manager 1856 to Bangor, owned mill 98 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) O 1905-07 U. S. minister to OBORNE, James # Denmark OAKLEY, J. H. # [Hancock] BiogRy1906, 451 10/1907-8/11 U. S. Houghton County Street Born Sept. 19, 1861, Montreal ambassador to Japan Manager 1902-03 Died Apr. 30, 1912, Vancouver, Died May 19, 1933, Grand B. C. Rapids OAKMAN, Charles H. # ---- ---- CityDet, 5:1086-87 Grand Trunk Ry of Canada Michigan Northern Ry Born Sept. 25, 1865, Detroit Various work 1874-83 First Director 1873 Brother of James M. and Canadian Pacific Vice President, Director Robert Oakman Clerical work 1883-87 1873-77 1892 grad. Chicago Coll. of Car Accountant 1887-90 Grand Rapids & Indiana Dental Surgery Superintendent Car Service General Counsel 1883-1905 1906 grad. Detroit Coll. of 1890-4/96 Grand Rapids, Indiana & Medicine, M. D. Asst. to Vice President, Manistee Died 1926, Detroit 4/1896-4/99 First Director 1885 ---- Gen. Superintendent Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Detroit & Highland Park [Western] 4/1899- Indiana First Director 1912 4/1901 [Vancouver] Director 1886-1909 Gen. Superintendent Traverse City OAKMAN, James Milton # [Atlantic] 4/1901- Director 1901-09 CityDet, 3:624 5/03 [St. Johns] Born Mar. 17, 1870, Detroit Gen. Superintendent O'BYRNE, John [Philadelphia] Brother of Charles H. and [Eastern] 5/1903- Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Robert Oakman 12//06 [Montreal] Director 1878-82 Real estate investor Gen. Superintendent Wayne Co. sheriff, 1912-15; [Middle] 12/1906- O'CONNOR, Patrick county clerk, 1918-19 1912 [Toronto] [Ludington] ---- Fort Street Union Depot HistMMO, 77 Detroit & Highland Park [Toronto] Born Virginia First Director 1912 Vice President, Director 1878 to Ludington (from 1906-11 Wisc.), w/M. F. Butters OAKMAN, Robert # [Detroit] ---- MenProgress, 510 O'BRIEN, Henry A. [New York Mason & Oceana Born Aug. 21, 1860, Detroit City] Director 1886-89 Brother of Charles H. and Detroit, Pontiac & Northern James M. Oakman First Director 1892 O'CONNOR, Patrick [Grand Real estate investor Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Rapids] Died Jan. 2, 1973, Dearborn; Director 1892-1906 Grand Rapids & Mineral burial Detroit Secretary 1899-1906 Springs ---- Vice President 1902-06 First Director 1889 Flint, Saginaw & Bay City First Director 1901 O'BRIEN, Thomas James # O’DELL, John J. Peavey Detroit United [Grand Rapids] [Chicago] Land Commissioner 1908- ABH-II/5:90; CycMich, 253-54; BkChi, 437; HerrNL, 4: 14 HerrNL, 4:322; Born Aug. 19, 1847, Eastport, General Land & Tax Agent HistMich1915, 4:2292-93; Me. 1915-17 BiogRep, 2:295-96 1894-95 pres. American Detroit & Port Huron Shore Born July 30, 1842, Jackson Bankers Assn. Line c.1860 to Marshall Pres. First National Bank of Land Commissioner 1910 1871 to Grand Rapids, Duluth Detroit & Highland Park attorney, partner of D. D. ---- First Director 1912 Hughes Consolidated Street of Grand Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 99 Rapids Comptroller 6/1887- Ann Arbor First Director 1891 12/1901 Attorney 1912-14 Vice President 12/1901-16 ODELL, Samuel W. Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic OLDS, James [Hancock] Maybe born June 11, 1824 Director 1910-17 Portage Lake & Keweenaw Muskegon saw mill owner Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault First Director 1868 Maybe died 1883, Muskegon Ste. Marie ---- Director 1910-17 O'LEARY, Fred Leonard # [St. Muskegon & Ferrysburg Louis, Mo.] First Director 1868 [Laketon OGDEN, William Butler BiogRy1913, 412 Twp.] [Chicago] Born Mar. 7, 1852, Oswego, N. Muskegon & Greenville BHB1900, 391-393 Y. First Director 1870 Born June 15, 1805, Walton, ---- [Lansing] N.Y. Wabash Brother-in-law of Charles Treasurer’s Office 1873-90 ODELL, William P. [Muskegon] Butler and Treasurer 1890-1917 Postmaster, Muskegon, 1857- Nelson K. Wheeler 59 1834 in N. Y. legislature OLIN, Charles A. # [Chicago] ---- 1835 to Chicago, sold C. Wisconsin & Michigan Muskegon & Greenville Butler’s real estate Treasurer 1911-16 First Director 1870 1837-38 first mayor of Chicago Died Aug. 3, 1877, Chicago OLIPHANT, Robert M. O’DONOGHUE, Willoughby ---- Michigan Southern & Northern [Albion] Galena & Chicago Union Indiana (Railroad reports give his Founder, President 1848- Director 9/1857-4/58 name as W. O. Donoghue) Chicago & North Western Civil War, surgeon to 1st President, Director 6/1859- OLIVER, Edward # Engineers & Mechanics 6/68 [Rensselaer, Ind.] 1879-84, vice pres., Albion Union Pacific Elgin Terminal Manufacturing Co. First President 1862 First Director 1913 ---- Ontonagon & State Line Northern Central Michigan First Director 1856 OLIVER, Fred L. # Director 1877-86 Peninsula RR BiogRy1922, 470 First Director 1862 Born Mar. 14, 1871, Fond du OGDEN, H. S. [New York City] Northern Iron RR Lac, Wisc. Hancock & Calumet First Director 1862 ---- Director 1886 Mineral Range Ry Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Secretary, Treasurer 1886 First Director 1864 Various work 1887-1907 Mineral Range Pere Marquette Secretary, Treasurer 1886 OHLAND, Louis F. [Saginaw] Various work 1907-(16) Born July 1868, Saginaw Supt. Dining & Parlor Cars OGDEN, Isaac Gouverneur # Died Mar. 14, 1951, Saginaw (1916)-(24) [Montreal] ---- BiogRy1906, 453; Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron OLIVER, J. S. Montreal1535, 3:584-85 Auditor 1896-97 BiogRy1901, 411 Born Oct. 10, 1844, New York ---- City OHLINGER, Gustavus # Illinois Central Died ?Feb. 1928, Montreal [Toledo] Various work ??-1870 ---- Born July 15, 1877, in China Indiana, Bloomington & Chicago & Pacific 1902 grad. Univ. Mich. law Western Various work 3/1871-3/81 school General Superintendent Canadian Pacific Died June 12, 1972, Toledo 4/1870-6/72 Auditor 7/1883-6/87 ---- Chicago & North Western 100 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Div. Superintendent [Iowa] NPMemorial, 562-63; HistNP, 1872-79 O'NEIL, Ellsworth H. # 2:891-94; General Superintendent 6- [Manistee] MichBiog, 2:159-160; 12/1880 1919, sales rep. for coal Republican, 2:299-300 Div. Superintendent company Born Feb. 3, 1859, Oakland, 10/1883-4/1900 ---- Clinton Co., Ohio [Huron, S. D.] Manistee & Northeastern 1883 graduated Univ. Mich. Wheeling & Lake Erie Asst. to General law school General Manager 6/1881- Superintendent 1/1908-09 6/1883 to SSM, edited 8/82 General Superintendent newspaper, then attorney 1911-19 Mich. Atty. Gen. 1899-1902 OLIVER, Thomas [Seney] Died 1911, Kalamazoo Manistique O'NEILL, John G. [Port Huron] ---- General Superintendent HistStCl, 589 Soo-Detour 1889-90 Born c.1850, Toronto First Director 1901 Merchant Trans-St. Marys Traction OLNEY, Frank Burt # Mayor, Port Huron, 1883-84 First Director 1901 [Ludington] ---- Born Feb. 19, 1866, Hartford Port Huron & St. Clair River ORMOND, John M. # [Toledo] Contractor, later a merchant First Director 1890 Born Jan. 1865, in Died May 11, 1932, Ludington Pennsylvania ---- ONEN, Bernard J. # [Battle 1889 graduated Univ. Mich. Chicago, Michigan & Indiana Creek] law school First Director 1903 Born Jan. 20, 1878, Dowagiac Attorney 1900 grad. Univ. of Mich. law Did Sept. 14, 1939, Toledo OLSEN, Erwin F. # [Manistee] school ---- BiogRy1922, 471 1900 to Battle Creek, attorney Petoskey & Harbor Springs RR Born May 31, 1891, Manaistee. Died Jan. 4, 1939, Battle Creek First Director 1901 Died Feb. 25, 1971, Manistee ---- ---- Michigan & Chicago ORMSBY, Caleb Noble Manistee & Northeastern First Director 1912 MichBiog, 2:160; MPHC, 2:431- Clerical 11/1908-7/1921 32 Purchasing Agent 7/1921- OPDYCKE, C. D. # [Monroe] Born Aug. 19, 1801, Paris, (29) Toledo & Monroe Oneida Co., N. Y. Secretary ??-(1929) Superintendent 1903 1827 to Adrian (from Tecumseh), physician OLSON, Nels Peter # [Grayling] OPPENHEIM, E. L. # [New York Built first frame house in Born 1850, Denmark City] Adrian Died Dec. 22, 1930, Grayling Born c.1841. State representative 1839 ---- Stock broker 1850-56 in California Grayling, Twin Lakes & Died Nov. 23, 1911, New York Died Sept. 12, 1858, shipwreck Northeastern City “Central America” First Director 1891 ---- (returning from California) Lima Northern ---- OLSON, Ole [Hancock] Director 1896 Erie & Kalamazoo Mineral Range Detroit & Lima Northern First Director 1834 Roadmaster 1884 Director 1897 Construction Commissioner Detroit & Lima Northern 1834-35 O'MARA, B. F. # [Jackson] 1st Vice President 1899- Clinton & Adrian Jackson Consolidated 1900 Commissioner 1836 Superintendent 1907 Michigan United Rys OREN, Horace Mann # [Sault O'ROURKE, Patrick S. # Div. Superintendent 1908 Ste. Marie] BiogRy1893, 277 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 101 Born Sept. 1830, Newark, N. J. Asst. Comptroller 1/1913- City] ---- 1/15 1st Vice President of holding Ohio & Indiana-Pittsburg, Ft. Comptroller 2/1915-7/18 company (Algoma Steel, Wayne & Chicago Federal Auditor 7/18-2/20 Algoma Central & Hudson Various work 1/1855-6/71 Comptroller, 3/1920-(22) Bay, many others) Michigan Lake Shore Grand Rapids & Indiana ---- Asst. Superintendent Comptroller 1915-17 Trans-St. Marys Traction 6/1871-4/76 [Montieth] Pennsylvania [Philadelphia] Director, Vice President Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Asst. Comptroller 1923-(30) 1905-06 Michigan Div. Superintendent 1873, ORR, William # [Marquette] OSBAND, Charles Hoskins # 1877 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic [Lansing] Grand Rapids & Indiana General Freight Agent Born June 25, 1861, Lansing Div. Superintendent 1887-1901 No date graduated Mich. Agr. 4/1876-1903 [Fort Wayne] Mineral Range Coll. Allegan & Southeastern General Freight Agent 1893- Banker Superintendent 1878-82 1900 Died Jan. 17, 1902, Buffalo; buried in Lansing ORR, George Henry # ORR, William T. # [Wyandotte] ---- [Manistique] Wyandotte Terminal Capitol Street NPMemorial, 255-56 First Director, Director First Director 1892 Born May 17, 1842, Steuben 1904-17 Lansing City Electric Co., N. Y. Superintendent 1906-17 First Director 1892 to Manistique 1873, ctr for Chicago Lumbering Co. ORRELL, William F. [Chicago] OSBORN, Andrew Lawrence 1884 Vice President Weston Battle Creek Electric [LaPorte, Ind.] Lumber Co. First Director 1891 Born May 27, 1815, New Died May 24, 1912, Manistique Haven Co., Conn. ---- ORTMAN, Charles L. [East 1836 to Michigan City, Ind. Manistique & Northwestern Saginaw] 1844 to LaPorte Co., Ind. First Director, Director ABH, 2:part8:40-41 Ind. state representative 2 1891-1901 Born Sept. 1830, Austria terms Vice President 1897-1901 1864 to Detroit Ind. state senator 3 years General Manager 1897-1901 1865 to East Saginaw Circuit court judge 1857-70 Manistique & Northern Wood and farm land dealer Ind. supreme court justice First Director, Director ---- 1872-75 1908-09 East Saginaw & St. Clair Died Apr. 13, 1891, LaPorte First Director 1872 ---- ORR, James H. # [Warren, Kalamazoo & South Haven Ohio] ORTON, George Turner # Director 1881-88 Cadillac Traction [Fergus, Ont.] First Director 1903 Born Jan. 19, 1837, Guelph, OSBORN, Charles. J. [New York Ontario City] ORR, James William # Studied medicine and ASMA, 1:487-88 BiogRy1922, 472 practiced in England Born c.1841 Born Sept. 9, 1866, Pittsburgh No date to Guelph, surgeon Stock broker; worked much Died 1931 1883 to Winnipeg with Jay Gould ---- Died Nov. 14, 1901, Winnipeg Died Nov. 11, 1885, New York Pennsylvania-West ---- City [Pittsburgh] Canada, Michigan & Chicago ---- Clerical 10/1880-3/1905 First Director 1871 Chicago & North Western Asst. to Comptroller 4/1905- Director 6/1878-11/85 12/12 ORVIS, Charles E. # [New York 102 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) OSBORN, Chase Salmon # 1861 built first grist mill in [Sault Ste. Marie] OSBORN, Frederick H. # Burlington MichBiog, 2:160-61; [Detroit] 1870-71 build RR bridges in NPMemorial, 417-19; Detroit, Toledo & Ironton his area HistNP, 3:1443-47; Secretary, Treasurer 1914- Died Feb. 26, 1891, Tekonsha WhosWhoFB, 512-13; 17 ---- HistMich1915, 4:2294-95; Director 1916-17 Jackson & Eastern Republican, 2:301-02 First Director 1880 Born Jan. 22, 1860, Huntington OSBORN, James [Owosso], see Michigan Air Line RR Co., Ind. OSBURN, James Director 1881-86 1880-83 newspaper background Ind.,Ill.,Wisc. OSBORN, James Whitehill # OSBORN, William E. # 1887 to Sault Ste Marie, owned [Kalamazoo] [Kalamazoo] Sault Ste. Marie News Born Feb. 10, 1843, Sherman, Born Aug. 23, 1871, Hastings 1902 became owner and N. Y. Died Aug. 8, 1952 editor, Saginaw Courier 1884 to Kalamazoo, attorney ---- Mich. Gov. 1911-13 Mayor, Kalamazoo 1894-95, Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Died Apr. 11, 1949, in George; 4/1904-4/05 Auditor 1906-11 burial Chippewa Co., Mich. Died Apr. 4, 1914, Orlando, ---- Fla.; burial Kalamazoo OSBORN, William [Buchanan] St. Ignace, Sault Ste. Marie & ---- Born 1831 or 1832, N. Y. Northern Kalamazoo & White Pigeon Druggist First Director 1888 Director 1887-1902 Died 1898, Buchanan Michigan ---- Commissioner of Railroads OSBORN, John M. # St. Joseph Valley 4/6/1899-1/8/1903 MichBiog, 2:162; Reynolds, Vice President, Treasurer 176-78 1884 OSBORN, Edward F. # Born Mar. 9, 1819, Monroe Co., [Cincinnati] N. Y. OSBORN, William Church # Cincinnati, Jackson & 1840 to Hudson [New York City] Mackinaw Many occupations including NYProminent, 2:259-60 Secretary 1890-92 banking Born Dec. 21, 1862, Chicago Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago State representative 1869-72, 1888 graduated Harvard Univ. & St. Louis state senator 1875-76 law school Secretary 1892-1910 Died Dec. 1902, Hudson Involved in civic and Cincinnati Northern ---- charitable causes Secretary 1901-04 Hudson & Jackson [Hudson] Died Jan. 3, 1951 Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee First Director 1870 ---- Secretary 1901 Jackson & Ohio Detroit, Toledo & Ironton First Director, Director 1st Vice President, Director OSBORN, Eugene Ernest # 1884-86 1914-17 [New York City] Cincinnati, Jackson & BiogRy1913, 414 Mackinaw OSBORN, Zelotes Grenell # Born May 1, 1854, Norwalk, First Director 1886 [Coldwater] Conn. HistBran, 802 ---- OSBORN, Rufus [Tekonsha] Born Mar. 5, 1839, Otsego Co., Chicago & North Western MPHC, 2:246-47 N. Y. General Attorney 1894- Born July 5, 1817, 1858 to Coldwater, ointment 6/1901 Lansingburg, N. Y. salesman Vice President 6/1901- c.1836 to Tekonsha Twp., 1861 to Kinderhook Twp., 10/09 farming farmer, merchant Secretary 1901-08 1853 studied law but disliked 1880 to Coldwater, merchant Director 10/1907-10/09 the subject Register of Deeds 1881-86 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 103 Died 1920 Havre Branch ---- Commissioner 1836 OSMUN, William E. # Coldwater Train [Montague] President, Director 1906-08 OSGOOD, Henry H. [Holloway] Born 1850, Cayuga, N. Y. HistMich/SagLen, 3:240-41 ---- OSBORNE, Charles W. # [New Born Oct. 23, 1840, Seneca West Michigan Interurban York City] Twp., Lenawee Co. First Director 1903 Michigan Traction Died 1907, Adrian Director 1902-05 ---- OSTERMAN, Frank F. # Jackson, Ann Arbor & Detroit Adrian City Train & Street BiogRy1922, 473 First Director 1906 First Director 1883 Born May 30, 1882, Milwaukee ---- OSBORNE, Mortimer [New OSGOOD, Joseph Otis # Wisconsin Central York City] BiogRy1913, 414 Clerk 9/1899-1909 Allegan & State Line Born Dec. 28, 1848, Cohasset, Chicago Great Western First Director 1887 Mass. Clerk 1909-20 Private engineering practice, Pere Marquette [Detroit] OSBURN, Charles Yates Boston, 1873-78 Asst. Purchasing Agent Sometimes misspelled Died June 28, 1916 12/1920-(22) OSBORN(E) ---- MichBiog, 2:162 Pennsylvania-East OSTRANDER, Russell Cowles # Born 1842, Meadville, Pa. Engineering Dept. 1865-69 [Lansing] Brother of James Osburn Portland & Ogdensburg MichBiog, 2:164; HerrNL, 1857 to Owosso Engineer 1870-71 4:348 1862-64 in Civil War Maine Central Born Sept. 1, 1851, Ypsilanti State representative 1871-72 Asst. to Chief Engineer 1858 to Lansing 1873 to Marquette 1871-73 1876 grad Univ. of Mich. Law Customs service 1875-92 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, school; practiced law Died Feb. 4, 1892, Marquette; Division Engineer 1878-80 Several local offices buried in Owosso Boston, Hoosac Tunnel & Justice Mich. Supreme court ---- Western 1904-08 Houghton & L'Anse Chief Engineer 1883-84 Died Sept. 12, 1919, Lansing [Marquette] Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City ---- First Director 1881 Chief Engineer 1884-87 Central Michigan Lake Shore & Michigan First Director 1882 OSBURN, James [Owosso] Southern [Cleveland] Riverdale & Lake Michigan Sometimes misspelled Chief Engineer 12/1887- First Director 1884 OSBORN(E) 2/89 PortraitCliShi, 930 City of New York OTIS, Charles A. [New York Born May 21, 1840, Meadville, Consulting Engineer 1889- City] Pa. 1901 Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Brother of Charles Y. Osburn Central Railroad of New Jersey Rapids 1857 to Owosso, merchant. Chief Engineer 1901-16 Director 1893-1902 Mayor, Owosso, 1877-79 Died July 21, 1917, Owosso OSMER, J. J. # [Owosso] OTIS, William T. # [Saginaw] ---- Ann Arbor Born c.1865 Owosso & Big Rapids Master Mechanic 1913 Died Mar. 4, 1933, Saginaw First Director 1869 Superintendent Motive ---- Owosso & Northwestern Power 1914-17 Cincinnati, Saginaw & First Director, Director Master Car Builder 1916-17 Mackinaw 1871-77 Manistique & Lake Superior Director 1912-17 Mechanical Superintendent OSGOOD, Charles [Monroe] 1915-17 OTTESON, John C. # [New York 104 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) City] Detroit, Lincoln & Denver Vice pres. Detroit Edison Co. BiogRy1922, 474 First Director 1883 Died Feb. 24, 1940, Detroit Born Sept. 18, 1857, ---- Elizabethtown, N. J. OWEN, Daniel [New York City] Detroit & Northwestern ---- Grand Rapids Street First Director 1899 Wabash Western Incorporator 1864 Delray Terminal Clerk 1878-11/88 First Director, Director Secretary 11/1888-8/89 OWEN, John [Detroit] 1905-17 Wabash MichBiog, 2:165 Secretary 1905-17 Secretary 8/1889-(1924) Born Mar. 20, 1809, Toronto Asst. Treasurer 4/1900-?? 1818 family to Detroit Vice President, Treasurer, Involved in local politics; ??-(1924) became drug wholesaler 1845 pres of Michigan OUTHWAITE, John Insurance Co. HistMich, 3:191-92 Mich. state treasurer 1861-67 Born July 9, 1811, Hunton, Died Mar. 31, 1892, Detroit Yorkshire, England ---- 1830 to Buffalo Hamtramck Street 1832 to Cleveland First Director 1868 1848 first visit to U. P. iron Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana mines First Director, Director 1850 one of founders of 1869-74 Cleveland Mine 1869 director of Pittsburg & OWEN, John G. # [East Lake Angeline Mine Saginaw] Died Apr. 27, 1881,Vulcan; MichBiog, 2:165; ABH-1,8:39- buried in Cleveland 40; CycMich, 163-64; ---- HistSag, 2:258 Lake Superior Iron Mountain Born Mar. 28, 1825, First Director 1862 Woodchurch, Kent Co., England OUTWATER, Richard [New 1846 to Clarkston, farming, York City] milling Cincinnati, Jackson & 1860 to East Saginaw, Mackinaw wholesale grocer Treasurer 1892-93 State senator 1861-62 Secretary 1892 After 1872 lumbering, mill owner OVERHOLT, S. H. # [St. Louis, 1884 organized bank Mo.] Died Dec. 12, 1901, Pontiac Died Nov. 2, 1924, St. Louis ---- ---- Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Wabash First Director 1871 General Baggage Agent 1902-10 OXTOBY, James Veech # [Detroit] OWEN, Albert E. [Albion] BkDet, 352; CityDet, 3:69-70 Toledo & Northwestern Born Dec. 30, 1872, North First Director 1897 East, Pa. 1880 family to Saginaw OWEN, Amos Dale [Plainfield, 1895 graduated Univ. Mich. Ind.] law school Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 105 P Born Aug. 15, 1843, Peterboro, 1872 admitted to bar, Allegan Madison Co., N. Y. ---- PABST, Rudolph [Lexington] Brother of Albert and Arthur Columbus & Lake Michigan Utica & Lexington Pack First Director 1888 First Director 1883 Died Feb. 25, 1895, New York Columbus, Lima & Michigan Lexington & Utica City First Director 1889 First Director 1883 ---- St. Helens Lake & Southern PAGE, Dana [Sturgis] PACK, Albert First Director 1883 Grand Rapids & Southern Born Nov. 10, 1841, Detroit Ry First Director 1855 Chittenango Co., N. Y. First Director 1894 Grand Rapids & Indiana Brother of Arthur and Greene First Director 1855 Pack PACKARD, Alfred S. 1849 to Sanilac Co. HistBerVB, 439 PAGE, David [Ann Arbor] State representative 1865-66 Born Sept. 22, 1834, Born Feb. 7, 1767, Jaffrey, N. H. 1870 to Alpena, lumberman Rensselaer Co., N. Y. Died 1856, Ann Arbor Mayor, Alpena, 1872 Brother of William O. Packard ---- Died Mar. 31, 1899, Detroit 1836 family to Ohio Detroit & St. Joseph ---- 1859 to Ganges Twp., Allegan Commissioner 1835 Grand Rapids, Grayling & Co. First Director 1835 Alpena 1867 to Covert, lumbering First Director 1891 ---- PAGE, R. W. Detroit Ry [Detroit] Toledo & South Haven/L Lake George & Muskegon First Director 1894 First Director 1884 River Detroit Electric [Alpena] Chief Engineer 1878-80 First Director 1896 PACKARD, William O. Detroit, Fort Wayne & Belle MichBiog, 2:166; HistBerVB, PAGE, W. S. [Muskegon] Isle [Alpena] after 434 Chicago & West Michigan First Director 1898 Born Sept. 14, 1832, Div. Superintendent 1882 Rensselaer Co., N. Y. PACK, Arthur # [Orchard Lake] Brother of Alfred S. Packard PAGE, Wellington C. [Ionia] Born Nov. 10, 1852, Lexington 1836 family to Ohio ABH, 2:part5:90-91; Brother of Albert and Greene 1859 to Ganges Twp., Allegan Findagrave Pack Co. Born Nov. 12, 1820, Died Sept. 14, 1917 1870 to Covert, lumbering Whitestown, N. Y. ---- State senator 1877-78 1829 to Ionia Co., farming, Detroit United ---- then mercantile Director 1902-17 Toledo & South Haven/L Died June 25, 1890, Ionia Vice President 1902-17 First Director 1884 ---- Ionia & Stanton PACK, Charles Lathrop # PADDOCK, Augustus First Director 1869 [Cleveland] [Newaygo] Contractor, President Born May 7, 1857, Lexington Grand Rapids, Newaygo & Ionia, Stanton & Northern Nephew of Albert, Arthur, and Lake Shore First Director 1872 Greene Pack First Director 1869 Detroit, Lansing & Northern Died June 14, 1937, Cleveland Director 1872 Contractor ---- St. Helens Lake & Southern PADDOCK, H. L. [Hancock] PAIN, Charles E. # [Chicago] First Director 1883 Mineral Range BkChi, 2:522 Detroit Ry Cashier 1885-86 Born Apr. 2, 1866, London, First Director 1894 Auditor 1885 England 1884 to U. S. PACK, Greene [Oscoda] PADGHAM, John H. [Allegan] 1892 grad. Lake Forest Univ. 106 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Attorney & Omaha ---- PAINE, Rodney C. Employee 1881-1894 Manistee & Grand Rapids MichBiog, 2:167 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Attorney 1906-11 Born 1806, New Milford, Conn. Ste. Marie Director 1906-08 1836 to St. Joseph, banking Employee 1894-1900 Secretary 1909-11 1842 to Niles, banking Cashier, Paymaster 1900-04 State senator 1855-6; many Asst. Treasurer 1904-1910 PAINE, Alderman Butts # local offices Treasurer 1910-20 [Saginaw] Died Mar. 16, 1875, Niles Gogebic & Montreal River Born Dec. 11, 1838, Orleans ---- Asst. Secretary, Asst. Co., N. Y. St. Joseph Valley Treasurer 1910-14 Lumber dealer Commissioner 1848 Died Sept. 1904, Saginaw St. Joseph PALMER, Andrew [Toledo] ---- Commissioner 1850 1837 built warehouse in Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Grand Rapids, Traverse Bay & Toledo Director 1872-73 Mackinac 1845 to Wisc. First Director 1856 ---- PAINE, Charles [Cleveland] St. Joseph River Erie & Kalamazoo Born Apr. 25, 1830, Haverhill, First Director 1867 Director 1834-39 N. H. 1894-99, general manager PAINE, Royal [Adrian] PALMER, Charles # natural gas co. Erie & Kalamazoo Born Sept. 27, 1831, Stillwater, Died July 4, 1906, Tenafly, N. J. Director 1844 Saratoga Co., N. Y. ---- Died May 14, 1916, Imlay City Michigan Southern & Northern PAINE, William Alfred # ---- Indiana [Boston] Port Huron & Lake Michigan Engineer 1858-64 [Chicago] WhosWhoFB, 518 [Port Huron] Chief Engineer 1864-69 Born Jan. 29, 1855, Chief Engineer 1870 Lake Shore & Michigan Merriamacport, Mass. Chicago & Lake Huron [Imlay Southern Founder of Paine, Webber City] Chief Engineer 1869-4/72 brokerage house Director 1874-79 General Superintendent Pres Copper Range Co., other Chief Engineer 1877 4/1872-8/81 copper mining companies Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Died Sept. 24, 1929, New York Director 1875-86 City, buried in Boston PALMER, Charles Henry New York, West Shore & ---- MichBiog, 2:168 Buffalo Copper Range Born June 4, 1814, Lenox, N.Y. General Manager First Director, Director Father of Charles H. Palmer, Jr. Erie RR 1899-1917 1847 to Romeo Vice President c.1893 President 1899-1917 1853 to Pontiac Panama RR involved in U.P. iron mines & General Manager 1899-?? PAISLEY, A. J. [Toledo] RRs Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Died Apr. 9, 1887, Pontiac PAINE, Francis Ward # Michigan ---- [Boston] General Passenger Agent Globe Train Born Aug. 1, 1888, Roxbury, 1888-89 First Director 1866 Mass. Houghton & Ontonagon Son of William A. Paine PAIST, Herbert N. # First Director 1870 Died Aug. 22, 1940, Boston [Minneapolis] Marquette, Houghton & ---- Born Oct. 15, 1859 Ontonagon Copper Range Died Nov. 6, 1921, Minneapolis Director 1872-77 Director 1913-17 ---- Vice President 1915-17 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis PALMER, Charles Henry, Jr. Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 107 [Marquette] Bay City & East Saginaw N. Y. Born June 5, 1841, Pontiac Director 1871 1880 to Grayling Son of Charles H. Palmer 1881 owner, editor “Crawford Died c.1911 PALMER, J. J. [Wayne] Avalanche” ---- Holly, Wayne & Monroe Died Mar. 9, 1926 Marquette, Houghton & First Director 1865 ---- Ontonagon Grand Rapids, Grayling & Asst. Superintendent PALMER, John H. [Grand Alpena 1873-74 Rapids] First Director 1891 Mineral Range BiogRy1887, 240 Chief Engineer 1875 Born 1853, Boston, Mass. PALMER, R. B. # ---- Saginaw-Bay City PALMER, Edgar # [New York Various roads Chief Engineer 1916-17 City] Various work 1875-84 Son of Stephen S. Palmer Chicago & West Michigan PALMER, Stephen S. # [New Died ?1943 General Passenger & Freight York City] ---- Agent 1/1884-12/86 Born Dec. 7, 1853 Detroit, Hillsdale & South Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Father of Edgar Palmer Western General Freight & Passenger c.1874 graduated Princeton Director 1913-17 Agent 12/1886- Univ. Fort Wayne & Jackson Pres. New York Zinc Co., 1912- Director 1914-17 PALMER, Leander C. # 27 BiogHBM, 307-08; HistNP, Died Jan. 1913, Redlands, Calif. PALMER, Edward [Marquette] 782-83 ---- Marquette & Iron Range Born June 25, 1834, West Fort Wayne & Jackson First Director 1895 Millgrove, Wood Co., Ohio Director 1884-85, 1858 to Marquette, surveyor 1888-1913 PALMER, F. A. [McBrides] Died Apr. 24, 1904, Duluth Vice President 1911-12 Paris & Pere Marquette River ---- Detroit, Hillsdale & South Chief Engineer 1884-85, Marquette & Iron Range Western 1888 [Marquette] Director 1902-12 First Director 1895 Vice President 1911-12 PALMER, Frank A. # [Chicago] Green Bay & Western BiogRy1906, 458 PALMER, Luke [Paris] President, Director 1908 Born Oct. 27, 1846, Newark, N. Paris & Pere Marquette River Kewaunee, Green Bay & Y. First Director, Director Western Died Jan. 12, 1908, Chicago 1882-88 President, Director 1908 ---- General Manager 1884-85 Various roads PALMER, Thomas Various work 1864-89 PALMER, Oliver [Atlas Twp., ABH, 1:part1:111-12; CityDet, Wabash Genesee Co.] 4:751 Asst. General Passenger Born 1797, Stonington, Conn. Born Feb. 4, 1789, Ashford, Agent 1889-11/1905 c.1841 to Atlas Twp., mill Windham Co., Conn. owner 1808 to Malden, Ontario PALMER, George B. # Died Aug. 21, 1872, Atlas Twp. 1815 to Detroit, opened [Wyandotte] ---- general store Chief Engineer, Wyandotte Pontiac & Genesee Invested in timber land in St. Chemical Co. Commissioner 1846 Clair Co. ---- 1845 invested in U. P. mines Wyandotte Terminal PALMER, Oscar # [Grayling] Died Aug. 3, 1868, Detroit Chief Engineer 1906-17 MichBiog, 2:169; ---- PortraitNMich, 406-07 St. Clair & Romeo [St. Clair] PALMER, J. J. Born Nov. 8, 1841, Westfield, Commissioner 1836 108 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) dealing in land Died Dec. 25, 1922, Grand PALMER, Walter Millard # Died Nov. 24, 1886, Detroit Rapids [Grand Rapids] ---- ---- Goss, 1:670-72 Detroit, Mackinaw & Grand Rapids Ry Born July 9, 1861, Grand Marquette First Director, Director Rapids First Director 8/1879, 1900-06 Owned book/stationery store 9/1879 in G. R. Director 1880-86 PAQUETTE, Charles A. # Also into real estate and local Vice President 1880-82 BiogRy1913, 416 politics Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette Born Apr. 2, 1872, Detroit Died Dec. 19, 1937, Chicago First Director 1880 1891 graduated Notre Dame ---- Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Univ. Grand Rapids & Chicago First Director 1881 ---- First Director 1887 Marquette & Western Lake Shore & Michigan First Director, Director 1884 Southern PALMERTON, George W. Ishpeming, L'Anse & Engineering Dept. 7/1891- [Fowlerville] Ontonagon 5/92 Fowlerville Review, Jan. 10, First Director 1885 Peoria & Eastern 1879 Wisconsin, Sault Ste. Marie & Engineering Dept. 5/1892- Born Feb. 28, 1836, Saratoga Mackinac 10/99 Co., N. Y. First Director 1886 Superintendent 10/1899- c. 1857 to Fowlerville, 9/02 mercantile PANGBURN, Edward F. # Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Died Jan. 9, 1879, Fowlerville Michigan Central Traction & St. Louis ---- [Battle Creek] Superintendent 9/1902- Howell & Lansing First Secretary 1902 6/06 [Indianapolis] First Director 1868 Grand Rapids & South Asst. Chief Engineer 6/1906- Michigan Traction 14 [Cincinnati] PALMS, Charles Louis # First Director 1903 Chief Engineer 1915-16 [Detroit] Michigan & Indiana Traction BkDet, 354; HistMich1915, First Director 1903 PAQUETTE, Joseph [Branch] 2:676-79 Battle Creek & Southeastern Lake County Born June 2, 1871, New First Director 1905 Chief Engineer 1890 Orleans Battle Creek, Coldwater & Grandson of Francis Palms; Southern [Coldwater] PARDEE, Dwight W. # [New managed his estate First Director 1908 York City] 1889 graduated Georgetown BiogRy1913, 417 Univ. PANTING, James A. Born Aug. 24, 1852, Westfield, Died Mar. 1, 1925, Detroit Spring Harbor & Boyne Falls N. Y. ---- First Director 1882 Died Feb. 22, 1920, Islip, N.Y. Traverse City, Leelanau & ---- Manistique Ry PANTLIND, A. V. Lake Shore & Michigan First Director, Director Uncle of J. Boyd Pantlind Southern 1908-17 Managed station restaurants Secretary to Treasurer at Marshall and Niles 2/1876-3/84 PALMS, Francis [Detroit] Asst. Treasurer 4/1884-(85) CycMich, 232-33 PANTLIND, J. Boyd # [Grand Secretary 1905-14 Born Nov. 25, 1810, Antwerp, Rapids] Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Belgium Born Jan. 30, 1851, Norwalk, Pittsburg Grandfather of Charles L. Ohio Secretary, Treasurer Palms Nephew of A. V. Pantlind 3/1879-(85) 1833 to Detroit, grocer 1891 bought Morton House, Michigan Central c.1845 retired, went into Grand Rapids Secretary 1904-17 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 109 Battle Creek & Sturgis Saginaw & Bay City Rapid Shore Secretary 1905-17 Transit Auditor 1877-78 Bay City & Battle Creek First Director 1895 Chicago & West Michigan Secretary 1905-17 Auditor 1879-81 Canada Southern Bridge Co. PARIS, Gustave # [Grosse White River Secretary 1906-17 Pointe] First Director, Director Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Interstate 1879-80 & St. Louis First Director 1900 Secretary 1906-17 PARKE, Calvin C., see Calvin C. Cincinnati Northern PARISH, D. [Philadelphia] Parks Secretary 1905-17 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Detroit & Bay City Western PARKE, George B. [Toledo] Secretary 1910-16 Director 1884-90 BiogRy1893, 281 Detroit & Charlevoix Born Dec. 3, 1855, Allegheny, Secretary 1912-16 PARISH, J. C. [New York City] Pa. Detroit & Chicago Flint & Pere Marquette ---- Director 1889-1902, 1913- Director 1880 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North 14 Michigan Secretary 1906-14 PARISH, LeGrand # Various work 1878-87 Detroit, Monroe & Toledo BiogRy1913, 417 Auditor 1888-89 Director 1905-14 Born Apr. 13, 1866, Treasurer 1890-95 Detroit River Tunnel Co. Friendship, N. Y. Secretary 1910-17 1887 worked for Thomas PARKE, George B. , see PARKS, Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Edison George B. Secretary 1905-17 1910 pres. American Arch Co. Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw ---- PARKE, Hervey [Pontiac] Secretary 1905-16 Lake Shore & Michigan HistOak1, 319; PortraitOak, Kalamazoo & South Haven Southern 285-88 Secretary 1905-16 Car Department 7/1891- Born Apr. 14, 1790, Middle Kalamazoo & White Pigeon 11/99 Haddam, Conn. Secretary 1905-14 Master Car Builder 1809 to Camden, N. Y., Michigan Air Line RR 11/1899-7/00 surveyor Secretary 1905-16 [Englewood, Ill.] 1821 to Birmingham, surveyor Michigan Midland & Canada Master Car Builder 7/1900- 1824 to Pontiac, U. S. govt. Asst. Secretary 1905 11/04 [Adrian] surveyor Northern Central Michigan Asst. Supt. Motive Power Died Oct. 3, 1879, Pontiac Director 1901-14 1904-06 [Cleveland] ---- Secretary 1905-14 Superintendent Motive Pontiac & Detroit St. Clair & Western Power 1906-10 Commissioner 1830 Secretary 1906-17 Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis PARK, E. A. [Paw Paw] PARKER, Abiram [Pontiac] Secretary 1905-14 Owned several newspapers BiogOak, 127-28 Toledo, Canada Southern & ---- Born Aug. 3, 1831, Oneida Co., Detroit Paw Paw N. Y. Secretary 1906-16 Director 1886 1845 to Pontiac, store clerk New York Central Later to Detroit, bank teller Secretary 1915-17 PARK, Harry [McKinley] 1850s to Pontiac, grocery & AuSable & Northwestern drug business PARDEE, Lionel S. [Akron, General Superintendent 1864 founder of bank Ohio} 1891-97 ---- Born Aug. 28, 1865, St. Clair River, Pontiac & Wadsworth, Ohio PARK, Hugh [Muskegon] Jackson ---- Chicago & Michigan Lake First Director 1872 110 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) St. Clair & Chicago Air Line HistMich1915, 4:1777-78 City Director 1872-74 Born May 5, 1870, Detroit ---- ---- Detroit & St. Clair River PARKER, Amasa J. [Alaiedon Grand Trunk Ry of Canada First Director 1885 Twp., Ingham Co.] Traffic Department c.1890- Flint & Lansing 9/1900 [Detroit] PARKER, Richard A. First Director 1872 Detroit United [Marquette] General Freight Agent Iron Cliffs Co. mining engineer PARKER, Edward H. # 9/1900-14 ---- [Detroit] Detroit, Jackson & Chicago Mineral Range Rochester & St. Clair General Freight Agent 1908 Director 1893-95 First Director 1900 Detroit & Port Huron Shore Line PARKER, Thomas S. # [Detroit] PARKER, Elkanah [Genesee General Freight Agent 1908- BiogRy1913, 419 Co] 09 Born Aug. 22, 1878, Detroit (possibly born June 6, 1807, 1901 graduated Det. Coll. of Merrimack, N. H.; PARKER, Henry C. [Toledo] Law died Apr. 5, 1875) BiogRy1893, 282 1901-10 private law practice ---- Born July 4, 1851, New York ---- Pontiac & Genesee City Pere Marquette Commissioner 1846 ---- General Attorney 1910-16 Various roads PARKER, Erastus T. [Sturgis] Various work 12/1869-7/86 PARKER, William E. [Harbor Born Aug. 13, 1843, Sturgis Michigan & Ohio Springs] First into farming, then livery General Passenger & Freight c.1875 built saw mill stable, Agent 7/1886-4/87 ---- then investments Lake Erie & Western Bay View, Little Traverse & Mayor of Sturgis General Traffic Manager Mackinaw ---- 4/1887-(93) First Director 1879 Sturgis, Indiana & Ohio President, Director 1882-87 First Director 1889 PARKER, Henry W. [Owosso] Owosso & Northwestern PARKER, William F. [Ypsilanti] PARKER, Frederick I. [Detroit] First Director, Director Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana BiogRy1885, 183 1871-73 General Superintendent Born Aug 6, 1833, 1873 Birmingham, Engl. PARKER, John [Kalamazoo] Detroit, Hillsdale & South ---- Kalamazoo & Schoolcraft Western Various roads First Director 1866 General Superintendent Various work 1847-10/79 Kalamazoo & Allegan 1874-81 Detroit, Grand Haven & First Director 1867 Milwaukee PARKES, C. D.# [Traverse City] Master Mechanic PARKER, Leonard B. # [Marine Traverse City, Leelanau & 10/1879-82 City] Manistique Ry MichBiog, 2:171; Jenks, 1:341 Auditor 1915-17 PARKER, Francis V. [Boston] Born July 29, 1818, Mooers, N. Born Mar. 13, 1847 Y. PARKHURST, A. J. # Died Mar. 22, 1903 c.1845 to Marine City, [Alabaster] ---- physician Erie & Michigan Ry & Flint & Pere Marquette State senator, 1863-64 Navigation Director 1888-92 President, vil of Marine City, Director 1906 1876 PARKER, George Whitfield # Mayor, 1888-89 PARKHURST, John Gibson. # [Detroit] Died June 19, 1904, Marine [Coldwater] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 111 HistBran, 339-43; HerrNL, Born Oct. 17, 1817, Fleming, Mass. 4:381 Cayuga Co., N. Y. 1886 graduated Amherst Coll. Born Apr. 17, 1824, Oneida Brother of Calvin C. and Robert 1888 to Chicago, practiced law Castle, N. Y. S. Parks ---- 1849 to Coldwater, attorney No date to Ionia Lakewood Street 1861-65 in Civil War; c.1844 to Grand Haven First Director, Director brevetted Brig. General Treasurer, Ottawa Co. 1852-64 1913-16 1888-89, U. S. minister to 1867 first mayor of Grand General Counsel 1914 Belgium Haven President 1914-16 Died May 6, 1906, Coldwater Died Nov. 27, 1880 ---- ---- PARMELEE, James A. [Chicago] Ohio & Michigan Grand Haven Street [Grand Battle Creek Street First Director 1870 Haven] First Director 1886 Marshall & Coldwater First Director 1895 First Director 1870 Secretary 1902 PARNELL, William E. # Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake [Rockland, Calumet] Michigan PARKS, George E. NPMemorial, 487; HistUP, 545 Director 1872 BiogRy1906, 462 Born June 3, 1839, St. Austell, Coldwater, Marshall & Born May 3, 1870, Bedford, Cornwall, England Mackinaw Ind. Farther of William E. Parnell, Director 1875 1892 grad. Purdue Univ. Jr. ---- 1857 to South Carolina PARKS, Albert Samuel Chicago & Grand Trunk 1860 to U. P. [Marquette] Engineering Dept. 7/1892- Supt. several copper mines BiogRy1885, 184; HistUP, 433 2/97 ---- Born Jan. 28, 1846, Pontiac Chicago, Indianapolis & Ontonagon, Gogebic & 1875 to Marquette Louisville Wisconsin ---- Engineering Dept. 2/1897- First Director 1882 Chicago & West Michigan 5/97 Hancock & Calumet Station Agent Michigan Central Director 1895-1902 11/1870-4/1875 Draftsman 5/1897-6/1900 Mineral Range Marquette, Houghton & Mechnical Engineer 6/1900- Director 1893-1902 Ontonagon [06] Vice President 1896-1904 Ore Dock Agent 4/1875-8/78 PARKS, Robert S. [Grand General Freight Agent Rapids] PARNELL, William E., Jr. # 8/1878-[86] ABH, 2:part5::96 [Calumet] Born May 13, 1810, Cayuga Son of William E. Parnell PARKS, Calvin C. Co., N. Y. ---- ABH, 2:part5:96 Brother of Calvin C. and Mineral Range Born Apr. 5, 1805, Cayuga Co., George B. Parks Director 1901-02 N. Y. 1844 to Grand Rapids, Brother of George B. and steamboat operator PARRISH, Charles Albert Robert S. Parks ---- [Jackson] 1842 admitted bar Grand Rapids & Reeds Lake HistMich1915, 2:1160-61 1849 to Waukegan, Ill., First Director 1874 Born Aug. 20, 1869, attorney Division Street & Reeds Lake Thorntown, Ind. ---- First Director 1874 1870 family to Kalamazoo Auburn & Lapeer c.1895 to Jackson, Commissioner 1838 PARKS, Samuel Shaw # superintended electric [Chicago] installation on street railway PARKS, George B. # HerrNL, 4:382 ABH, 2:part5:95-97 Born May 6, 1863, Palmer, PARSONS, Edwin [New York 112 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) City] General Agent 9/1882-9/83 Marquette & Ontonagon PARVIN, Victor # Asst. General Freight Agent Director 1871 BiogRy1922, 481 9/1883-85 Born July 6, 1882, Laurel, Del. General Freight Agent PARSONS, Charles B. # --- 1886-90 [Detroit] Various roads Traffic Manager 1891-97 Born Jan. 1875 Telegrapher, various Pere Marquette Son of Howard H. Parsons 11/1899-12/1917 General Traffic Manager Secretary, Director, Great Virginian Ry 1899-1908 Northern Portland Cement Co. Asst. Superintendent, Asst. to President 1909 ---- Superintendent 1917-5/20 Vice President 1910-3/12 Marlborough Ann Arbor Director 1910 First Director 1906 Superintendent 5/1920-[24] Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron General Manager [1930] Director 1900-02 PARSONS, Edwin # [New York City] PATERSON, Reginald P. # PATRICK, Benjamin F. Born Apr. 25, 1823, Alfred, Me. BiogRy1922, 481 Chicago & North Western One of developers of Republic Born Waterloo Co., Ont. General Passenger Agent and Champion Mines ---- 1864-68 Died Aug. 21, 1895, in Me. Chicago & West Michigan ---- Clerk, Freight Dept. 9/1890- PATTERSON, Alexander A., Jr. Marquette & Ontonagon 1900 # [Benton Harbor] Director 1871 Pere Marquette [Detroit] HerrNL, 4:392 Chief Tariff Clerk 1900-02 Born Dec. 18, 1852, Saratoga, PARSONS, Howard H. # Chief Claim Clerk 1902-03 N. Y. [Detroit] Clerk, Traffic Dept. 1903- Brother of David H. Pattrson Born June 1850, N. Y. state 9/10 ---- Father of Charles B. Parsons Asst. General Freight Agent St. Joseph Valley Director, Great Northern 9/1910-3/20 President, Director 1890-96 Portland Cement Co. General Freight Agent General Manager 1896 ---- 3/1920-[24] Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Marlborough Freight Traffic Manager Columbus First Director 1906 [1930] First Director, Director 1897-1901 PARSONS, Roswell W. [Saline] PATERSON, William [Flint] President 1897-1901 Born c.1819, N. Y. Partner in “wild-cat” bank; General Manager 1897-1900 Died c.1886, Mich. disappeared with it funds South Haven & Eastern ---- Mayor of Flint 1862-63 President, Director 1897- Toledo, Ann Arbor & Saginaw ---- 1900 First Director 1866 Flint & Pere Marquette Treasurer 1897 First Director 1857 Saugatuck & South Haven PARTRIDGE, D. Scott [Mt. First Director 1898 Pleasant] PATRIARCHE, Arthur (Philip Benton Harbor Terminal PortraitIsa, 444-46 Robert) # First Director 1901 Born Oct. 6, 1851, Prattsburg BkDet, 359; BiogRy1913, 421 Cheboygan Southern Twp., Steuben Co., N. Y. Born June 13, 1849, Isle of First Director 1903 1864 to Marshall Jersey 1874 to Mt. Pleasant, attorney ---- PATTERSON, David H. [Benton Later into banking Detroit & Bay City Harbor] No date to Grand Rapids Station Agent 9/1872-1/75 Born c.1860, Saratoga Springs, ---- Flint & Pere Marquette [East N. Y. Mount Pleasant & Western Saginaw] Brother of Alexander A. First Director 1887 Agent 1/1875-9/82 Patterson, Jr. Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 113 ---- Died May 27, 1941, Miami, St. Joseph Valley Fla.; buried in Pontiac PATTON, John # [Grand Vice President, Director ---- Rapids] 1890-96 Pontiac, Oxford & Northern MichBog1924, 2:179; HerrNL, General Superintendent Attorney 1901-07 4:398; 1893 General Solicitor 1908-09 BiogRep, 2:311-13 General Passenger & Freight Born Oct. 30, 1850, Agent 1893 PATTERSON, John J. # Curwensville, Pa. Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & [Philadelphia] 1875 graduated Yale Coll. Columbus Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo & 1887 graduated Columbia Law First Director, Director South Haven Traction School 1897-1901 First Director 1901 1888 to Grand Rapids; Vice President 1897-1900 attorney General Superintendent PATTERSON, Robert # U. S. Senator 5/1894-10/95 1897-1900 BiogRy1913, 422 Died May 24, 1907, Grand General Manager 1901 Born Mar. 13, 1860, Ontario Rapids South Haven & Eastern ---- ---- Vice President, Director Grand Trunk Ry of Canada Manistee & Northeastern 1897-1901 Various locomotive shop Director 1906 General Manager 1899-1901 work 1874-97 General Freight & Passenger Chicago & Grand Trunk [Fort PAULI, Albert J. [Menominee] Agent 1899-1900 Gratiot] NPMemorial, 243 Saugatuck & South Haven Master Mechanic 1897-2/99 Born June 25, 1858, Paris, First Director 1898 Grand Trunk Ry of Canada France Benton Harbor Terminal [Stratford, Ont.] 1872 to Menominee, clerk and First Director 1901 [Paw Master Mechanic 2/1899- bookkeeper Paw] (13) Held local offices Ludington Southern ---- First Director 1906 [Paw PATTERSON, Thomas M. # Menominee & Northern Paw] [Detroit] First Director 1893 Detroit & Port Huron Shore PATTERSON, George W. # Line PAULTER, A. [Detroit] [Ann Arbor] Director 1906-10 Jefferson Avenue President, First Natl. Bank of Detroit, Monroe & Toledo General Superintendent Ann Arbor Short Line 1891-92 ---- Director 1908-17 Erie & Kalamazoo PAVY, Francis # [London, Director 1915-17 PATTERSON, William H. # Engl.] [Grand Rapids] Born 1836 PATTERSON, John A. [Albany, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo & Managing Director, Railway N.Y.] South Haven Traction Share Trust Co. Ltd. St. Joseph Valley First Director 1901 Died Feb. 21, 1902, London Director 1890-96 Grand Rapids & Chicago ---- Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & First Director 1901 Detroit, Grand Haven & Columbus Milwaukee First Director, Director 1897 PATTISON, William G. # Director 1878 [Kalamazoo] Wabash PATTERSON, John Hadley # Born Aug. 15, 1822 Director 1892-1901 [Pontiac] Stage coach owner HistMich1915, 2:801-02 Died July 16, 1903. PAYNE, Edward F. # [Wilkes- Born Oct. 22, 1865, Holly --- Barre, Pa.] 1885 ex. Univ. Mich. Flat River & Houghton Lake Muskegon Traction & Lighting 1887 admitted to bar First Director 1871 Director 1902-05 114 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1876-86 postmaster [Negaunee] PAYNE, H. J. # [Marquette] 1893-94 pres. Amer. Street Born Dec. 1869, Wisconsin Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railway assn. ---- Chief Engineer 1890-1904 U. S. postmaster-general Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Mineral Range 1902-4 Superintendent 1902-04 Chief Engineer 1899-1904 Died Oct. 4, 1904, Washington, D. C. PEARS, William [Buchanan] PAYNE, Henry B. [Cleveland] ---- Born 1826, England HerrNL, 4:402; CongBiog Milwaukee Electric Railway & c.1861 to Buchanan Born Nov. 30, 1810, Hamilton, Light 1868 started grist mill in Madison Co., N. Y. President 1889- Buchanan Father of Henry W. Payne Milwaukee & Northern Died Apr. 7, 1893, Buchanan 1832 graduated Hamilton Coll. President, Director 1890-92 ---- 1834 began law practice in Northern Pacific St. Joseph Valley Cleveland Receiver 1893-95 First Director, Director U. S. Representative 1875-77 1880-83 U. S. Senator 1885-91 PAYNE, Henry Wilson Died Sept. 9, 1896, Cleveland [Cleveland] PEARSALL, Thomas W. # [New ---- Born Mar. 7, 1845, Cleveland York City] Cleveland, Columbus & Son of Henry B. Payne Born June 16, 1838, New York Cincinnati 1867 graduated Yale Coll. Died Jan. 1, 1909, New York Promoter 1849-50 1870 graduated Columbia Law City President 1851-54 School; began practice in Ohio ---- Cleveland, Painesville & Died Feb. 8, 1878, Mentone, Marquette, Houghton & Ashtabula France (rowing accident) Ontonagon Promoter 1854-55 ---- Director 1888 Lake Shore & Michigan Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Southern Rapids Director 1888-1908 First Director, Director Director 1872-77 4/1869-11/82 PEARSON, Benjamin Detroit, Monroe & Toledo PAYNE, Jira (sometimes Ira) Born Sept. 19, 1801, Avon, N. Director 1872-86 [Clinton] Y. Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand MichBiog, 2:179 1833 to near Mt. Morris Rapids Owned saw mill c.1836 to Flint Director 1872-94 State representative 1838 Died Dec. 11, 1859 Secretary 1878-86 ---- ---- Kalamazoo & White Pigeon Clinton & Adrian Pontiac & Genesee Director 1872-75 Commissioner 1836 Commissioner 1846 Northern Central Michigan Palmyra & Jacksonburgh Director 1872-86 Commissioner 1836 PEARSON, C. J. # [South Bend, Saginaw & Grand Rapids Gilbralter & Clinton Ind.] First Director 1878 Commissioner 1837 Southern Michigan Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan General Freight Agent, Director 1882-88 PAYSON, Herbert [Portland, General Passenger Agent Me.] 1912-14 PAYNE, Henry Clay # Muskegon Street [Milwaukee] First Director 1897 PEARSON, Leonard BiogRy1893, 282-83; HerrNL, Michigan Extension 4:402; CongBiog PEAKE, N. W. [Fruitport] First Director 1878 Born Nov. 23, 1843, Ashfield, Fruitport & Lake Shore Mass First Director 1870 PEASE, Dr. Charles G. 1863 to Milwaukee, worked in Baraga & Western dry goods store PEARCE, Harvey F. # First Director 1891 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 115 PECK, Charles A. # PEASE, John James Rousseau (Possibly, pertinent. [Kalamazoo] Born June 25, 1817, Enfield, Thursday, May 12, 1887 Page CompKal, 198-99 Conn. 4 Born Dec. 23, 1852, Richland 1840 to Green Bay George B. Peck, whose mother Banker; investor in paper mills 1844 to Janesville, Wisc. lives in Onondaga county, N,Y, Died July 1923, Kalamazoo 1849 became attorney committed suicide in front of ---- 1855 an organizer of bank the residence of W. H. Dodge, a Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Died Mar. 22, 1896, Janesville well-to-do farmer, two miles Chicago ---- north of Elkhorn, Wis., on the Director 1916-17 Southern Wisconsin 5th. It seems that Peck Secretary c.1853 married Dodge's daughter a PECK, Edward N. Chicago & North Western year ago while she was Troy & Rochester Director 6/1859-11/65 teaching school at Wyoming, Commissioner 1844 N.Y., against the wishes of the PEASE, John M. young lady's parents. A PECK, Ellsworth A. # Erie & Kalamazoo separation was brought about [Indianapolis] Director 1846 and Peck went to Michigan. He BiogRy1893, 286; appeared at Dodge's house BiogRy1913, 425 PEAVEY, Frank Hutchinson # and after an unsatisfactory Born Apr. 13, 1852, Westfield, [Minneapolis] interview with his wife took Ohio Born Jan. 18, 1850, Eastport, his life in....) Died Mar. 12, 1913, Pine Bluff, Me. ---- Ark. Owned F. H. Peavey & Co., built Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul ---- grain elevators Station Agent 1859-63 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Died Dec. 30, 1901, Chicago Leavenworth, Lawrence & & St. Louis ---- Galveston Various work Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault General Freight Agent 1867- Asst. General Ste. Marie 72 Superintendent Director 1895-97 Superintendent 1872-74 General Superintendent to Grand Trunk Ry of Canada 12/1892 PECK, A. V. [Elkhart, Ind.] Western General Freight St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Agent 1874-77 Southern Chief Engineer 1882 Chicago & Lake Huron General Superintendent General Superintendent, 6/1893-4/1901 PECK, Arvine [Lowell] General Freight Agent 1877 St. Louis Southwestern [Pine ABH, 1:part5:91 General Manager, Receiver Bluff, Ark.] Born Dec. 15, 1819, Butler, N. 1878-79 Superintendent 6/1901- Y. Northwestern Grand Trunk 3/13 1854 to Lowell, physician General Manager 1879 Died Dec. 1884, Lowell Capac & Northern PECK, George # [Detroit] ---- First Director 1879 BkDet, 361; CompDet, 255-56 Hastings, Lowell & Northern Michigan Ry Born Nov. 5, 1834, Lyme, Michigan First Director 1880 Conn. First Director 1883 Chicago & Grand Trunk Dry goods merchant until General Manager 1880 1887 PECK, Charles B. [Port Huron] Atlantic & Danville Banker, company director BiogRy1893, 286 Vice President, General Died Nov. 11, 1913, Detroit Born Aug. 10, 1840, Steuben Manager c.1880-10/90 ---- Co., N. Y. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Delray Terminal 1848 to Wisconsin Asst. to President 6/1892- First Director, Director 1859 to Brodhead, Wisc. (93) 1905-12 1863-65 in Civil War Vice President 1905-12 116 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) General Solicitor 1881-9/95 ---- PECK, George L. [Toledo] Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Maple Rapids & Southern Toledo & Ann Arbor General Counsel First Director 1877 Superintendent Telegraph 9/1895-1/1911 Maple Rapids & Lansing 1878-79 First Director 1880 PECK, George Washington PECK, George Lyman # [East Saginaw] PECK, Romanzo R. [Parkville] [Pittsburgh] MichBiog, 2:181 Born 1849/50, Ohio BiogRy1913, 425 Born June 4, 1818, New York In South Bend, Ind. in 1910 Born July 10, 1858, Sandusky, City ---- Ohio 1839 to Brighton Toledo & South Haven/S ---- 1842 began law practice First Director 1882 Pennsylvania-West State representative 1846-47 subsidiaries 1847 to Lansing; became PECK, Samuel Various work 1874-94 postmaster HistUP, 433 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago Mich. Secy. of State 1848-49 Born June 8, 1807, Ohio & St. Louis Owned Lansing Journal and 1856 to Marquette, agent Div. Superintendent 1894- 1852-55 was state printer Jackson Iron Co. 1/96 [Richmond, Ind.] U. S. Representative 1855-57 Later, dealer in land Div. Superintendent 1/1896- 1868 to East Saginaw; ---- 1/1901 [Pittsburgh] attorney Iron Bay Pennsylvania-West 1873 to St. Louis, Mo., law First Director 1866 General Superintendent 1- practice for St. Louis & Iron 6/1901 Mtn. PECK, Samuel B. [Muskegon] General Manager 6/1901- 1880 to Hot Springs, Ark. ABH, 1:part5:92 1/13 1882 to Bismarck, N. D. Born Feb. 22, 1805, Cheshire, Pennsylvania RR Died June 30, 1905, Saginaw Conn. 5th Vice President 1/1913- ---- 1859 to Muskegon, manager 2/14 Saginaw & St. Clair River land investments 4th Vice President 2/1914- First Director 1870 Died July 21, 1883, Muskegon ?? Michigan Midland ---- 3rd Vice President ??- First Director 1870 Grand Rapids & Lake Shore 3/1920 First Director 1869 Vice President 3/1920-8/28 PECK, Horace B. [Kalamazoo] Muskegon & Greenville Grand Rapids & Indiana Born July 20, 1841, Kalamazoo First Director 1870 Vice President, Director Died June 14, 1903, Kalamazoo 1914-17 ---- Chicago & Kalamazoo PECK, William PECK, George Record # Terminal HistMich1915, 3:1652-53 [Chicago] Vice President, Director ---- BkChi, 453; BiogRy1913, 426; 1895 c. 1870 Managed railroad HistChi3, 354-55 eating house at Grand Junction Born May 15, 1843, Cameron, PECK, Lee [Lansing] Steuben Co., N. Y. Central Michigan PECK, William H. # [New York 1861 graduated Milton Coll. First Director 1882 City] (Wisc.) Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic In 1st Wisc. Heavy Artillery PECK, Orrin F. [Maple Rapids] Director 1915-16 1863-65 HistShiClin, 457; PatClint, 1887 law degree Univ. of 2:10-15 PECKHAM, Bunnell P. Kansas Born June 2, 1838, Wayne Co. Died 1868, Milwaukee In private practice 1893-94 1866 to Maple Rapids, ---- ---- merchant, farmer Erie & Kalamazoo Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Died 1887, Maple Rapids Director 1839 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 117 ---- ---- PECKHAM, Henry C. [Freeport] Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Toledo, Ann Arbor & Saginaw Born Feb. 23, 1846, N. Y. state Director 1887-88 First Director 1866 Physician Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Died Mar. 12, 1939, Freeport PELTON, Roderick J. [St. First Director 1869 ---- Thomas, Ont.] Central Michigan Born c. 1838 PENISTAN, Richard First Director 1888 Died Oct. 31, 1893, Dutton, [Philadelphia] Director 1895-96 Ontario Chicago, Saginaw & Canada ---- Director 1878-82 PEET, Kosciusko Pulaski # Toledo, Canada Southern & [Ithaca] Detroit PENNELL, Or(r)in Graves [St. HistGrat, 796-98 Auditor 1881-82 Johns] Born Oct. 19, 1843, Rochester, MichBiog, 2:183 Ohio PENDILL, Elijah W. [Battle Born Nov. 29, 1822 or 1827, In 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Creek] Cortland Co., N. Y. 1864-65 Born Dec. 17, 1809, Batavia, N. 1861 to Washtenaw Co. 1867 to Kent Co., animal raiser Y. 1869 to DeWitt 1883 to Ithaca 1859 first mayor of Battle Died 1899 or 1900, DeWitt Sheriff, Gratiot Co., 1885-86 Creek ---- Died Apr. 21, 1932, North Star; 1871 bank founder Lansing & St. Johns buried Ithaca Died Dec. 19, 1876, Battle First Director 1871 ---- Creek Ann Arbor Street ---- PENNIMAN, Bethuel [Calumet] First Director 1888 Peninsular Ry HistUP, 305 First Director 1865 Born Feb. 11, 1819, Abington, PEGRAM, Edward Sanford # Plymouth Co., Mass. [New York City] PENDILL, James (P., Jr.) # 1878 to Calumet, Chief Clerk Born Feb. 1862, New York City [Marquette] Calumet & Hecla Co. Banker with J. P. Morgan & Co. Born Dec. 17, 1858, Marquette ---- ---- Died 1932, Marquette Hecla & Torch Lake Pere Marquette ---- Secretary 1878-83 Asst. Secretary 1911-12 Marquette City & Presque Isle Director 1902 PENNINGTON, Edmund PELTON, David C. [Cheboygan] William # [Minneapolis] Born c.1836, Ohio PENFIELD, John [Kalamazoo] HistMpls, 2:598-601; Lumber manufacturer Born Sept. 23, 1824, Vermont BiogRy1913, 427 President, vil. of Cheboygan, Died Oct. 8, 1887, Rantoul, Ill.; Born Sept. 16, 1848, Peru, Ill. 1899-1900 burial Kalamazoo 1853 to St. Paul, Minn. ---- ---- Died May 1, 1926, Minneapolis Cheboygan & East Michigan Kalamazoo & Schoolcraft ---- First Director 1891 First Director 1866 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Various up to Asst. PELTON, Frederick W. PENFIELD, Jonathan Superintendent 1864-86 [Cleveland] Frankfort, Crystal Lake & Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Born Mar. 24, 1827, Chester, Glenn Arbor Ste. Marie Conn. First Director 1890 Div. Superintendent 1848 to Cleveland 1888-92 In 8th Ohio Independent PENFIELD, William L. Superintendent 1893-97 Battery, Civil War [Dundee] General Manager 4/1899- Banker Born 1811 or 1812, 1909 Mayor, Cleveland, 1871-72 Connecticut Secretary 1901 Died Mar. 15, 1902, Cleveland Died June 13, 1899, Dundee Director 1901-17 118 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 2nd Vice President 9/1902- Michigan Suburban First Director 1869 05 First Director 1901 Vice President 7/1905-09 PERKINS, Benjamin [New York President 3/1909-17 PERCY, Charles # [Port Huron, City] Sainte Marie Union Depot 1888 Montreal] Ann Arbor First Director, Director BiogRy1885, 186; Director 1895-97 1900-17 BiogRy1893, 287 Vice President 1900-17 Born Feb. 12, 1845, Kent, PERKINS, Charles H. # Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co. England [Richmond] Director 1909-17 ---- Born May 25, 1840, Richmond Gogebic & Montreal River English roads Brother-in-law of David Ward President, Director 1910-17 Various work 5/1859-75 ---- Great Western Ry of Canada Detroit & Charlevoix PENNOCK, C. M. # [Ludington] Treasurer 3/1875-2/78 First Director 1901 Ludington & Northern Midland Ry Canada Auditor 1908 Secretary, Treasurer PERKINS, Douglas # 2/1878-9/79 [Cleveland] PENNY, Charles W. [Jackson] General Manager 2/1878- Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand HistJack2, 198-99; HistJack1, 9/79 Rapids 242 Northwestern Grand Trunk Director 1914-17 Born Jan. 4, 1812, N. Y. state Secretary, Treasurer 9/1879 1831 to Detroit Michigan Ry PERKINS, Edward Cranch # 1840 to Jackson, merchant First Director 1880 [Boston] Died Dec. 6, 1892, Ann Arbor; Chicago & Grand Trunk Born May 1830, Ohio burial Jackson General Manager 1880 Father of Thomas N. Perkins ---- Secretary 1880-99 [also Died Dec. 4, 1914, Milton, Jackson Union Montreal] Mass. First Director 1855 Treasurer 1880-83 ---- Detroit, Grand Haven & Detroit, Hillsdale & South PENOYER, Wedworth C. # [Bay Milwaukee Western City] Asst. to President 1888-89 Director 1893-1901 Bay City & Port Huron [Montreal] First Director 1904 Director 1894-97 PERKINS, Edwin Ruthven # Chicago, Detroit & Canada [Cleveland] PEPPERS, Albert E. [Detroit] Grand Trunk Jct. HistClev, 107-09 Detroit, Rouge River & Secretary, Director Born Feb. 20, 1833, Tamworth, Dearborn 1894-1900 N. H. First Director 1889 Treasurer 1900 Father of Edwin R. Perkins, Jr. Michigan Air Line Ry 1857 graduated Dartmouth PERCIVAL, E. B. [Palo] Secretary 1894-1900 Coll. Carson City & Palo Treasurer 1896-1900 c.1858 to Cleveland First Director 1871 St. Clair Tunnel Co. 1865 into banking Secretary, Treasurer 1899 Died Apr. 21, 1915, Cleveland PERCIVAL, Edward F. # [Port Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon ---- Huron] Director 1901-02 Lakes Superior & Michigan Air Jenks, 2:818-19 Line Born Mar. 7, 1861, Port Huron PERKINS, Asa Edwin [St. First Director 1864 Insurance and real estate Joseph] Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling businesses Born Sept. 2, 1807, Mass. President 1890-93 Died June 1927 Died Nov. 1877 ---- ---- PERKINS, Edwin Ruthven, Jr. # Lansing & Northern Lake Shore of Western [Cleveland] First Director 1900 Michigan Born Apr. 23, 1879, Cleveland Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 119 Son of Edwin R. Perkins PERKINS, Joseph [Cleveland] Securities Co. ---- HerrNL, 4:432; HistOhio, 6:41- Died Oct. 7, 1937 Marquette & Southeastern 48 ---- First Director, Director Born July 5, 1819, Warren, Houghton County Traction 1900-11 Ohio Director 1908-17 Vice President 1901-11 Brother of Henry B. Perkins, Houghton County Traction Munising uncle of Jacob P. Perkins Vice President 1915-17 Vice President, Director Died Aug. 26, 1885, Saratoga 1900-11 Springs, N. Y. PERKINS, William # [Detroit] ---- Detroit Bay City Traction PERKINS, George Walbridge # Cleveland & Mahoning First Director 1904 [New York City] President Bay City, Caro & Eastern HerrNL, 4:431 Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand First Director 1910 Born Jan. 31, 1862, Chicago Rapids 1877 into office of New York Director 1873-77 PERLEY, C. J. [Bay City] Life Ins. Co. Saginaw Bay & Northwestern 1903 V.P. of New York Life Ins. PERKINS, Thomas Handasyd Director 1880 1905 joined J. P. Morgan Co. Born Dec. 15, 1764, Boston Died June 18, 1920, New York Father of Thomas H. Perkins, PERO, John Walter # [Fremont, City Jr. Ohio] ---- Made huge fortune as slave Born Nov. 2, 1860, Fremont, Pere Marquette trader in Haiti, fur trader to Ohio Director 1906-12 China, smuggler of opium Died Oct. 25, 1950, Fremont, Chairman, Board of 1789 was one of the first Ohio Directors 1908-12 Boston men to trade with ---- China Toledo, Ann Arbor & Detroit PERKINS, Henry Bishop # Owned Granite Ry in Mass. First Director, First [Warren, Ohio] Died Jan. 11, 1854, Brookline, Treasurer 1904 Success, 2:618-19; HistOhio, Mass. 6:51- ---- Born Mar. 19, 1824, Warren, Michigan Central PERRIN, Horace J. [Marshall] Ohio Incorporator 1846 Born June 16, 1819, Rochester, Brother of Joseph Perkins, N. Y. uncle of Jacob P. Perkins PERKINS, Thomas Handasyd, Owned bank President, 1st Natl. Bank of Jr. 1876 built grist mill at Ceresco Warren Born Oct. 8, 1796, Boston Died Jan. 11, 1880, Marshall VP, Republic Iron Co. Son of Thomas H. Perkins ---- Died Mar. 2, 1902 Died Jan. 16, 1850, Boston Marshall & Coldwater ---- ---- First Director 1870 Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Michigan Central Rapids Incorporator 1846 PERRIN, Porter Kendrick # Director 1893-1902 Chicago & North Western MichBiog, 2:186 Director 1859 Born Sept. 13, 1833, Berlin, Vt. PERKINS, Jacob P. # 1857 graduated Law Univ. of [Cleveland] PERKINS, Thomas Nelson # Albany, N. Y. Born Dec. 20, 1854, Cleveland [Westwood, Mass.] 1860 to Michigan (from Nephew of Henry B. and WhosWhoFB, 632 Cincinnati), Joseph Perkins Born May 6, 1870, Milton, apparently to Jackson, ---- Mass. attorney Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Son of Edward C. Perkins State senator 1877-78 Rapids 1894 graduated Harvard Law Died Mar. 20, 1903, Detroit Director 1878-86 School ---- Vice President Railway & Light Lansing & St. Johns [St. Johns] 120 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1871 Clair Co. Died May 16, 1827, Kalamazoo PETER, William PERRINE, William Ely ---- Northern Michigan Ry HistJack2, 186 West Branch & Moorestown First Director 1869 Born Jan. 4, 1794, Freehold, N. First Director, Director J. 1882-83 PETERKIN, Daniel # [Chicago] 1833 to Jackson, merchant Executive, Morton Salt Co., Register of Deeds, Jackson Co., PERRY, Norman 1930s 1838-39 HistMacomb, 706-07 ---- Died Dec. 28, 1843, Jackson Born Apr. 20, 1796, Port Huron Southern ---- Northumberland, Saratoga Co., Treasurer, Director 1904-09 Detroit & St. Joseph [Jackson] N. Y. Commissioner 1832 1824 to Romeo PETERS, A. B. # [Port Huron] Died July 19, 1880 Detroit & Port Huron Shore PERRY, Frederick R. # [New ---- Line York City] Romeo & Mt. Clemens Div. Superintendent 1908 Born Aug. 15, 1876, Commissioner 1833 Hopkinton, Mass. PETERS, Albert E. # [Detroit] Died Jan. 16, 1933, New York PERRY, Seth C. Detroit, Fort Wayne & Belle City Partner in Breen Mine Isle ---- ---- First Director 1898 Canadian Pacific Deer Creek & Marble Quarry Detroit United Various work 1895-?? First Director 1869 First Director 1900 General Agent-Rail Traffic Director 1909-17 [1916-30] PETER, James B. # [East Asst. Secretary 1902-10 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Saginaw] Secretary 1911-17 Director 1916-17 Born Apr. 16, 1849 City Electric of Port Huron Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co. Son-in-law of William L. Secretary 1903-04 Director 1916-17 Webber Detroit & Lake St. Clair Attorney Secretary 1903-04 PERRY, George R. [Grand Died Mar. 3, 1934, Saginaw Detroit, Mt. Clemens & Marine Rapids] ---- City HistMich1915, 2:908-10 Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron Secretary 1903-04 Born Jan. 30, 1849, Bridgeport, Director 1889-97 Rapid RR Conn. Saginaw & Frankenmuth Secretary 1903-04 1852 family to Detroit First Director 1898 Port Huron, St. Clair & Marine 1868 to Grand Rapids, drug Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron City store clerk Director 1900-02 Secretary 1903-04 1892 started wholesale Detroit, Flint & Saginaw Detroit & Port Huron Shore grocery broker Treasurer 1904-06 Line Mayor of Grand Rapids 1898- Trustee 1905-06 Director, Secretary 1903-10 1901 Pere Marquette Rapid Ry 11/1903 charged with Director 1914-17 Director, Secretary 1903-07 accepting a bribe Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Died 1927, Grand Rapids PETER, (Robert) Arthur # Short Line ---- [Louisville, Ky.] Director, Secretary 1906-17 Electric Ry Born June 1, 1853, Louisville Detroit, Jackson & Chicago First Director 1890 Owned drug firm First Director, Director Grand Rapids Street Died Dec. 15, 1921, Louisville 1907-17 Vice President ?? ---- Secretary 1908-17 Benton Harbor-St.Joe Ry & Detroit, Almont & Northern PERRY, Joel [Big Rapids] Light First Director, Director Born Oct. 29, 1846, Wales, St. Director 1916-17 1913-17 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 121 Secretary 1914-17 ---- Flint & Great Lakes Lake Shore & Michigan PETHERAM, James Wilson First Director 1917 Southern BiogRy1906, 472 Monroe Connecting Asst. Engineer 1851-55 Born Oct. 22, 1842, Largo, First Director 1917 Hobart & Manistee River Scotland First Director, Director ---- PETERS, J. R. # [Manistee] 1879-90 Various roads Manistee & Luther Peters Train Engineering Dept. 6/1873- Director 1909-11 First Director,First President 3/82 1878 Chicago & West Michigan PETERS, J. Hugh [New York Peter's Manistee Train [Grand Rapids] City] First Director 1883 Assistant Engineer 3/1882- Marquette, Houghton & Midland Train 1/84 Ontonagon First Director 1885 Chief Engineer 1/1884-1/88 Director 1890 Manistee & Luther Missouri, Kansas & Texas of Mineral Range Director 1886-1914 Texas [Dallas] Director 1893-97 President,General Manager General Roadmaster 1886-1914 1/1888-10/93 PETERS, James Sutton Treasurer 1909-11 Chief Engineer 10/1893- [Eastlake] Mason & Oceana [1906] Born May 28, 1802 Vice President, Director Father of Richard G. Peters 1886-89 ---- Vice President 1899-1900 PETRIE, Charles B. [Pontiac] Midland Train Michigan Northern RR Toledo & Saginaw Bay First Director 1885 First Director 1887 First Director 1881 Manistee & Luther Director 1887-91 PETERS, William Andrew # PETTIBONE, William Henry [Detroit] [Chicago, 1881 Battle Creek] PETERS, Richard Gould # BiogRy1896, 371 BiogRy1885, 187; [Manistee] Born Oct. 30, 1856, Colon BiogRy1893, 289 Powers, 2:818-20; CycMich, ---- Born March 30, 1840, 54-55; Lake Shore & Michigan Farmersville, N. Y. MenProgress, 464; Success, Southern [various] ---- 2:620 Station Agent 1883-94 Various roads Born July 2, 1832, Delaware Toledo & Ohio Central Various work 5/1855-69 Co., N.Y. Mich. Passenger Agent 1894- Rockford, Rock Island & St. Son of James S. Peters 1903 Louis 1850 to Monroe District Passenger Agent Superintendent 1869-70 1855 to AuSable, for Charles 7/1903-[06] Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Mears, lumberman Minnesota c.1860 to Ludington PETERSEN, John M. [Manistee] Asst. General 1866 to Manistee, bought into PortraitNMich, 132-33; Superintendent 1/1870-75 partnership BiogRy1913, 429 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe of sawmills and timberlands; Born Feb 2, 1859, Denmark Div. Superintendent 1876- 1868 bought out partners (2 1880 to Greenville 12/78 men from Milwaukee) c.1884 to Manistee, with Chicago & Grand Trunk At times also in partnership Buckley & Douglas Lbr Co Asst. Superintendent w/Horace Butters ---- 1/1879-81 and in Dunham, Peters & Co. Manistee & Northeastern Superintendent 1881-4/85 Owned timberland in Bookkeeper 1888-94 Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis Wisconsin, Alabama, and Purchasing Agent 9/1894- General Superintendent Carolinas 13 4/1885-7/87 Died Apr. 1, 1927, Manistee Asst. Secretary 1911-13 San Francisco, Clear Lake & 122 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Humboldt Treasurer -88 [Detroit] General Manager 7/1887- Menominee Branch Born June 30, 1847, 1/89 First Director 1883 Middlebury, Vt. Atlantic & Danville Milwaukee & Northern Died Mar. 20, 1884, Detroit Asst. General Manager 1- Director 1887-89 ---- 7/92 Michigan Central Adirondack & St. Lawrence PHENIX, William [Chicago] Chief Engineer 1883-84 Superintendent 7/1892-(93) Born 1831, Carthage, Me. Cable ry installations in PHELPS, Edwin [Pontiac] PETTIT, Curtis Hussey # Cincinnati and St. Louis MichBiog, 2:190; PortraitOak, [Minneapolis] ---- 640 HistMpls, 3:243-46 Chicago City Ry Born Apr. 7, 1828, Pittsfield, Born Sept. 18, 1833, near Superintendent of cable Mass. Columbiana Co., Ohio installation 1881-?? Son of Benjamin Phelps After school worked in uncle’s Valley City Street & Cable 1833 family to Pontiac bank in Cleveland First Director 1887 Died May 22, 1904, Pontiac 1855 to Minneapolis, real Citizens Street Ry [Memphis] ---- estate dealer and investor Engineer St. Clair River, Pontiac & In many other businesses North Side Street Ry [Fort Jackson Died May 11, 1914, Worth] First Director 1872 Minneapolis Engineer St. Clair & Chicago Air Line ---- New Orleans Traction Co. Director 1872-74 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Engineer Ste. Marie PHELPS, Edwin J. [Kalamazoo] Director 1888-89, 1892- PHELPS, Benjamin Born 1845 1914 Born Oct. 17, 1788, Pittsfield, President, Kalamazoo Natl. Mass. Bank PETTIT, L. J. # [Milwaukee] Father of Edwin Phelps Died Nov. 1925, Kalamazoo Pres., Wisconsin Natl. Bank, ?1825 to Troy Twp., Oakland ---- 1907 Co. Chicago & Kalamazoo ---- No date to Pontiac Terminal Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Died Sept. 3, 1857, Pontiac Director 1895 Director 1908-17 ---- Detroit & Pontiac PHELPS, F. M. # [Adrian] PETZ, Frebert A. # [Capac] Commissioner 1834 Adrian Street Born 1873, Germany General Superintendent ---- PHELPS, Charles Spencer [East 1906 Thumb Ry Saginaw] First Director 1912 HerrNL, 4:445 PHELPS, Peter W. # Born Dec. 12, 1862, South [Marquette] PFISTER, Guido [Milwaukee] Deerfield, Mass BiogHBM, 372-73 Born 1818, Hechingen, 1884 graduated Worcester Born 1865, Marquette Germany Polytechnic Inst. 1882 Peter White hired him 1847 to Milwaukee, started ---- for his bank leather store Flint & Pere Marquette 1890 White’s partner in Expanded into many Asst. Engineer c.1885-89 insurance business investments; insurance cos. South Carolina & George ---- Died 1889, Milwaukee Chief Engineer 1890-99 Hancock & Calumet ---- Southern Ry Director 1901 Republic Branch Roadmaster 1900-n.d. Mineral Range First Director 1881 [Charleston, S.C.] Director 1912-17 Ontonagon & Brule River1882 Director -89 PHELPS, Edward Haight PHELPS, W. G. [St. Louis, Mo.] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 123 Indiana & Lake Michigan c.1857 graduated Univ. Died Sept. 13, 1905, Brookline, Asst. Secretary 1896-97 Michigan Mass. 1873-87 professor Univ. of ---- PHETTEPLACE, Edward H. Iowa Boston & Worcester [Kalamazoo] 1887-(93) consulting engineer Various work (Possibly born Apr. 19, 1824; Died Oct. 10, 1907, Medford, Cleveland & Toledo died June 18, 1876) Ore. Superintendent ---- ---- Michigan Southern & Northern Manchester & Homer Jackson, Fort Wayne & Indiana First Director 1870 Cincinnati Director 9/1865-5/69 Division Engineer 1868-?? President 10/1865-5/69 PHILBIN, Donald Mcdonald # Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Lake Shore & Michigan BiogRy1893, 290; Division Engineer no dates Southern BiogRy1913, 432 Michigan Air Line First Director, Director Born Apr. 1857, Montreal Division Engineer no dates 6/1869-5/70 Died Aug. 6, 1914, Duluth Detroit, Lansing & Lake First President, President ---- Michigan 6/1869-5/70 Chicago & North Western Consulting Engineer no Wisconsin Central Engineering Dept. 1875-77 dates Contractor to build part of Foreman, ore docks 1877-86 Owosso & Northwestern and line [Escanaba] Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grayville & Mattoon Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Northern Receiver Western Chief Engineer no dates Eastern RR Foreman, ore docks 1886-88 President 1879-83 [Ashland, Wisc.] PHI(L)LIPS, Benjamin T. # Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis Fremont, Elkhon & Missouri [Menominee] President Valley NPMemorial, 232-37, HistNP, Fitchburg RR Div. Superintendent 1889- 3:1480-83 President 11/1883-90 90 Born Oct. 14, 1840, Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Wadsworth, Ohio [Marquette] In Civil War PHILLIPS, Ermine J. # Superintendent 1890-4/93 1870 graduated Rush Medical [Oshkosh, Wisc.] Duluth, Missabe & Northern College Born Mar. 1882, Oshkosh General Manager 4/1893- 1872 to Menominee Son of Milton C. Phillips 1/96 Died Nov. 29, 1918 ---- Duluth & Winnipeg ---- Lake Superior Southern General Superintendent Menominee Street First Director 1905 4/1896-6/98 First Director 1888 Eastern Ry of Minnesota PHILLIPS, Milton C. # 2nd Vice President 6/1898- PHILLIPS, Charles [Oshkosh, Wisc.] 4/1902 [Philadelphia] Born July 1856, Wisc. Superintendent 1899- Mineral Range Father of Ermine J. Phillips 4/1903 Director 1885-87 U. S. attorney, 1900-04 Great Northern [Duluth] Died Aug. 2, 1916, Oshkosh Asst. General PHILLIPS, Daniel W. [Shelby ---- Superintendent 4/1903-06 Twp., Macomb Co.] Lake Superior Southern General Superintendent Shelby & Detroit First Director 1905 1906-1/14 Commissioner 1834 PHILLIPS, Patrick H. [Port PHILBRICK, Philetus H. PHILLIPS, Elijah Brigham Huron] BiogRy1893, 290 LS&MSHist, 902 Jenks, 2:718-19 Born Mar. 8, 1839, Machias, N. Born Aug. 20, 1819, Born Oct. 11, 1853, New York Y. Westborough, Mass. City 124 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1876 became lawyer City] General Superintendent ---- Chicago & North Western 1910-13 Port Huron, St. Clair & Marine Treasurer 1915-[3/40] City Asst. Secretary [1917-3/40] PIERCE, Winslow Shelby # First Director 1899 [New York City] PIERCE, David R. [Detroit] PPA, 2:187-88; BiogRy1913, PICKANDS, James [Marquette] Iron Range & Huron Bay 433; WhosWhoNY, 751 HistClev2, 3:215-16. (Also see Secretary 1895 Born Oct. 23, 1857, Shelbyville, Walter Havighurst, Vein of Ind. Ironn: the Pickands Mather PIERCE, I. L. [Escanaba] 1879 graduated Univ. Mich. Story. (Cleveland: Peninsula RR Law School World Publ. Co., 1958)) Master Mechanic 1864 Died July 1938, Bayville, L. I., Born Dec. 15, 1839, Akron, Chicago & North Western N. Y. Ohio Master Mechanic 1864-73 ---- In 1st Ohio Vol. Infantry and Missouri Pacific 124th Ohio Vol. Infantry, PIERCE, Lewis [Portland, Me.] Asst. to General Counsel 1861-65 Born Apr. 15, 1832, Gorham, 1885-4/92 1867 to Marquette, hardware Me. General Attorney 4/1892- & merchandise Died Jan. 28, 1915, Portland, 5/1912 Mayor of Marquette Me. Texas & Pacific 1881 to Cleveland ---- General Attorney 4/1892- 1883 organized Pickands, Flint & Pere Marquette 5/1912 Mather & Co. Director 1881-97 St. Louis Southwestern Died July 14, 1896, Cleveland General Counsel 1/1891- ---- PIERCE, Lillian L. # [Bay City] [22] Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie & Bay City Traction & Electric Union Pacific Mackinac Asst. Secretary 1906 General Counsel 1897- First Director 1872 Asst. Treasurer 1906 12/1903 Western Maryland PICKERING, A. D. # [Detroit] PIERCE, Thomas Lewis # President 1904-[13] 1897 to Detroit, grain dealer BiogRy1913, 433 Denver & Rio Grande Died Nov. 22, 1909, Detroit Born July 6, 1877, Portland, General Counsel ---- Me. Wabash Delray Connecting 1898 graduated Bowdoin Coll. Director 1902-17 Asst. Auditor 1908-09 1911 with Boston Chamber of Chairman Board of Directors Commerce 1912-[22] PICKING, Harry H. # [East 1917 in World War I General Counsel 1916-[22] Orange, N.J.] ---- Rapid Ry Flint & Pere Marquette PIERPONT, Henry Edwards # Director 1907 Clerk 1898-99 [Port Huron] BiogRy1922, 496 Detroit & Port Huron Shore Pere Marquette Born Apr. 1862, Two Rivers, Line Freight Sales Dept. 1900-02 Wisc. Director 1903-10 Travel. Freight Agent Died Jan. 1947 7/1902-3/03 [Milwaukee] ---- PICKMAN, Dudley L.eavittt Travel. Freight Agent 3- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Born May 21, 1779, Salem, 9/1903 [New York City] Various work 1883-5/92 Mass. Commercial Agent 9/1903- Division Freight & Passenger Died Nov. 4, 1846 9/04 [Detroit] Agent 5/1892-1/96 ---- New England Agent 9/1904- Asst. General Freight Agent Michigan Central 12/11 [Boston] 1/896-1/1907 [Chicago] Incorporator 1846 General Freight Agent PIERCE, W. D. # [Sylvania, Oh.] 1/1907-1/13 PIERCE, Arthur S. # [New York Toledo & Western Freight Traffic Manager Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 125 1/1913-8/18 Manchester & Homer BiogRep, 2:316-19 Traffic Manager 8/1918- First Director 1870 Born Aug. 30, 1840, Denmark, (24) Me. PIKE, Joseph N. # [Orangeville] 1862-65 in Civil War PIERREPONT, Henry Evelyn # Born 1849 1865 to Detroit, started boot [New York City] Died 1923 and shoe factory Born Dec. 9, 1845, Brooklyn, N. ---- Mayor, Detroit, 1889-96 Y. Battle Creek & Grand Rapids Governor of Mich. 1897-1901 Brother of John J. Pierrepont Inland Died June 18, 1901, Detroit Died Nov 4, 1911, Brooklyn, N. First Director 1904 ---- Y. Detroit Municipal ---- PIPER, Joseph W. # [Toledo] First Director 1899 Fort Wayne & Jackson Ann Arbor Director 1911 Asst. Auditor 1913-14 PITMAN, D. Erie & Kalamazoo PIERREPONT, John Jay # [New PIPP, W. H. [Kalkaska] Director 1840 York City] Detroit, Charlevoix & Escanaba Born Sept. 3, 1849, Rye, N. Y. First Director 1887 PITT, Percy M. # [Muskegon] Brother of Henry E. Pierrepont Muskegon Traction & Lighting ---- PILLSBURY, Charles Stinson # Superintendent 1907 Fort Wayne & Jackson [Minneapolis] Traffic Manager 1909-14 Director 1912-17 WhosWhoFB, 540 General Superintendent Born Dec. 6, 1878, Minneapolis 1911-12 PIERSON, Benjamin [Flint] Son of Charles A. Pillsbury Born Sept. 19, 1801, Avon, N. 1906 into flour business PLACE, Ira Adelbert # [New Y. Died May 21, 1939, Rochester, York City] Died July 31, 1867, Flint Minn. WhosWhoFB, 541; ---- ---- BiogRy1913, 434; Flint & Pere Marquette Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault WhosWhoNY, 754 First Director 1857 Ste. Marie Born May 8, 1854, New York Director 1913-17 City PIERSON, Henry Rufus 1881 graduated Cornell Univ. [Chicago] PILLSBURY, John Sargent # 1883 from Syracuse to New HerrNL, 4:461 [Minneapolis] York City, attorney Born June 13, 1819, HistMpls, 2:6-11 Died Jan. 23, 1928, New York Charleston, N. Y. Born July 29, 1828, Sutton, N. City 1866-67 N. Y. state senator H. ---- 1872-81 regent State 1855 to St. Anthony, Minn. New York Central & Hudson University of N. Y. 1872 Founded C. A. Pillsbury River 1875 established bank in and Co. Law Department 3/1886- Albany 1876-82 gov. or Minnesota 10/1902 Died Jan. 1, 1899, Albany, N. Y.l Died Oct. 18, 1901, Hennepin General Attorney 10/1902- ---- Co., Minn. 4/05 Brooklyn City Ry ---- General Counsel 4/1905- President [no date] Menominee & Sault Ste. Marie 12/06 Chicago & North Western First Director 1885 Vice President 12/1906- Director 4/1869-6/71 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault 12/14 Vice President 4/1869-6/70 Ste. Marie New York Central Pullman Palace Car Co. Director 1888-97 Vice President 1/1915-17; Vice President 6/1870-2/71 3/1920-[24] PINGREE, Hazen S. [Detroit] Detroit, Monroe & Toledo PIERSON, William B. [Three MichBiog, 2:196-97; HerrNL, Director 1911-14 Rivers] 4:466; 126 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) PLACE, Perley N. # PLATT, Thomas Collier in Civil War BiogRy1913, 434 [Oswego, N.Y.] Died Apr. 6, 1906, Grand Born Apr. 14, 1870, BiogRy1885, 190 Rapids Farmington Born July 15, 1833, Oswego, ---- 1906-12 not on railroad N.Y. Grand Rapids, Belding & ---- 1849-50 at Yale Coll. Greenville Flint & Pere Marquette Some interest in Mich. timber First Director 1899 Various work 1885-3/1900 lands Pere Marquette U. S. Representative 1873-77 PLUMB, William C. # [Kansas Trainmaster 3/1900-4/03 1880-c.85 pres. United States City, Kans.] Div. Superintendent 4- Express Co. Newspaper publisher 10/1903 [Saginaw] U. S. Senator 3-5/1881, ---- Div. Superintendent 3/1897-3/1909 Lake Michigan & Kalamazoo 10/1903-9/06 [Gr. Rapids] Died Mar. 6, 1910, New York First Director 1910 Trainmaster 9/12-(13) City, buried Oswego [Saginaw] ---- PLUMMER, Alonzo # Southern Central PortraitBerrCass, 203-04 PLATT, George W. [Niles] President 1871-(85) Born Feb. 18, 1842, Hartland, ABH , 1:part4:51; HistBerr, Muskegon & Big Rapids Somerset Co., Me. 151 First Director 1871 In 4th Maine Light Artillery, Born Sept. 12, 1813, Pittsfield, Addison & Northern 1862-65 Mass. Pennsylvania 1866 graduated Albany (N. Y.) c.1837 to Niles, tin shop President 1882-(85) Law School Later had hardware store Florida Central & Western 1866 to Minneapolis Mayor, Niles, 1878 Director 1883-(85) 1870 to Benton Harbor Died Feb. 8, 1887, Niles 1875 admitted to bar ---- PLATTE, Joseph [Westphalia] Mayor of Benton Harbor, 1893 St. Joseph River Born Dec. 8, 1799, Sauerland, Died Aug. 10, 1907, Benton First Director 1867 Westphalia, Germany Harbor Elkhart & Lake Michigan 1836 to Westphalia Twp. ---- First Director 1868 1852 opened store in village Benton Harbor Street Niles & South Bend ---- First Director 1888 First Director 1869 Westphalia, Hubbardston & Northern PLUMMER, Daniel [Ontonagon PLATT, Henry S. [Monroe] First Director 1869 Co.] Havre Branch Born Oct. 26, 1819, Commissioner 1836 PLUES, Lyman Henry [East Abbottsford, Quebec, Canada Saginaw] In 27th Mich. Infantry, 1862- PLATT, Nathan Ely Born Nov. 25, 1846, Saginaw 64 [Marquette] Died Mar. 18, 1904, Saginaw Died May 10, 1910, Cedar Born May 1, 1823, ---- Falls, Iowa Washington, Ct. Flint & Pere Marquette ---- c.1858 to Marquette from General Baggage Agent Ontonagon & State Line Utica, N. Y. 1889-90 First Director 1855 President, Lake Superior Foundry (Marquette) PLUMB, George E. # [Chicago] PLUMMER, James H. [Bay City] 1861 to Chicago Lake Michigan & Kalamazoo Glencoe, Pinconning & Lake ---- First Director 1910 Shore Peninsula RR President, Director, First Director 1862 PLUMB, Henry D. [Grand Treasurer 1878 Northern Iron RR Rapids] General Manager 1878 First Director 1862 Born Sept. 1846, N. Y. state Pinconning Served in 1st Mich. Engineers President, Director 1879 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 127 General Manager 1879 PortraitSagBay, 871 President 1879-80 Born Sept. 13, 1841, Parkman, Detroit & Chicago PLUMMER, W. T. [Fenton] Ohio Director 1889-1902 Ohio & Lake Superior 1846 to Bay City Detroit, Delray & Dearborn First Director 1865 1887 started Pomeroy Cracker Vice President, Director Co. 1895-1916 POLDI, J. L. # [Port Huron] ----- Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Port Huron Southern Grand Rapids & Ionia Director 1887-1902 Chief Engineer 1905-07 First Director, First Detroit, Mackinaw & Treasurer 1903 Marquette POLLASKY, Marcus [Chicago] Ionia & Owosso Attorney 1880 The Illustrated American (Apr. First Director, First Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw 7, 1894), 382-83; Treasurer 1903 Director 1901-02 BiogGrat, 55-56; Grand Rapids, Belding & Kalamazoo & South Haven Born Sept. 6, 1861, Detroit Greenville President, Director 1863 to Alma First Director, First 1881-1904 1883 grad. Univ. of Mich. law Treasurer 1905 Lake Shore & Michigan school Southern 1888 president Chicago Postal POMEROY, Ladue # Attorney 1881-86 Telegraph Co. Jackson Consolidated Michigan Air Line RR 1891 Fresco, Calif. townsite Treasurer 1907 Director 1887-1902 promoter Vice President 1891-92 1906 president Chicago POMROY, Henry K. # [New Saginaw Bay & Northwestern Central Sub-Railroad Co. York City] President, Director 1908 proposed interurban Born 1853, South Newton, 1883-1900 lines out of Oklahoma City Mass. Alma College law library his ---- POND, B. S. [Flushing] gift Wabash Flushing (July 25, 1925, Chicago) Director 1916-17 First Director 1886 ---- Escanaba, Twin Cities & POND, Ashley [Detroit] POND, Edward F. [Kalamazoo] Western BkDet, 367; ABH-1,1:115 Allegan & Lake Shore First Director 1889 Born Nov. 23, 1827, Director 1886-88 San Joaquin Valley [Calif.] Wilmington, N. Y. Promoter 1891 1832 to Branch Co., Mich. POND, James Clark # West Virginia, Ohio & Western 1854 graduated Univ. of Mich. BiogRy1906, 480 President 1897 1856 began law practice; for Born Nov. 30, 1857, St. short time w/John S. Lawrence, Minn. POLLER, J. W. # [Lansing] Newberry ---- Lansing Connecting Died Jan. 12, 1910, Detroit Various roads First Director 1914 ---- Various work 8/1870-9/91 Michigan Central Wisconsin Central POLLOCK, William G. # Director 1878-82, [Milwaukee] [Cleveland] 1885-1902 General Passenger Agent Secy-treas Pittsburg & Lake General Counsel 1883-1908 9/1891-4/1909 Angeline Mine Battle Creek & Sturgis Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault ---- Director 1890-1902 Ste. Marie [Chicago] Lake Superior & Ishpeming Bay City & Battle Creek Asst. General Passenger Treasurer, Director Director 1890-1902 Agent 4/1909-10/20 1896-1917 Buchanan & St. Joseph River Director 1900-02 POND, James L. [New York POMEROY, Charles H. # Detroit & Bay City City] [Saginaw] Director 1879-88 Buffalo & Washington 128 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Director 1865-66 Mechanical Superintendent c.1837 to Port Huron Ohio & Grand Haven 1915-16 State representative 1841 First Director 1872 c.1848 to Waukegan, Ill., PORTER, Henry Homer # apparently newspaper work PORTEOUS, Robert # HerrNL, 4:489; BiogRy1906, 1850 to Muskegon Co. [Manistee] 481 Died 1874 Manistee & Northeastern Born Dec. 7, 1835, Machias, ---- Auditor 1892-1901 Me. Port Huron & Lake Michigan 1866 parter of Jesse Spalding, Commissioner 1847 PORTER, Benjamin [Jackson] lumbering PortraitJack, 380-81 Died Mar. 31, 1910, Chicago PORTER, J. C. Born Nov. 8, 1793, Goshen, ---- Grand Rapids, Chicago & St. Conn. Galena & Chicago Union Louis 1833 to Detroit, carpenter Various work 1853-?? First Director 1890 1838 to Jackson, supt. Michigan Southern & Northern Reeds Lake Electric construction of prison Indiana [Monroe] First Director 1890 Died July 23, 1862, Jackson General Freight Agent no ---- dates PORTER, James B. [Lansing] Grand River Valley Superintendent PortraitIngLiv, 420-21; Commissioner 1846 8/1863-10/65 MichBiog, 2:202 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Born Sept. 7, 1824, Marcellus, PORTER, Benjamin W. Director 1868-1906 N. Y. Deer Creek & Marble Quarry Chicago & North Western 1833 family to Michigan First Director 1869 [Chicago] 1840 family to Allegan Director 6/1870-6/78 County offices PORTER, Edwards W. General Manager 1873-3/76 1864 to Olivet, officer at Olivet [Chicago] Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis Coll. Chicago & Canada Southern & Omaha 1866 to Lansing First Director 1871 President no dates Mich. Secy. State 1861-67 Menominee River Died Mar. 7, 1897, Lansing PORTER, F. S. # [Lansing] First Director, Director ---- Ionia & Owosso 1875-78 West Branch & Moorestown First Director 1903 Union Pacific First Director, Director Director 1873-77 1882-84 PORTER, Frank J. # [East Chicago & Indiana Coal Vice President 1883-84 Jordan] President no dates Born July 12, 1870 Chicago & Eastern Illinois PORTER, John Cole [Morenci] Died Nov. 11, 1912 President no dates Born June 22 or 24, 1822, ---- Seneca Co., N. Y. East Jordan & Southern PORTER, Hugh # [New York Died July 29, 1903, Morenci Cashier 1906 City] ---- Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Detroit, Eel River & Illinois PORTER, Henry H. [Chicago, ? Director 1884-88 First Director 1870 Dowagiac] Vice President, Treasurer Born Oct. 12, 1847, Jordan, N. 1887-88 PORTER, John Fredenrich Y. Pontiac, Oxford & Northern MichBiog, 2:202 Hydraulic engineer; inventor Director 1889-1906 Born March 17, 1806, Albany, ---- Vice President 1889-91 N.Y. Buchanan & St. Joseph River President 1892-1906 1835 to St. Joseph, commission Director 1895-97 Treasurer 1889-1906 & shipping business President of St. Joseph village PORTER, H. P. # [East Jordan] PORTER, Ira [Port Huron] 1837-41 East Jordan & Southern MichBiog, 2:202 c.1845 to Niles Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 129 Regent, Univ. of Mich. 1846 Jordan] ---- 1853 to New York City MCH, 4:141-42 Grand Rapids & Holland Died Nov. 16, 1866, Brooklyn, Born Oct. 4, 1853, Butler Co., First Director 1871 N.Y. Pa. ---- 1879 to East Jordan, worked in POST, Hoyt # [Detroit] Michigan, Internal saw mill BkDet, 367 Improvement Board 1887 one of organizers of East Born Apr. 8, 1837, Tinmouth, Commissioner 1846 Jordan Lumber Co. Vt. St. Joseph Valley Died 1959, East Jordan 1849 family to Detroit Commissioner 1848 ---- 1861 grad. Univ. of Mich. law Michigan Southern [New York East Jordan & Southern school City] First Director, Director Attorney General Agent 1853-66 1901-17 ---- President 1901-17 East Detroit & Grosse Pointe PORTER, LeRoy V. # General Manager 1901-17 First Director 1887 BiogRy1922, 502 Secretary 1905-07 Detroit Citizens Street Born Sept. 11, 1876, Hopkins First Director 1891 ---- POST, Creyton J. # [Grand Midland & Hubbard Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Rapids] First Director, Director Various work 9/1896- Central Michigan 1893-97 5/1906 Director 1896-1902 Vice President 1894-97 Lake Shore & Michigan Vice President 1902-06 Grand River Electric Southern [Cleveland] Grand Rapids Electric First Director 1898 Auditor Dept. 5/1906-1/10 First Director, Director Detroit & Northwestern Asst. Auditor 1/1910-10/14 1903-08 First Director 1899 Chief Clerk to V. P. Secretary 1908 Delray Terminal Accounting 10/1914-7/18 First Director, Director New York Central [New York POST, Henry Albertson VanZo 1905-12 City] # [New York City] President 1905-12 Asst. Comptroller 7/1918- Wikipedia (30) Born May 16, 1832, New York POST, Jacob J. [Cheboygan] City Powers, 3:1104-06 PORTER, Phil [Detroit] Colonel of 2nd U. S. Vol. Born Feb. 20, 1839, Livingston Coldwater & Central Michigan Sharpshooters, 1861-62 Co., N. Y. First Director 1884 1864 to Cincinnati, In Civil War Riverdale & Lake Michigan manufacturer 1872 to Cheboygan, started First Director 1884 1870 to New York City, hardware store Saginaw Suburban investment broker City founder; 1911 became First Director 1898 Died Jan. 25, 1914, Glendale, president of First Natl. Bank Ohio ---- PORTER, William Henry # ---- Cheboygan & East Michigan [New York City] Flint & Pere Marquette First Director 1891 WhosWhoFB, 545 Director 1880 Born Jan. 3, 1861, Middlebury, Manistee RR POST, John Coatsworth # Vt. First Director 1880 [Holland] Officer in several banks in New Born Sept. 20, 1854, Holland York City POST, Henry Denison Attorney; newspaper editor; Died Nov. 30, 1926 [Holland] bank director ---- Born Mar. 26, 1824, East Resided in Milwaukee for a Pere Marquette Rutland, Vt. time Director 1911-17 1848 to Holland Died Nov. 20, 1903 Newspaper publisher ---- PORTER, William Pitt # [East Died July 20, 1897, Holland Grand Rapids & Lake Michigan 130 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1889 ---- Grand Rapids, Chicago & St. POTTER, Calvin B. # [St. Chicago & North Western Louis Joseph] Engineering Dept. 1876- First Director 1890 MichBiog, 2:204; HistBerVB, 1/91 Holland South Shore 147; HistBerr, 181 Chicago, Fort Madison & Des First Director 1890 Born July 15, 1837, Moines Grand Rapids & North Brownville, Jefferson Co., N. Y. Gen. Superintendent, Chief Western 1838 family to Michigan Engineer 1/1891-5/93 First Director 1908 1860 graduated Albany Law Vice President, General [Milwaukee] School Manager 5/1893-1/1901 1866 to St. Joseph, attorney Davenport, Rock Island & POST, Samuel # [Ypsilanti] State representative 1875-76\ Northwestern MichBiog, 2:203; BiogRep, Died c.1903, Salt Lake City General Manager 4-11/1901 2:319-21 ---- Wisconsin Central Born Nov. 9, 1834, Ypsilanti St. Joseph Valley [Milwaukee] c.1853 opened dry goods & Director 1881 General Superintendent clothing store 11/1901-5/09 State representative 1871-72 POTTER, Clarkson N. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault 1873 to Detroit, U. S. pension CongBiog Ste. Marie [Mpls] agent Born Apr. 25, 1825, General Superintendent Died Dec. 10, 1921, Miami, Schenectdy, N. Y. 5/1909-3/11 Fla.; buried Ypsilanti Brother of Robert B. Potter Asst. to General Manager ---- 1842 graduated Union College; 3/1911-(22) Toledo, Ypsilanti & Saginaw 1843 Rensselaer Poly. Gogebic & Montreal River Air Line Civil engineer, 1847 attorney Director 1906-17 First Director 1869 U. S. Representative 1869-75 Died Jan. 23, 1882, New York POTTER, George N. # POTTER, Allen City; buried in Schenectady [Potterville] MichBiog, 2:203; CongBiog ---- MichBiog, 2:204 Born Oct. 2, 1818, Galloway, Michigan Southern & Northern Born Oct. 16, 1827, Ira, N.Y. Saratoga Co., N.Y. Indiana 1830 to Saline 1830 to Adrian Director 9/1857-4/60 1844 to Eaton Co. 1838 to Jonesville, became Founder of Potterville; in tinsmith POTTER, Emery Davis, Jr. lumbering & manufacturing 1845 to Kalamazoo, [Toledo] State senator 1887-8 manufacturing, mercantile Born Nov. 27, 1844, Died Nov. 1, 1902, Potterville State representative 1857-58 Willoughby, Ohio ---- U. S. Representative 1875-77 1862-63 in Civil War Peninsular Ry Held local offices, in banking 1864 graduated Univ. Mich. First Director 1865 1884 first mayor of Kalamazoo law school Died May 8, 1885, Kalamazoo ---- POTTER, Harry Clark # ---- Michigan Central [Kalamazoo] Kalamazoo & South Haven Local attorney Born Oct. 14, 1846, Albion, N. First Director, Director Lake Shore & Michigan Y. 1869-85 Southern Died Nov. 8, 1904, Kalamazoo President 1869-80 Local attorney ---- Flat River & Houghton Lake Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw First Director 1871 Director 1894-1914 Secretary, Treasurer 1888- 1903 POTTER, Alonzo # [New York POTTER, Earl F. # General Passenger & Freight City] BiogRy1922, 503 Agent 1888-1903 Detroit United 1876 graduated Northwestern Auditor 1888-1903 Director 1907-09 Univ. Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 131 POTTER, Harry Staples 7/1/1879-9/30/1880 First Director 1898 [Boston] Flint River Pere Marquette Died June 1919 First Director 1871 Comptroller 1899 ---- Cass River Grand Rapids, Belding & Detroit & Lima Northern First Director 1871 Saginaw Director 1897 Bay City & East Saginaw Director 1901 Director 1871-72 Detroit United POTTER, Henry A. # [Ovid] East Saginaw & St. Clair Asst. Treasurer 1907 PastClint, 28-31 First Director 1872 [Detroit] Born Apr. 6, 1840, Starkey, Saginaw & Clare County Grand Rapids, Holland & Yates Co., N. Y. Treasurer, Director 1879-88 Chicago 1856 to Ovid, taught school, President 1882-88 First Director, Director farmed Saginaw & Mt. Pleasant 1904-08 [Detroit] 1862-65 in Civil War Director 1879-88 1865 into dry goods business Treasurer 1882-85 POTTER, James W. [Boston] President of two banks Vice President 1886-88 Detroit, Hillsdale & South Died July 1, 1935, Quaker Hill, Manistee RR Western N. Y. First Director 1880 Director 1880-92 ---- President, Director 1881-88 Ovid & Traverse Bay Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron POTTER, John B. [Lawrence] First Director 1882 First Director, Director Mackinac & Chicago 1881-90 First Director 1872 POTTER, Henry (C.) [Battle Creek] POTTER, Henry Camp, Jr. # POTTER, Nathan Simpson # Born June 17, 1830, Scituate [East Saginaw] [Jackson] Twp., Providence Co., R. I. BiogRy1885 p. 192; BkDet, Born June 1851, N. Y. state 1868 bought lumber business 368 Son-in-law of Peter B. Loomis ---- Born Nov. 11, 1857, New Banker Ohio, Quincy & Grand Haven Utrecht, N.Y. ---- First Director 1872 Son of Henry C. Potter; brother Fort Wayne, Jackson & of William F. Potter Saginaw POTTER, Henry Camp [East Died Jan. 4, 1909, probably Treasurer 1879 Saginaw] Detroit Jackson City BiogRy1885, 191; HistSag, ---- First Director 1881 2:193-97 Flint & Pere Marquette Jackson, Ann Arbor & Detroit Born July 14, 1823, Utica, N.Y. Clerk 9/1875-5/81 Traction Father of William F. and Henry Secretary, Director First Director 1903 C. Potter, Jr. 5/1881-97 Jackson & Battle Creek No date graduated Union Treasurer 6/1884-97 Traction College, medical degree Manistee RR Director 1903-05 1847 into RR contracting with First Director, Director Jackson, Ann Arbor & Detroit Samuel Farwell 1880-88 First Director 1906 (his father-in-law) Secretary, Treasurer Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Died Apr. 3, 1909, Saginaw 1881-88 Chicago ---- Saginaw & Mt. Pleasant Director 1912-13 Flint & Pere Marquette Director 1882-88 Michigan United Traction Superintendent 1/1862-68 Treasurer 1886-88 Director 1912-14 Director 1870-97 Monroe & Toledo Michigan Ry Secretary 1868-81 First Director 1893 Director 1914-17 Treasurer 1868-84 Bay City Belt Line General Manager 1873-90 Secretary, Treasurer 1897 POTTER, Orrin W. # [Chicago] Vice President 1880-92 Director 1897 HistChi3, 444 Receiver Saginaw & Frankenmuth Born Dec. 25, 1836, Rochester, 132 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) N.Y. Alpena 1870 to Marquette, govt. 1871-89 president North First Director 1891 contractor Chicago Rolling Mills 1877 went into logging Died May 17, 1907, Chicago POTVIN, F. C. # [Saginaw] Founded bank ---- Saginaw & Flint Died Feb. 21, 1923, Marquette Flint & Pere Marquette Secretary, Auditor 1912-13 ---- Director 1876 Saginaw-Bay City Marquette & Iron Range Secretary 1911-13 First Director 1895 POTTER, Robert Brown [New Auditor 1913 York City] POWELL, Isaac Born July 16, 1829, POULSEN, Alfred E. # [Battle Born June 17, 1798 Schenectady, N.Y. Creek] Died July 5, 1865 Brother of Clarkson N. Potter Grand Rapids & South ---- In Civil War, major general of Michigan Traction Romeo & Mt. Clemens volunteers First Director 1903 [Romeo] Died Feb. 19, 1887, Newport, Battle Creek & Grand Rapids Commissioner 1833 R. I.; buried New York City Inland ---- First Director 1904 Atlantic & Great Western Asst. Secretary 1908 POWELL, Joseph C. # [Pontiac] Receiver 4/1867-12/68 HistOak2, 2:690-91 Grand Rapids & Indiana POUND, J. Harry # [Benton Born Jan. 22, 1823, Fishkill, N. Director 1872-87 Harbor] Y. Benton Harbor-St.Joe Ry & Farmed with his father POTTER, Walter [Boston] Light 1874 to Pontiac, judge Marquette Iron Range Cable Gen. Frt. Agent, Gen. Psgr. Died Mar. 9, 1901, Pontiac Transit Agent 1910-14 ---- First Director 1886 Oxford & Port Austin POWELL, Ambrose Vincent First Director 1879 POTTER, William F. [East BkChi, 466 Pontiac & Oxford Saginaw] Born May 4, 1847, Laurens, First Director 1879 BiogRy1885, 192 Otsego Co., N. Y. Born Oct. 26, 1855, Utica, N.Y. 1868 graduated Rensselaer POWELL, Thomas W. [London, Son of Henry C. Potter; brother Polytechnic Inst. Engl.] of Henry C. Potter, Jr. ---- Stock broker Died Apr. 2, 1905 Pennsylvania-East ---- ---- Engineering Service Detroit, Grand Haven & Flint & Pere Marquette Michigan & Ohio Ry [Battle Milwaukee Clerk 10/1875-6/81 Creek] Director 1878 Div. Superintendent Chief Engineer 1874-75 6/1881-84 Chicago & Grand Trunk [Battle POWERS, Walter S. # [Battle Asst. Superintendent Creek] Creek] 1885-90 Asst. Chief Engineer 1879- HistMich1915, 3:1562-65; General Superintendent 82 BiogCal, 157-58 1891-96 Born Jan. 14, 1849, Genesee Saginaw & Clare County POWELL, Daniel W. # (now Wyoming) Co., N.Y. Director 1882-88 [Marquette] 1850 to Barry Co. Long Island RR HistNP, 2:751-52 1851-n.d. various work, General Superintendent Born Apr. 30, 1846, Totnes, various places c.1904- Devon, England 1877 graduated Univ. Mich. President, no dates 1862 family to Bruce Mine, Law School Ontariio c.1879 to Nashville, attorney POTTER, William N. 1866 to Kentucky, mine 1899 to Battle Creek, attorney Grand Rapids, Grayling & explorer, then to Wisconsin ---- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 133 Michigan-Indiana Traction Asst. Treasurer 7/1878- PRENTISS, James Z. # First Director 1911 5/83 [Deerfield] Treasurer 5/1883-91 Born Apr 7, 1858 POWERS, William N. [Grand ---- Rapids] PRATT, J. G. # Ann Arbor Interurban Grand Rapids Belt Line Toledo, Ann Arbor & Jackson First Director 1904 First Director 1891 Attorney 1914-15 PRENTISS, John H. [Chicago] PRATT, Alfred Stuart # PRATT, Josiah [Flint] Flint & Pere Marquette [Boston] Flint & Pere Marquette Director 1870-79 Born Sept. 9, 1862, Newton, First Director 1857 Mass. PRESCOTT, Allen G. # Brother of Frederick S. Pratt PRAY, George Washington Bay City & Port Huron Executive, Stone & Webster [Ronald Twp., Ionia Co.] First Director 1904 syndicate MichBiog, 2:209; Schenck, 348 ---- Born Aug. 27, 1825, Angelica, PRESCOTT, Charles Holden # Houghton County Street N. Y. [Bay City] Treasurer 1904-07 1845 graduated Univ. Mich. BiogNM, 829-30 1856 to Ionia Co. Born Mar. 25, 1828, Readfield, PRATT, Frederick S. # [Boston] 1863-67 in Ann Arbor Me. Born c.1873, in Massachusetts State representative 1879-80 Father-in-law of B. H. Thomas Brother of A. Stuart Pratt Died Jan. 27, 1890, Ronald 1853 to Pennsylvania, lumber 1894 grad. Harvard Univ. Twp. 1870 invested in Mich. timber 1920 made partner in Stone & ---- land Webster Ionia & Stanton 1884 to Cleveland ---- First Director 1869 Died Jan. 14, 1913, Cleveland Houghton County Traction ---- Director 1909-17 PREBLE, Raymond E. # [Grand Tawas & Bay County President 1909-11 Rapids] First Director, Director Born c.1875 1880-1881 PRATT, George L. [Boston] ---- President, Treasurer 1881 Detroit, Lansing & Lake Manistee Light & Traction Michigan Director 1907-12 PRESCOTT, Oliver [New First Treasurer 1871 Treasurer 1907-12 Bedford, Mass.] Secretary 1907 Born Nov. 26, 1806, Westford, PRATT, Henry [New York City] Mass. BiogRy1885, 192 PRENTICE, Walter Walford Died June 11, 1890 Born Aug. 16, 1838, Chelsea, Born Aug. 12, 1795, Somers, ---- Mass. Conn. Flint & Fentonville Phillips & Colby (building Mayor or Monroe, 1854 First Director 1863 Wisconsin Central) 1871-78 Died May 27, 1867, Monroe Flint & Holly ---- ---- First Director 1863 Hudson River Monroe & Ypsilanti [Monroe] Clerk 1852-4/61 Commissioner 1836 PRICE, Charles E. [Grand Michigan Southern & Northern Rapids] Indiana PRENTISS, Azariah [Romeo] Grand Haven Secretary to President Born c.1812 First Director, Director 8/1863-68 1830 to Romeo, school teacher 1878-81 Auditor 1868-70 Postmaster, Romeo, 1844-48 Lake Shore & Michigan ---- PRICE, David M. [Utica, N.Y.] Southern Macomb & Saginaw Mackinac & Lake Superior Asst. Auditor 1870-2/71 Commissioner 1835 First Director 1873 Michigan Central 134 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) PRICE, John First Director 1901 N.Y. Shelby & Belle River 1850 to Jackson, lawyer Commissioner 1836 PRIDDY, Frank E. # [Adrian] State representative 1861-2, Born Feb. 28, 1865, Maple State senator 1867-8 PRICE, John W. Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y. Many city offices Grand Rapids City 1890 graduated Adrian Coll. Died June 15, 1908, Jackson First Director 1864 1892 admitted to bar ---- Died Feb. 26, 1909, Adrian Air Line Ry of Michigan PRICE, Joseph [Hamilton, Ont.] ---- First Director 1869 Born 1833, Newport, Jackson & Adrian Electric Romeo & Almont Monmouth, England First Director 1899 First Director 1870 1884-1904, Chairman, English Adrian Street Romeo & Western Assn of American First Director, Director First Director 1870 Bond & Share Holders 1900-06 Michigan Air Line RR Died Feb. 4, 1905, London Secretary 1902-06 Director 1872-88 ---- Fort Wayne, Jackson & Chicago & Alton [Chicago] PRIDGEON, John, Jr. # [Detroit] Saginaw Treasurer 1859-64 BkDet, 370 Secretary 1872-79 Great Western Ry of Canada Born Aug. 1, 1852, Detroit Fort Wayne & Jackson Treasurer 1864-73 Operated shipping line Attorney 1880-82 General Manager 1873-75 Owned Detroit & Windsort Grand River Valley Port Huron & Lake Michigan Ferry Secretary Director 1872-73 Mayor of Detroit 1888-89 Detroit, Toledo & Jackson Detroit & Milwaukee Died Mar. 16, 1929, First Director 1881 Vice President, Director Cambridge, Mass. 1870-74 ---- PRITCHARD, Albert L. [New Grand Trunk Ry of Canada Detroit, Grand Haven & York City] Vice President 1895-1905 Milwaukee Chicago & North Western Director 1888-1916 Director 6/1860-6/68 PRICE, Lyman B. [Lakeview Treasurer 6/1866-10/72 Twp.] PRINCE, Frederick Henry # Secretary 12/1868-10/72 MichBiog, 2:211 [Boston] Chicago & Canada Southern Born Nov. 22, 1811, Rush, N. Y. Born 1859, Winchester, Mass. Director 1877-78 (genealogists have birth as Member, NYSE, 1885-1953 1813) 1900s bought and merged PRITCHARD, Benjamin Dudley 1827 to Utica stockyards; formed Union # [Cleveland] Macomb Co. sheriff 1840 Stockyard in Chicago Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand 1852 became merchant Frost Hall at Gordon College Rapids State representative 1847, was his last residence Director 1912 State senator 1871-72 Died Feb. 3, 1953 Died 1889 ---- PRITCHETTE, Kintzing ---- Pere Marquette MichBiog, 2:212 Rochester, Almont & Northern Director 1901-02, 1911-17 June 24, 1800, Philadelphia First Director 1879 President 1902-03 1831 to Detroit; eventually Pere Marquette International practiced law PRICE, Orrin J. # [Detroit] Bridge 1835-38 Mich. Secretary of Landmarks, 2:804-05 First Director 1903 State Born Nov. 30, 1847, Lapeer Co. Fort Street Union Depot 4/1848-4/49 Oregon Terr. 1877 to Detroit, business President 1903 Treasurer investor 4/1849-8/1850 Oregon Terr. ---- PRINGLE, Eugene Secy. of State Detroit, Pontiac, Lapeer & MichBiog, 2:212 6/-8/1850 Oregon Terr. Gov. Northern Born Dec. 1, 1826, Richfield, Died Apr. 12, 1869, while at Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 135 sea Clerk 1880-87 5/1900 ---- Asst. Auditor 1887-1903 Grand Trunk Ry of Canada Michigan, Internal Asst. to Vice President 1902- [Montreal] Improvement Board 03 General Freight Agent Secretary 5/1837-4/1838 Asst. to President 1903-05 5/1900-8/05 Vice President 1905-15 Asst. Freight Traffic Manager PROCTOR, Joseph A. [Eastlake] Director 1910 8/1905-10/11 Manistee & Luther Receiver 1912-15 Grand Trunk Western Treasurer, Director 1886 General Freight Agent 1900- PRYOR, G. C. # [Chicago] 04 PROSSER, Arthur D. # [Detroit] Port Huron Southern Born c.1863, N. Y. state Secretary, Director 1904-06 PULLEN, William [Lowell] ---- Born 1830, in England Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo PUGSLEY, John K. [Paw Paw] 1847 family to Pontiac Electric Born Jan. 6, 1796, England 1866 to Lowell, merchant First Director 1899 1835 to Paw Paw ---- Southern Michigan Traction Died Jan. 29, 1882, Paw Paw Hastings, Lowell & Northern First Director 1901 ---- Michigan Huron & Michigan Paw Paw First Director 1883 First Director 1903 First Director 1857 Attorney 1903 PULSIFER, William H. # [Battle Grand Rapids & Saginaw PULLEN, Charles F. P. # Creek] Attorney 1903-07 [Milwaukee] Merchant Born 1852, in Maine ---- PROUDFOOT, William Banker Michigan & Chicago [Toronto] Died Sept. 27, 1913 Westbound Chicago, Detroit & Canada ---- First Director 1909 Grand Trunk Jct. Erie & Michigan Ry & First Director 1858 Navigation PURMAN, Andrew Algernon First Director, Director [Fort Wayne, Ind.] PROUTY, John S. 1904-06 Born Jan. 13, 1850 (May be b. Nov. 16, 1813, Treasurer 1906 Lawyer Schenectady; d. May 6, 1889; Died 1930 res. Geneva, N. Y.) PULLEN, John # ---- Michigan Southern & Northern BiogRy1913, 443 Lima Northern Indiana Born Jan. 23, 1863, Shenton, Director 1896 Director 9/1857-4/60 Somersetshire, England Pres. Canadian Express Co., PURVIS, Austin M. # PROUTY, Nathaniel [Detroit] 10/1911-(13) [Philadelphia] Born 1794 ---- Pennsalt Died Sept. 21, 1874, Detroit Grand Trunk Ry of Canada First Director 1901 ---- Various work 1877-81 Wyandotte Southern Grand River Street Chicago & Grand Trunk Director 1908-15 First Director 1869 [Chicago] Secretary to Traffic Manager PUTNAM, William Henry PRYOR, Edward Bailey # [St. 1881-89 [Goodrich] Louis, Mo.] Grand Trunk Ry of Canada HistGen2, 384 WhosWhoFB, 555; Div. Freight Agent 1896-97 Born Apr. 12, 1808, Rome, N. BiogRy1913, 442 [Stratford, Ont.] Y. Born Mar. 8, 1854, Div. Freight Agent 1897-98 1836 to Groveland Twp., Fayetteville, W. Va. [Hamilton, Ont.] Oakland Co. ---- Central Vermont 1850 to Goodrich, merchant Wabash General Freight Agent 1898- Died Nov. 20, 1878, Goodrich 136 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ---- Detroit & Bay City Lapeer & Holly Director 1879-80 First Director 1872 Chicago & North Western Director 6/1886-2/95 PYEATT, John Samuel # BkDet, 372; BiogRy1913, 444 Born Sept. 29, 1874 or Sept. 27, 1876, Prairie Grove, Ark. Died Oct. 20, 1946, New Orleans; burial Denver ---- Various roads Various work 1893-1905 Pere Marquette Div. Superintendent 1904- 05 [St. Thomas, Ont.] Div. Superintendent 7/1905- 1/11 [Detroit] Div. Superintendent 1- 5/1911 [Grand Rapids] St. Louis-San Francisco of Texas Div. Superintendent 5/1911- 2/12 General Superintendent 2- 6/1912 General Manager 6/1912- 3/16 Vice President 2/1912-3/16 President 3/1916-6/18 Gulf Coast Lines President 6/1918-3/19, 3/20-22 PYNE, Percy Rivington [New York City] Born Mar. 8, 1820, London, England 1835 to U. S.; clerk for Moses Taylor & Co., then partner Marr. n.d. Albertina Taylor (daughter of Moses Taylor) 1882-91 pres. National City Bank (now Citibank) Director, Western Union Died 1895, New York City ---- Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Vice President Fort Wayne & Jackson Director 1880-94 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 137 Q 1884-4/96 Conn. Grand Trunk Ry of Canada 1850 bought Morgan Iron QUACKENBUSH, William # [Toronto] Works [Mt. Clemens] General Baggage Agent 1869 estab. Quintard Iron Detroit & Port Huron Shore 4/1896-15 Works Line Grand Trunk Western Died Apr. 2, 1913, New York Div. Superintendent 1908 [Toronto] City General Baggage Agent ---- QUAINTANCE, Marion F. # 1902-15 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North [Petoskey] Michigan Born Oct. 10, 1855, Crawford, QUICK, Martin Henderson # Director 1893-94 Wyandot Co., Ohio [Manistique] Ann Arbor Died Oct. 1933, Petoskey NPMemorial, 153-55, HistNP, Vice President, Director ---- 3:1145-46 1895-1901 Grand Rapids & Indiana Born Feb. 17, 1840, Cameron, Station Agent 1880s Steuben Co., N. Y. QUIRK, Daniel Lace # Bay View & Crooked Lake 1872 to Manistique, mgr [Ypsilanti] First Director 1880 Chicago Lumber Co; 1897, PastWash, 51-55; Supt same MenProgress, 3:101 QUAYLE, Robert # [Chicago] Supt Western Lumber Co Born June 15, 1818, BkChi, 473; BiogRy1893, 300 Director,Treasurer. White Ballachrink, Isle of Man Born Nov. 23, 1853, Douglas, Marble Lime Co 1838 to Ann Arbor, milling Isle of Man Organizer Western Furnace 1853 to Chicago Died Sept. 3, 1922 Co. 1863 to Ypsilanti, founder of ---- Died Jan. 29, 1920, Manistique bank Chicago & North Western ---- 1887 pres. Peninsular Paper Motive Power Dept. 1871- Manistique & Northwestern Co. 4/91 First Director, Director Died 1911-12, Ypsilanti Milwaukee, Lake Shore & 1891-1901 ---- Western Auditor 1899-1901 Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana Master Mechanic 4/1891- Director 1871-74 8/93 QUINCY, Charles E. [New York Vice President 1872-74 Chicago & North Western City] Detroit, Hillsdale & South Master Mechanic 8/1893- Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Western 12/94 Michigan First Director, Director Supt. Maint. of Equipment Director 1895 1873-78 12/1894-1915 Vice President 1873-74 Gen. Superintendent Motive QUINCY, Josiah, Jr. President 1875-78 Power & Car Dept. 1915-17 HerrNL, 4:536 Detroit, Eel River & Indiana Born Jan. 17, 1802, Boston Director QUICK, John Edward # 1823-28 mayor of Boston Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti Electric BiogRy1913, 445 1829-45 pres of Harvard Univ. First Director 1896 Born July 10, 1851, Richmond, Died Nov. 2, 1882, Quincy, Ontario Co., N. Y. Mass. ---- ---- Port Huron & Lake Michigan Michigan Central [Port Huron] Incorporator 1846 Ticket Clerk, Agent 1871-84 First Director, Director Chicago & Grand Trunk and 3/1846-8/1846 Detroit Grand Haven & Milwaukee QUINTARD, George William # [Port Huron] [New York City] General Baggage Agent Born Apr. 22, 1822, Stamford, 138 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) R ---- Traverse City, Peninsular & Petoskey, Harbor Springs & Old Mission Electric RABINEAU, Allen A. [Grand Northern First Director 1894 Rapids] First Director 1900 Born Apr. 1, 1808 Petoskey & Harbor Springs Ry RAMSDELL, Thomas J. # Died Nov. 27, 1893, Detroit First Director 1901 [Manistee] ---- MichBiog, 2:216; CycMich, Reeds Lake Street RADFORD, Richard G. [Detroit] 218-19; HistMich1915, First Director 1880 Petoskey, Harbor Springs & 4:1762-63 Street Ry of Grand Rapids Shore Born July 29, 1833, Plymouth, Secretary, Treasurer 1882 First Director 1899 Mich. Brother of Johnathan G. RADEMACHER, John H. # RALPH, Irene D. H. Rasmsdell [Manistee] Owosso & Corunna Electric National Law School (often spelled Rademaker) Street (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) Powers, 3:1181-82 First Director 1895 graduated 1858 Born Nov. 17, 1876, Manistee [Lancaster, Pa.] 1858 to Lansing 1890, office boy for Charles F. Long Lake, Durand & Corunna 1859 to Manistee, lawyer, Ruggles First Director 1898 banking, other interests 1896, bookkeeper for uncle [Owosso] State representative 1861-62 Henry Rademacher Died April 22, 1917, Manistee c.1904 director, Buckley & RALPH, John, Jr. # [Hancock] ---- Douglas Lumber Houghton County Street Manistee & Grand Rapids ---- Asst. Superintendent 1907 Secretary, Director 1891- Manistee & Northeastern Houghton County Traction 1904 Director 1909-17 Asst. Superintendent 1908- Attorney 1896-1904 09 Manistee & Northeastern RADFORD, Edwin Phillips # Superintendent 1910-12 Attorney 1899-1900 [Hermansville] General Superintendent HistNP, 1456-58 1913-17 RAMSEY, Charles G. [New York Born Feb. 15, 1851, Fond du City] Lac, Wisc. RALPH, Peter J. [Detroit] Milwaukee, Lake Shore & U. S. surveyor 1875-78 Michigan & Ohio Ry Western Engineeer, superintendent, Director 1875-79 Director 1883-87 Wisc. Land & Lumber 1881-?? ---- RALSTON, John # RAMSEY, James, Jr. # [St. Louis, Various roads Manistee, Filer City & East Mo.]] Engineer, surveyor 1871-75, Lake Ann Arbor 1879-81 Director 1903 Director, President 1903-04 Blaney & Southern Director, Vice President Vice President, Director RAMSDELL, Jonathan G. 1909 1911-17 [Traverse City] General Superintendent HistGrTLee, 318-19;Bingham, RAMSEY, Joseph, Jr. # [New 1913-17 540 York City] Born Jan. 10, 1830, Plymouth HerrNL, 4:542; PPA, 2:191-93; RADFORD, George W. # Brother of Thomas J. Ramsdell BiogRy1913, 446 [Detroit] 1862 to Traverse City, fruit Born Apr. 17, 1850, Pittsburgh, BkDet, 373 farmer Pa. Born Apr. 27, 1853, Circuit court judge, 1867-75, Died July 7, 1916, East Orange, Baldwinsville, N. Y. 1882-93. N. J. 1876 grad. Univ. Mich. law Died Feb.16, 1903, Traverse ---- school City Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Lawyer ---- Louis Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 139 Engineering Dept. 1869-70 Pittsburg, New Castle & Lake Born Dec. 13, 1833, Ithaca, N. Pennsylvania-West Erie Y. Asst. Engineer 1871-72 General Freight & Passenger Son of Nathan Randall Bells Gap Agent no dates Died May 16, 1873, Syracuse Chief Engineer 1872-73 Pittsburg Southern ---- President 1873-79 Auditor no dates Saginaw Street Pittsburg, New Castle & Lake Baltimore & Ohio First Director 1864 Erie Clerk no dates Chief Engineer 1/1879-9/79 Pittsburg, Chartiers & RANDALL, Franklin Peleg [Fort Pittsburg Southern Youghiogheny Wayne] Chief Engineer 9/1879-n.d. General Freight & Passenger HistFtW, 2:460 Pittsburg, Chartiers & Agent no dates Born June 2, 1812, Madison Youghiogheny Dayton, Fort Wayne & Chicago Co., N. Y. General Manager n.d.- Auditor ??-3/1891 Ind. state senator 1847-50 12/1882 Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Mayor, Ft. Wayne, 1859-64, Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton General Manager 3/1891- 1869-73 [Cincinnati] 4/92 Died May 23, 1892, Fort Chief Engineer 1/1883- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Wayne 12/89 & St. Louis ---- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago General Agent 4/1892-(93) Grand Rapids & Indiana & St. Louis [Cairo, Ill.] Director 1873-78 Asst. to President 1/1890- 91 RAND, Charles Frederick # RANDALL, James A. [Detroit] General Manager 1892- BiogRy1885, 197; Grand River Electric 12/95 [Ind’polis] WhosWhoFB, 561; HerrNL, First Director 1898 Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan 4:543 Detroit & Northwestern Vice President 1891-12/95 Born Aug. 17, 1856, Canaan, First Director 1899 Wabash [St. Louis, Mo.] Me. Vice Presiden 12/1895- 1862 family to Grand Rapids RANDALL, Leonard H. [Grand 1900 1887-93 to Cleveland, iron Rapids] General Manager 1895-97 mining businesses ABH, 2:part5:102-03 President 1901-04 1893 to New York City Born Nov. 1, 1829, Genesee Director 1901-02 Died c.1910 Co., N. Y. Detroit Union Bridge ---- 1857 to Grand Rapids, grocer First Director 1898 Grand Rapids, Newaygo & ---- Ann Arbor Lake Shore Michigan Northern RR President 8/1902-05, 1910- Clerk to President 9/1872- First Director 1869 12 12/73 Grand Rapids & Holland Director 8/1902-05, 1910- Michigan Lake Shore First Director 1871 14 Auditor 12/1873-11/74 Grand Rapids, Newaygo & Manistique & Lake Superior [Grand Haven] Lake Shore Director 1911-13 Michigan & Ohio Ry First Director 1869 Vice President, General Auditor 11/1874-7/75 Director 1870-80 Manager 1911-12 Wisconsin Central Treasurer 1876-79 Clerk 7/1875-12/76 RAMSEY, Nathaniel P. [Elkhart, Milwaukee, Lake Shore & RANDALL, Nathan [Syracuse, Ind.] Western N. Y.] BiogRy1893, 302 Clerk 12/1876-8/79 Born Oct. 28, 1808, Norwich, Born May 30, 1848, Pittsburgh, Auditor 8/1879-c.86 N. Y. Pa. [Milwaukee] Father of Charles M. Randall ---- Died May 18, 1871, El Bells Gap RANDALL, Charles M. Salvador; buried Syracuse, N. Various work 1873-?? [Syracuse, N. Y.] Y. 140 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ---- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Detroit City Cashier 1879-82 RANNEY, Lewis J. [Detroit] First Director 1863 [Milwaukee] Detroit, Lake Shore & Mt. Saginaw Street Asst. Treasurer 1882-87 Clemens First Director 1864 [Chicago] First Director 1896 Treasurer 2/1887-1917 Supt. Mechanical Dept. 1899 RANDOLPH, Edmund D. # Milwaukee & Northern [New York City] Treasurer, Director 1890-92 RANNEY, Peyton [Kalamazoo] Treasurer, New York Life MichBiog, 2:219 Ins.Co., 1905 RANNEY, Frederick Eli # Born Nov. 28, 1826, ---- [Greenville] Westminster, Vt. Detroit & Mackinac (also sp. H. E. Ranney and A. no date to Kalamazoo, into Director 1901 E. Ramsey) many businesses MenProgress, 287 Held city offices RANDOLPH, George G. # [New Born July 2, 1853, Ashfield, State representative 1883-84; York City] Mass. state senator 1889-90 Pere Marquette 1872 to Belding Died Oct. 13, 1889, Kalamazoo Director 1910 c.1892 to Greenville, started ---- refrigerator co. Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw RANKIN, Ernest [Marquette] Mayor, Greenville First Director 1883 Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Died Oct. 7, 1922 Passenger Agent 1882-86 ---- RANSOM, Epaphroditus Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon MichBiog, 2:219 General Passenger Agent Director 1908-17 Born Feb. 1797, Shelburne 1887-(88) "Ran railway between Belding Falls, Hampshire Co., Mass. New York Central & Hudson & Kiddville" Father of Wyllys C. Ransom River 1834 to Kalamazoo, lawyer Land & Tax Agent 1913 RANNEY, Frederick T. 1857 to Kansas, land ofc New York Central-East [Detroit] receiver Land & Tax Agent 1915 BkDet, 373 Justice Mich. Supreme Court Born Apr. 19, 1859, Ottawa 1836-47 RANKIN, Francis E. Center, Mich. Mich. Governor 1848-50 Born 1859 1884 grad. Williams College State representative 1853-4 Died 1934 1894 grad. Detroit College of Died Nov. 9, 1859, Fort Scott, ---- Law Kans., buried Kalamazoo Grand Trunk Ry of Canada Lawyer, real estate dealer ---- [Detroit] ---- Kalamazoo & Lake Michigan Attorney ??-1903 Detroit, Lake Shore & Mt. Incorporator 1836 Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Clemens Director 1888-92 First Director 1896 RANSOM, Jonathan H. Detroit United Rys Michigan Southern & Northern General Claims Agent1903- RANNEY, Dr. George E. Indiana ?? [Lansing] Director 4/1857-9/57, Born June 13, 1839, Batavia, N. 4/1860-9/60 RANNEY, Frederic G. # Y. President 8/1857-9/57 BkChi, 476; BiogRy1893, 303; Physician BiogRy1913, 448 With 2nd Mich. Cavalry, RANSOM, Wyllys Cadwell [East Born Oct. 16, 1842, Exeter, surgeon Saginaw] England Awarded Medal of Honor BiogRy1896, 388 Western Union, Various work Died Nov. 10, 1915, Lansing Born Apr. 28, 1824, 1874-79 ---- Townshend, Vt. Died Feb. 11, 1930, Chicago Lansing, St. Johns & Northern Son of Epaphroditus Ransom ---- First Director 1888 Grad. Univ. Mich. Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 141 Died Feb. 1, 1908, Grand Toledo & Northwestern Mackinaw Rapids, buried Kalamazoo President, Director 1898 Promoted line ---- Michigan & Ohio Kansas City & Cameron RAWLES, Aaron B. [Romeo] Promoted line President, General Manager HistMacomb, 671 4/1865-1//67 Born Apr. 14, 1812, near RAYNALE, Spencer B. Leavenworth, Lawrence & Albany, N. Y. [Corunna] Galveston 1832 to Detroit, store clerk HistShiClin, 132-33 Auditor 9/1869-4/75 1834 to Romeo, general store Born Oakland Co. Chicago & Lake Huron Died Apr. 4, 1872, Romeo Lawyer; pros. attorney Auditor 1877-81 ---- Died Sept. 26, 1874, Corunna Michigan, state of St. Clair & Romeo ---- Deputy Commissioner of Commissioner 1836 East Saginaw & Ann Arbor Railroads 1881-93 Shelby & Belle River Secretary 1871-72 Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron Commissioner 1836 Auditor 1893-95 RAYNOR, T. W. [Battle Creek] RAY, Charles [Milwaukee] Chicago & Grand Trunk RATCLIFF, R. W. MemMilw, 2:27-28 Roadmaster 1884 Deer Creek & Marble Quarry Born Jan. 27, 1835, Saugerties, First Director 1869 N. Y. REA, Robert # [Hillman] 1838 family to Milwaukee Co., Born Canada RATHBONE, Amos [Grand Wisc. 1886 to Hillman, lumberman Rapids] 1866 to Milwaukee, grain --- HistGrRap, 104-05 merchant Alpena & Western Born Oct, 14, 1808, Scipio, N. Y. Bank president, 1892-1900 First Director 1900 1842 to Grand Rapids, Treasurer, Northwestern merchant Mutual Life Ins. Co. REA, Samuel # [Philadelphia] Died Nov. 21, 1882, Grand Died 1926 BiogRy1922, 516 Rapids ---- Born Sept. 21, 1855, ---- Menominee Branch Hollidaysburg, Pa. Battle Creek & Grand Rapids First Director 1883 Died Mar. 1929, Philadelphia Commissioner 1846 Milwaukee & Northern ---- Director 1887-89 Pennsylvania-East RATHBUN, Joel Secretary, Treasurer Engineering Dept. 1875-88 Michigan Southern 1887-89 Asst. to 2nd Vice President, Director 6/1849-6/1850 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & 1888-89 Western Asst. to President 1892-97 RAUM, Green Berry # Director 1891-92 First Asst. to President [Chicago] 1897-99 Born Dec. 3, 1829, Golconda, RAYMOND, H. A. [Jackson] 4th Vice President 1899- Ill. Fort Wayne, Jackson & 10/1905 Became attorney in 1853 Saginaw 3rd Vice President 10/1905- 56th Ill. Infantry, 1861-65, col. Auditor 1877-79 3/09 to brig. gen. 2nd Vice President 3/1909- U. S. representative 1867-69 RAYMOND, Selah H. [Rollin] 3/11 U. S. commissioner internal MichBiog, 2:221; Bonner, 211; 1st Vice President 3/1911- revenue 1876-83 PortraitLen, 649-50 1/13 Died Dec. 18, 1909, Chicago; Born Aug. 31, 1840, Rollin Pennsylvania buried Twp., Lenawee President 1/1913-25 Arlington Natl. Cemetery State representative 1891-94; Trans-St. Marys Traction ---- several twp offices Director 1903 Cairo & Vincennes ---- Long Island President 1866-?? Cincinnati, Jackson & President 1923-25 142 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) York City] Died Oct. 29, 1887, Cassopolis READ, Sylvador T. [Cassopolis] BkChi, 479-80; HerrNL, 4:563; ---- HistCass, 399-400 PPA, 1:268-70; Michigan, Internal Born Jan. 12, 1822, Tompkins WhosWhoNY, 780 Improvement Board Co., N. Y. Born Nov. 5, 1844, Somerset Commissioner 5/1845-3/46 1828 family to Erie Co., Pa. Co., Pa 1832 to Monroe Co. 1866-71 in Princeton, Ill. And REDFIELD, Herman J. 1841 to Cass Co. Osceola, Iowa (This may be Heman J. 1893-98 bank president 1871-88 in Chicago, live stock Redfield, MichBiog, 2:224, or Died Jan. 15, 1898 & grain merchant his ---- 1889 real estate interests father Herman J. Redfield) Peninsular Ry Extension Died Feb. 9, 1915 ---- First Director 1866 ---- Michigan Southern & Northern Peninsular Ry Various roads Indiana Director 1872-73 Director Director 4/1857-9/57 Chicago & Lake Huron Pere Marquette Director 1874-79 Director 1906-13 REDFIELD, Joseph Barlow # [Chicago] READE, Herbert W. # REARDON, T. # [Onaway] BkChi, 480 [Escanaba] Onaway & North Michigan Born Sept. 25, 1825, Stamford, HistNP, 3:1470-71 Chief Engineer 1905-06 N. Y. Born Aug. 20, 1867, Romeo 1852 graduated Union Coll. 1887 to Newberry, bookeeper, RECTOR, David S. [Sodus] 1855 to Chicago, lawyer clerk Born July 14, 1814, Sodus, N. Y. Died Dec. 19, 1915; buried 1896 to Escanaba 1835 to St. Joseph Delhi, N. Y. 1907 officer, National Pole Co. 1837 to Sodus ---- ---- Died Sept. 28, 1889, burial Chicago & North Western Escanaba Tractiion Benton Harbor Auditor 1859-1909 Auditor 1910-17 ---- Asst. Secretary 1859-1909 Elkhart & Lake Michigan Asst. Treasurer 1883-1909 READING, J. W. # [Manistee] Director 1868 Director 6/1884-9/84 Manistee & Grand Rapids Menominee River General Superintendent REDDINGTON, Joseph A. Secretary 1877-81 1899-1903 [Cleveland] Director 1879-81 Born June 14, 1818, Saratoga Escanaba & Lake Superior REAGAN, John Harry # Springs, N. Y. First Director 1880 BiogRy1906, 495 Died May 11, 1894, Cleveland Secretary, Director 1881 Born May 4, 1856, Danville, Pa. ---- Iron Range ---- Lakes Superior & Michigan Air Secretary, Director 1888 Various roads Line Iron River Maintenance of Way 1869- First Director 1864 Secretary, Director 1888 78 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Wabash REDFIELD, George Western Maintenance of Way Dept. MichBiog, 2:224; HistCass, Director 1891-92 1878-93 322-25; HistCass2, 275-77 Chicago & Alton Born Oct. 6, 1796, Duffield, REED, A. L. {Lafayette, Ind.] Roadmaster 1893-97 Conn. St. Joseph & Lake Shore Grand Trunk Western [Battle 1835 to Cass Co., farming First Director 1894 Creek] State representative 1841 General Roadmaster 1897- State senator 1848-49, 1857- REED, Arthur L. [Port Huron] (1906) 58 Born c.1851, Mich. State treasurer 5/1845-3/46; ---- REAM, Norman Bruce # [New Secretary of State 2-4/1850 Port Huron & Northwestern Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 143 Chief Engineer 1879-88 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Western Asst. General Solicitor REED, Albert [Midland] Telegraph Operator 1877-80 4/1881-2/92 Midland & Northern Asst. Train Dispatcher 1880- Vice President 2/1892-6/96 First Director, Director 83 Director 1/1890-1/97 1894-97 Superintendent Telegraph Bessemer & Lake Erie and General Superintendent 1883-(93) predecessor 1894 President, Director 6/1896- REED, Heber C. # [Kalamazoo] (1922) REED, C. C. [Jackson] CompKal, 354-55, 388-89 Union RR Michigan Central Born Mar. 12, 1852, Climax President 5/1896-(1922) Superintendent Telegraph Son of Dewitt C. Reed Lake Shore & Michigan 1877-83 Officer of Kalamazoo Railway Southern Supply Co. Director 5/1892-5/98 REED, Charles Manning # Died Apr. 17, 1903, Kalamazoo [Erie, Pa.] ---- REED, John [McKinley] Born Aug. 12, 1844, Erie Chicago & Kalamazoo AuSable & Northwestern Mayor of Erie 1872-73 Terminal Chief Engineer 1897 Died Apr. 16, 1917, Erie Director 1895 ---- REED, John S. [Chicago] Lake Shore & Michigan REED, Horatio Gates Howard Peninsula RR Southern [Milwaukee] First Director 1862 Director 5/1872-1902 BiogRy1887, 266 Northern Iron RR Born Apr. 12, 1828, First Director 1862 REED, Dewitt Clinton Marshfield, Mass. [Kalamazoo] May be father of Harry C. Reed REED, Mortimer Porter # Born 1826, Connecticut No date to Sheboygan, Wisc. [South Bend] Father of Heber C. Reed Wisc. state assemblyman 1870 Born c.1873, Illinois no date to Climax, farmer ---- Died Feb. 4, 1940, South Bend 1863 to Kalamazoo, Various roads ---- manufacturer Engineer 1847-71 Niles & Buchanan Died Oct. 1893, Kalamazoo Vieux Desert & Lake Superior First Director 1904 ---- First Director 1881 South Bend & Southern Kalamazoo & Schoolcraft Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Michigan First Director 1866 Western Director, President 1904 Kalamazoo & Grand Rapids General Superintendent Southern Michigan First Director 1867 1871-85 First Director, Director Chief Engineer 1871-84 1906-09 REED, Fred T. [Midland] Secretary 1906-09 Midland Train REED, I. C. Traffic Manager 1908-09 First Director 1885 Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Treasurer 1909 Michigan General Superintendent REED, George W. First Director 1870 1910 [Philadelphia] Chicago, Saginaw & Canada REED, James Hay # REED, Richard [Sturgis] Director 1878-82 [Pittsburgh] 1865 first pres. Natl. Bank of PPA, 1:271-72; BiogRy1922, Sturgis REED, Harry C. [Milwaukee] 518 ---- BBiogRy1893, 305 Born Sept. 10, 1853, Grand Rapids & Mackinaw Born 1860, Sheboygan, Wisc. Pittsburgh, Pa. First Director 1857 May be son of Horatio G. H. 1877 admitted to bar Sturgis & Mansfield Reed Died June 17, 1927, Pittsburgh First Director 1870 ---- ---- 144 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) REED, Samuel [Grand Rapids] 1889 England Grand Rapids & Saginaw Chicago & West Michigan ---- Director 1874 General Passenger Agent Grand Trunk Ry Canada 1889 Clerk 5/1860-73 REED, Sylvador T. [Cassopolis] Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Asst. General Freight Agent (see Sylvador T. Read) General Accountant 1879-80 1873-81 Chicago & Grand Trunk REED, William [Big Rapids] REES, Allen Forsyth # General Passenger & Freight (maybe Powers, 1222-23) [Houghton] Agent 1881 ---- BiogHBM, 107-08 Traffic Manager 1882-95 Paris & Pere Marquette River Born Nov. 14, 1858, Fort General Traffic Manager Superintendent Wilkins 1896-99 Transportation 1884-85 1885 admitted to bar; partner Director 1896-99 of Thomas L. Chabourne General Manager 7/1898-99 REEDER, John T. # [Calumet] Died Feb. 19, 1944, Rochester, President 1899 1920 vice president, Cass Minn. Chicago, Detroit & Canada Copper Co. ---- Grand Trunk Jct. ---- Houghton County Traction Director, President 1899- Hancock & Calumet General Counsel 1908-09 1900 Director 1901-17 General Solicitor 1910-17 General Traffic Manager Mineral Range 1899-1900 Director 1901-17 REES, N. A. # [Chicago] Detroit, Grand Haven & Ohio & Michigan Interurban Milwaukee REEDER, Thomas G. # First Director 1908 Director 1893-94, 1897 Saginaw, Owosso & Lansing President 1899-1900 First Director 1906 REESE, Alvin H. [Detroit] General Manager 1900 Detroit, Lansing & Lake General Traffic Manager REEK, John # [Camden] Michigan 1899 Camden Southern General Superintendent Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon First Director 1901 1871-74 Director 1895-1900 Lapeer & Northern President 1899-1900 REEKIE, James Fernie [1875 First Director 1872 Cincinnati, Saginaw & Ionia, 1881 Detroit] Alpena & Michigan South- Mackinaw BiogRy1885, 199 Western Vice President 1899-1900 Born Jan. 10, 1840, Scotland First Director 1874 General Manager 1900 ---- Alpena & South-Western General Traffic Manager Detroit & Milwaukee First Director 1876 1900 Various work 4/1860-5/67 St. Clair Tunnel Co. [Detroit] REESE, William H. [New York President, Director 1901 Michigan Central City] Station Agent 5/1867-8/68 (May be William Hanzel Reese, REEVES, Francis Brewster # [Albion] born July 16, 1843, [Philadelphia] Ionia & Lansing New York, died Sept. 30, WhosWhoPa, 613 Station Agent 5/1870-71 1917, Watertown, N. Y.) Born Oct. 10, 1836, Bridgeton, Detroit, Lansing & Lake ---- N. J. Michigan Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Wholesale grocer; banker Auditor 1871-10/73 Western Died Aug. 14, 1922 Detroit, Lansing & Northern Director 1888-90 ---- General Accountant Trans-St. Marys Traction 10/1873-88 REEVE, George Bell # [Chicago, Director 1905-06 General Ticket Agent 1896 Montreal] 5/1875-88 BiogRy1893, 305 REEVES, Fred L. [Berrien General Passenger Agent Born Oct. 23, 1840, Co. Surrey, Springs, 1897 New York City] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 145 St. Joseph Valley Circuit court judge 1/1876- Died Oct. 20, 1955 Treasurer, Director 1890-96 11/79, 1887-93 ---- Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & ---- Escanaba Western Columbus Rapid Ry First Director 1893 Treasurer 1897 First Director 1894 President 1902 REMINGTON, Philo [Ilion, N.Y.] REICKA, Joseph # [Suttons Rapid RR HerrNL, 4:576-77 Bay] First Director 1898 Born Oct. 31, 1816, Ilion or Leelanau Transit Detroit, Mt. Clemens & Marine Litchfield, N. Y. First Director 1919 City Involved with Remington First Director 1899 typewriter co. REID, Bryan # [Ashland, Wisc.] Detroit & Lake St. Clair Died Apr. 4, 1889, Silver Gogebic & Iron Counties Ry & First Director, Director Springs, Fla.; buried Ilion, N. Y. Light 1900-02 ---- Chief Engineer 1914-15 President 1902 Flint & Pere Marquette Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Director 1876-79 REID, George Lowe [Hamilton, Short Line Ont.] First Director, Director REMINGTON, William B., Jr. Born Apr. 6, 1829, 1902-05 [Grand Rapids] Dumfermline, N. B., Canada Midland & Northern 1872 to England REISS, Peter # [Sheboygan, President, Director 1894-97 Railway consultant Wisc.] Died Dec. 7, 1907, Brighton, HistWIShe, 2:702-03 RENNER, John Wesley # England Born Jan. 17, 1867, Sheboygan [Pittsburgh] ---- Coal dealer/merchant BiogRy1913, 455 Great Western Ry Canada Pres. Wisconsin Born Jan. 1, 1845, Petersburg, Chief Engineer 1854-72 Transportation Co. Pa. Detroit & Milwaukee ---- Died after 1915 Chief Engineer 1870 Port Huron Southern ---- First Director, Director Pennsylvania-West REID, John C. # [Toledo] 1900-03 predecessors Ottawa Beach & Southern Vice President 1900-03 Accounting Dept. 7/1861-71 First Director 1905 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Toledo, Ottawa Beach & REMINGTON, Carver # Louis Northern [Chicago] Clerk 1871-74 Director 1907-08 Born Oct. 15, 1849, Ilion, N. Y. Auditor 1875-82 Part owner of Remington Asst. Comptroller 1883-90 REID, Manuel M. # [Ironwood] Arms Co. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago Gogebic & Iron Counties Ry & Died July 26, 1910, Chicago & St. Louis Light ---- Comptroller 1891-(1913) First Director, Director Escanaba Western Grand Rapids & Indiana 1910-15 First Director 1893 Comptroller 1908-14 President 1914-15 Gogebic Street REMINGTON, E. E. [Grand REPLOGLE, Jacob Leonard # First Director 1910 Rapids] [New York City] Midland & Northern Born May 6, 1876, New REILLY, Cornelius J. # [Detroit] Director 1894-97 Enterprise, Pa. BkDet, 377; ABH, 1:part1:124- Owned several steel 25; Bingham, 548 REMINGTON, Franklin # companies Born May 26, 1848, Heart [Chicago] Died Nov. 25, 1948, New York Prairie, Wisc. Born Nov. 16, 1865, Utica, N. Y. City 1867 to Detroit, 1871 became Part owner of Remington ---- lawyer Arms Co. Wabash 146 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Director 1916-17 Supt Lake Superior Powder Co. Born Aug. 21, 1872, St. Joseph ---- Officer on merchant ships, REUTER, George Adam [Chase] Mineral Range 1894-1912 HistOHMer, 2:n.p. Director 1893-97, 1906-11 U. S. inspector, 1912-17 Born Feb. 18, 1861, Freeport Hancock & Calumet ---- 1884 to White Cloud, Vice President, Director Ann Arbor lumbering 1916-17 Marine Superintendent 1889 partner w/William E. 2/1917-(22) Wilson, lumbering REYNOLDS, Martin c.1890 to Fort Recovery, Ohio, Montgomery # [Montreal] REYNOLDS, Richard W. [Grand sawmill owner HistMontreal2, 3:156; Rapids] Died Dec. 6, 1940, Fort BiogRy1913, 456 Alpena & Michigan South- Recovery Born Sept. 27, 1861, Syracuse, Western ---- N. Y. First Director 1874 Michigan Northern RR Died June 17, 1914, Montreal Alpena & South-Western First Director 1887 ---- First Director 1876 Mexican Central REVENAUGH, John Auditor ??-1892 REYNOLDS, Sheldon Clark # [Shiawasseetown] Central Vermont [Toledo] PastShi, 256 Auditor 1892-1902 HistOhio, 6:377-80 Born Apr. 19, 1817, Ohio National Ry of Mexico Born Nov. 29, 1835, Essex Co., 1853 to Ingham Co., farmer Comptroller 1902-08 N. Y. 1856 to Shiawasseetown, Grand Trunk Ry Canada Brother of Wiley R Reynolds practiced medicine 5th Vice President 1908-10 1851 to Jackson, partnership Died Apr. 19, 1881, 3rd Vice President 1910-11 w/brother Shiawasseetown Vice President Finance 1869 to Toledo, bought flour ---- 1911-14 mill Shiawassee & Vernon Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Died Nov. 22, 1912, Toledo First Director 1856 Director 1910-11 ---- Wabash REYNOLDS, Frank H. C. REYNOLDS, Myron L. # Director 1889-1912 [Boston] BiogRy1913, 456 Ann Arbor Ann Arbor Street Born Lorain Co., Ohio Director 1902 Investor 1894 Died July 25, 1940 Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti Electric ---- REYNOLDS, Wiley R. [Jackson First Director 1896 Lake Shore & Michigan co.] Southern HistMich1915, 2:1186-90 REYNOLDS, George F. Various work 1866-96 Born July 7, 1822, Essex Co., N. [Cheboygan] [Various] Y. Cheboygan & East Michigan Div. Superintendent Brother of S. C. Reynolds First Director 1891 1896-(1913) [Hillsdale] 1838 to Plymouth, store clerk 1840 to Jackson, Station REYNOLDS, John P. # [Boston] REYNOLDS, Marcus Tullius Agente coach agent (may be John T.) Born Dec. 29, 1788, Minavilla, 1840 opened grocery store, Manistee Light & Traction N. Y. later a dry goods store Receiver 1909-12 Died July 11, 1864, Albany, N. 1848 opened flour mill with Y. Henry A. Hayden REYNOLDS, Josiah G. # ---- 1865 an organizer of Peoples [Marquette] Michigan Central National Bank HistUP, 433 Incorporator 1846 Died Oct. 15, 1902, Jackson Born, July 4, 1848, Rensselaer ---- Co., N. Y. REYNOLDS, Ralph Henry # Jackson, Fort Wayne & to Marquette 1871, Secy & BiogRy1922, 522 Cincinnati Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 147 First Director 1868 ---- Sussex Co., N. J. Fort Wayne, Jackson & Vieux Desert & Lake Superior Died 1920 Saginaw First Director 1881 ---- Director 1871-79 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Toledo & Ann Arbor Western Asst. Engineer 1869-?? REYNOLDS, William President, Director 1883-90 Fort Wayne & Jackson Westphalia, Hubbardston & Divison Engineer no dates Northern RHINELANDER, Frederic(k) Detroit, Lansing & Northern First Director 1869 William, Jr. [Milwaukee] Division Engineer no dates Born Sept. 1859, New York Detroit & Bay City RHEIN, H. J. # [Cincinnati] City Division Engineer ??-1873 BiogRy1922, 522 Son of Frederick W. Various roads ---- Rhinelander Engineering Dept. 1873- Cinciinati, Hamilton & Dayton ---- 5/79 [Detroit] Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Various work 1883-88 Western Engineering Dept. 5/1879- Eastern Passenger Agent Asst. to President 1887-89 4/86 1888-90 Div. Superintendent 1/1888- General Agent 1890-94 RHOADS, Charles S. # (93) [Indianapolis] [Indianapolis] Various roads Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago BiogRy1922, 522-23 Engineering Dept. 4/1886- & St. Louis Born Oct. 28, 1854, near 1/88 Commercial Agent 1894-96 Cincinnati [Indianapolis] ---- RHODES, Thomas D. # Lake Shore & Michigan Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago [Detroit] Southern & St. Louis BiogRy1913, 457-58 General Agent 1896-98 Various work 1874-1/92 Born Apr. 27, 1858, Greene [Detroit] Superintendent Telegraph Co., Pa. City Passenger Agent 1898- 1/1892-1922 ---- 1900 [Chicago] Detroit Southern General Eastern Agent 1900- RHODES, Aubrey Cawthorn # Treasurer 1901-02 02 [Buffalo] [Detroit] Secretary 1902 Lake Erie & Western BiogRy1922, 523 Detroit, Toledo & Ironton General Passenger Agent Born June 26, 1886, Bryan, First Director, Director 1902-12/05 Tex. 1905-13 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Died Mar. 4, 1953, Houston, Receiver 1908-11 & St. Louis [Cinci] Tex. Ann Arbor General Passenger Agent ---- Director 1908-12 [New York 12/1905-15 San Antonio & Aransas Pass City] Cincinnati Northern Clerk 1905-07 [Cincinnati] Southern Pacific RHODES, William W. [Adrian] General Passenger Agent Bookkeeper 1907-12 Adrian City Electric Belt 1905-14 Pere Marquette First Director 1888 Clerk, Accounting Dept. RHINELANDER, Frederic(k) 3/1912-10/18 RIBLET, Samuel [Litchfield] William # [New York City] Federal Auditor 10/1918- Born Feb. 22, 1811, Harbor Born Dec. 12, 1828, New York 2/20 Creek, Erie Co., Pa. City Assistant Auditor 2/1920- Father of Solomon K. Riblet Father of Frederic W. (22) Died June 11, 1895, Litchfield Rhinelander, Jr. ---- 1847 graduate Columbia Univ. RHODES, Daniel Harker # Northern Central Michigan Died Sept. 25, 1904, BiogRy1893, 309 First Director 1866 Stockbridge, Mass. Born Dec. 24, 1839, Vernon, 148 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) RIBLET, Solomon Keiper # Died Dec. 1862, Kalamazoo 68 [Newaygo] ---- Grand Rapids & Indiana CentHist, 4:357 Kalamazoo & Grand River Engineer 10/1868-6/73 Born Nov. 2, 1834, Elizabeth, Commissioner 1847 Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Allegheny Co., Pa. General Passenger & Freight Son of Samuel Riblet RICE, John C. # [Boston] Agent 6/1873-85 c.1835 to Litchfield Houghton County Traction Auditor 6/1873-4/81 1856 to Newaygo, clerk, later a First Director 1908 merchant RICE, Richard [Detroit] Died Oct. 7, 1908 RICE, John H. # [Houghton, Negaunee & Palmer ---- Boston] First Director 1888 Grand Rapids, Newaygo & Copper Range Portage Lake Shore First Director, Director First Director 1888 Director 1876-80 1899-1917 Copper Range Vice President 1899-1904 First Director 1899 RICE, Americus Vespucius [Ottawa, Ohio] RICE, John M. [Cadillac] RICE, Reuben N. [Detroit] CongBiog c.1880 to Cadillac, attorney Born Mass. Born Nov. 15, 1835, Perryville, Judge, circuit court, 1881-82 ---- Ashland Co., Ohio ---- Michigan Central 1860 graduated Union Coll. Cadillac & Evart Superintendent 1854-1859 1861-65 in Civil War; final First Director 1882 General Superintendent rank Brig. General 1860-8/1868 c.1865 to Ottawa, Ohio RICE, Judson E. # [Grand U. S. Representative [Ohio] Rapids] RICE, Thomas B. [Menominee] 3/1875-3/79 Born Nov. 9, 1844, N. Y. state 1871 to Menominee, lawyer 1899 to Washington D. C., in Served 106th N. Y. Infantry, Died c.1881, Menominee banking, govt. official Civil War ---- Died Apr. 4, 1904, Washington, Hotel owner, 1895-1901 Deer Creek & Marble Quarry D. C., buried Arlington Cem. Died Jan. 19, 1914, Detroit; Secretary 1873-74 ---- buried Grand Raids Cincinnati, Jackson & ---- RICH, C. M. # [Grand Rapids] Mackinaw Grand Rapids, Belding & Central Michigan First Director 1886 Greenville Chief Engineer 1895-1906 First Director 1899 RICE, Arthur E. # RICH, Hampton [Philadelphia] RICE, Lewis Bennett # [Fort MichBiog, 2:230; ABH-1,5:103- Wyandotte Southern Gratiot] 04 Treasurer, Director 1908-17 Born Mar. 28, 1834, Marion, Born Dec. 1, 1815, Sharon, Vt. Wayne Co., N. Y. to Ionia 1837, clerk RICE, Charles M. [East Died Nov. 18, 1909, Port State senator 1867-70; many Saginaw] Huron local offices Born c.1862 ---- Died Nov. 1, 1900, Ionia Died Feb. 1913, Detroit; buried Fort Gratiot & Lexington ---- Saginaw First Director 1872 Ionia & Lansing ---- First President, First Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron RICE, Owen [Elkhart, Ind.] Director 1865 Auditor 1885-88 BiogRy1885, 202 President 1866-1871 Born Oct. 6, 1835, Lancaster Detroit, Lansing & Lake RICE, George W. [Kalamazoo] Co., Pa. Michigan Born 1797, Randolph, Vt. ---- First Director, Director Sheriff, Kalamazoo Co., 1847- Various roads 1871-73 50 Engineering Dept. 6/1859- Detroit, Lansing & Northern Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 149 Director 1873 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault General Bookkeeper 1887- Ste. Marie 90 RICH, Horace Horatio # Chief Engineer 1884-89, Auditor Freight Accounts HistUP, 543 1892-96 189-94 Born 1827, Tompkins Co., N. Y. Chinese national railways Auditor Traffic to Ontonagon 1876; saw Consulting engineer Receipts1894-97 milling 5/1898-1903 General Auditor 1897- 9/1881 Pres. Ontonagon 6/1900 Lumber Co. RICHARDS, Frank[lin] B. # Boston & Maine Died 1918, Coldwater, Kans. [Cleveland] Asst. General Auditor ---- BkClev, 220 6/1900-4/02 Ontonagon, Gogebic & Born Nov. 12, 1862, North Wisconsin Andover, Mass. RICHARDS, O. D. # [Toledo] First Director 1882 1894 Vice Pres. Detroit Iron & Ann Arbor Steel Co. Director 1895 RICH, John Tyler # [Detroit] ---- Chief Engineer 1897-1906 MichBiog, Saginaw, Owosso & Lansing Detroit, Toledo & Ironton 2:231;HistMich1915, 4:2277- First Director 1906 Chief Engineer 1907-?? 78; CongBiog BiogRep, 2:323-25 RICHARDS, George H. RICHARDS, William F. Born Apr. 23, 1841, [Buchanan] [Chicago] Conneautville, Pa. Born July 10, 1817, Bristol, Battle Creek Electric 1848 to Elba Gloucester, Engl. First Director 1891 State representative 1873-74, 1855 to Buchanan Twp., 79-80, State senator; 1881 farmer RICHARDSON, A. N. # U. S. Representative 1882-83 Died Feb. 6, 1888, Buchanan [Owosso] Gov of Mich.1893-97 ---- Owosso & Corunna Electric Mich state Treas 1908 St. Joseph Valley Superintendent 1903 Died Mar. 28, 1926, St. First Director, Director Petersburg, Fla., buried Lapeer 1880-81 RICHARDSON, Benjamin [New ---- Vice President 1881 York City] Michigan, State of President, Director 1883 Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Commissioner of Railroads General Manager, Director 1/12/1887-1/14/1891 RICHARDS, Joseph H. 1875 Grand Rapids & Ionia [Buchanan] General Superintendent, First Director,First Vice St. Joseph Valley 1875 President 1903 Auditor 1883 Ionia & Owosso RICHARDSON, David M. First Director,First Vice RICHARDS, Joseph Walker # [Detroit] President 1903 BiogRy1906, 503 MichBiog, 2:233; CycMich, Grand Rapids, Belding & Born Jan. 10, 1863, Ironton, 280-81; Greenville Ohio Farmer, 3:1200-02 First Director,First Vice Auditor, Chicago Telephone Born Jan. 30, 1826, Concord, President 1905 Co., 4/1902-(06) Erie Co., N. Y. ---- 1847 to Burlington, Iowa RICH, Watson Wellman # Various roads 1852 to Milwaukee, opened [Minneapolis] Clerk 1881-83 school BiogRy1893, 310 Toledo,Delphos & Burlington 1856 to Detroit, started first Born, c.1841, Dayton, N. Y. General Bookkeeper 18834- match factory in Mich. Died 1903, in China 84 Officer of Diamond Match Co. ---- Michigan & Ohio [Toledo] State senator 1873-74 Wisconsin Central Cashier, Paymaster 1884-86 1876 opened flour mill Chief Engineer Fitchburg Died Oct. 25, 1879, Detroit 150 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ---- Chicago Surface Lines Owned Hotel Lincoln, Detroit, Adrian, Logansport & [Chicago] Pittsburgh St. Louis Vice President, General c.1915 to Santa Barbara, Calif., First Director 1869 Manager 1923-9/32 hotel owner President 2/1932-?? ---- RICHARDSON, George # Detroit & Lima Northern [London, Engl.] RICHARDSON, Joseph [New Auditor no dates Born Aug. 1, 1831, Derrylane, York City] Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Co. Cavan, Ireland Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Auditor 1897 1862 to Montreal Michigan Various roads Later to Ontario Director 1895 Builder several branches of Died Jan. 28, 1923, London, railroads Ont. RICHARDSON, Phillip I. # including Wabash- ---- BiogRy1922, 526 Pittsburgh Terminal Canada, Michigan & Chicago Born Mar. 1862, Virginia First Director 1871 ---- RICHMOND, Charles H. [Ann Lansing & Lake Michigan Detroit & Mackinac Arbor] First Director 1872 Various work 1888-1900 CycMich, 306; MichBiog, 2:234 Trainmaster 1900-05 Born Mar. 6, 1821, Aurora, N. RICHARDSON, Granville A. # [Alpena] Y. [New York City] Asst. Superintendent 1907- 1837 to Grand Rapids, BiogRy1922, 525-26 08 bookkeeper in bank Executive, several coal Purchasing Agent (1922) 1839 to Ionia, worked in land companies, 1/1916-(22) Asst. Secretary, Asst. office ---- Treasurer (1922) 1858 to Ann Arbor, into Various roads banking Clerk, Station Agent 1878- RICHARDSON, S. M. # Died Feb. 22, 1892, Ann Arbor 1901 [Plainfield, N.J.] ---- Erie RR Detroit & Chicago Traction Toledo, Ann Arbor & Saginaw Assistant to President First Director 1901 First Director 1866 5/1901-1/04 Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana Secretary 1/1903-1/04 RICHIE, Walter Buckingham # Secretary, Treasurer 1872 Vice President 1/1904-1/16 [Lima, Ohio] Pere Marquette Born 1851 RICHMOND, Dean [Buffalo, Director 1906-09 1874 admitted to bar N.Y.] 1876 to Bucyrus, Ohio RRLeaders, 452; HerrNL, 5:7 RICHARDSON, Guy A. # 1879 to Lima Born March 31, 1804, Barnard, ChiLeaders, 396-98 Died Apr. 2, 1918, Lima Vt. Born May 28, 1882, Boston ---- 1842 to Buffalo Died after 1940 Lima Northern n.d. to Batavia, N. Y. ---- General Counsel 1896 Died Aug. 27, 1866, New York Puget Sound Traction Detroit & Lima Northern City Superintendent ??-1905 Attorney 1897 ---- Houghton County Street Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Detroit & Pontiac [Calumet] Attorney 1897-1901 Investor 1849 Superintendent 1907 Cincinnati Northern New York Central Houghton County Traction General Counsel 1899-1901 Vice President 1853-64 [Calumet] President 1864-66 Superintendent 1908-09 RICHMOND, Alexander L. # Lake Shore & Michigan Philadelphia Rapid Transit [Toledo] Southern [Philadelphia] Born Mar. 1, 1866, Lima, Ohio President Vice President, Director c.1884 graduated Notre Dame Buffalo & State Line 1919-23 Univ. President 1865-66 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 151 c.1868 to Clearwater Twp. Born Jan. 17, 1894, Port Huron RICHMOND, William Almy ---- ---- MichBiog, 2:235; Rapid River & Eastern Grand Trunk Ry [Port Huron] HistMich1915, 2:1110-13; First Director 1892 Clerk 1/1909-2/12 ABH, 2:part5:104 Michigan Central [Detroit] Born Jan. 28, 1808, Aurora, RIDDELL, John M. [Greenville] Clerk 4/1912-3/18 N.Y. Born Dec. 21, 1841, Fitzroy Asst. General Baggage Agent 1836 to Grand Rapids Twp., Carleton Co., Ontario 3/1918-5/19 State senator 1844-5 Died Mar. 20, 1911, Greenville General Baggage Agent Ionia land ofc receiver; Supt ---- 5/1919-(22) Indian affairs 1845-49 [S.S.M.] Grand Rapids, Greenville & Died Aug. 3, 1870, Grand Bay City RIEHL, Enest H. [New York Rapids First Director 1880 City] ---- Grand Haven & Southeastern Battle Creek & Grand Rapids RIDEOUT, Wanton Kendrick # First Director 1897 Commissioner 1846 [Oshkosh, Wisc.] Oakland & Ottawa Born July 15, 1840, Richmond, RIELY, Dennis # [Manistee] Incorporator 1848 Me. BiogRy1922, 528 Michigan Southern Died June 25, 1936, Oshkosh, Born Nov.22, 1851, Canada Director 12/1846-6/1849 Wisc. ---- Grand Rapids & Northern ---- Various roads First Director 1856 Lake Superior Southern Various work 12/1865-87 Grand Rapids City First Director 1905 Ann Arbor First Director 1864 Various work 1887-1907 Kalamazoo & Grand Rapids RIDER, Myron [Greenville] Manistee & Northeastern First Director 1867 ABH, 2:part8:45-46 General Freight & Passenger Grand Rapids, Newaygo & Born Feb. 25, 1823 Agent 1907-(22) Lake Shore 1830 to Washtenaw Co. First Director 1869 1846 to Plymouth, mercantile RIGGS, Henry Earle # [Toledo] 1854 to Montcalm Co., BiogRy1896, 399 RICHMOND, William H. # lumbering, farming Born May 8, 1865, Lawrence, [Marquette] 1857 to Greenville, mercantile Kans. Lake Superior & Ishpeming ---- 1886 graduated Kansas Univ., Master Mechanic (1907-12) Grand Rapids, Rockford & civil engineer Mechanical Superintendent Greenville 1910 founded Univ. Mich. civil 1915-17 First Director 1870 engineering dept. Munising, Marquette & Greenville, Stanton & St. Louis Died 1949 Southeastern First Director 1871 ---- Master Mechanic (1907-12) Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Mechanical Superintendent RIDGELY, Charles A. # Michigan 1915-17 [Springfield, Ill.] Chief Engineer 1890-95 Born Jan. 17, 1836, Springfield, Ann Arbor RICKERD, O. L. # [Chicago] Ill Chief Engineer 1895 Lakewood Street V.P., later Pres., Springfield General Manager 1915-16 Iron Co. RIGGS, Joseph K. Died Aug. 11, 1910, Michigan Southern & Northern RICKERS, Jacob N. [Clearwater Springfield, Ill. Indiana Twp., Kalkaska Co.] ---- Director 9/1857-4/58 Traverse, 315 Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Born May 18, 1851, Holstein, Director 1881-86 RILE, Joseph K. [Centreville] ?Germany Toledo & South Haven/S 1864 family to Quebec RIEBLING, Carl Albert # First Director 1882 c.1866 to Detroit BiogRy1922, 528 152 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) RILEY, Thomas J. # [Escanaba] Park ---- Escanaba Traction ---- Wisconsin & Michigan Attorney 1915-17 Detroit, Springwells & Director 1906-09 Dearborn RIMER, James W. [Van Wert, First Director 1891 RIX, Roscoe D. [Berrien Ohio] Springs] (May be James W. born Mar. RIPLEY, Edward Payson # St. Joseph Valley 26, 1846, Putnam Co., [Chicago] First Director 1880 Ohio; died Dec. 25, 1907) BiogRy1885, 204; BkChi, 487; ---- HerrNL, 5:17 ROACH, William Henry [New Cincinnati, Jackson & Born Oct. 30, 1845, York City] Mackinaw Dorchester, Mass. Canada, LaCrosse & Chief Engineer, Director Died Feb. 4, 1920, Santa Southwestern 1887 Barbara, Calif. First Director 1883 ---- RINDGE, Lester J. # [Grand Pennsylania-East ROACH, William R. # [Hart] Rapids] Clerk 1869-72 HistMich1915, 3:1469-70 Born Dec. 6, 1841, Sherburne, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Born Sept 5, 1862, Pierrepont Chenango Co., N. Y. General Agent 1872-86 Manor, N. Y. Died May 15, 1913, ?Grand Traffic Manager 1886-88 1885 to Burlington, Iowa, Rapids General Manager 1888-90 learned garden seed business ---- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 1902 bought small canning Grand Rapids Ry 3Vice President 1890-95 company First Director, Director Milwaukee & Northern Now owns W. R. Roach & Co., 1900-06 Vice President 1890-92 fruit packers Vice President 1902-06 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe ---- Grand Rapids, Holland & President 1896-(1914) Pere Marquette Chicago Director 1914-17 Director 1912 RISDON, Orange MichBiog, 2:237 ROBB, Russell # [Concord, RIOPELLE, Alexander E. # Born Dec. 28, 1786, Rupert, Vt. Mass.] [Detroit] platted several cities in Born Dec. 6, 1864 Born Dec. 5, 1848, Detroit N.Y.state; Director/officer of Stone & Brother of Francis X. Riopelle 1824 to Saline 1824 Webster holding company Died Sept. 28, 1918, Detroit 1825 laid out Detroit-Pontiac Died Feb. 15, 1927 ---- road ---- Detroit, Springwells & Died Nov. 28, 1876, Saline Houghton County Street Dearborn ---- Director 1902, 1904-07 First Director 1891 Monroe & Ann Arbor Houghton County Traction Detroit Metropolitan Street Commissioner 1836 Director 1908-10, 1912-17 First Director 1892 Ypsilanti & Tecumseh Chicago, Detroit & Toledo Commissioner 1838 ROBB, Thomas P. First Director 1898 Chicago & Lake Huron [Port Grosse Ile RITCHIE, Archer F. # [Detroit] Huron] First Director 1910 Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Div. Superintendent 1873 Thumb Ry General Counsel 1913 Chicago, Texas & Mexican First Director 1912 [Chicago] RITSHER, Edward C. # First Director 1881 RIOPELLE, Francis X. [Ecorse] [Chicago] Chicago & Great Southern Born May 27, 1846, Detroit Born Sept. 8, 1864, Beloit, President 1889 Brother of Alexander E. Wisc. Riopelle Attorney ROBB, William Doig # Died Apr. 17, 1925, Lincoln Died June 2, 1910, Chicago [Montreal] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 153 BiogRy1922, 531 Rapids] ROBERTS, George A. [Three Born Sept. 23, 1857, Longueill, Baxter, 658 Rivers] Que. Born July 2, 1786, Litchfield, Born 1850 ---- Conn. 1881-96 Director, First Natl. Grand Trunk Ry Canada 1838 to Grand Rapids, owned Bank-Three Rivers Motive Power Dept. 7/1871- general store Died 1897 1/97 Died 1873, Grand Rapids ---- Master Mechanic 1/1897- ---- Chicago & Canada Pacific 7/1901 Grand River Valley First Director 1886 Superintendent Motive Incorporator 1846 Power 71901-9/17 ROBERTS, George Brooke Vice President, Motive ROBERTS, Daniel Webster # [Philadelphia] Power 9/1917-10/18 BiogRy1922, 531 BiogRy1885, 206; Vice President, Operations Born Jan. 31, 1892, Cheyenne, BiogRy1893, 315; PRR, 385-87 10/19918-8/22 Wyo. HerrNL, 5:28 Vice President, General Died Sept. 1971 Born Jan. 15, 1833, Manager 8/1922-(22) ---- Montgomery Co, Pa. Grand Trunk Western Union Pacific 1848 graduated Rensselaer Superintendent Motive Stores Dept. 6/1908-8/1920 Polytechnic Inst. Power 1901 Pere Marquette Died Jan. 30, 1897, Bala General Storekeeper Cynwood, Pa. ROBBINS, Richard B [Adrian] 8/1920-(22) ---- ABH, 1:part4:62; MichBiog, Pennsylvania-East 2:238; Bonner, 179 ROBERTS, Elijah J. Engineer 5/1851-62 Born Apr. 27, 1831 or 1832, MichBiog, 2:238; Jenks, 2:197 Asst. to President 1862-69 Kingwood, N. J. Born c.1802, N. Y. Director 5/1869-1/1897 c.1848 to Ohio No date in Buffalo, 4th Vice President 5/1869- 1854 to Palmyra, 1855 to newspaperman 73 Tecumseh, studied law 1833 to Detroit 3rd Vice President 1873-74 c.1859 to Adrian, attorney 1836 to St. Clair 1st Vice President 1874-80 1862-65 in Civil War, State Adjutant General 1842- President 6/1880-1/1897 mustered out Lt. Col. 44 Grand Rapids & Indiana State representative 1875-78; 1847 to Upper Peninsula Director 1873-89 state senator 1879-80 State representative, 1850; Died June 15, 1906, Adrian state senator 1851 ROBERTS, H. H. [Battle Creek] ---- Died Apr. 26, 1851, Detroit Chicago & Lake Huron Adrian & Detroit ---- Div. Superintendent 1874 Director 1876-77 St. Clair & Romeo [St. Clair] Adrian & State Line Commissioner 1836 ROBERTS, John H. Director 1874, 1879 Grand Rapids & Reeds Lake ROBERTS, Enoch C. [Hartford, First Director 1874 ROBERTS, Abner [Fenton] Conn.] [Chicago] Born 1819, Wellsburg, 1866-67 first pres. City Street of Grand Rapids Chemung Co., N. Y. predecessor Hartford First Director 1887 [Grand Hotel keeper Insurance Co. Rapids] Died Dec. 24, 1878, Fenton ---- Central Michigan ---- Ontonagon & State Line First Director 1888 [Grand Toledo, Ann Arbor & Saginaw First Director, Director Rapids] First Director 1866 1856-57 Fenton & Grand Blanc President 1857 ROBERTS, Marshall Owen First Director 1871 L'Anse & Ontonagon [New York City] First Director 1865 HerrNL, 5:29 ROBERTS, Amos [Grand Born Mar. 22, 1814, New York 154 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) City Buffalo & Erie First Director, Director Died Sept. 11, 1880, Saratoga Founder c.1838 1869-72 Springs, N. Y. Lake Shore & Michigan Vice President 1871-72 ---- Southern Saginaw & St. Clair River Detroit & Bay City Director 10/1869-5/70 First Director 1870 Director 1877 Chicago & North Western Fort Wayne & Jackson Director 10/1869-5/70 ROBINSON, Charles S. Director 1880 [Hancock] ROBINSON, Andrew Byron Hancock & Calumet ROBERTS, Thomas Herbert [Muir] Auditor, Cashier 1887-88 BiogRy1901, 463 Born Sept. 6, 1826, New York Chief Engineer 1887 Born Oct. 13, 1843, Co. Meath, State Mineral Range Ireland Died Sept. 19, 1877, Muir Auditor, Cashier 1887-88 ---- ---- Various English roads Coldwater, Marshall & ROBINSON, E. Dewitt Various work 1/1860-67 Mackinaw [Chicago] Grand Trunk Ry of Canada Director 1875 Died Jan. 28, 1864, Chicago ?? 1867-68 ---- Asst. Mechanical ROBINSON, Benjamin C. # Chicago & North Western Superintendent 1868-81 [Grand Rapids] General Ticket Agent 1862- Chicago & Grand Trunk Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & 68 [Detroit] Muskegon Mechanical Superintendent Treasurer, Director 1912-14 ROBINSON, Eugene Nelson 11/1881-6/98 [New York City] Detroit, Grand Haven & ROBINSON, C. W. [Marshall] Born 1847 Milwaukee [Detroit] Columbus, Marshall & Died June 15, 1889 Mechanical Superintendent Northeastern ---- 1883-6/98 First Director 1899 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern ROBERTSON, James # ROBINSON, Caius Cassius Director 5/1874-5/75 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Born July 8, 1801, Palmyra, N. Division Freight Agent 1904 Y. ROBINSON, George D. P. [Duluth] 1828 graduated medical [Chicago] Asst. General Freight Agent school Chicago, Detroit & Toledo 1905-08 [Houghton] 1832 to Palmyra First Director 1898 General Freight Agent 1914 Died 1837, New York City Mineral Range ---- ROBINSON, George F. [Detroit] Asst. General Freight Agent Erie & Kalamazoo Detroit Transit RR 1905-08 Commissioner 1833 First Director 1892 First Director 1834 ROBERTSON, Thomas D. Palmyra & Jacksonburgh ROBINSON, John A. # Chicago & Galena Union Commissioner 1836 Delta Lumber Co. [Thompson] Director 1864 Railroad Superintendent Chicago & North Western ROBINSON, Charles K. [East 1889 Director 6/1864-6/67 Saginaw] Manistique & Northwestern Born Jan. 16, 1835, New York [Manistique] ROBINSON, Alanson state Superintendent 1896-1901 Born July 6, 1816, Buffalo President, Second Natl. Bank, Manistique, Marquette & 1862-63 to New York City, Saginaw Northern [Marquette] banking Died Nov. 22, 1887, Oakland, Superintendent 1902-05 Died May 27, 1870, New York Calif. Manager 1906 City ---- Manistique & Northern ---- East Saginaw & Ann Arbor [Manistique] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 155 Manager, Traffic Manager ROBINSON, Thomas F. # Son of David Robison, Jr; 1908-09 [Alabaster] brother of Willard F. Robison General Passenger and Erie & Michigan Ry & Died June 11, 1914, Toledo Freight Agent 1908-09 Navigation ---- Manistique & Lake Superior First Director, Director Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand [Manistique] 1904-09 Trunk Asst. General Manager 1909- General Superintendent Director 1881-82 10 1906 General Freight & Passenger ROBISON, Lester A. # Agent 1909-10 ROBINSON, Washington Irving [Cleveland] # [Detroit] BiogRy1893, 317; ROBINSON, Lewis A. # BkDet, 384; BiogRep, 2:327 BiogRy1913, 467 [Chicago] Born July 11, 1865, Born 1864, Trumbull Co., Ohio BiogRy1922, 535 Ogdensburg, N. Y. ---- Born July 5, 1856, Glenns Falls, 1866 family to Detroit Lake Shore & Michigan N. Y. 1888 admitted to bar Southern ---- ---- Various work 1883-88 Chicago & North Western Michigan & Ohio Electric Traveling Passenger Agent Various work 1873-1/86 First Director 1900 1888-2/93 Auditor 1/1886-8/1910 General Passenger Agent Comptroller 5/1910-(22) ROBINSON, William M. [Spring 2/1893-12/1914 Lake] Pittsburgh & Lake Erie ROBINSON, Nelson [New York Fruitport & Lake Shore General Passenger Agent City] First Director 1870 2/1893-1917 Born Oct. 17, 1853, New York New York Central City ROBISON, David, Jr. [Toledo] General Passenger Agent Banker HistNWOhio, 2:1042-43 1/1915-(16) Died Mar. 27, 1931, New York Born Jan. 22, 1830, Wooster, City Ohio ROBISON, Willard F. # ---- Father of James J. and Willard [Toledo] Marquette & Western F. Robison Born 1857 First Director 1883 Banker Son of David Robison, Jr.; Marquette, Houghton & 1876 to Toledo, banker brother of James J. Robison Ontonagon 1889 built first electric street Died 1924; buried Wooster, Director 1886-87 ry. in Toledo Ohio 1900 a founder of Toledo ---- ROBINSON, Rix Terminal Ty Jackson & Battle Creek MichBiog, 2:242 Died Apr. 13, 1914, Toledo; Traction Born Aug. 28, 1792, Richmond, buried Wooster Director 1903-04 Berkshire Co., Mass. ---- 1821 to Grand River valley Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand ROBSON, Frank E. # [Detroit] Indian fur trader for J. J. Astor Trunk BkDet, 384; CityDet, 5:664-67 Several twp offices Director 1883 Born July 20, 1859, Lansing; State senator 1846-9 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North 1878 grad. Univ. Mich. Law Died Jan. 13, 1875, Ada Michigan School ---- Director 1884-93 1890 to Detroit, attorney Michigan, Internal Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Died 1948; burial Lansing Improvement Board First Director 1886 ---- Commissioner Michigan Central 5/1838-4/1840 ROBISON, James J., Jr. [Toledo] General Attorney 12/1909- Kalamazoo & Grand River HistNWOhio, 2:1043-44 1/17 Commissioner 1847 Born Mar. 7, 1855, Woodster, General Counsel 1/1917-?? Ohio Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw 156 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Director 1914-17 Detroit Belt Line ROCKWELL, George Andrews RODD, Thomas [Pittsburgh] Director 1913-16 # [Oshkosh, Wisc.] BiogRy1922, 536 Detroit & Charlevoix Born Mar. 25, 1868, Shawano, Born June 13, 1849, London, Director 1913-16 Wisc. Engl. Detroit, Delray & Dearborn Brother of Thomas A. Rockwell 1869-72 in Philadelphia, ofc. of Director 1912-16 With brother organized city engineer Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw several Wisc. gas companies Civil engineer, architect Director 1915-16 Died Sept. 14, 1909, Oshkosh, 1886 designed Indianapolis Kalamazoo & South Haven Wisc. Union Station Director 1912-16 ---- Died Aug. 3, 1929, P:ittsburgh Negaunee & Ishpeming Street ---- ROBSON, George C. # Director,Vice President 1904 Pennsylvania-West [Ontonagon] Marquette County Gas Light & Engineering Dept. 1872-89 Ontonagon Traction Chief Engineer 1889-6/1919 Auditor 1909 Director,Vice President Grand Rapids & Indiana 1905-06 Chief Engineer 1896-97 ROCKEFELLER, Percy Avery # General Manager 1905-06 [New York City] RODGERS, Alexander Born Feb. 27, 1878, New York ROCKWELL, Samuel P. # [Muskegon] City BkClev, 224; BiogRy1913, 467- HistMich1915, 3:1468-69 Son of William Rockefeller 68 Born May 24, 1824, Died Sept. 25, 1934, New York Born Feb. 20, 1847, Brooklyn, Edinborourgh, Scotland City N. Y. 1847 to New York City ---- 7/1912 became private 1851 to Detroit, later to Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul consulting engineer Romeo Director 1907-17 Died Nov. 21, 1923, Cleveland 1855 to Musekgon, bought ---- Ryerson & Morris iron works ROCKEFELLER, William # Various roads Died 1897, Muskegon [New York City] Engineering Dept. 1873-99 ---- WhosWhoFB, 583; HerrNL, Lake Shore & Michigan Muskegon & Big Rapids 5:42 Southern First Director 1871 Born May 13, 1841, Richford, Engineer 1891-12/99 N. Y. [Toledo] ROE, J. Edward # [Lansing] Father of Percy A. Rockefeller; Asst. Engineer 12/1899- PortraitIngEat, 313-15 brother of John D. Rockefeller 4/1904 [Cleveland] Born Mar. 24, 1862, Ithaca, N. Founder of firm later Asst. Chief Engineer 4/1904- Y. reorganized as Standard Oil. 7/05 1874 to Lansing Died June 24, 1922, Chief Engineer 7/1905-9/12 Vice president, Lansing State Tarrytown, N. Y. Savings Bank, 1887-1910 ---- ROCKWELL, Thomas A. # Officer, Reo Motor Car Co., Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul [Chicago] 1910-11 Director 1893-1917 Born 1871 ---- Michigan Central Brother of George A. Rockwell Lansing Connecting Director 1905-17 With brother organized First Director 1914 Lake Shore & Michigan several Wisc. gas companies Southern ---- ROE, James [Big Rapids] Director 1906-13 Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Lumberman Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Director 1903-04 ---- & St. Louis President 1904 Big Rapids & Western Director 1916-17 Marquette County Gas Light & First Director 1887 New York Central Traction Director 1915-16 Director, President 1905-06 ROGERS, Anthony, Jr. [Rodney] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 157 Mecosta Died Nov. 17, 1917, First Director, Director ROGERS, Samuel [South Germantown 1882-85 Haven] ---- Lawton, Paw Paw & South Cincinnati, Jackson & ROGERS, Gardner # Haven Mackinaw [Houghton] First Director 1868 First Director 1886 Born 1880, in Mass. Kalamazoo & South Haven ---- First Director, Director ROLPH, Albert. H. # Houghton County Traction 1869-80 [Escanaba] Local Manager 1909-17 Toledo & South Haven/B NPMemorial, 53-55 First Director 1876 Born July 5, 1841, Ickford, ROGERS, H[enry] Livingston Buckinghamshire, England [New York City] ROGERS, Uriah B. [Grand 1854 family to DeKalb, Ill. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Rapids] In Civil War Michigan Died Dec. 30, 1899, Grand 1865 to Chicago, bookkeeper Director 1894 Rapids; suicide 1883 to Escanaba, bookkeeper ---- for Ford River Lbr. Co. ROGERS, Henry Huttleston # Chicago & West Michigan ---- [New York City] Auditor 1883-97 Escanaba Electric Street Born Jan. 29, 1840, Detroit, Lansing & Northern Auditor 1907 Mattapoisett, Mass. Auditor 1889-96 1861 to Oil City, started small Chicago & North Michigan ROLSTON, Roswell Graves refinery First Director, Director [New York City] 1867 to Brooklyn, managed 1891-97 Born Sept. 1838 refinery Auditor 1892-97 Died Aug. 25, 1898, North 1874 agreed to work with John Detroit, Grand Rapids & Babylon, N. Y. D. Rockefeller; Western ---- founder of Standard Oil Auditor 1897-99 Michigan Central Associate of E. H. Harriman in Secretary, Director 1875-77 railroad ventures ROGERS, W. C. [Marquette] Detroit & Bay City Died May 19, 1909, New York Marquette, Houghton & Secretary, Treasurer City Ontonagon 1876-78 ---- General Freight Agent 1877 Director 1877, 1879-80 West Virginia roads Fort Wayne & Jackson Promoter ROGERS, William E. # [Alpena] Secretary, Treasurer Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul CityAlp, 10 1880-94 Director 1902-08 Born Jan. 7, 1853, Kingston, Director 1880-97 Various roads Ont. Marquette, Houghton & Director 1873 to Alpena Ontonagon Real estate dealer Director 1876-78 ROGERS, Nelson F. Died Mar. 8, 1912, [Hubbardston] Philadelphia, Pa. ROMEYN, Theodore Born c.1820, Massachusetts ---- ABH, 1:part1:125 One of founders of Alpena, Gaylord & Western Born Aug. 22, 1810, Hubbardston First Director 1901 Hackensack, N. J. ---- 1836 to Detroit, lawyer Westphalia, Hubbardston & ROHRER, David [Germantown, Died July 22, 1886, Detroit Northern Ohio] ---- First Director, President CentDayton, 1042 Port Sheldon & Grand Rapids 1869 Nov. 10, 1835, German Twp., Commissioner 1837 Coldwater, Marshall & Montgomery Co., Ohio Mackinaw Became owner of father’s ROOD, Anson H. Director 1875 distillery Born Mar. 19, 1802, Jericho, Vt. 158 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Brother of Azariah N. Rood many local offices Born Nov. 1839, Cato, N. Y. Died Nov. 27, 1857, Died c.1892, Jackson Died 1916, Lansing Philadelphia ---- ---- ---- Grand River Valley Central Michigan Detroit & Pontiac Commissioner 1846 First Director 1882 Superintendent 1853-55 Incorporator. 1846 Detroit & Milwaukee First Director, Director ROOT, Eliza Porter (nee COLE) Superintendent 1855-57 1872-91 # [Jackson] President 1872-91 Born July 15, 1833, Mexico, N. ROOD, Azariah N. Jackson Union Y. Born Jan. 9, 1792, Jericho, Vt. First Director 1855 Married Apr. 25, 1855, John M. Brother of Anson H. Rood Jackson, Fort Wayne & Root Died Feb. 1850, Berrien Co. Cincinnati Mother of Bertha Root ---- First Director 1868 Died Aug. 5, 1927, Jackson Detroit & Milwaukee Fort Wayne & Jackson ---- Freight Agent 1855-56 Director 1880-91 Grand River Valley Jackson & Ohio Director 1911-16 ROODE, Orange M. [Adrian] First Director, Director (LDS genealogy has an Orange 1884-86 ROOT, George Kent # [Detroit] M. Roode, born Cincinnati, Jackson & Attorney Mar. 2, 1813, N. Y. state, died Mackinaw ---- June 7, 1880) First Director 1886 Grayling & Charlevoix ---- First Director 1891 Lake Superior ROOT, Bertha # [Jackson] Detroit & Charlevoix First Director 1857 Born July 21, 1867, Jackson First Director, Director Daughter of John M. Root and 1901-06 ROOS, Elbert Sigerlon Eliza Porter Root nee Cole Secretary 1901-05 [Kalamazoo] Died Dec. 10, 1953, Jackson MenProgress, 428 ---- ROOT, John Mortimer Born Oct. 26, 1850, New Grand River Valley [Jackson] Hurley, N. Y. Director 1902 HistMich1915, 3:1462-63 1873 to Kalamazoo, became BornApr. 21, 1824, Fort Ann, corporate attorney ROOT, Charles Gardiner # N. Y. Officer in wide variety of [Chicago] Brother of Amos Root; father Kalamazoo companies HistIll, 2:1008-09 of Bertha Root Died May 7, 1917, Kalamazoo Born Sept. 27, 1845, Remsen, 1848 to Jackson, teacher, then ---- N. Y. dry goods clerk Citizens Street of Battle Creek 1857 family to Cook Co., Ill. 1865 cashier of Peoples First Director 1894 1869 graduated Northwestern National Bank Chicago & Kalamazoo Univ. Died June 13, 1898, Jackson Terminal Involved in many businesses ---- Secretary, Attorney, Director 1902 a founder of U. S. Grand River Valley 1895 Gypsum President, Director 1892-97 ---- Fort Wayne & Jackson ROOT, Amos Erie & Michigan Ry & Director 1892-97 MichBiog, 2:247 Navigation Born Apr. 8, 1816, Fort Ann, Vice President 10/1908-09 ROPES, Charles Henry # [New N.Y. General Manager, Director York City] Brother of John M. Root 3/1909-17 Born May 7, 1857, New York 1838 to Michigan Center, President 1910-17 City merchant c.1878 graduated Cornell Univ. 1841 to Jackson, merchant ROOT, C[larence] W[alter] # 1883 admitted to Wisc. bar, State representative 1853-4; [Lansing] corp. law Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 159 Died Sept. 12, 1923 Saginaw] [Saginaw] ---- ABH, 1:part8:46 BiogRy1901, 470 Wisconsin Central Born Aug. 3, 1820, Sherburne, Born Nov. 25, 1864, Belleville, Director 1889 N. Y. Ont. Died Aug. 23, 1902, Saginaw Died Dec.20, 1933, Saginaw RORICK, Horton Clifford # ---- ---- [Toledo] Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Flint & Pere Marquette Born Dec. 16, 1866, Morenci Director 1872-73 Telegrapher 1881-89 Died Aug. 18, 1946, Toledo Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron ---- ROSE, Martin W. [Grand Station Agent 1889-92 Jackson & Battle Creek Rapids] Asst General Freight Agent Traction HistSoCA, 266-67 1892-95 Director 1903-04 Born Apr. 9, 1832, Greene, N. General Freight & Passenger Y. Agent 1895-2/1900 ROSE, Dennison F. # [East 1854 to Illinois Algoma Central Saginaw] 1898 to Riverside, Calif., Traffic Manager 2/1900- Born Nov. 23, 1830, Grosse developer, fruit grower (01) Pointe Died 1908, Riverside c.1860 to East Saginaw, ---- ROSEVELT, Cornelius [Flint] lumber dealer Galena & Chicago Union Flint & Pere Marquette Died Feb. 18, 1922, Sedalia, Various work 1854-69 First Director 1857 Mo.; buried Saginaw Chicago & Michigan Lake ---- Shore ROSS, Alfred F. [Buchanan] East Saginaw & Ann Arbor Various work 1869-?? PortraitBerrCass, 907-08 Director 1871-72 Chicago & West Michigan Born Aug. 7, 1841, Hamilton, [Grand Rapids] LaPorte Co., Ind. ROSE, Hiram O. # [Petoskey] Various work ??-1886 1847 to Buchanan BiogNM, 496-97; Powers, Asst. General Freight Agent c.1861 in banking with father 3:1121-23 1886-88, 1890-98 ---- Born Nov. 27, 1830, Pekin, Detroit, Lansing & Northern St. Joseph Valley Niagara Co., N. Y. Asst. General Freight Agent Treasurer 1881-83 1834 to Branch Co. 1890-98 Director 1882-83 1854 to Northport 1873 to Petoskey, built dock to ROSE, William K. # [Cleveland] ROSS, Delmar C. # [Detroit] handle lumber Marquette, Negaunee & BiogRy1913, 470 Died Nov. 1910, Petoskey Ishpeming Interurban Born July 24, 1857, Springfield, ---- First Director 1907 Pa. Bay View & Crooked Lake Not working 11/1911-4/12 First Director 1880 ROSENBERG, Samuel C. [St. ---- Detroit & Petoskey Joseph] Michigan Central First Director 1889 St. Joseph & Lake Shore Various work in car shops First Director 1894 4/1885-6/1904 ROSE, Jacob O. [Big Rapids] Master Car Builder 6/1904- ABH, 1:part9:22 ROSER, Charles H. (13) Born May 18, 1814, Lima Northern Schaghticoke, N. Y. General Manager, 1896 ROSS, Fred S. # [Detroit] 1863 to Big Rapids from [Lima, Ohio] Died Apr. 29, 1945, Cleveland, Ohio Chief Engineer 1896 Birmingham ---- Detroit & Lima Northern ---- Muskegon & Big Rapids Chief Engineer 1897 Detroit & Toledo Shore Line First Director 1871 [Detroit] General Freight Agent 1912- 14 ROSE, Julius Kirk # [East ROSEVEAR, William B. # 160 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ROSS, George H. # [Chicago] State Lt. Gov. 1911-14 11/02 BiogRy1913, 471 Died May 12, 1922, Muskegon Treasurer 11/1902-12/14 Born Aug. 29, 1854, Boston ---- New York Central ---- Muskegon Traction & Lighting Treasurer 1/1915-(22) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy President, Director 1916-18 Various work 1877-9/90 ROSSITER, Edward Van Wyck Superintendent Car Service ROSS, Thomas L. [Paw Paw] # [New York City] 9/1890-8/98 Owned grist mill in Paw Paw BiogRy1906, 519 Indiana, Illinois & Iowa c.1870 to Topeka, Kans. Born July 13, 1844, St. Louis, Traffic Manager 8/1898- ---- Mo. 12/1902 Paw Paw Valley Father of Edward L. Rossiter Union Depot Bridge & First Director 1869 Died Dec. 10, 1910, Flushing, Terminal of Kansas City N. Y. President 12/1902-3/04 ROSS, Walter Lint # [Chicago, ---- Toledo, St. Louis & Western 1913 Toledo] Hudson River General Traffic Manager BiogRy1913, 471 Clerk 9/1859-67 3/1904-07 Born Jan. 1, 1867, New York & Harlem Second Vice President Bloomington, Ill. Clerk, then Treasurer 1867- 3/1905-07 Died Apr. 5, 1939, Phoenix, 1/1901 Executive Vice President Ariz. Vice President1/1901-(06) 1907-4/11 ---- New York Central & Hudson Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Various roads River Director 1906-11 Various work 1887-6/1904 Treasurer 6/1883-11/1900 Toledo, St. Louis & Western Vice President 11/1900- ROSS, James B. [Hancock] General Passenger & Freight (06) Globe Train Agent 6/1904-4/05 Michigan Central First Director 1866 General Traffic Manager Vice President 6/1904-10 Calumet Train [1866 corp.] 4/1905-12/07 Lake Shore & Michigan First Director 1866 President 9/1912-c.15 Southern Calumet Train [1867 corp.] Receiver c.1915-(16) Vice President 6/1904-10 First Director 1867 Chicago & Alton [Chicago] Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Quincy & Torch Lake General Traffic Manager & St. Louis First Director, Director 4/1905-12/07 Vice President 1/1905-10 1890-97 Vice President Traffic 12/1907-9/12 ROTCH, Benjamin Smith ROSS, John [New York City] Detroit & Toledo Shore Line [Boston] Michigan Midland & Canada Director 1906-17 Born Mar. 4, 1817, Director 1872-75 President 1913-17 Philadelphia Detroit & State Line Brother of William J. Rotch First Director 1872 ROSSITER, Edward Lawrence 1838 graduated Harvard Univ. Toledo, Canada Southern & # [New York City] Died Aug. 19, 1882, Milton, Detroit BiogRy1922, 540 Mass. Director 1873-75 Born Aug. 14, 1870, Great ---- Chicago & Canada Southern Neck, Long Island RR Detroit, Lansing & Northern Director 1874-75, 1878 Son of Edward V. W. Rossiter Director 1874 Died Aug. 14, 1934, New York Saginaw & Grand Rapids ROSS, John Quincy # City Director 1881-82 [Muskegon] ---- MichBiog, 2:251; New York Central & Hudson ROTCH, William James HistMich1915, 3:1408-10 River [Boston] Born June 28, 1873, Treasury Dept. 9/1887- Born May 2, 1819, Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio 11/1900 Philadelphia 1894 admitted to bar Asst. Treasurer 11/1900- Brother of Benjamin S. Rotch Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 161 1838 graduated Harvard Univ. Died Sept. 27, 1921, Buchanan ---- 1852 mayor of Boston ---- Trans-St. Marys Traction Died Aug. 17, 1893, Beverly St. Joseph Valley Director 1905 Farms, Mass. First Director, Director ---- 1880-85 ROWLAND, Oran W. # [Paw St. Marys & Minneapolis President 1881-82, 1884-85 Paw] First Director 1881 General Manager 1881 Born Mar. 25, 1839, Savannah, Treasurer 1885 Ashland Co., Ohio ROTE, Robert Ogden # Wrote History of Van Buren BiogRy1913, 471; ROWE, Clyde E. # County, Michigan in 1912 ProgMenNOH, 168 Michigan RR Died July 6, 1923, Paw Paw Born Mar. 22, 1871, Geneva, First Director 1919 ---- Ohio Toledo & South Haven ---- ROWE, Floyd W. # [Camden] Director 1884-86 Michigan Central MichBiog, 2:252 Engineering Dept. 1889-92 Born June 8, 1861, Steuben ROWLAND, Thomas Lake Shore & Michigan Co., Ind. MichBiog, 2:253; ABH, Southern [Cleveland] c.1869 to Michigan 1:part1:125; EarlyBench, 174- Engineering Dept. 1892- 1904 organized bank at 77 9/1912 Camden Born 1784, Uniontown, Pa. Asst. Chief Engineer 9/1912- State representative 1921-24 Served in War of 1812; to (13) Died 1948, Camden Detroit soon after ---- Mich. Secy. State 1840-42 ROUGH, Harvey D. [Buchanan] Camden Southern Held many political and local Born Apr. 8, 1862, Buchanan First Director 1901 offices Son of Solomon Rough Died Aug. 13, 1849, Detroit Died Mar. 16, 1917, Buchanan ROWE, S. [Lawrence] ---- ---- Toledo & South Haven Michigan, Internal St. Joseph Valley First Director 1876 Improvement Board Director 1885 Commissioner ROWE, Samuel O. [New York 5/1840-4/1842 ROUGH, Solomon [Buchanan] City] Born 1835, in Pa. Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin ROWLEY, Frederick N. Father of Harvey D. Rough; Director 1884-85 [Kalamazoo] brother of William R. Rough Born 1863 1849 to Buchanan, farming ROWELL, Almerin S. Pres., First Natl. Bank 1868 stated grist mill BiogRy1893, 321 Died July 19, 1903, Kalamazoo 1875 became wagon Born Jan. 31, 1834, Camden, N. ---- manufacturer Y. Citizens Street of Battle Creek ---- ---- First Director 1894 St. Joseph Valley Chicago & North Western Michigan Traction Director 1881-82, 1885 [Escanaba] First Director 1896 General Freight Agent Carpenter work 1871-10/90 1884-85 Superintendent Bridges & ROWLEY, William C. # Buildings 10/1890-(93) BkDet, 389; BiogRy1922, 542 ROUGH, William R. [Buchanan] Born Feb. 24, 1863, Rochester, PortraitBerrCass, 245 ROWELL, Newton Wesley # N. Y. Born Dec. 8, 1832, Juniata Co., [Toronto] With fast freight lines 1877-95 Pa. Born Nov. 1, 1867, Arva, Ont. Vice president, Federal Motor Brother of Solomon Rough Lawyer Truck Co., 1917-(22) 1848 to Buchanan, farming Delegate, first assembly of ---- 1875 became wagon League of Nations Michigan Central manufacturer Died Nov. 22, 1941, Toronto Commercial Agent 1895-99 162 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) [Detroit] President 1873 Director 1906, 1908-17 Asst. General Freight Agent Toledo, Canada Southern & [Bay City] 1899-1902 Detroit RUGGLES, Emeline D. Asst. General Freight Agent General Manager 1874 [St. [Manistee] [Detroit] 1/1903 Thomas, Ont.] Buckley & Douglas General Freight Agent Director 1881-85 1/1903-8/17 RUDE, Clark [Sandusky, Ohio] Detroit & Charlevoix Born Oct. 1837, N. Y. state RUGGLES, Oliver W. # Director 1907-17 ---- [Chicago] Sandusky [Ohio] Street Ry BiogRy1885, 210; ROYCE, Frederick P. # Secretary, Treasurer 1887 BiogRy1913, 473; BkChi, 501 [Boston] Adrian City Electric Belt ---- Officer of Stone & Webster First Director 1888 Various roads (controlled HCT) Sandusky, Monroeville, Various work ??-1881 ---- Bellevue & Norwalk Electric Michigan Central Houghton County Traction President 1902-05 General Passenger Agent President, Director 1912-17 12/1881-1/1911 RUDISILL, Henry J. [Fort New York Central Lines ROYCE, George A. [Marquette] Wayne] [Sacramento, Calif.] HistNP, 3:1199-1200 Fort Wayne, Jackson & Passenger Agent 1/1911- Born May 1855, Sturgis Saginaw (13) Son-in-law of Ralph Ely Director 1871-73 1875 grad. Mich. Agr. College RUMMELE, Edward H. (now M. S. U.) RUEDISUELI, John P. # Born July 23, 1831, Dornbirn, 1882 to Baraga, bookkeeper [Corunna] Tyrol, Austria ---- Albion, Charlotte, Northern 1864 to Sheboygan, worked in Escanaba, Twin Cities & First Director 1914 store Western Died Sept. 2, 1893, Parrish, First Director 1889 RUFFNER, O. A. # [Detroit] Wisc.; buried Sheboygan Thumb Ry ---- ROZIENE, Frederick A. First Director 1912 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & [Charles City, Iowa] Western ---- RUGER, Charles E. # Engineer 1871-83 Minnesota, Iowa Southwestern [Manistee] [Sheboygan, Wisc.] President 1882 Manistee Ry Superintendent Canada, LaCrosse & Secretary, Treasurer, Construction 1883-10/85 Southwestern Director 1913 Chief Engineer 10/1885-92 First Director 1883 [Milwaukee] Sault Ste. Marie & RUGGLES, Charles D. Southwestern Kalamazoo & South Haven RUMSEY, Henry First Director 1885 First Director 1869 MichBiog, 2:255 (One genealogy record has RUCKER, Lewis D. RUGGLES, Charles F. # death date Apr. 8, 1855) Cleveland & Toledo [Manistee] Born July 7, 1784, Sharon, Superintendent 1865 HistMMO, 68 Conn. Atlantic & Great Western Born 1837, Naples, Me. 1821 to Ann Arbor General Superintendent young to Oshkosh, Wisc. Mich. Leg. Council 1828-29; 1867 1867 to Manistee, lumber state senator 1835-37 Erie Ry dealer Died July 4, 1852, Ann Arbor Superintendent of Died Aug. 21, 1930, Manistee ---- Operations 1869-71 ---- Monroe & Ann Arbor [Ann New York, Houstanic & Manistee & Northeastern Arbor] Northern Vice President 1889-90 Commissioner 1836 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 163 HistUP, 296; MenProgress, 182 [Detroit] RUMSEY, Royal C. Born Jan. 6, 1823, Austria BkDet, 390; HistMich1915, Born June 13, 1813, 1854 to Pennsylvania, trader 2:1127-28 Hubbardton, Vt. 1864 to Hancock, merchant Born Nov. 29, 1847, Detroit Died Feb. 1893, in Calif. Secy., treas., Grand Portage Son of Dr. George B. Russel; ---- Copper Mining Co. brother of Henry Russel; Detroit & Howell ---- Father of George B. Russel First Director 1864 Mineral Range & L'Anse Bay 1872 Secy., Treas. of (father’s) First Director 1771 Detroit Car Works RUNYAN, Arthur Casper # Mineral Range c.1877 founded Russel Wheel [South Haven] Director 1873-87 & Foundry Co. HistVanB, 926-29 Into banking Born Sept. 3, 1857, White RUSHTON, Richard Holt # Died May 17, 1915, Detroit Pigeon [Philadelphia] ---- 1877 to Bangor, dentist N. Y. Times, Jan. 23, 1910 Detroit Suburban 1890 to South Haven Born June 8, 1851, Dalton, Ga. First Director 1892 Pres., several gas companies 1869 to Philadelphia Detroit United ---- Bank president Director 1902-14 South Haven & Lake Shore Died Jan. 22, 1910, Treasurer 1902-14 First Director 1901 Philadelphia City Electric of Port Huron ---- Vice President, Treasurer RUOFF, R. Michigan Traction 1903-04 Mt. Clemens & Lakeside Director 1902-03 Detroit & Lake St. Clair Traction Tonopah & Goldfield Vice President, Treasurer First Director 1895 President 1905-10 1903-04 Detroit, Mt. Clemens & Marine RUPELL, Alfred [Detroit] RUSS, Ode A. # [Flint] City Iron Mountain Ry Saginaw Suburban Vice President, Treasurer First Director 1855 Director, Vice President 1903-04 1903-06 Port Huron, St. Clair & Marine RUPERT, Walter T. # City BiogRy1901, 473 RUSS, Oliver Vice President, Treasurer Born Apr.26, 1858, HistJack1, 224-25; HistJack2, 1903-04 Bloomsburg,Pa. 280-81 Rapid RR ---- Born July 27, 1795, Vice President, Treasurer Various roads Woodstock, Vt. 1903-04 Machinist 1876-12/93 1830-31 to Jackson, physician Detroit & Port Huron Shore Detroit, Lansing & Northern Died Apr. 22, 1846, Jackson Line [Ionia] ---- Director, Treasurer 1903-10 Shops Foreman 12/1893- Palmyra & Jacksonburgh Rapid Ry 11/94 Commissioner 1836 Director, Treasurer 1903-07 Master Mechanic 11/94- Detroit, Monroe & Toledo 1/98 RUSSEL, George Bagg [Detroit] Short Line Detroit, Grand Rapids & BkDet, 390 Director, Treasurer 1906-14 Western [Grand Rapids] Born June 8, 1873, Detroit Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Master Mechanic 1/1898- Son of George H. and Henry Director 1914 1/1900 Russel Kalamazoo & South Haven Pere Marquette [Grand Died 1947, Detroit Director 1901-15 Rapids] ---- Master Mechanic 1/1900- Detroit Transit Ry RUSSEL, Henry # [Detroit] (01) First Director 1872 BkDet, 391 HistMich1915, 2:691-92 RUPPE, Peter [Hancock] RUSSEL, George Howard # Born May 16, 1852, Detroit 164 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Son of George B. Russel; Kalamazoo & South Haven RUSSELL, Howard S. [Milton, brother of Henry Russel Director 1881-1916 Mass.] 1873 graduated Univ. Mich.; Michigan Air Line RR Hecla & Torch Lake 1875 grad U. M. law school Director 1889-1916 First Director 1868 June 3, 1880, marr. Helen H. Vice President 1893-1908 Muir (dau. of William K. Muir) Manistique & Northern RUSSELL, Huntley [Grand Died Feb. 25, 1920, Detroit First Director, Director Rapids] ---- 1908-09 MichBiog, 2:257 Michigan Central Saginaw Bay & Northwestern Born Sept. 1, 1858, New Asst. Attorney 1877-83 Director 1883-1900 Britain, Conn. Attorney 1884-87 St. Clair & Western State senator 1905-08 General Attorney 1888-1906 Director 1911-17 State land office commissioner General Counsel 1907-17 Traverse City, Leelanau & 1909-13 Vice President 1915-17 Manistique Ry Died 1928, Grand Rapids Battle Creek & Sturgis First Director, Director ---- Vice President 1890-1907 1908-17 Grand Rapids, Belding & Director 1890-1916 First President,President Greenville Bay City & Battle Creek 1908-17 First Director 1899 Vice President 1890-1907 Director 1890-1916 RUSSELL, Albert James # RUSSELL, Jason Kirk # Buchanan & St. Joseph River BiogRy1913, 473-74 [Cleveland] Director 1900-11 Born Nov. 11, 1881, Cincinnati LS&MSHist, 711; BiogRy1893, Vice President 1905-11 ---- 323 Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Various roads Born July 26, 1854, Pa. Director 1906-17 Freight Dept. 1/1898- ---- General Counsel 1912-17 5/1910 Lake Shore & Michigan Detroit & Bay City Ludington & Northern Southern Director 1910-16 Traffic Manager 5/1910- Various work 1873-93 Detroit & Charlevoix 11/12 Div. Superintendent Director 1907-16 Pere Marquette-steamship 1893-1908 General Counsel 1911-16 lines Vice President 1912-16 Asst. General Freight Agent RUSSELL, John A. # [Detroit] Detroit, Delray & Dearborn 11/1912-(13) BkDet, 392 First Director, Director Born Nov. 4, 1865, Sheboygan, 1895-1916 RUSSELL, Alfred [Utica] Wisc. Vice President 1896-1916 Northern Michigan RR 1863 graduated Detroit Detroit Belt Line First Director 1867 College First Director, Director ---- 1909-16 RUSSELL, Alfred Detroit & Dearborn Street Detroit Belt Line Detroit River Street First Director 1891 Vice President 1911-16 First Director 1872 City & Suburban Traction Detroit Manufacturers First Director 1894 Director 1902-17 RUSSELL, Charles Copeland # Detroit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor President 1904-17 [Milwaukee] Treasurer 1897-98 Detroit River Tunnel Co. BiogRy1922, 543 Detroit, Plymouth & Northville Director 1910-17 Born Apr. 4, 1868, Gouveneur, First Director 1898 Detroit Terminal N. Y. Michigan & Indiana Director 1911-17 1892, grad. Wisc. Univ. law First Director 1898 General Counsel 1913-17 school Detroit River Terminal Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee ---- First Director 1899 Director 1902--17 Escanaba & Lake Superior Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Grand River Valley Attorney 1909-17 Jackson Director 1911-16 First Director 1901 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 165 Detroit, Flint & Saginaw Grand Rapids & Mineral Director 1873 Vice President 1903-04 Springs Houghton & Rockland Director 1904 First Director 1889 First Director 1883 General Manager 1904 RUTHERFORD, John W. RYAN, Edmund E. [Chicago] RUSSELL, William T. # [Sherman] Grand Rapids & Reeds Lake [Bessemer] Cadillac, Manistee Valley & First Director 1874 Ontonagon Southern Lake Michigan First Director 1907 First Director 1884 RYAN, James R. [Sault Ste. Marie] RUST, Amasa (Jr.) [Saginaw] RUTTLE, Charles S. # [Bay NPMemorial, 328-29, HistNP, Born May 27, 1823, Wells, Vt. City] 3:1545-47 Father of Ezra Rust, brother of PortraitSagBay, 2:982-83 Born May 25, 1858, Sault Ste. David W. Rust Born July 26, 1857, Marie, Died Jan. 26, 1893 Ganonoque, Ont. Son of Thomas Ryan ---- 1879 to Michigan Post master, local politics Saginaw Valley & St. Louis 1891 to Bay City Involved in many businesses; Director 1874-78 ---- wealthy Saginaw & Grand Rapids Flint & Pere Marquette ---- First Director 1878 Telegraph Operator 1879 Sault Ste. Marie Street Detroit, Grand Haven & Manager 1888- RUST, David Ward [East Milwaukee Saginaw] Telegraph Operator 1880-91 RYAN, John C. [Hancock] CycMich, 196-97 Cincinnati, Saginaw & HistUP, 297 Born Mar. 24, 1821, Wells, Vt. Mackinaw Born June 22, 1829, Limerick, Brother of Amasa Rust (Jr.) Station Agent 9/1891 Tipperary, Ireland 1837 to Newport [Marine City] Detroit, Bay City & Western Brother of Edward and Sailed ships, owned sawmill in First Director, Director William J. Ryan Newport 1907-17 1848 to Lafayette Co., Wisc. 1859 to Saginaw, lumberman General Superintendent 1852 to Hancock, Quincy Died Oct. 4, 1880, East 1911-17 Mining Co. Saginaw General Freight and Later, captain Pewabic Mine ---- Passenger Agent 1911-17 ---- East Saginaw & Ann Arbor Port Huron Southern Houghton & Rockland First Director 1869 General Freight Agent 1917 First Director 1883 RUST, Ezra [Saginaw] RYAN, Edward [Hancock] RYAN, John D. # [New York Born Oct. 24, 1854, Marine HistUP, 296-97, HistNP, City] City 3:1356-58; BiogHBM, 142-44 President, Montana Power Co., Son of Amasa Rust (Jr.) Born Apr. 22, 1840, Tipperary, 1917 Died Jan 9, 1917, Saginaw Ireland ---- ---- Brother of John C. and William Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Saginaw Valley & St. Louis J. Ryan Director 1910-17 Director 1872-78 1854 to Wisc. Secretary 1874-78 1857 to Houghton Co., RYAN, Michael Saginaw & Grand Rapids merchant, mining BiogRy1901, 475 First Director 1878 Died Dec. 14, 1900, Calumet Born May 4, 1852, Ireland Republic Branch ---- ---- First Director 1881 Portage Lake & Keweenaw Various roads Ontonagon & Brule River First Director 1868 Various work 1873-76 President, Director 1882-88 Mineral Range & L'Anse Bay Michigan Central First Director 1871 Machinist 10/1876-5/85 RUST, Joseph [Grand Rapids] Mineral Range [Jackson] 166 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Master Mechanic 5/1885- Born May 24, 1842, Central, N. (1901) [Bay City] Y. ---- RYAN, Thomas [Sault Ste. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Marie] Western NPMemorial, 328-29; HistNP, Station Agent 18747-6/87 3:1545 General Agent 6/1887- Born Dec. 21, 1829, Ireland 10/91 [Chicago] Father of James R. Ryan General Passenger Agent 1854 to Sault Ste. Marie, 10/1891-(93) construction worker on locks, then a merchant RYERSON, Martin Original owner of most of HerrNL, 5:88-89; HistChi3, downtown SSM 430-31 Died 1905, Sault Ste. Marie Born Jan. 6, 1818, Paterson, N. ---- J. Sault Ste. Marie Street 1834 to Grand Rapids First Director 1887 1836 to Muskegon, fur trader, saw mill worker RYAN, Thomas Fortune # 1851 to Chicago [New York City] Died Sept. 6, 1887, Boston HerrNL, 5:87 ---- Born Oct. 17, 1851, Lovington, Grand River & Muskegon Nelson Co., Va. First Director 1857 1862 to Baltimore Marquette & Ontonagon 1872 to New York City; started First Director 1857 working in broker house In N. Y. politics was in with RYLE, Arthur # [New York Tammany Hall City] 1886 a consolidator of street Erie & Kalamazoo rys in New York City Director 1915-17 By 1900 controlled most of N. Y. C. street car lines c.1898 merged with another co. to form American Tobacco Died Nov. 23, 1928, Oak Ridge, Nelson Co., Va. ---- Flint & Pere Marquette Director 1894-97 Pere Marquette Director 1900-02 RYAN, William J. [Hancock] Brother of Edward and John C. Ryan ---- Houghton & Rockland First Director 1883 RYDER, Charles L. [1891 Milwaukee] BiogRy1893, 324 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 167 S Grand Rapids Terminal Director 1889-1902 Director 1913 Mineral Range SABIN, Charles E. [Nottawa] Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Director 1888-92 PortStJos, 583 Director 1913-17 Born June 6, 1838, Orland, Ind. St. Clair Tunnel Co. ST. JOHN, Daniel B. [Albany, N. Co. A, 29th Ind. Infantry, 1862- Director 1913-17 Y.] 64 United State Railroad (Probably not Daniel Bennett Postmaster, Nottawa 1870 Administration St. John, born Oct. 8, ---- Engineering 8/1918-2/20 1808, Sharon Conn.; moved to Toledo & South Haven/S Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Newburgh, N. Y.; First Director 1876 [Chicago[ U. S. Repr. (x-NY) 1847-49 Assistant to President N. Y. state superintendent of SABIN, Marden # [Centreville] 3/1920-12/21 banking 1853 MichBiog, 2:259 Vice President 12/1921- Died Feb. 18, 1890, New York Born Jan. 2, 1840, Orland, Ind. (22) City 1862-65 in Civil War, ---- mustered out as Captain SAGE, Henry William [Bay Erie & Kalamazoo 1867 to Centreville, doctor City] Director 1852-55 State senator, 1891-94 HerrNL, 5:92 Michigan Southern & Northern Died Apr. 10, 1917, Battle Born Jan. 31, 1814, Indiana Creek Middletown, Conn First Director, Director ---- early 1850s built large sawmill 4/1855-4/57 Toledo & South Haven/S on Lake Simcoe, Ont. First Director 1876 1864 built Sage McGraw saw ST. JOHN, G. F. # [Marquette] mill in W. Bay City Lake Superior & Ishpeming SABINE, Hylas [Columbus, 1870 became trustee of Cashier 1906 Ohio] Cornell Univ. Born July 5, 1829, Union, Ohio 1884 built Sage Library in Bay ST. JOHN, Henry Audrus # Ohio state senator 1878-79 City BiogRy1922, 547-48 Ohio Commr. of Railroads Died Sept. 17, 1897, Ithaca, N. Born Jan. 12, 1869, Utica, N. Y. 1881-85 Y. ---- Died July 25, 1910, Marysville, ---- Michigan Central Ohio Grand Rapids & Bay City Telegrapher, Agent 1887-88 ---- First Director 1871 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Columbus, Lima & Michigan Telegrapher, Station Agent First Director 1889 SAGE, Russell # [New York 1888-95 City] Munising [Munising, 1903 SAFFORD, Harry Robinson # HerrNL, 5:92-93; CongBiog Cleveland] BiogRy1913, 476; Born Aug. 4, 1816, Verona, Auditor 1895-97 BiogRy1922, 547 Oneida Co., N. Y. General Passenger & Freight Born Madison, Ind. 1853-57 U. S. Representative Agent 1895-97 1895 graduated Purdue Univ. 1874 bought seat on N. Y. Auditor 1900-11 ---- Stock Exchange General Passenger & Freight Illinois Central 1880s and later worked with Agent 1900-11 Engineering Dept. 1895- Jay Gould in several RRs Lake Superior & Ishpeming 5/1910 Died July 22, 1906, Lawrence, Auditor 1901-(22) Grand Trunk Ry Canada L. I., N. Y.; buried in Troy, N. Y. General Passenger & Freight [Montreal] ---- Agent 1905-(22) Chief Engineer 10/1911- Chicago & North Western Marquette & Southeastern 8/18 Director 6/1868-2/70 General Passenger & Freight Detroit, Grand Haven & Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Agent 1901-11 Milwaukee Director 1881-85 Auditor 1901-11 Director 1913-17 Wabash Munising, Marquette & 168 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Southeastern ---- Died 1915 Auditor 1912-(22) Manistee & Grand Rapids ---- General Passenger & Freight Treasurer, Director 1906-13 City RR (Port Huron) Agent 1912-(22) First Director 1873 SAMP, Tony # [Chicago] Port Huron Ry ST. JOHN, John # [Muskegon] Trans-Michigan Street First Director 1877 Muskegon Traction & Lighting First Director 1906 Port Huron & Northwestern Auditor 1907 Vice President, Director SAMPSON, A. J. # [Saginaw] 1878-81 ST. JOHN, Raymond G. # Bay City Traction & Electric President, Director 1882-88 [Detroit] Secretary, Treasurer 1907- Port Huron & Southwestern Detroit, Lansing & Grand 08 First Director 1882 Rapids Auditor 1907-08 First Director 1909 Director 1908 SANBORN, Peter [Port Huron] Michigan Light & Traction Saginaw Valley Traction HistStCl, 593 First Director 1909 Secretary, Treasurer 1907- Born Mar. 13, 1802, Falmouth, Detroit, Pontiac & Owosso 08 Me. First Director 1914 Auditor 1907-08 Brother of James W. Sanborn; Director 1908 uncle of SALLING, Ernest Nelson Peter B.Sanborn [Manistee] SANBORN, Edward H. # ---- CycMich, 179-80 [Philadelphia] Port Huron & Northwestern Born Mar. 15, 1843, Viborg, Trans-St. Marys Traction Director 1880-81 Denmark Director, Secretary 1903 1862 to Chicago SANBORN, Peter Bowdoin 1863 to Detroit, then Manistee SANBORN, James William [Port Huron] worked for M. Engelman [Port Huron] HistStCl, 593 1867 partnership w/Rasmus MichBiog, 2:261; ABH, Born Mar. 17, 1838, Falmouth, Hanson 2:part7:20-21; HistStCl, 593 Me. 1871 partnership w/M. Born Apr. 19, 1813, Falmouth, Brother of John P. Sanborn Engelman Me. Nephew of James W. Sanborn 1879 formed Salling, Hanson & Brother of Peter Sanborn; and Peter Sanborn Co. uncle of Peter B.Sanborn ---- Died 1909, Manistee 1836 to Metamora, land Port Huron & Northwestern ---- manager First Director, Director Manistee & Grand Rapids 1847 to Port Huron, lumber 1878-88 Auditor, Director 1891-97 business Auditor 1879-80 Died Apr. 13, 1872, Port Huron Port Huron & Southwestern SALLING, Nelson P. [Grayling] ---- First Director 1882 Born c.1859, Viborg, Denmark Detroit, Port Huron & Sarnia ---- First Director 1857 SANBORN, Sherburne Grayling, Twin Lakes & BiogRy1893, 327 Northeastern SANBORN, John Pitts [Port Born c.1841, Red Creek, N. Y. First Director 1891 Huron] ---- ABH, 2:part7:22-23; HistStCl, Chicago & North Western SAMMONS, Benjamin C. # 593 Div. Superintendent 1882 [Chicago] Born July 12, 1833, Belgrade, [Winona, Minn.] Born Mar. 19, 1866 Me. Asst. General Banker Brother of Peter B. Sanborn Superintendent 1885 Vice president, Corn Exchange Nephew of James W. Sanborn [Chicago] Bank and Peter Sanborn General Superintendent Died Sept. 3, 1916, Blue Island, 1847 to Port Huron, lumbering 1886-1900 [Chicago] Ill. and mercantile Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 169 SANDAGE, Charles H. # [South ---- ---- Bend] Wabash Manistee & Grand Rapids South Bend & Southern Director 1906-09 Vice President, Director Michigan Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand 1891-1904 Director 1904 Rapids Director 1911-17 SANDS, Samuel Stevens [New SANDERS, Charles [Detroit] York City] Detroit, Lansing & Northern SANDERSON, Edwin N. # [New Born Nov. 18, 1827, New York General Passenger & Freight York City] City Agent 1874 Worcester & Webster Street Died July 24, 1892, New Ry Hamburgh, N. Y. SANDERS, Charles W. # Director 1905 ---- [Houghton] Michigan United Rys Boston & New York Air Line BiogRy1901, 478-79 Director 1906-07 RR Born Dec. 13. 1856, Worcester, Director 1878 Mass. SANDERSON, H. D. # Vieux Desert & Lake Superior 1876 graduated Worcester BiogRy1922, 549 First Director 1881 Polytechnic Inst. Born 1880, Berkey, Ohio Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Died Nov. 1, 1906, Houghton ---- Western ---- Toledo, Ottawa Beach & Director 1883-91 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Northern Asst. Secretary 1883-84 Engineering Dept. c.1876- Engineering Dept.1905 2/86 Lake Shore Electric SANDS, Thomas Edmund # Various roads Engineering Dept. 1906-08 [Minneapolis] Engineering Dept. 2/1886- Toledo & Western [Toledo] BiogRy1922, 549 6/99 Chief Engineer 1902-12 Born Jan. 1, 1869, Albany, N. Y. Copper Range Michigan United Traction ---- Asst. Engineer 6/1899- [Jackson] Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis 7/1900 Chief Engineer 1912-14 & Omaha Chief Engineer 7/1900- Michigan United Rys Freight Agent 6/1886-12/88 11/06 Chief Engineer 1915-17 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Michigan Ry Ste. Marie SANDERS, J. D. # [Detroit] Chief Engineer 1915-17 Freight Dept. 12/1888-1907 Delray Connecting Grand Rapids, Holland & Asst. General Freight Agent Secretary, Director 1904-17 Chicago 1908-4/09 Chief Engineer 1915 General Freight Agent SANDERS, Milton Sears # 4/1909-4/16 [Traverse City] SANDS, Gardner T. # Freight Traffic Manager Born 1867, Massachusetts [Pentwater] 4/1916-(22) President, Traverse City Banker, lumberman Refrigerator Co. ---- SANFORD, Samuel Ransom Died Apr. 10, 1945, Detroit; Ludington Southern Born Aug. 11, 1822, Marion, buried Traverse City First Director 1906 Wayne Co., N. Y. ---- c.1844 to Grand Rapids, Grand Traverse SANDS, Louis # [Manistee] opened drug store First Director 1907 CycMich, 270-71 1848 began lumbering on Traverse City Street Born July 6, 1826, Sweden Muskegon River First Director 1907 1854 to Chicago, later 1851 to Muskegon Manistee County clerk, sheriff SANDERS, William Brownell # 1864 partner in sawmill Died Sept. 7, 1899, Muskegon [Cleveland] Became extensive landowner ---- Born Sept. 21, 1854, Cleveland and logger Muskegon & Ferrysburg Died Jan. 25, 1929, Boston Died Aug. 1905, Manistee [Muskegon] 170 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1868 Grand Traverse General Superintendent Chicago & Michigan Lake First Director 1907 9/1867-11/74 Shore [Muskegon] Leelanau Transit Northern Pacific Director 1870 First Director 1919 General Manager 10/1877- 5/81 SANFORD, William C. [Pontiac] SAPH, Valentine A. [Marine Fargo & Southern BiogOak, 193-94 City] President 10/1883-(85) ---- Born June 21, 1830, Salisbury, Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Wiltshire, England SAUNDERS, Edwin # Auditor 1883-88 1867-71 president, village of [Saginaw] Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Marine City HistSag, 2:205 Auditor 1889-92 1869 admitted to bar Born Nov. 5, 1836, Oakland Co. General Superintendent Died Sept. 18, 1903 1855 to Saginaw, lumber 1893-1904 ---- milling General Passenger & Freight Detroit & St. Clair River 1864-65 in Civil War Agent 1893-1904 First Director 1885 Various city offices; Director 1894-1906 postmaster Detroit, Pontiac & Northern SAPP, Charles H. [Mancelona] Died Dec. 16, 1924, Saginaw First Director 1892 Mancelona & North Western ---- First Director 1892 Saginaw & Clare County SANGER, Henry K. [Detroit] Secretary 1884 Born Nov. 11, 1799, New SARGENT, Fred W. # [Chicago] Flint & Pere Marquette Hartford, N. Y. BHB19, 384-85 Asst. Attorney 1892-99 1838 to Detroit, cashier with Born May 26, 1876, Akron, Land Commissioner 1896- Bank of Michigan Iowa 99 Died June 4, 1864 Died Feb. 4, 1940, Mt. Vernon, Pere Marquette ---- Iowa Asst. Attorney 1900-6/05 Port Huron & Milwaukee ---- Land Commissioner 1900- First Director 1855 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 6/05 Detroit, Port Huron & Sarnia Attorney 1912-20 Monroe & Toledo First Director 1857 Chicago & North Western First Director 1893 General Solicitor 1920-23 Bay City Belt Line SANGER, William A. [Mottville] Vice President 1923-25 Director 1897 Postmaster, Mottville 1837 General Counsel 1923-25 Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron ---- President 1925-6/39 Director 1900-02 Mottville & White Pigeon Commissioner 1838 SARGENT, Homer Earle SAULSBURY, David S. [Chicago] [Morenci] SANTO, John Randle # BiogRy1885, 213 Born c.1830, Rhode Island [Traverse City] Born May 18, 1822, Leicester, Druggist MichBiog, 2:263; Powers, Mass. ---- 3:1021-23 Founder & director, Union Detroit, Eel River & Illinois Born June 29, 1865, London, Stock Yards, Chicago First Director, First Ontario Incorporator & director, Treasurer 1870 1883 to Detroit, insurance Pullman Palace Car Co. work Died May 19, 1900, Chicago; SAVIDGE, Hunter 1894 to Traverse City, bought buried in Mass. ABH, 2:part5:107 insurance agency ---- Born Apr. 6, 1828, Columbia State representative 1913-14 Various roads Co., Pa. Died 1935 Clerk, Agent 1/1844-10/58 1856 to Grand Haven, bought ---- Michigan Central sawmill Traverse City & Peninsula General Freight Agent 1864 partner with Dwight First Director 1903 10/1858-9/67 Cutler Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 171 Died Apr. 11, 1881, Spring [Minneapolis] Flushing Lake BiogRy1885, 214 In law and farming ---- Born June 4, 1844, Hillsboro State senator 1898-1901 Muskegon & Ferrysburg Ridge, N.H. In banking and lumber First Director 1868 ---- Died Mar. 6, 1926 Chicago & North Western; ---- SAWYER, Charles Edwin Illinois Central Flushing [Marshall] Clerk 10/1865-10/81 First Director 1886 HistCal, 2:913-14 Rochester & Pittsburg Born July 6, 1860, near General Freight Agent SCATTERGOOD, William Kendallville, Ind. 10/1881-(85) Barker # [Ithaca] c.1881 began civil engineering Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Born Aug. 20, 1844, Plymouth work for Ste. Marie Died May 20, 1921, Petoskey several railroads General Freight Agent 1891 ---- Died 1932; burial Marshall Ann Arbor Street ---- SAWYER, Justin [Coldwater] First Director 1888 Columbus, Marshall & Judge, Branch Co., 1851 Northeastern ---- SCHADDELEE, Richard # First Director 1899 Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake [Grand Rapids] Michigan 1926 made pres., United Light SAWYER, Eugene F. [Cadillac] Director 1872 & Power Co. MichBiog, 2:264 Asst. Secretary 1872 ---- Born 1848, Grand Rapids Secretary 1873 Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & c.1870 graduated Univ. Mich. Muskegon law school SAWYER, W. E. [Deadwood, President, Director 1912-15 1873 to Cadillac, attorney S.D.] Died 1931, Cadillac Columbus, Marshall & SCHADDELEE, Kummer ---- Northeastern [Holland] Cadillac & Evart First Director 1899 (Missp. as Kummer First Director 1882 Schaderlee) Nirvanna & Luther SAWYER, W. N. # [Sault Ste. Born Oct. 13, 1837, First Director 1883 Marie, Ont.] Goedereede, Zuid Holland, Frankfort, Crystal Lake & 1907 General Manager, Lake Netherlands Glenn Arbor Superior Power Co. (Ont.) 1849 to U. S. First Director 1890 ---- 1877-78, mayor of Holland Trans-St. Marys Traction Died Sept. 8, 1913, Holland SAWYER, Henry Buckland # General Manager 1905-06 ---- [Boston] Allegan & Holland WhosWhoFB, xv SAXTON, Solomon P. First Director 1868 Born Apr. 28, 1871, Lowell, [Menominee] Mass. Investor, director, Breen Mine SCHAEFFNER, George Vice President and Asst. ---- [Detroit] Treasurer, Stone & Webster Deer Creek & Marble Quarry Port Huron & Lexington Officer many other utility First Director 1869 First Director 1894 companies Vice President, Director Died Apr. 14, 1950 1872-74 SCHAFFER, Charles H. ---- [Marquette] Houghton County Street SAYRE, Ira Terry # [Flushing] Born c.1846 Treasurer 1902-03 MichBiog, 2:266; HerrNL, Died 1945, Pasadena, Calif. Houghton County Traction 5:116; BiogRep, 2:339-40 ---- Treasurer 1908-09 Born Mar. 6, 1858, Hector, Mineral Range Schuyler Co., N. Y. Director 1893-1911 SAWYER, James Mallon 1864 to Genesee Co.; settled in 172 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) SCHAFF, Charles Ellsworth # BiogRy1922, 552 Detroit, Monroe & Toledo [Cincinnati, 1906 Chicago] Born 1874, Ohio Director 1872-82 BiogRy1893, 329; ---- Northern Central Michigan BiogRy1901,, 482; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Director 1872-82 BiogRy1913, 480 & St. Louis Vice President 1880 Born Feb. 4, 1856, Licking Co., Various work 4/1894- Michigan Central Ohio 6/1909 Director 1878-83 ---- Lake Shore & Michigan Canada Southern Bridge Various roads Southern Director 1878-83 Various work 1/1871-c.91 Asst. Superintendent Detroit & Bay City Peoria & Pekin Union 6/1909-12/12 Director 1878-83 General Superintendent Michigan Central [Detroit] Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw c.1891-7/92 Div. Superintendent Director 1879-84 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 12/1912-3/15 Michigan Midland & Canada & St. Louis New York Central Director 1876-83 Assistant to President Div. Superintendent 3/1915- Toledo, Canada Southern & 7/1892-9/94 5/17 [Cleveland] Detroit Asst. General Manager General Superintendent Director 1876-83 9/1894-11/95 5/1917-(22) [Chicago] Chicago & Canada Southern General Manager Director 1876, 1879-83 11/1895-6/1906 SCHEIMAN, Henry F. # [Grand President 1879-83 Vice President 6/1906-4/12 Rapids] Chicago & North Western Director 1906-12 Born May 30, 1854, Director 6/1879-3/84 Cincinnati Northern Williamsburg, N. Y. Vice President 1901-12 Died Apr. 30, 1943, Grand SCHERMERHORN, John General Manager 1901-05 Rapids William [Nottawa] Director 1901-12 ---- Born Apr. 20, 1834., Detroit & Chicago Grand Rapids & Indiana Rotterdam, N. Y. Vice President, Director Asst. Treasurer 1913-14 Merchant at Nottawa 1911-12 Muskegon, Grand Rapids & after 1881 to Buchanan Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Indiana Died Mar. 22, 1899. Vice President 1911 Asst. Treasurer 1914-16 ---- Detroit Terminal Traverse City Toledo & South Haven/S Director 1911-12 Asst. Treasurer 1914-16 First Director 1876 Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Vice President 1902 SCHELL, Augustus [New York SCHEUERMANN, Philip Kalamazoo & White Pigeon City] [Hancock] Vice President 1911 Born Aug. 1, 1812, Rhinebeck, NPMemorial, 355-56; HistUP, Lake Shore & Michigan N. Y. 319 Southern 1830 graduated Union College Born Oct. 1822, Lohr-am-Main, Vice President 1906-11 Associate of Cornelius Bavaria Michigan Central Vanderbilt 1850 to Cliff Mine, carpenter Vice President 1906-11 Died March 27, 1884, Newe 1860 to Hancock, supt. Quincy Northern Central Michigan York City Mine Director 1911-12 ---- 1881 owned Union Brewery Vice President 1911 Lake Shore & Michigan Died Mar. 30, 1898, Hancock Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis Southern ---- Director 1911-13 First Director, Director Portage Lake & Keweenaw Missouri, Kansas & Texas [St. 10/1869-3/84 First Director 1868 Louis, Mo.] Vice President 5/1870-5/74, Mineral Range & L'Anse Bay President 4/1912-(13) 5/1877-5/83 First Director 1871 2nd Vice President 5/1874- Mineral Range SCHAFF, William Frank # 5/77 Director 1873-76 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 173 ---- Ontonagon SCHILLING, Phillip E. # Fort Wayne & Belle Isle General Manager [Toledo] First Director 1892 9/1/1873-10/84 Toledo & Western Director 1873, 1875-78 Director 1910-12 SCHLUPP, Frederick # Ontonagon & Montreal River Toledo, Ottawa Beach & [Toledo] First Director 1880 Northern Born Dec. 1852, Switzerland Director 1911-12 Brewery cellarman SCHOONMAKER, James Toledo Rys & Light Co Died Jan.. 15, 1931, Toledo Martinus # [Pittsburgh] Accounting Dept. 1911 ---- Born June 30, 1842, Allegheny, Ohio & Southern Michigan Pa. SCHINDLER, Theodore C. M. # First Director 1907 In Civil War, mustered out as BiogRy1893, 329 Captain Born Aug. 19, 1847, SCHMIDLAPP, Jacob Godfrey # Died Oct. 11, 1927 Middletown, Md. [Cincinnati] ---- Died 1918, ?Washington, D. C.; (Annual report has J. C. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie burial Middletown, Md. Schmidlapp) Director 1877-?? ---- Born Sept. 7, 1849, Piqua, Ohio Vice President, General Various roads Died 1919, Cincinnati Manager no dates Freight Dept. 8/1876-4/87 ---- Lake Shore & Michigan Cincinnati, Jackson & Detroit United Southern Mackinaw [Toledo] Director 1902 Director 5/1896-1902 General Passenger & Freight Agent 4/1887-5/95 SCHMIEL, H. J. # [Kalamazoo] SCHOYER, Alfred M. # General Passenger Agent Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & [Pittsburgh] 5/1895-9/97 Chicago HerrNL, 5:128; BiogRy1901, Michigan & Mackinaw Secretary 1909-11 484; BiogRy1913, 481 First Director 1891 Auditor 1909-12 Born Nov. 1, 1859, Allegheny Cincinnati Northern [Toledo] City, Pa. General Passenger & Freight SCHMUTZ, Mary A. # [Chicago] Died 1924 Agent 5/1898-1901 Michigan West Shore Traction ---- Detroit Southern [Detroit] First Director 1901 Pennsylvania-West General Freight Agent 1901- subsidiaries 02 SCHNEIDER, Louis # Various work 1872-1902 Detroit & Highland Park Grand Rapids & Indiana SCHLEY, Grant Barney # [New First Director 1912 Superintendent Telegraph York City] 1896-97 HerrNL, 5:123 SCHOCH, Samuel [Marquette] Pennsylvania-West Born Feb. 25, BiogRy1885, 214; HistUP, 433 General Superintendent 1845,Chapinville, N. Y. Born Dec. 3, 1835, Harrisburg, 1902-12 Died Nov. 22, 1917, Far Hills, Penn. Vandalia RR N. J. Retired to New York City General Manager 1913- ---- ---- (124) Marquette, Houghton & Morris & Essex Ontonagon Treasurer’s Clerk 7/1855-72 SCHULTZ, M. F. # [Chicago] Director 1889-90 Delaware, Lackawanna & Wisconsin & Michigan Marquette & Western Western Auditor 1906, 1912-16 Director 1889 Superintendent Treasurer 1908-10 2/1867-4/72 SCHLOSS, Seligman # [Detroit] Houston & Great Northern SCHUPP, Otto # [Saginaw] Born Apr. 30, 1830, Germany General Superintendent Born Sept. 3, 1866, Saginaw Clothing manufacturer 4/1872-4/73 Died Nov. 8, 1941 Died, Sept. 1, 1913, Detroit Marquette, Houghton & ---- 174 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Saginaw-Bay City attorney Detroit, Grand Haven & Director 1916-17 In 93rd Ohio Infantry, 1862- Milwaukee Receiver 1921-23 63, captain Director 1915-17 Saginaw Transit Co. c.1885 to Toledo, attorney Michigan Air Line Ry President 1923-?? Died Mar. 9, 1896, Toledo Treasurer 1901-17 ---- Director 1915-17 SCHWAN, Louis Manvel [New Ohio Central Pontiac, Oxford & Northern York City] Attorney 1875-85 Director 1915-17 BiogRy1885, 215 Michigan & Ohio St. Clair Tunnel Co. Born Nov. 16, 1852, Cleveland, Attorney 1885-2/28/1887 Secretary 1900 Ohio Toledo, Columbus & Southern Treasurer 1900-17 ---- Secretary, Treasurer 1889 Director 1915-17 New York, Chicago & St. Louis Asst. to General Counsel SCOTT, David H. # [Northport] SCOTT, George 6/1881-4/82 Born July 26, 1851, Hastings Michigan, Internal St. Louis, Kansas City & Co., Ont. Improvement Board Western Died Sept. 26, 1941, Fair Oaks, Superintendent Repairs Secretary 4/1882-(85) Calif. [South]] 5/1844-4/1845 East Tennessee, Virginia & ---- Georgia Leelanau Transit SCOTT, George Slessman [New Secretary 4/1882-(85) First Director 1919 York City] Ohio Central BiogNY, 430 Secretary 4/1882-(85) SCOTT, Dell M. # [Lewiston] Born Jan. 25, 1837, Chillicothe, Memphis & Charleston Lewiston & Southeastern Ohio Secretary 9/1883-(85) General Manager 1908-09 Associate of Calvin S. Brice and Michigan & Ohio George I. Seney Secretary 10/1883-(85) SCOTT, Emmet Hoyt [LaPorte, ---- Marquette, Houghton & Ind.] Chicago & North Western Ontonagon Born July 20, 1842, Nineveh, Director 6/1868-6/74 Secretary 1886-89 Broome Co., N. Y. Richmond & Danville Marquette & Western Business associate of Timothy President Secretary 1886-89 Nester Pacific Mail S. S. Co. Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Died June 20, 1924, LaPorte, Vice president Secretary 1887-92 Ind. Union Pacific Michigan & Ohio ---- Director 3/1874-3/76 Secretary 1883-11/5/1884 Munising Panama RR Lake Erie & Western General Manager 1895-97 Director Secretary 1891 East Tennessee, Virginia & Cincinnati, Jackson & SCOTT, Frank R.# [Montreal] Georgia Mackinaw BiogRy1913, 482; Director Secretary, Treasurer BiogRy1922, 556 Georgia Terminal 1895-6/30/97 Born Dec. 24, 1862, Montreal Incorporator 1888 ---- SCOLEY, A. L. [Paris] Grand Trunk Ry Canada SCOTT, John [Waverly Twp] Paris & Pere Marquette River Various financial positions HistVanB, 1:623 General Superintendent 1879 1843 to Waverly Twp., Van 1888 Asst. Treasurer 1893-1900 Buren Co. Treasurer 1901-8/22 ---- SCOTT, Alexander W. [Toledo] Vice President 1914-8/22 Lawton, Paw Paw & South MemLucas, 1:447-49 Chicago, Detroit & Canada Haven Born Mar. 18, 1840, Bucyrus, Grand Trunk Jct. First Director 1868 Ohio Treasurer 1902-17 Kalamazoo & South Haven 1875 to New Lexington, Ohio, Director 1915-17 First Director 1869 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 175 Director 1872-78 Late 1850s became owner of SCOTT, Lemuel Green # [St. Grand Rapids & Indiana many coal fields Louis, Mo.] Director 1873-79 1862 w/John F. Tracy, BiogRy1913, 483 Atlantic & Pacific extended CRI&P from Iowa Born June 12, 1864, St. Louis, President 1873-?? to Missouri Riv. Mo. Pennsylvania-East 1885-89 U. S. Representative Died June 13, 1954, San Diego, Various work 1850-57 Died Sept. 19, 1891 Calif. General Superintendent ---- ---- 1/1858-60 Chicago & North Western Various roads Vice President 3/1860 Director 6/1870-9/91 Auditing work 1/1880- President 6/1874-5/80 Lake Shore & Michigan 12/1900 Southern Minneapolis & St. Louis SCOTT, Thomas Blythe First Director, Director Audit Dept. 12/1900-4/03 [Merrill, Wisc.] 4/1869-90 Auditor 4/1903-(13) Born Feb. 8, 1829, Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Asst. Secretary 2/1908-(13) Rexburyshire, Scotland Director 1872-86 Wabash 1839 family to N. Y. Detroit River RR & Bridge Comptroller 1916-(20) 1848 to Columbia Co., Wisc. First Director 1872 Vice President (1920) 1851 to Grand Rapids, Wisc. Michigan Central Held local offices; owned Director 1878-91 SCOTT, S. C. # [Pittsburgh] general store Canada Southern Bridge Born Apr. 4, 1854, Toledo 1867 into lumbering Director 1878-89 ---- Wisc. state senator 1872-84 Detroit & Bay City Pennsylvania-West Died Oct. 7, 1886 Director 1879-80 Various work 1872-75 ---- Michigan Midland & Canada Clerk to officers 1878-(13) Sault Ste. Marie & Director 1874-87 Grand Rapids & Indiana Southwestern President 1876 Asst. to President 1906-(13) First Director 1885 Toledo, Canada Southern & Detroit SCOTT, Samuel B. SCOTT, William Director 1874-87 MemLucas, 232 Great Western Ry of Canada President 1876 Born 1812, Saratoga Co., N. Y. Associate Chief Engineer Chicago & Canada Southern 1835 to Toledo, mercantile 1853-55 Director 1874-76, 1879-88 Died Dec. 18, 1866, Toledo Canada Southern ---- Asst. Engineer 1855 SCOVILL, Sylvanus Selah Erie & Kalamazoo [Toledo] Detroit & Milwaukee [Coldwater] Director, Treasurer 1839 Asst. Engineer 1855-57 PortBran, 538-40 Detroit, Lansing & Lake Born Sept. 6, 1819, Vienna, SCOTT, Thomas Alexander Michigan Trumbull Co., Ohio [Philadelphia] Chief Engineer 1871 1843 became cooper, 1854 HerrNL, 5:139; PRR, 341-49; farmer BHB19, 358-62 SCOTT, William B. [Chicago] 1861 to Berrien Co., fruit Born Dec. 28, 1824, London, Chicago & North Western farmer Pa. Director 2/1864-6/65, 1863 to Branch Co., farmer (1823 is incorrect on 11/1865-7/67 1867 to Coldwater, carriage tombstone) maker Died May 21, 1881, Darby, Pa. SCOTT, William Lawrence Died June 19, 1895 ---- [Erie, Pa.] ---- Union Pacific HerrNL, 5:141 Toledo & Milwaukee President 3/1871-3/72 Born July 2, 1828, Washington, First Director, Director 1879 Texas & Pacific D. C. President 1872-5/80 Son-in-law of John A. Tracy SCOVILLE, John Hasbrouck # Michigan Lake Shore 1848 to Erie, Pa. [New York City] 176 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Born Aug. 14, 1864 Secretary, Treasurer, Calumet Died July, 17, 1915, North & Hecla Co., 1868-72 SEAGRAVE, Frank E. # Andover, Mass. Died Aug. 11, 1901, Boston [Toledo] ---- ---- ProgMenNOH, 173 Ann Arbor Hecla & Torch Lake Born Nov. 5, 1843, Bellingham, Director 1906-09 First Director 1868 Mass. Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Treasurer 1872-86 1868 grad. Yale College Director 1906-13 Director 1872-84 1868 to Toledo Toledo, Adrian & Jackson SCUDDER, Harold [New York SEAGER, James Benjamin # First Director 1900 City] [Lansing] Toledo & Western Born Feb. 9, 1877, Lake Forest, Born Dec. 10, 1868, Lansing Director, Secretary 1902-06 Ill. Son of Schuyler F. Seager; Toledo & Chicago Interurban Son of Moses L. Scudder (3rd) brother of President 1903 ---- Schuyler F. (Jr.) Seager St. Joseph, South Bend & Died 1922, Lansing SEAGRAVE, James Ross # Southern ---- [Cleveland] Secretary 1899 Lansing Manufacturers Born Dec. 3, 1844, Uxbridge, First Director 1904 Mass. SCUDDER, Moses L. (3rd) Insurance executive [New York City] SEAGER, James H. # Died 1916, Youngstown, Ohio HerrNL, 5:143-44 [Houghton] ---- Born Feb. 3, 1843, Born Dec. 27, 1846 Toledo, Adrian & Jackson Charlestown, Mass. Cousin of Schuyler F. Seager First Director 1900 Father of Harold Scudder (b.1842) Toledo & Western Died Oct. 29, 1917, Merchant, banker Director, Vice President Huntington, L. I., N. Y. ---- 1902-06 ---- Copper Range St. Joseph, South Bend & First Director, Director SEAMAN, Halleck Wager # Southern 1899-1906 [Chicago] First Director, President Lansing Manufacturers BiogRy1913, 495 1899 First Director 1904 Born Sept. 26, 1860, Clinton, Iowa SCUDDER, Samuel [Cedar SEAGER, Schuyler Fisk Died 1943, Clinton, Iowa Springs] [Lansing] ---- Muskegon & Greenville Born July 6, 1842 Various roads First Director 1870 Father of James B. and President 1909-(13) Schuyler F. (Jr.) Seager Manistee & Grand Rapids SEABURY, Alexander Hamilton Cousin of James H. Seager (b. President, Director 1910-13 Born Nov. 21, 1806, Tiverton, 1846) R. I. Died Nov. 6, 1883 SEAMAN, Joseph Husband # Shipping agent ---- [New York City] Died June 17, 1887 Chicago & Northeastern Born Feb. 28, 1865, Brooklyn, ---- Attorney, Director 1878-79 N. Y. Flint & Pere Marquette [New Stock broker, banker Bedford, Mass.] SEAGER, Schuyler Fisk (Jr.) # ---- Director 1876-79 [Lansing] Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Born Jan. 22, 1879 Secretary, Treasurer 1897- SEABURY, Charles W. [Boston] Son of Schuyler F. Seager; 1901 (Sometimes misspelled brother of James B. Seager Vice President 1900-01 Seabring) ---- Cincinnati Northern Born Apr. 25, 1831, Tiverton, Lansing Manufacturers Vice President 1899-1901 R.I. First Director 1904 Secretary, Treasurer 1899- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 177 1901 Cincinnati, Saginaw & Lake Shore Mackinaw Director 1874-80 SEAMAN, W. A. # [Eastlake] Vice President, Director Manistee & Luther 1890-1/96 SEARS, William B. # [East Superintendent 1909-14 Michigan Air Line Ry Saginaw] President, Director Born Nov. 26, 1831, Fairfax SEARCH, Theodore C. # 1891-1/96 Co., Va. [Philadelphia] 1836 to Zanesville, Ohio Born Mar. 20, 1841, Bucks Co., SEARLES, Whittlesey D. [New 1857 to Saginaw Pa. York City] Died May 2, 1922, Saginaw President, National Assn. of Fort Wayne & Jackson ---- Amer. Manufacturers,1910 Director 1885, 1888-96 Flint & Pere Marquette Died May 10, 1920 Secretary, Treasurer Chief Engineer 1870, ---- 1895-96 1877-97 Trans-St. Marys Traction Director, Vice President SEARS, A. C. SEASONGOOD, Edwin A. # 1903 Ishpeming & Negaunee [New York City] First Director 1890 1899 graduated Harvard SEARGEANT, Lewis James College [Montreal] SEARS, Franklin P. [East Banker BiogRy1885, 216; Saginaw] ---- BiogRy1893, 332; Born May 3, 1831, Sardinia, Trans-St. Marys Traction HistMontreal, 439-40 Erie Co., N. Y. Director, Vice President Born Trowbridge, Wiltshire, No date to Saginaw 1904 England Lumberman, mill owner, 1874 to Canada banker SEAVER, George L. [South ---- Died Oct. 30, 1873, Saginaw Haven] Various roads in England ---- Born Feb. 8, 1824 Various work East Saginaw & Ann Arbor Died June 26, 1897, South Grand Trunk Ry Canada First Director, Director Haven\ Traffic Manager 1874-90 1869-72 ---- President 1/1891-1/96 East Saginaw & St. Clair Lawton, Paw Paw & South Chicago, Detroit & Canada First Director 1872 Haven Grand Trunk Jct. Saginaw & St. Clair River First Director 1868 Director 1877-95 First Director 1870 Kalamazoo & South Haven Vice President 1881-90 Secretary 1872-80 President 1891-1/96 SEARS, J. B. # [Chicago] Northwestern Grand Trunk Marquette County Gas Light & SEAVER, Joseph H. [Ithaca] First Director 1878 Traction HistGrat, 2:806-08 Vice President, Director Director 1905-06 Born Feb. 6, 1846, Stockholm, 1879 N. Y. Chicago & Grand Trunk SEARS, William [Grand 1868 to Ithaca, clerk Vice President, Director Rapids] ---- 1880-89 HistGrRap, 492-93 Ithaca & Alma President, Director Born June 20, 1818, Ashfield, First Director 1882 1890-1/96 Mass. Detroit, Grand Haven & Bakery owner SEBRING, Horace [Bangor] Milwaukee 1889 director, Michigan Trust HistVanB, 2:745 President, Director Co. Born c.1832, N. Y. state 1890-1/96 Died May 15, 1903, Grand 1850 to Michigan Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Rapids 1857 to Lawton, owned hotel President, Director ---- 1869 to Bangor, owned hotel, 1890-1/96 Grand Rapids, Newaygo & later an elevator 178 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Died 1878, Bangor ---- Pleasant Bay ---- Bay, Tuscola & Huron First Director 1898 Toledo & South Haven First Director 1897 First Director 1876 SEITZ, Millard A. # [Benton SEELEY, John Ferguson # Harbor] SEBRING, Samuel C. # [Caro] Born c.1879 [Leighton] HistMich1915, 2:865-67 ---- Battle Creek & Grand Rapids Born June 27, 1844, Ovid, N. Y. Benton Harbor-St Joe Ry & Inland 1878 to Caro; into banking and Light First Director 1904 real estate First Director 1906 1898 began raising sugar SECOR, David D. beets SELDEN, Samuel Hart Born Aug. 28, 1836, N. Y. Died c.1925, Ovid, N. Y. [Escanaba] 1880 manager, John Canfield ---- HistUP, 246 store Bay City, Caro & Port Huron Born March 16, 1826, Lyme, Died May 26, 1882, Manistee First Director 1886 Conn. ---- 1848 graduated Yale Univ. Peters Train SEELEY, Morton C. # [Toledo] 1862 to Marquette First Director, First BiogRy1922, 560; AmBar, 539 1865 to Escanaba Treasurer 1878 Born July 10, 1885, Amherst, Died Nov. 25, 1891, Evanston, Ohio Ill. SECOR, Joseph Ketcham 1908 grad. Univ. of Mich. ---- [Toledo] 1910 grad. Univ. of Chicago Erie & Pittsburgh Born Sept. 16, 1822, Orange ---- Engineering Dept. 1850-62 Co., N. Y. Toledo & Western Chicago & North Western 1840 to Toledo, grocery General attorney 11/1916- Chief Engineer 1862-91 business (22) Later, banker Toledo, Ottawa Beach & SELDON, C. [St. Louis, Mo.] Died Apr. 16, 1892, Toledo Northern Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific ---- General attorney 11/1916- Superintendent Telegraph Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand (22) 1881-83 Trunk Director 1883 SEIBLY, John H. # [Benton SELLERS, Elias H. # [Detroit] Harbor] CityDet, 4:572-75 SEDGLEY, James Born c.1873 Born May 5, 1848, Livingston Born Jan. 12, 1824, Limerick, ---- Co. York Co., Me. Benton Harbor-St Joe Ry & 1878 graduated Cornell Univ. 1865 to Adrian Light 1880 admitted to bar 1870 to Cleveland Auditor 1907-12 Died May 12, 1930 ---- ---- Several roads in New England SEIDERS, Charles A. [Toledo] Baraga & Western Various work 6/1846-11/65 AmBar, 539 First Director 1891 Lake Shore & Michigan Born June 1, 1857, Lehigh Co., Southern Pa. SELLEW, William Hamilton # General Master Mechanic Attorney BiogRy1913, 487 11/1865-70 [Adrian] 1883 to Paulding, Ohio Born Nov. 30, 1875, Cincinnati, General Master Mechanic 1897 to Toledo Ohio 1870-84 [Cleveland] ---- 1897 graduated Mass. Inst. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Technology SEED, James [Bay City} [Paulding,Oh.] ---- Born Oct. 31, 1847, Brighton Local attorney, 1885-97 Various roads Dry goods merchant Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinac Engineering Dept. 7/1897- Died Sept. 5, 1902, Bay City Local attorney 1888-97 1905 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 179 Michigan Central [Detroit] 1877-84 Pres. Metropolitan 1899 graduated Mich. Agr. Division Engineer 1/1906- Bank Coll. 6/07 1879 became RR manipulator, 1899-1904, surveyor, East Principal Asst. Engineer esp. NYC&SL and Jordan Lumber Co. 6/1907-(13) partner of Calvin S. Brice Later, county surveyor Died Apr. 7, 1893, New York ---- SELLICK, Francis William City East Jordan & Southern Born c.1835, Scotland ---- Chief Engineer 1904-17 1886 first pres. Paw Paw Detroit, Mackinaw & Savings Bank Marquette SEWALL, Edmund Deveraux # Died June 14, 1912, Kalamazoo Director 1880-86 [Chicago] ---- Michigan & Ohio BiogRy1901, 490; Chicago & Michigan Grand First Director 1883 BiogRy1922, 542 Trunk Marquette & Western Born Apr. 12, 1856, First Director 1865 First Director 1883 Wilmington, Del. Director 1886-89 Died Mar. 30, 1923, Chicago; SELLING, Bernard B. # Mackinaw & Marquette burial Minneapolis [Detroit] Director 1886 ---- Leake, 510; BkDet, 401 Marquette, Houghton & Various roads Born Dec. 26, 1873, Detroit Ontonagon Various work 3/1872-9/82 1895 graduated Univ. Mich. Director 1886-89 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul law school Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Agent 9/1882-5/88 Corporate lawyer Director 1887-89 Lumber Agent 5/1888- Died 1918, Detroit 12/89 ---- SERGEANT, Charles Spencer Commercial Agent 12/1889- Detroit, Ann Arbor & Adrian [Boston] 3/95 [Milwaukee] First Director 1901 Born Apr. 30, 1852, Asst. General Freight Agent Northampton, Mass. 3/1895-3/98 SELLINGER, George [Big ---- Gen. Northwestern Agent Rapids] Saginaw & Grand Rapids 3/1898-5/1902 [Mpls.] Colfax & Big Rapids Director Director 1883-87 Asst. General 1887-88 Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Superintendent 51902-6/06 Director 1887 Asst. to President 6/1906- SELLON, William Rivers # 1/13 Born Aug. 23, 1824, ?New York SERGEANT, Lewis # Vice President 1/1913-23 City [Kalamazoo] Served in Mexican War and Born Jan. 17, 1845, Kalamazoo SEWELL, Robert [New York Civil War; Lt. Col. Died Jan. 21, 1940, Kalamazoo City] 1862 to Burlington, Iowa ---- Canada, Michigan & Chicago Died May 14, 1906, Burlington, Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw First Director 1871 Iowa General Superintendent ---- 1889-1914 SEYMOUR, Charles [Lansing] Shiawassee & Vernon Superintendent 1915-17 Born July 8, 1823 First Director 1856 Plank road builder with H. H. [Shiawasseetown] SERGEANT, T. B. [Detroit] Smith and James Turner Detroit & Bay City ---- SENEY, George Ingraham [New General Superintendent Amboy, Lansing & Traverse York City] 1873-74 Bay N.Y.Times, Apr. 8, 1893; First Director 1857 HerrNL, 5:156 SEVERANCE, John # [East Born May 12, 1826, Astoria, L. Jordan] SEYMOUR, Charles I., N. Y. BiogNM, 549-50 [Canandaigua, N. Y.] 1847 graduated City Univ. N. Y. Born Feb. 22, 1876, Leland Born 1800 180 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ---- Director 6/1861-2/64 SHANNON, Loren B. # Auburn & Rochester [Camden] Secretary, Treasurer 1839 SHAFFER, John C. # [Chicago] HistMich1915, 3:1725 Michigan Southern BkChi, 519-20; HistChicago, Born Jan. 5, 1859, Hillsdale Co. Director 6/1849-6/1850 3:967-69 1888 to Reading, merchant Born June 5, 1853, Baltimore 1890 to Camden, merchant SEYMOUR, Edward J. # Ear;ly, telegraph operator and Died 1921, Camden BiogRy1893, 333-34; bookkeeper ---- BiogRy1913, 488 1880-87 in grain commission Ohio & Southern Michigan Born Sept. 5, 1852, Exeter, business First Director 1907 Devonshire, Engl. 1888 bought Richmond, Ind. ---- street car line SHARPLESS, J. C. Grand Trunk Ry Canada 1901 bought Chicago Evening Mineral Range Clerk 1872-10/74 [various] Post Chief Engineer 1872-73 Grand Rapids & Indiana Owned Parmelee Transfer Co., Clerk 10/1874-75 [Grand Chicago SHATTUCK, George B. [Boston] Rapids] ---- (not certain if this is George Ohio & Mississippi Chicago, Detroit & Toledo Brooks Shattuck or Clerk in Freight Dept. 1875- First Director 1898 George Brune Shattuck) 10/85 Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw ---- Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Director 1913-17 Detroit, Hillsdale & South Western [Milwaukee] Western Asst. General Freight Agent SHALER, William F. # [Grass Director 1875-77 10/1885-93 Lake] Chicago & North Western Jackson & Suburban Traction SHATTUCK, George Otis [Chicago] First Director 1900 [Boston] Asst. General Freight Agent Born May 2, 1829, Andover, 1893-(1913) SHANK, Hulbert B. [Lansing] Mass. MichBiog, 2:275-76; ABH- Died Feb. 23, 1897, Boston SEYMOUR, F. # [Detroit] 1,6:62-63 ---- Detroit & Lima Northern Born May 31, 1820, Detroit, Lansing & Lake Auditor 1899 Springport, N. Y. Michigan Cashier 1899-1900 Father of Rush J. Shank First Director, Director Grad. of Geneva (N. Y.) Medical 1871-74 SEYMOUR, Origen Storrs # Coll. Detroit, Lansing & Northern [New York City] 1848 to Lansing Director 1875-3/31/1896 Born Feb. 9, 1804, Litchfield, State representative 1861-62 Saginaw & Grand Rapids Conn. Died Apr. 23, 1889, Lansing Director 1881-95 Conn. state representative ---- Saginaw Valley & St. Louis 1842, 1849-50, 1880 Amboy, Lansing & Traverse Director 1879-96 U. S. representative (Conn.) Bay Saginaw & Western 1851-55 First Director 1857 Director 1883-96 Justice Conn. supreme court President 1866 Chicago & Michigan Lake 1870-74 Shore Died Aug.12, 1881, Litchfield, SHANK, Rush J. [Lansing] Director 1874-78 Conn. Born 1849 Chicago & West Michigan ---- Son of Hulbert B. Shank First Director 1878 Detroit & Port Huron Shore 1871 graduated Univ. Mich. Director 1879-96 Line ---- Grand Rapids, Lansing & Director 1902 Lansing, Dexter & Ann Arbor Detroit First Director 1897 Director 1888-96 SEYTON, C. S. [New York City} First Director 1899 Chicago & North Western SHAUGHNESSY, Thomas G. # Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 181 [Montreal] 1872-77 BiogRy1885, 218-219; SHAW, Charles F. [New BiogRy1893, 335; Bedford, Mass.]] SHAW, John E. [East Saginaw] Born Oct. 6, 1853, Milwaukee Born Nov. 28, 1840, New 1870 first pres., First Natl. Brought to CP by W. C. Van Bedford, Mass. Bank Horne In 38th Mass. Vol. Infantry, 1875 pres. Michigan Salt Assn. Knighted 9/1901; made a 1862-65 ---- baron 1/1916 In 1865 to East Saginaw, Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Died Dec. 10, 1923, Montreal wholesale grocer Director 1875 ---- 1883 to New Bedford Milwaukee & St. Paul Died Jan. 25,1912, New SHAW, John L. Various work 7/1869-10/82 Bedford ABH, 2:part5:109-10 Canadian Pacific ---- Born June 25, 1822, West Purchasing Agent 10/1882- East Saginaw Street Stockbridge, Mass. 1/84 Owner, First Director 1886 1867 to Grand Rapids Asst. to General Manager 1875-1900 various businesses 1/1884-(85) SHAW, Edwin O. [Newaygo] Died Mar. 18, 1900, Grand Vice President 1891-99 MichBiog, 2:278 Rapids President 1899-1918 Born July 21, 1846, ---- (eyesight failing) Edwardsburg Various roads Director 1891-1923 1867 to Stanton, owned Engineering Dept. 1852-63 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic newspaper Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Director 1892-1907 1869 to Newaygo, bought Chicago 1st Vice President 1899- newspaper Engineer 1863-65 1906 State senator 1895-96 Grand Rapids & Indiana Minneapolis, St. Paul & S. Ste. Died Jan. 4, 1913, Newaygo [Grand Rapids] Marie ---- Asst. Superintendent [N] Director 1895-1917 Newaygo 1870 Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co. First Director 1886 Cconstruction Contractor President, Directo 1902-17 1871-74 SHAW, Frank [Boston] SHAVER, Charles B. [Kalkaska] Chicago & West Michigan SHAW, Joseph E. [East Born Aug. 1855, Canisteo First Director, Director Saginaw] Twp., Steuben Co., N. Y. 1878-82 Born Jan. 7, 1812, Genoa, 1864 family to St. Louis, Mich. Cayuga Co., N. Y. 1873 into lumbering SHAW, George G. # 1867, pres. Tittabaswassee 1891 to Missouri, built lumber [Philadelphia] Boom Co. mill Bay Cities Consolidated 1902- Died Apr. 4, 1879, Saginaw c.1893 to California, owned 03 ---- lumber mill Director Saginaw & St. Clair River Died no date, Fresno, Calif. First Director 1870 ---- SHAW, Henry A. Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Traverse City, Kalkaska & MichBiog, 2:278 Director 1872-78 Grayling Born June 21, 1818, Benson, First Director 1888 Vt. SHAW, Quincy Adams # [W. 1842 to Eaton Rapids, lawyer Roxbury, Mass.] SHAW, B. # [Chicago] State representative 1857-60, Born Feb. 8, 1825, Boston Wisconsin & Michigan 73-4; 2 yrs in Civil War Brother-in-law of Alexander Treasurer 1900-06 Died Jan. 29, 1891, Eaton Agassiz Rapids Died June 12, 1908, Boston SHAW, Benjamin [Pittsburgh] ---- ---- Grand Rapids & Indiana Grand River Valley Calumet Train Director 1892-95 First Director, Director First Director 1867 182 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Hecla Train Daughter of Ephraim and Jane Republican, 2:341-42 First Director 1867 Shay Born Jan. 3, 1853, Detroit Hecla & Torch Lake Died 1934 Son of James Shearer First Director 1868 ---- 1865 family to Bay City Director 1872-1909 Harbor Springs 1877 began dealing in real Marquette, Houghton & First Director, Director estate Ontonagon 1900-10 1884, pres. Bay County Director 1872, 1879-82 Secretary, Treasurer 1900- Savings Bank Detroit, Hillsdale & South 10 1903 to San Francisco, owned Western planning mill Director 1878 SHAYLER, E. J. # Died Jan. 15, 1920, Oakland, Gogebic & Iron Counties Ry & Calif. SHAW, William E., Jr. # Light ---- [Houghton] First Director 1910 Bay City Belt Line Houghton County Traction Auditor 1914-15 First Director, Director Asst. Treasurer 1910-15 Secretary, Director 1915 1889-96 SHAY, Ephraim # [Harbor SHEARD, Titus # [Little Falls, SHEARER, Henry # Springs] N.Y.] BiogRy1922, 567; CityDet, Powers, 3:1289-91, Born Oct. 4, 1841, Batley, 4:839-40 PortraitNMich, 461-62 Yorkshire, England Born Mar. 1, 1868, Galien Born July 17, 1839, Sherman 1856 to New York state ---- Twp., Huron Co., Ohio 1864 owner of Eagle Knitting Michigan Central Father of Lette Shay Mill Station Agent, Clerk 6/1892- 1861-64 in Civil War 1872 formed Little Falls 8/1902 [Various] 1864 to Ionia Co., farmed Knitting Mill Agent 8/1902-1/03 1871 to Cadillac, sawed N. Y. state assemblyman 1878- [Jackson] lumber 79, ‘84 Chief Clerk to Gen. Mgr. 1883 became “part owner” N. Y. state senator 1890-91 1/1903-10/09 [Detroit] Lima Locomotive Co. Died Apr. 13, 1904, Little Falls, Div. Superintendent c.1900 to Harbor Springs, N. Y. 10/1909-12/12 [St.Thomas] lumbering ---- Asst. to General Manager Died Apr. 19, 1916, Harbor Cincinnati, Jackson & 12/1912-9/16 [Detroit] Springs Mackinaw General Superintendent ---- First Director, Director 9/1916-3/20 Harbor Springs 1886-87 General Manager 3/1920- First Director, Director, (22) President 1900-10 SHEARDOWN, Ward B. # Born June 23, 1858 SHEARER, James [Bay City] SHAY nee Henderson, Jane # At death, officer in Standard ABH, 2:part8:52-53; CycMich, [Harbor Springs] Milling Co. 302-03; MichBiog, Born 1841, Sherman, Huron, Died Oct. 29, 1914, New York 2:279; HerrNL, 5:177-78; Ohio City PortSagBay, 211-14; Wife of Ephraim Shay ---- Born July 12, 1823, Albany, N. Died July 24, 1912, Harbor Milwaukee & Northern Y. Springs [Milwaukee] Father of G. Henry Shearer ---- General Passenger Agent 1838 to Detroit studied Harbor Springs 1887-89 architecture, became builder First Director, Director 1865 to Bay City 1900-10 SHEARER, G. (for George) 1880-88 regent Univ. of Mich. Henry [Bay City] Died Oct. 14, 1896, Bay City SHAY, Lette # PortraitSagBay, 271-72; ---- Born 1870, Huron, Ohio CycMich, 209-10; Northern Michigan Ry Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 183 First Director 1869 Mackinaw [Detroit] Grand Rapids & Bay City Treasurer, Director 1882-87 Grandson of Allan Shelden; First Director 1871 Grand Rapids, Indiana & son of Henry D. Shelden Mackinaw ---- SHEDD, Eugene # [New Treasurer 1882-83 Detroit Union RR Depot & Buffalo] Vice President 1882 Station Michigan City, Lakeside & St. First Director, Director Director 1914-17 Joe Electric 1881-1883 First Director 1912 Grand Rapids, Indiana & SHELDEN, Henry Dusenbury # Manistee [Detroit] SHEEHAN, Thomas P. # First Director 1885 BkDet, 403 [Detroit] Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Born June 17, 1862, Portville, Raisin River Indiana N. Y. First Director 1900 Treasurer 1886-12/1912 Son of Allan Shelden; father of Director 1886-1916 Allan Shelden (#2) SHEFFIELD, William President 1899-12/1912 Attend. Yale College; law [Napoleon, Oh.] Traverse City degree Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Director 1887-1916 1887 to Detroit, dry goods Michigan Treasurer 1896-12/1912 store Director 1873-76 President 1904-12/12 ---- Mineral Range Manistique SHELBY, Alanson, see SHELEY, Director 1887-92 Director 1908 Alanson SHELDEN, Allan # [Detroit] SHELDEN, Ransom SHELBY, William Read # (Sometimes missp. Allen or [Houghton] [Grand Rapids] Sheldon) (Some sources mispell last BiogRy1885, 219; HerrNL, CycMich, 183 name as Sheldon) 5:179; HistMich1915, Father of Henry D. Shelden HistUP, 285-86; ABH, 4:2123-25; BiogRy1913, 492 Born July 16, 1832, 2:part9:25-26; Born Dec, 4, 1842, Lincoln Co., Kinderhook, N. Y. BiogRep, 2:344-46 Ky. 1855 to Detroit, clerk for Born July 7, 1814, Essex, N. Y. Son-in-law of George W. Cass Zachariah Chandler Brother-in-law of Columbus C. Died Nov. 14, 1930, Grand Major dry goods merchant in Douglass Rapids Detroit 1846 to Eagle River ---- Died May 1, 1905 1847 to Portage Entry Continental Improvement Co. ---- 1851 made mgr of Quincy Secretary, Treasurer Detroit River RR Tunnel Mine 4/1869-73 [Pittsburgh] First Director 1871 Died May 17, 1878, Southern Railway Security Co. Detroit, Butler & St. Louis Jamestown, N. Y.; buried in Secretary, Treasurer 1870- First Director 1880 Houghton 73 Detroit Belt Ry & Depot ---- Michigan Lake Shore First Director 1881 Mineral Range Ry Secretary, Treasurer Detroit Union Depot First Director 1864 8/1871-3/77 [Grand Rapids] First Director 1881 Wisconsin & Lake Superior Grand Rapids & Indiana Bay City & Alpena First Director 1866 Secretary 3/1871-3/77 First Director 1881 Portage Lake & Keweenaw Treasurer 3/1871-12/1912 Detroit Union RR Depot & First Director 1868 Vice President Station 3/1877-12/1912 Director 1901-02 SHELDON, Charles Alexander Director 1881-1917 Fort Street Union Depot # Allegan & Southeastern Director 1901-02 Born Oct. 17, 1867, Rutland, Director 1878-82 Vt. Bay View, Little Traverse & SHELDEN, Allen (#2) # 1890 graduated Yale Univ. 184 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1911 devoted himself to N. Y. nature and conservation Uncle of Theodore P. Sheldon SHELLHORN, Thomas Died Sept. 21, 1928, 5/1834 to Kalamazoo Jefferson [Calumet] Kedgemakooge, N. S. 5/1834-37 receiver, U. S. land HistUP, 297 ---- office Born May 15, 1835, Summit Lake Shore & Michigan Died June 13, 1854, Detroit Co., Ohio Southern [Elkhart] ---- Patented a brake mechanism Asst. Superintendent 1893 Port Sheldon & Grand Rapids for locomotives Commissioner 1837 ---- SHELDON, Diodorus [St. Clair] Various roads Born Dec. 10, 1814, Hamburg, SHELDON, Theodore P. Machinist & Master N. Y. [Kalamazoo] Mechanic c1850s-74 1846 to St. Clair, started Born Apr. 15, 1810 Marquette, Houghton & tannery Died July 8, 1893, Kalamazoo Ontonagon 1867 mayor of St. Clair ---- Master Mechanic 1874-76 Died c.1892, St. Clair Kalamazoo & Schoolcraft [Marquette] ---- First Director 1866 Various roads Michigan Air Line Extension Kalamazoo & Grand Rapids Master Mechanic First Director 1869 First Director 1867 Mineral Range Allegan & Holland Master Mechanic, SHELDON, Edward F. # [New First Director 1868 Roadmaster 1881-(83) York City] Michigan Northern RR Hancock & Calumet Wisconsin Central First Director 1869 Superintendent 1886 General Counsel 1902 Fort Worth & Rio Grande [Fort SHELDON, William C. Worth, Tex.] SHELDON, George Rumsey # [Brooklyn, N.Y.] Master Mechanic 1898-99 [New York City] Born Aug. 14, 1823, Delhi, WhosWhoNY, 848; NatCyc, Delaware Co., N. Y. SHELTON, Edward H. 1910:98 Father of George R. Sheldon Lake Superior Iron Mountain Born Apr. 16, 1857, Brooklyn, Owned banking firm, New First Director 1862 N. Y. York City Son of William C. Sheldon Died Jan. 28, 1896 SHEPARD, Charles [Grand 1879 graduated Harvard Univ., ---- Rapids] in father’s banking co. Cincinnati, Jackson & CycMich, 256-57 Son-in-law of George I. Seney Mackinaw Born July 18, 1812, Herkimer, Director, many corporations First Director 1886 N. Y. ---- 1835 grad. medical school Cincinnati, Jackson & SHELEY, Alanson [Detroit] 1835 to Grand Rapids, second Mackinaw (Sometimes missp. Shelby) physician Vice President, Director MichBiog, 2:282;CycMich, 288- Mayor 1887-11/7/89 89; ABH, 1:part1,125 Died Mar. 8, 1893, Grand Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Born Aug. 14, 1809, Albany, N. Rapids President 1897-1901 Y. ---- Cincinnati Northern 1831 to Detroit, builder and Grand Rapids & Northern Director 1901-17 contractor First Director 1856 Later lumbering, 1859 into SHELDON, Harry D. # [Detroit] drug mfg. SHEPARD, C. (for Charles) Detroit Union RR Depot & State senator 1867-68, 1871- Sidney # [N. Y. C.] Station 72 1885 inherited several of Director 1906-17 ---- father’s companies Detroit, Adrian, Logansport & ---- SHELDON, Thomas C. St. Louis Saginaw Valley Traction Born July 6, 1794, Little Falls, First Director 1869 Director 1902-03 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 185 Director 1873 BiogRy1922, 569 SHEPARD, Elisha, see Chicago & Lake Huron Born Aug. 2, 1886, in Michigan SHEPHERD, Elisha First Director, Director ---- 1873-79 Michigan RR [Jackson] SHEPARD, Theodore F. # [Bay Purchasing Agent (1922) City] SHEPHERD, Isaac Newton # Born June 14, 1844, Livingston [Shepherd] SHERRILL, Abram P. # Co., N. Y. PastIsabella, 628-29 [Detroit] 1866 admitted to bar, Albany, Born Dec. 31, 1840, Vermont CityDet, 3:679 N. Y. 1853 family moved to Born Jan. 19, 1850, Pike, 1867 to Bay City, attorney Hillsdale Co. Wyoming Co., N. Y. U. S. Attorney 1890-94; circuit 1856 family moved to Isabella 1869 to Pontiac, bank judge 1900-05 Co., near Alma bookkeeper ---- 1885 platted Shepherd Owned accounting firm Bay City Traction & Electric Died Mar. 31, 1920, Fremont Died June 1, 1929, Miami, Fla. Backer 1887 Twp., Isabella Co. ---- Detroit, Bay City & Western ---- Detroit, Grand Haven & Attorney 1911 Lansing, Alma, Mt. Pleasant & Milwaukee Northern Director 1901-16 SHEPHARD, M. W. # First Director 1884 Boyne City & Southeastern SHERWIN, John # [Cleveland] Cashier 1901 SHEPHERD, Miles [Ingallston] Born May 24, 1868, Cleveland Deer Creek & Marble Quarry Died Jan. 16, 1934, Cleveland SHEPHARD, William S. [Albany Treasurer 1872-74 ---- and Bath, N.Y.] Director 1873-74 Southern Michigan Traction Chicago & Lake Huron First Director 1901 Director 1874-79 SHEPPARD, Oscar [W. Northwestern Grand Trunk Alexandria, Ohio] SHERWOOD, Alonzo [Weesaw First Director, Director Born July 15, 1845, Twp., Berrien Co.] 1878-79 Muskingum Co., Ohio MichBiog, 2:285 Chicago & Grand Trunk Lawyer Born Apr. 22, 1832, Lima, Ohio Director 1880-89 Ohio state representative 1833 family to Berrien Co. 1881-84 State representative 1879-80 SHEPHARD, J. D. Ohio state senator 1898-1901 1885 moved to Hemingford, Erie & Kalamazoo Died Oct. 24, 1922, West Nebr. Secretary 1839 Alexandria Died May 12, 1907, ---- Hemingford. SHEPHERD, Charles Cincinnati, Jackson & ---- Oakland & Ottawa Mackinaw Mackinac & Chicago Incorporator 1848 First Director, Director First Director 1872 1886-11/7/89 SHEPHERD, Elisha [Charlotte] SHERWOOD, Joseph W. # (Sometimes missp. Shepard) SHERMAN, James Elliot # BiogRy1906, 547 PastEaton, 546-48 [Marquette] Born Apr. 2, 1850, Nashville, Born Mar. 9, 1831, Oneonta, N. Born Oct. 22, 1849 or 1858, Tenn. Y. Monroe, Fairfield Co., Conn. Out of served 6/1889-3/96 1837 family to Eaton Co. Died Nov. 1931, Marquette ---- c.1840 family to Charlotte ---- Various roads Eventually into mercantile; Marquette City & Presque Isle Various work 1864-3/80 became large landowner Director, Vice President Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Died Sept. 29, 1912, Charlotte 1902 Louis & Chicago ---- Superintendent 3/1880- Peninsular Ry SHERMAN, Hugh K. # 10/87 186 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Milwaukee, Lake Shore & state; died Nov. 3, 1904, AuSable & Northwestern Western [Ashland, Wisc.] Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) Cashier 1901 Division Superintendent ---- 4/1888-2/89 Trans-St. Marys Traction SHIMWELL, William # Chesapeake & Ohio Director, President 1903 [Milwaukee] [Cincinnati] Wisconsin Central 4/1889-6/89 SHIELDS, John # [Saginaw] Director 1890 Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Saginaw Valley Traction Gogebic & Montreal River Division Superintendent Div. Superintendent 1908 Director 1891-93 3/1896-5/98 Manistee Ry Auditor 1893, 1900 General Superintendent General Superintendent 5/1898-7/1900 1913 SHINN, William P. [Pittsburgh] Detroit Southern [Detroit] Born May 4, 1834, Burlington Division Superintendent SHIELDS, John C. # Co., N. J. 1901-1/02 BiogRy1913, 493 By 1875 associated with General Superintendent Born Nov. 29, 1853, St. Marys, Andrew Carnegie 1/1902-8/02 Ont. Died May 5, 1891, Homewood, Union Station & Terminal Co. Father of John C. Shields Pa. [Detroit] (b.1884) ---- Manager 8/1902-(06) Brothers: Joseph A., (em Grand Rapids & Indiana Hancock & Calumet); General Freight Agent 1870 SHERWOOD, Mott Emmons # Edward R., machinist [Jackson] Mineral Range SHIPHERD, Jacob R. [New York HistMich1915, 3:1217 ---- City] Born Nov. 26, 1868, Mt. Mineral Range [Hancock] Michigan Northern Ry Vernon, N. Y. Engine service 1872-86 First Director, Director 1887-90 Engineer, Jackson Master Mechanic 1886-92 1873-77 Electric Light & Power Superintendent of President 1873-77 Died June 5, 1915, Jackson Machinery 1892-10/93 ---- Superintendent SHIPHERD, John J. [Cleveland] Michigan Central 10/1893-8/1906 Electric Ry Engine Shop Service 1884- Hancock & Calumet [Hancock] First Director 1890 87 Master Mechanic 1887-92 Mechanical Workman Superintendent 10/1893- SHIPLEY, Samuel R. # 10/1890-7/1909 8/1906 [Philadelphia] Master Mechanic 7/1909- Keweenaw Central 1901, pres. Provident Life & 15) Superintendent 10/1906-13 Trust Co. [Phoenix] ---- SHETHAR, Samuel [New York General Manager 1914 Pere Marquette City] [Calumet] Director 1902 Born Mar. 26, 1827, Geneva, N. Y. SHIELDS, John C. # SHIPMAN, Glenn Leroy # Merchant BiogRy1922, 569 [Kalamazoo] Died Mar. 11, 1897, New York Born Nov. 12, 1884, Hancock Born 1872 City Son of John C. Shields (b.1853) Sheriff, Kalamazoo Co., 1903- ---- 1908 graduated Detroit 16 Michigan & Ohio College of Law Died Dec. 18, 1926, Kalamazoo First Director, Director ---- ---- 1883-11/5/1884 Pere Marquette Chicago, Kalamazoo & Eastern General Attorney 10/1910- First Director 1905 SHIELDS, Cornelius # [Sault (22) Ste. Marie, Ont.] SHOEMAKER, Henry Francis (Possibly born c.1865, N. Y. SHIER, H. F. # [AuSable] [New York City] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 187 Mark, 3:294-95; HerrNL, on Ill. & Mich. Canal 64 5:197; BiogRy1913, 494 1852 to near Jackson, owned Circuit court judge 1878-81 Born Mar. 28, 1845, Schuylkill farms Ill. supreme court justice Co., Pa. 1857-59 collector customer, 1885-94 In Pa. coal business until 1875 Detroit Died Jan. 23, 1920, Chicago Founded Shoemaker, Dillon & State senator 1848-51, 1877- ---- Co. - brokerage house 78, 1883-86 Elgin Terminal 1877 began involvement in Died Nov. 10, 1895, Jackson First Director 1913 RRs: Buffalo, Rochester & ---- Pittsburgh; Wheeling & Lake Amboy & Traverse Bay SHOREY, George L. [Boston] Erie; Dayton & First Director, First Born Apr. 11, 1849, Lynn, Ironton; Cleveland, Lorain & President 1856 Mass. Wheeling Wife Mary daughter to John B. Died 1918 SHONTS, Theodore Perry # Alley ---- [Chicago] Died Feb. 26, 1935 Mineral Range BkChi, 526; HerrNL, 5:199; ---- President 1888 WhosWhoNY, 854; Toledo & Ann Arbor Director 1888-89 BiogRy1913, 494 Treasurer 1878-79 Cincinnati, Dayton & Ironton Born May 5, 1856, Crawford President 1889-1904 Co., Pa. SHULER, Charles Dayton & Union 1876 graduated Monmouth White Pigeon & State Line President 1890-1904 College First Director 1869 Cincinnati, New Orleans & 1876 to Centerville, Iowa, Texas Pacific banking; later became SHUTE, Henry L. Director 1899-1904 attorney BiogRy1885, 221; Pere Marquette 1882 into RR construction BiogRy1893, 390; Director 1906-09 Built part of Illinois, Indiana & BiogRy1901, 490 Iowa Born June 30, 1839, Derry, SHOEMAKER, Joseph Peter # Died Sept. 21, 1919 N.H. [Amsden] ---- ---- HistIonMont, 457; MichBiog, Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Illinois Central 2:287) General Superintendent Various work 11/1856- Born Aug. 30, 1820, Mohawk, 5/1882-86 10/83 N. Y. General Manager 1886- Central Iowa Brother of Michael Shoemaker 1/1902 General Freight Agent 1840 to Sandusky, Ohio President 6/1898-1/1902 11/1883-10/86 1855 to Jackson, postmaster Toledo, St. Louis & Western Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault 1861 to Montcalm Co. President 1/1904-10/12 Ste. Marie [Minneapolis] State senator 1879-80 Toledo & Western General Freight Agent Died Mar. 22, 1903, Amsden President 1905 11/1886-6/88 ---- Detroit & Toledo Shore Line General Traffic Manager Ionia & Stanton President, Director 1906-12 6/1888-5/95 First Director 1869 Chicago & Alton Great Northern [St. Paul, President 12/1907-9/12 Minn.] SHOEMAKER, Michael Interborough Rapid Transit General Traffic Manager [Jackson] President 2/1907-(13) 5/1895-11/96 MichBiog, 2:287-288; CycMich, 146-48 SHOPE, Simeon P. # [Chicago] SIAS, Samuel (Jr.) [Midland] Born Apr. 6, 1818, German HistChi3, 364-65 Born July 4, 1822, Belfast, Me. Flats, N. Y. Born Dec. 3, 1834, Akron, Ohio Lumberman Brother of Joseph P. 1839 family to Marseilles, Ill. Died Oct. 30, 1897, Midland Shoemaker 1858 became attorney ---- 1835 to Joliet, Ill., contractor Ill. state representative 1862- Battle Creek & Bay City 188 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1888 ---- Chicago, Saginaw & Canada SIKES, Clarence S. # SIBERT, Charles A. # President, Director 1878-82 BkDet1914, 441; BiogRy1922, [Fruitport] 572 Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & SIDLE, Jacob Koontz Born Feb. 14, 1869, Augusta, Muskegon [Minneapolis] Ga. Master Mechanic 1908 Born Mar. 31, 1821, Died Oct. 18, 1952, Austin, Tex. Dillsburgh, Pa. ---- SIBLEY, Ezra F. # [Armada] 1859 to Minneapolis, banking Georgia RR [Augusta, Ga.] HistMacomb, 711 First pres. First Natl. Bank of Accounting Dept. 1883-95 Born Nov. 29, 1827, Brighton, Mpls. Great Northern [St. Paul, N. Y. Died Jan. 1888, Minneapolis Minn.] 1835 to Armada ---- Accounting Dept. 1895-1902 Carpenter, 1859 mercantile Menominee & Sault Ste. Marie Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 1861-62 in Civil War, musician First Director 1885 Accounting Dept. 1903- Died May 17, 1911, Armada 11/04 ---- SIEVERLING, William H. # Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton Michigan Air Line Ry [Springfield, Ohio] Accounting Dept. 11/1904- Station Agent 1869-(82) HistSpOH, 629-30 12/07 Superintendent Telegraph Born Apr. 29, 1865, Cincinnati Pere Marquette [Detroit] 1877 City engineer, Springfield, AuditorTraffic Accounts Ohio, 7/1901-2/08 1/1908-4/13 SIBLEY, Hiram Died 1940, Springfield General Auditor 4/1913- ASMA, 2:710 ---- (22) Born Feb. 6, 1807, North Ohio Southern Vice President 10/1918- Adams, Mass. Engineering Dept. 1895-97 (22) 1840 built Washington- Findlay, Ft. Wayne4 & Western Baltimore telegraph co. Engineering surveyor 1898 SILLIMAN, Frank, Jr. # First president, Western Union Detroit & Lima Northern [Philadelphia] Died July 12, 1888, Rochester, [Detroit] Born Sept. 1863, Ohio N. Y. Chief Engineer 1899-7/1901 With E. W. Clark & Co. ---- Died June 1944 Michigan Southern & Northern SIGLER, Carlton C. # ---- Indiana [Cleveland] Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Director 9/1857-4/60 Born Jan. 1, 1858 Chicago Died Aug. 22, 1935, Cleveland Vice President, Director SIBLEY, William H. # ---- 1912-13 [Philadelphia] Marquette, Negaunee & Michigan United Traction Michigan Ry & Light Ishpeming Interurban Director 1912-13 First Director 1905 First Director 1907 Vice President 1912-14 Michigan Ry SICKLES, Daniel Edgar [New SIGLER, Lucius M. # Director 1915-17 York City] [Cleveland] Vice President 1916-17 HerrNL, 5:206 HistClev2, 3:118-19 Grand Rapids, Holland & Born Oct. 20, 1825, New York Born Feb. 20, 1849, Trumbull Chicago City Co., Ohio Director 1915 N. Y. state legislator 1847-57 1874 to Cleveland, jewelry In Civil War, general business owner SILSBEE, George L. [Boston] U. S. Representative 1857-61, Died Apr. 15, 1928, Cleveland Marquette, Houghton & 1893-95 ---- Ontonagon U. S. minister to Spain 1869- Marquette, Negaunee & Director 1879-83 73 Ishpeming Interurban Died May 3, 1914 First Director 1907 SILSBY, George [Akron, Ohio} Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 189 Saginaw & Bay City Rapid President, Director 1885 Died Aug. 5, 1910, New York Transit City First Director 1895 SIMMONS, Carrie Lucretia (nee ---- Ingersoll) # Toledo, Ann Arbor & North SILSBY, George D. # [Saginaw] [Marshall] Michigan Coldwater & Central Michigan Born 1853 Director 1893-94 First Director 1884 Wife of Elbert E. Simmons; Ann Arbor Saginaw Suburban daughter Director 1895-1902 First Director, Director of George Ingersoll 1898-1906 Died 1940, Marshall SIMMONS, John H. [Newaygo] President 1902-06 ---- Born c.1835, N. Y. state General Manager 1902-06 Marshall & Northern Lumberman Pontiac & Flint Electric First Director 1902 ---- First Director 1900 Newaygo SIMMONS, Charles Ezra First Director 1886 SIM, J. J. # [Detroit] [Chicago] Wabash BiogRy1885, 221; SIMON, F. E. # [Hancock] Div. Superintendent 1906- BiogRy1893, 340 Keweenaw Central 08 Born Dec. 25, 1845, Lake Co., Chief Engineer 1908 Ill. SIMAR, Vine Dorrance # Died Aug. 9, 1898, Oak Park, SIMON, Fayette L. BiogRy1922, 572-73 Ill. Michigan Extension Born June 2, 1849, East ---- First Director 1878 Smithfield, Pa. Chicago & North Western Private and govt. work 1874- Various work 9/1876-12/77 SIMON, M. E. # 85, 1888-99 Land Commissioner 7/1878- Detroit Union RR Depot & ---- (93) Station Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Iron Range Secretary 1916-17 Engineering Dept. 8/1870- Director 1888 74 Iron River SIMONEAU, Alice B. # Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Director 1888 [Saginaw] [Topeka] Born Dec. 18, 1879 Engineering Dept. 2/1886- SIMMONS, Elbert Eugene # Officer, several power 8/88 [Marshall] companies incl. Consumers Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Born Nov. 29, 1852, Power [Marquette] Schoolcraft Died Apr. 1968, Jackson Asst. Engineer 4/1899- Husband of Carrie L. Simmons ---- 10/1903 nee Ingersoll Saginaw & Flint Principal Asst. Engineer Owned insurance agency Treasurer 1912-13 1903-05 Died 1927, Marshall Saginaw-Bay City Chief Engineer 1905-12 ---- Treasurer 1912-13 Mineral Range Marshall & Northern Asst. Engineer 4/1899- First Director 1902 SIMONS, David W. 10/1903 BkDet, 406 Principal Asst. Engineer SIMMONS, J. (for Joseph) Born Sept. 7, 1856, Kalwaryea, 1903-05 Edward # [N. Y. C.] Russia Chief Engineer 1905-5/13 ReprMenNY, 2:136-38 1870 to Detroit Born Sept. 9, 1841, Troy, N. Y. Real estate dealer, building SIMES, William [Boston] 1862 graduated Williams Coll. construction Marquette, Houghton & 1863 admitted to bar Ontonagon 1884-86 pres. N. Y. Stock North Detroit Electric Director 1882-85 Exchange First Director 1899 Marquette & Western Pres., Fourth Natl. Bank 190 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) SIMONS, Millard W. [Plymouth, 10/1888-2/1913 [Chicago] SINCLAIR, Frank T. Ind.] General Supervisor of Port Huron & Port Austin Born c.1852, in Ohio Transportation 2/1913-(16) Electric ---- First Director 1899 Marquette, Champion & SIMPSON, James Hervey # Chicago [Detroit] SINCLAIR, James # First Director 1889 BkDet, 407 [Marquette] New York, Fort Wayne & Born Oct. 31, 1858, Allegheny BiogHBM, 191-92 Chicago Co., Pa. Born 1860, Orkney Island, First Director 1889 ---- Scotland Various roads 1887 to Marquette; builder SIMONSON, John L. [N. Telegraph Operator, Train ---- Newburgh Twp.] Dispatcher 1876-91 Marquette City & Presque Isle ABH, 2:part6:63-64 Flint & Pere Marquette Director 1904-06 Born Sept. 12, 1817, Roxbury, [Saginaw] N. Y. Asst. to General SINGER, Frank B. [Sturgis] 1844 to Shiawassee Co., Manager1891-95 Sturgis, Indiana & Ohio mercantile Southern Ry First Director 1889 Died Oct. 3, 1883, Shiawassee Superintendent Car Service Co. 1895-97 SIPLEY, Fred [Nirvanna] ---- Flint & Pere Marquette Nirvanna & Luther East Saginaw & Ann Arbor [Detroit] First Director 1883 First Director, Director Asst. to General Manager 1869-72 1897-99 SISE, Albert Fleetford # Pere Marquette [Detroit] [Boston] SIMONSON, William Abram # Asst. to General Manager Born July 13, 1832, [New York City] 1900-05 Portsmouth, N. H. WhosWhoFB, 624 Land & Tax Commissioner Died Dec. 1,1903, Medford, Born Apr. 27, 1865, Newark, N. 1908 Mass. J. Pere Marquette International ---- Banker, Second Natl. Bank, Bridge Marquette, Houghton & Newark First Director 1903 Ontonagon Died Mar. 5, 1937, Palm Beach, Director 1884-85 Fla.; burial SIMPSON, W. M. # [Chicago] Marquette & Western Elizabeth, N. J. Manistee & Grand Rapids Director 1885 ---- Director 1906-11 Erie & Kalamazoo Secretary 1906-08 SKEELS, Fremont E. [Grand Director 1915-17 President 1909 Rapids] Central Michigan SIMPSON, George Edwin SINCLAIR, Daniel D. [Adrian] Director 1895-97 BiogRy1913, 496 MichBiog, 2:292; Bonner, Born May 25, 1847, Concord, 1:169-70 SKINNER, DeForest Leslie # N. H. Born Apr. 16, 1805, [Valparaiso, Ind.] Died Aug. 16, 1922, Chicago; Broadalbin, N.Y. Born Nov. 1, 1834, Hardwick, burial Aurora, Ill. 1835 to Adrian, clothier Caledonia Co., Vt. ---- State senator 1848 Father of Leslie R. Skinner Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 1858 built first mill in Riga Died Feb. 21, 1902, Valparaiso, Various work 1862-82 Died 1898, Adrian Ind. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul ---- ---- [Milwaukee, 1888 Chicago] Michigan Southern Michigan Air Line Ry Supt. Telegraph 1882-10/88 Asst. Superintendent Director 1875-77 [Milwaukee] 1850-58 Chicago & Grand Trunk Supt. Transportation Director 1880-1900 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 191 Grand Trunk Western SKINNER, Thomas Sylvester # SLAYMAKER, Nathaniel Director 1900-01 [Port Huron] Ellmaker # [Detroit] HistStCl, 634; BiogStCl, 400-02 BkDet, 409 SKINNER, Edward V. # [New Born June 12, 1824, Waitsfield, Born Feb. 21, 1844, Lancastger York City] Vermont Co., Pa. Died 1908 1836 to Jefferson Co., N. Y. 1866 grad. Washington & ---- 1855 to Port Huron, lumber Jefferson College Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic manufacturing Died 1913, Detroit Director 1902-08 1879, into farming ---- Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co. Died Sept. 14, 1903 Michigan Central Director 1906-08 ---- Asst. Attorney 1889-(1908) Port Huron & Saginaw Valley Detroit Belt Line SKINNER, George A. [Mt. Director 1873-75] First Director, Director Clemens] 1909-13 PastMacomb, 495 SLAGHT, Nathaniel Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Born Mar. 19, 1854, Jefferson [Greenville] Land Commissioner 1889- Co., N. Y. MPHC, 21:206-08 1913 1856 family to Port Huron Born Apr. 18, 1824, Waterford, 1876 opened bank in Mt. Ont.? SLEEPER, Albert Edson # [Bad Clemens No date to Cannonsburg, Kent Axe] ---- Co. MichBiog, 2:293; Mt. Clemens Street 1860 to Greenville, built flour HistMich1915, 4:2072-74 First Director 1893 mill Born Dec. 31, 1862, Bradford, 1862 into lumbering Vt. SKINNER, Leslie Reid # Died Mar. 9, 1892, Greenville 1885 to Lexington [Valparaiso, Ind.] ---- 1894 organized bank in Born July 11, 1873, Valparaiso, Greenville, Stanton & St. Louis Marlette Ind. First Director 1871 Came to control a number of Son of DeForest L. Skinner Michigan Northern Ry banks in the Thumb Died Feb. 7, 1859 First Director, Director State senator 1901-04; state ---- 1873-77 Treasurer 1909-13 Grand Trunk Western Grand Rapids, Rockford & Gov. of Michigan 1917-21 Director 1902-17 Greenville Died May 13, 1934, Bad Axe Director 1875 ---- SKINNER, Marion D. [Lansing] Pere Marquette Owner, real estate title SLATER, John Fox [Norwich, Director 1914-17 company, 1897 Conn.] ---- Born Mar. 4, 1815, Smithfield, SLEEPER, Jonathan Lansing City Ry R. I. 1830 to Almont Owner 1890 1842 to Norwich, Conn. 1836 platted village of Almont Owosso City Electric Owned cotton mill in Norwich ---- First Director 1890 Died May 7, 1884, Norwich Shelby & Belle River ---- Commissioner 1836 SKINNER, Thomas Brockway Chicago, Saginaw & Canada [Battle Creek] First Director 1872 SLINGLUFF, John [Norristown, 1847 opened dry goods store Pa.] Died Feb. 28, 1901, Battle SLATER, William S. [N. Born Aug. 3, 1839, Norristown, Creek Smithfield, R.I.] Pa. ---- (Sometimes missp. SLAGER) 1856 into banking Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake ---- Died May 12, 1899, Reading, Michigan Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Pa., train wreck Director 1872 First Director 1872 ---- Mineral Range 192 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Director 1890-92 York City] SLOCUM, Fred # [Bay City] WhosWhoFB, 628 BiogRep, 2:352-53 SLOAN, Benson Bennett # Born Oct. 3, 1864, New York Born May 25, 1858, Rose, [New York City] City Oakland Co. Born Mar. 29, 1867, New York Son of Samuel Sloan 1884 bought Caro newspaper City Died c.1939 Died Mar. 6, 1915, Ann Arbor Son of Samuel Sloan ---- ---- ---- Fort Wayne & Jackson Bay City & Caro Fort Wayne & Jackson Secretary, Treasurer 1901- First Director 1904 Director 1897-1917 12 Director 1901-17 SLOCUM, Giles Bryan SLOAN, Samuel # [New York Vice President 1913-17 ABH-1,1:128-29; Page, 132-3; City] Detroit, Hillsdale & South BiogRep, 2:351-52 BiogRy1885, 222; RRLeaders, Western Born July 11, 1808, Saratoga 458-459; Secretary, Treasurer 1902- Springs, N. Y. WhosWhoNY, 865 12 Father of Elliot T. Slocum Born Dec. 25, 1817, Lisburn, Director 1902-17 1831 to Detroit, then to Toledo Ireland Vice President 1913-17 1833 to Newport Father of Benson B. and 1834 opened first store in Samuel Sloan, Jr. SLOAN, William Simpson [New Trenton N.Y. state senator 1857-59 York City] Died Jan. 26, 1884, Wayne Co. Died Sept. 22, 1907, Garrison, Born Dec. 22, 1859, Brooklyn, ---- N. Y. N. Y. Detroit, Monroe & Toledo ---- Son of Samuel Sloan First Director 1855 Hudson River Died May 11, 1896 Muskegon & Greenville Director 12/1854-2/55 ---- First Director 1870 President 2/1855-8/65 Delaware, Lackawanna & Chicago & North Western Western SLOCUM, Joseph Jermian # Director 6/1867-6/69 Freight Dept. 10/1883- [New York City] Delaware, Lackawanna & 11/90 Born June 24, 1833, Syracuse, Western 3rd Vice President 11/1890- N. Y. President 8/1867-99 96 c.1918 inherited $8,000,000 Chairman Board Directors Fort Wayne & Jackson from sister (Margaret 1899-1907 Director 1885, 1888-96 Slocum (Mrs. Russell Sage) Marquette, Houghton & Died Oct. 2, 1924, New York Ontonagon SLOCUM, Elliott Truax # City Director 1873-84 [Detroit] ---- President 1873-78 MichBiog,,2:295; Page, 133; Wabash Michigan Central BkDet, 409; Director 1906-15 Vice President, Director CycMich, 312-13; ABH- 1875 1,1:128-29; SLUSH, Matthew [Mt. Clemens, President, Director 1876-77 BiogRep, 2:349-51 1904 Detroit] Detroit & Bay City Born May 15, 1839, Trenton Born Jan. 25, 1851, Hastings Director 1877, 1879-80 Son of Giles B. Slocum Co., Ont., Canada Fort Wayne & Jackson 1862 graduated Union Coll. 1872 to Saginaw area, lumber President, Director 1862 to Detroit dealer 1880-1900 State senator 1869-70 No date Mt. Clemens Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Died Nov. 20, 1915, Detroit Died Jan..22, 1929, Mt. Director 1881-86 ---- Clemens Wabash Western Canada Southern & Chicago ---- Director 1887 First Director 1870 Mt. Clemens Street Director First Director 1893 SLOAN, Samuel, Jr. # [New Mt. Clemens & Lakeside Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 193 Traction Engineman 1872-73 State representative 1863-64 First Director 1895 Died Jan. 20, 1910, Algonac Detroit, Monroe & Toledo SMART, Fred B. # [Adrian] ---- Short Line Born 1875 Detroit & St. Clair River 1885 First Director, Director Died 1946, Adrian First Director 1902-05 ---- President 1904-05 Adrian & Jackson Traction SMITH, Alex. (for Alexander) L. First Director 1904 # [Toledo] SLY, Homer E. # [Elk Rapids] Born June 16, 1855, Columbus, BiogNM, 628-29; SMEETH, Charles # Ohio HistMich1915, 4:1904-05 [Ironwood] 1876 graduated Amherst Coll. Born Oct. 1, 1871, Lockport, Ill. Gogebic & Iron Counties Ry & 1882 admitted to bar 1899 to Bay Shore, manage Light Died July 7, 1926, Toledo cement company General Superintendent ---- 1905 V. P.-G. M. Elk Cement & 1915 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Lime Co. Director 1915 Michigan ---- Attorney 1894-95 Elk Short Line SMILEY, James Francis Ann Arbor First Director 1906 MichBiog, 2:295 Attorney 1895-1909 Born June 2, 1835, Elba, General Solicitor 1910-17 SLY, Melvin Drake # [Romeo] Genesee Co., N. Y. Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Born Apr. 27, 1853 1862 graduated Univ. Mich. Attorney 1906 Died 1918, Romeo medical school ---- c.1862 to Lansing, physician SMITH, Alfred Holland # Grand Rapids, Belding & 1863 to Okemos, physician LS&MSHist, 1857; Greenville 1874 to Marshall, physician WhosWhoFB, 629; First Director 1905 Local political offices BiogRy1922, 577 State representative 1895-96 Born April 26, 1863, Cleveland SMALL, Oren A. # [Benton Died Sept. 29, 1899, Marshall Asst to Dir. General, U. S. RR Harbor] ---- Admin. 12/1917-5/19 Born May 16, 1875, Wabash, Howell & Lansing [Okemos] Died Mar. 8, 1924, New York Ind. First Director 1868 City; fell from a horse ---- ---- Benton Harbor-St. Joe Ry & SMITH, Abner # [Chicago] Lake Shore & Michigan Light HistChi3, 345 Southern General Ticket Agent 1910- Born Aug. 4, 1843, Orange, Various work 1879-90 12 Mass. Div. Superintendent Auditor 1913-17 1866 grad. Middlebury Coll. 10/1890-10/91 [Grand 1869 became attorney Rapids] SMART, Charles E. Circuit court judge 1894-99 Div. Superintendent Born 1840, Rochester, N. H. ---- 10/1891-2/93 [Hillsdale] Non-RR work 1860-71 South Haven Traction Div. Superintendent 2/1893- Died Mar. 29, 1896, Jackson First Director 1905 7/97 [Youngstn. Oh] ---- Div. Superintendent 7/1897- Michigan Central SMITH, Abram [Algonac] 4/1901[Toledo] Shops Mechanic 1858-59 HistStCl, 716; MichBiog, 2:296 Asst. Gen. Superintendent 4- [Niles] Born Sept. 8, 1819, Algonac 6/1901 [Cleveland] Engineman 1874 Brother of Angus and Samuel General Superintendent Division Master Mechanic L. Smith 6/1901-2/02 1875-84 [Bay City] 1844 opened store New York Central & Hudson General Master Mechanic 1856 into lumbering, owned River[New York City] 1885-96 [Jackson] mill General Superintendent Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska Local political offices 2/1902-7/03 194 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) General Manager 7/1903- President, Director 1914-17 L. Smith; 4/12 Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw uncle of Angus Smith (#2) Vice President 4/1912-3/13 President, Director 1914-16 1841 to Sandusky, Ohio, clerk Senior Vice President Kalamazoo & White Pigeon 1855 to Milwaukee, grain 3/1913-1/14 Director 1912-14 merchant President, Director 1/1914- President 1914 1858 built first elevator in 1/15 Michigan Air Line RR Milwaukee Lake Shore & Michigan Director 1915-16 Died Apr. 22, 1898, Milwaukee Southern Northern Central Michigan ---- Vice President 4/1912-3/13 Director 1914-16 Republic Branch Senior Vice President Vice President 1915 First Director 1881 3/1913-1/14 President 1916 Ontonagon & Brule River President, Director 1/1914- St. Clair & Western Vice President, Director 1/15 Director 1914-17 1882-89 New York Central [New York President 1916-17 Menominee Branch City] Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis First Director 1883 President, Director 1/1915- Director 1914 Milwaukee & Northern 5/18, 6/1919-3/24 Toledo, Canada Southern & Director 1887-92 Michigan Central Detroit Vice President 1912 Director 1914-16 SMITH, Angus (#2) # [Detroit] Senior Vice President 1913 President 1915-16 Born Oct. 1876 President, Director 1914-17 Son of Samuel L. Smith Battle Creek & Sturgis SMITH, Alpheus G. [Manistee] ---- Director 1914-17 Born 1827, Marcellus, N. Y. Lansing Manufacturers President 1916-17 ---- First Director 1904 Bay City & Battle Creek Peter's Manistee Train Director 1914-15 First Director 1883 SMITH, Ansel [Albion] Canada Southern Bridge Co. Born Dec. 27, 1843, Long Director 1914-17 SMITH, Alva Jackson. # Island, N. Y. President 1915-17 [Cleveland] Died Jan. 1, 1909, Albion Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago LS&MSHist, 883-885; ---- & St. Louis BiogRy1906, 554 Olivet & South Eastern President 1914-17 Born Sept 30, 1840, First Director 1896 Director 1914-17 Churchville, N.Y. Cincinnati Northern 1862-65, Civil War officer SMITH, Arthur M. # [Detroit] Senior Vice President 1913- 1905, president Natl. Assn. Pere Marquette 14 Gen. Psgr. & Ticket Agents General Superintendent President 1915-17 Died July 1906, Harristown, N. 1902-03 Director 1913-17 Y. Huron & Western Detroit & Bay City ---- Vice President 1903-04 President, Director 1914-15 Various roads Detroit & Chicago Various work 1866-87 SMITH, Byron Laflin # Director 1913-14 Lake Shore & Michigan [Chicago] President 1914 Southern BkChi, 534 Detroit Belt Line General Passenger Agent Born May 9, 1853, Saugerties, Director 1915-16 3/1887-1904 N. Y. Detroit, Monroe & Toledo 1874 graduated Univ. of Director 1912-14 SMITH, Angus (#1) Chicago, into banking President 1914 [Milwaukee] 1889 founded Northern Trust Detroit River Tunnel Co. NatCyc, 11:235 Co. President, Director 1914-17 Born Dec. 16, 1822, Clay Twp., Died Mar. 22, 1914, Chicago Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee St. Clair Co. ---- 2nd Vice President 1913 Brother of Abram and Samuel Chicago & North Western Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 195 Director 6/1892-3/1914 Gen. Superintendent, Psgr. Michigan Central Transp. 1/1915-(24) Auditor 1856 SMITH, C. A. # [South Bend, Manager, Passenger Transp. Ind.] (1930) SMITH, Eben [Grand Rapids] Southern Michigan Born 1832 Auditor 1914 SMITH, Charles S. [Bloomer Died 1906 Twp.] Grand Rapids & Saginaw SMITH, C. H. # [Lawton] Crystal Lake First Secretary, Secretary South Haven & Eastern First Director 1891 1871-76 Superintendent Telegraph Saginaw Valley Traction Director 1872-79 1894 First Director 1899 Michigan Shore & Eastern Secretary 1902-03 SMITH, Edmund First Director 1903 ABH, 1:part4:57-58 SMITH, Curtis [New York City] Born Oct. 21, 1816, East Lyme, SMITH, C. H. # [Saginaw] Detroit, Pontiac & Northern Conn. Saginaw-Bay City First Director 1892 1842 to Paw Paw, later a General Superintendent mercchant 1915-17 SMITH, D. S. H. [St. Louis, Mo.] ---- Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Paw Paw SMITH, Charles [Hancock] # Treasurer 1883-86 Promoter NPMemorial, 410-11; Missouri Pacific MichBiog, 2:298; Local Treasurer 1887-1903 SMITH, Edward BiogRep, 2:354-55 Chicago & Michigan Grand Born Dec. 24, 1839, Livonia SMITH, David [Fenton] Trunk 1863 to Houghton Co., worked Born July 1819 First Director 1865 for several mines, Died Aug. 10, 1879, Fenton then for Calumet & Hecla Co ---- SMITH, Edwin State representative 1895-98; Flint & Fentonville River Raisin & Grand River State senator 1899-1910 First Director 1863 Commissioner 1835 Died Oct. 24, 1915, Lake Flint & Holly Linden First Director 1863 SMITH, Edwin R. [Homer] ---- Born c.1834, N. Y. state Hecla Train SMITH, Donald Alexander # 1863 owned general store in First Director 1867 [Montreal] Homer See STRATHCONA and MT. ---- SMITH, Charles Frederick # ROYAL, Lord Jonesville, Marshall & Grand [New York City] River BiogRy1922, 578 SMITH, Dwight Scott [Jackson] First Director 1867 Born June 17, 1873, New York HistJack2, 338; ABH-1,3:86 City Born June 5, 1847, Lansing SMITH, Egbert Amos # ---- Son of Hiram H. Smith Born June 21, 1841 or 1843, New York Central & Hudson 1876 to Jackson Trafalgar Twp., Halton River Died Nov. 26, 1897, Jackson Co., Ont. Clerical work 11/1886-1902 ---- Died Mar. 27, 1912, Cheboygan Supt. Passenger Jackson City ---- Transportation 1902-03 First Director 1881 Cheboygan & East Michigan Asst. General Jackson & Ohio [Cheboygan] Superintendent 1903-06 First Director, Director First Director 1891 General Superintendent 1884-86 1906-10 Jackson Street SMITH, Elijah # [Boston] Gen. Superintendent, Psgr. First Director 1891 BiogRy1885, 223 Transp. 1910-12/14 Born Apr. 23, 1840, New York Central SMITH, E. Willard Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 196 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ---- Various work 11/1886- 1839 to Somerset Twp. Central Market, Cass Avenue & 11/1905 State representative 1863-64 Third Street Asst. Superintendent [W] State senator 1867-68, 1885- First Director 1873 11/1905-12/11 [Chgo.] 86 Detroit, Hillsdale & South Div. Superintendent [W] Died Jan. 29, 1893, Somerset Western 12/1911-(13) Twp. Director 1875-1901 New York Central ---- Secretary, Treasurer General Superintendent Canada Southern & Chicago 1875-80 1916-17 [Cleveland] First Director 1870 President 1881-1901 Eel RiverRR (Indiana) SMITH, Fred L. # [Detroit] SMITH, George Carson # President (1893-1901) Lansing Manufacturers [Pittsburgh] First Director 1904 HerrNL, 5:244-45; SMITH, Eugene WhosWhoNY, 870; HistStCl, 683 SMITH, Frederick V. BiogRy1901, 506 Born July 26, 1821, Amherst, [Coldwater] Born Mar. 4, 1855, Granville, Mass. Born Feb. 4, 1820 N. Y. 1836 to St. Clair Died Oct. 27, 1886, Coldwater 1877 graduated Adrian Coll. 1860 mayor of St. Clair ---- 1877-81 private secy to Mich. Into lumbering Ohio & Michigan Gov. Charles M. Croswell Died Mar. 29, 1888, St. Clair First Director 1870 Closely identified with ---- Marshall & Coldwater Westinghouse companies Michigan Air Line Extension First Director 1870 Died May 30, 1916, New York First Director 1869 Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake City Michigan ---- SMITH, Francis [Muskegon] Director 1872-76 Various roads Born Oct. 10, 1834, Beamsville, Secretary 1874-76 Various work 1881-89 Ont. Canada Coldwater, Marshall & Missouri Pacific 1864 grad. Univ. of Mich. law Mackinaw Asst. to Vice President 1889- school Director 1875 91 1865 to Jonesville, attorney Asst. General Manager 1891- 1866 to Muskegon, attorney SMITH, George 5/93 Prosecuting attorney, HistIll, 1:485 Atlanta & West Point Muskegon Co., 1869-72 Born Mar. 8, 1808, President, General Manager Died Feb. 13, 1900, San Diego, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 9/1894-11/1900 Calif. Incorrectly given as uncle of Western Ry of Alabama ---- James H. Smith President, General Manager White River 1834 to Chicago, into real 9/1894-11/1900 First Director, Director estate Louisville, Evansville & St. 1879-80 1837 founded Wisc. Marine & Louis Fire Ins. Co. General Manager 11/1900- SMITH, Frank Hubbard # 1839 started bank in Chicago 1/01 [Muskegon] Died Oct. 7, 1899 Lackawanna & Wyoming ---- ---- Valley Muskegon Traction & Lighting Chicago & North Western President no dates Director 1907-17 Director 6/1861-6/63 Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon SMITH, Frank M. # SMITH, George A. [Addison Director 1902-11 BiogRy1913, 502 and Somerset] President 1907-11 Born Dorset, Ohio MichBiog, 2:300; PortHill, 768- ---- 69 SMITH, George E. [Detroit] Lake Shore & Michigan Born Mar. 8, 1825, Danbury, Detroit & Northern Southern Conn. First Director 1897 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 197 Chief Engineer 1/1909-(22) Died Sept. 7, 1920, Chathan, SMITH, George Gregory [St. [Cincinnati] Ont. Albans, Vt.] ---- Born Sept. 4, 1845, St. Albans, SMITH, George Richardson Tawas & Bay County Vt. [Grand Rapids] Director 1882 ---- Father of William Alden Smith Chippewa Valley ---- SMITH, Henry Cassorte # First Director 1888 Grand Rapids, Belding & [Adrian] Saginaw CongBiog; MichBiog, 2:301; SMITH, George H. [Chillicothe, First Director 1898 BiogRep, 2:355-57 Ohio] Born June 2, 1856, Lima Northern SMITH, George T. [Jackson] Canandaigua, N. Y. Director 1896 CycMich, 168 1857 family to Lenawee Co. Born 1841, Bethany, N. Y. 1878 graduated Adrian Coll. SMITH, George Perry [Detroit] ---- 1880 admitted to bar Born June 15, 1842, Lockport, Jackson & Ohio U. S. Representative 3/1899- N. Y. First Director 1884 3/1903 Brother of Henry B. Smith Died Dec. 7, 1911, Adrian 1864-67 managed saw mill, SMITH, Glenn D. # [Jackson] ---- East Tawas Detroit & Ann Arbor Jackson & Adrian Electric Died Apr. 17, 1928, Missoula, First Director 1901 First Director 1899 Mont. Battle Creek & Marshall ---- Traction SMITH, Henry H. [Jackson] Tawas & Bay County First Director 1901 Son of Hiram H. Smith Vice President, Director Jackson & Battle Creek ---- 1882 Traction Jackson Street First Director 1902 First Director 1891 SMITH, George P. # Wolf Lake Ry & Resort BiogRy1922, 581 First President 1902 SMITH, Hiram Born Mar. 7, 1859, South Jackson, Plymouth & Troy & Rochester Deerfield, Mass. Northville Commissioner 1844 1885 graduated Worcester Treasurer 1904-06 Inst. of Tech. General Manager 1904-06 SMITH, Hiram Horton Died May 7, 1938, Cincinnati MichBiog, 2:302; ABH, ---- SMITH, H. C. # [South Bend] 1:part3:85-86 Burlington & Missouri River South Bend & Southern Born Dec. 9, 1809, Malone, N.Y. Engineering Dept. 6/1886- Michigan Father of Dwight S. and Henry 1/96 Director 1904 H. Smith St. Joseph & Grand Island 1836 to Mason, farmer Chief Engineer 5/1897- SMITH, Henry State representative 1843; 9/1900 Frankfort & South Eastern built plank road Lake Shore & Michigan First Director 1885 Howell-Lansing Southern 1847 to Lansing, flour milling, First Asst. Engineer SMITH, Henry Bloomfield [Bay mercantile 10/1900-3/02 City] 1864 to Jackson Indiana, Illinois & Iowa HistMich/Bay, 266-69 Died May 14, 1898, Jackson Engineer - Maint. of Way Born Aug. 28, 1848, ---- 4/1902-7/05 Walsingham, Ont. Saginaw & Lansing Lake Erie & Western Brother of George P. Smith First Director 1855 Chief Engineer 7/1905- 1881 bought Michigan Pipe Amboy, Lansing & Traverse 12/08 Works Bay Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 1892 founded Natl. Cycle Mfg. First Director 1857 & St. Louis Co. Lansing & Jackson 198 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1863 Superintendent 1904-12 Lake Shore & Michigan Jackson, Fort Wayne & Pere Marquette [Grand Southern Cincinnati Rapids] Director 5/1875-5/76 First Director 1868 Asst. Superintendent 1912- Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw 14 SMITH, J. William # [Syracuse, Vice President San Antonio & Aransas Pass N.Y.] General Manager [Yoakum, Tex.] Delray Connecting Fort Wayne, Jackson & Div. Superintendent 1914- Director 1904-08 Saginaw (22) Director 1871, 1874-79 SMITH, Joseph [Vandalia] Greenville, Stanton & St. Louis SMITH, James Henry # [New ABH, 2:part4:58-59; MichBiog, First Director 1871 YorkCity] 2:304; HistCass1, Detroit, Lansing & Lake Incorrectly given as nephew of 330-31; HistCass3, 177-78 Michigan George Smith Born Apr. 11, 1809, Va. First Director, Director Died Mar. 27, 1907, Kyoto, 1832 to Cassopolis, saw mill, 1871-72 Japan; then farmed First President, President burial New York City State representative 1835-37 1871-72 ---- 1852 merchant Detroit, Lansing & Northern Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Died Apr. 18, 1880, Cassopolis Director 1873 Director 1901-02 ---- Ionia, Stanton & Northern Grand Trunk Ry of Michigan First Director 1872 SMITH, James McM. # [South First Director 1866 Detroit & Bay City Bend] Peninsular Ry Extension Director 1873 Niles & Buchanan First Director 1866 Lapeer & Northern First Director 1904 First Director 1872 Southern Michigan SMITH, Joseph W. [Detroit] Main Street (Jackson) Director 1906-09 (Law suit: was hired to be GM First Director 1873 Vice President 1906-09 of TAA&NM RR) Jackson City General Manager 1906-09 ---- First Director 1881 Detroit, Hillsdale & South Cincinnati, Jackson & SMITH, James N. [New York Western Mackinaw City] Director 1879 First Director 1886 Brokerage partner of Sidney General Manager 1879 Jackson Street Dillon North Detroit Electric First Director 1891 ---- First Director 1899 Chicago & Canada Southern SMITH, Horatio N. Director 1878 SMITH, Joseph W. [Ontonagon] Lake George & Muskegon Ontonagon, Gogebic & SMITH, John Bradner River [Stafford] Wisconsin [Chicago] Superintendent Telegraph First Director 1882 Paper dealer, stationer 1878-81 Ontonagon & Brule River Died Mar. 6, 1893, Chicago Saginaw Bay & Northwestern General Agent 1882-85 ---- [Pinconning] St. Clair & Chicago Air Line Superintendent Telegraph SMITH, James H. # Director 1872-74 1882 BiogRy1922, 581 Born Aug. 20, 1870, SMITH, John Condit [Buffalo] SMITH, Lewis D. [Ionia] Washington, Pa. Born c.1829, Troy, N. Y. MPHC, 14:109 ---- Died Nov. 9, 1883, Buffalo Born July 16, 1818, Luzerne, Various roads ---- Warren Co., N. Y. Various work 1885-1904 Dunkirk, Warren & 1846 to Orleans, farmer National Rys of Mexico Pittsuburgh c.1856 to Ionia Trainmaster, President 1872 1865-73 postmaster Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 199 Died May 30, 1888, Ionia First Director, Director Born 1842 ---- 1893-94 Died 1909 Ionia & Lansing Vice President, Treasurer ---- First Director 1865 1893-94 Detroit, Hillsdale & South Western SMITH, Luther [St. Louis] SMITH, Orland [Cincinnati] Director 1880-1902 State representative 1865-68 BiogRy1893, 346; Secretary, Treasurer ---- BiogRy1896, 442 1881-1902 Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Born May 2, 1825, Lewiston, First Director 1871 Me. SMITH, Ransom F. [Ann Arbor] ---- Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern SMITH, Matthew N. # Androscoggin & Kennebec First Director 1869 [Escanaba] Station Agent 1849-53 Born Feb. 16, 1872 Marietta & Cincinnati SMITH, Reuben Fairbanks Banker Various work 1853-61 [Cleveland] Died July 14, 1951, Escanaba Various work BiogRy1885, 225 ---- Various work 1864-77 Born June 20, 1830, Windham, Escanaba Traction Columbus, Hocking Valley & Conn. Treasurer, Director 1910-17 Toledo Died 1913, Cleveland General Superintendent ---- SMITH, Martin S. [Utica] 1877-79 Cleveland & Pittsburg Northern Michigan RR Vice President, General Various work 3/1855-1/65 First Director 2/1867 Manager 1879-11/82 Auditor 1/1865-1/69 Cincinnati, Washington & Vice President 1/1869-1/72 SMITH, Martin S. [Detroit] Baltimore Asst. Manager 12/1871-(85) DSA, 316; CycMich, 162-63; President 11/1882-12/88 President 1891-1913 HerrNL, 5:258 Receiver 12/1888-10/89 Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Born Nov. 12, 1834, Lima, Baltimore & Ohio Michigan Livingston Co., N. Y. 3rd Vice President11/1882- Director 1873-76 1844 to Pontiac, variety of 3/88 Allegan & Southeastern occupations Columbus & Cincinnati First Director 1877 Entered merchandising Midland Cleveland, Akron & Columbus 1874 began lumber business President 11/1884-(96) Director 1893 with Russell A. Alger Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Died Oct. 28, 1899, Detroit & St. Louis SMITH, Reuben R. [Romeo] ---- Director 1892 Born c.1797 Detroit Belt Ry & Depot c.1824 to Romeo First Director 1881 SMITH, Perry Hiram Died Apr. 27, 1866, Romeo Detroit Union Depot [Appleton, Wisc.] ---- First Director 1881 Born Mar. 28, 1828, Augusta, Romeo & Mt. Clemens Bay City & Alpena N. Y. Commissioner 1833 First Director 1881 Died Mar. 29, 1885, Chicago Tawas & Bay County ---- SMITH, Richard [New York President, Director 1882 Peninsular Ry City] Detroit, Bay City & Alpena First Director 1862 Cincinnati, Jackson & Vice President, Director Northern Iron RR Mackinaw 1887-9/30/1893 First Director 1862 First Director 1886 Treasurer 1888-9/30/1893 Chicago & North Western Treasurer 1887 Manistique Director 6/1859-6/69, President, Director 1886-97 6/1878-6/79 SMITH, Robert [Ithaca] Detroit Suburban Vice President 6/1859-4/69 Ithaca & Alma First Director 1892 First Director 1882 Alpena & Northern SMITH, Prosper W. # [Boston] First Secretary 1882 200 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Escanaba, Twin Cities & brother of Angus (#1) First Director 1869 Western and Abram Smith First Director 1889 c.1859 to Houghton Co., SMITH, Vespasian [Duluth] Ann Arbor Street copper mining CommBiog, 36-37 First Director 1888 1880s to Lansing, financier for Born Oct. 21, 1818, Mt. R. E. Olds Vernon, Ohio SMITH, Robert B. Died May 7, 1917, Detroit 1857 to Superior, Wisc., MichBiog, 2:305; ABH, ---- physician 1:psrt5:113-14 Wisconsin & Lake Superior 1860 to Bayfield, Wisc., Born Apr. 21, 1834, Fairfield, First Director 1866 physician N.Y. Houghton & Ontonagon 1870 to Duluth, physician 1863 to Ionia, flour miller First Director 1870 Local and fed. govt. offices State representative 1867-70 Mineral Range & L'Anse Bay Died Oct. 11, 1897, Duluth by 1887 to Chicago First Director 1871 ---- Died Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon & Montreal River ---- Ontonagon First Director 1880 Ionia & Lansing Director 1872-85 First Director 1865 General Manager 1872 SMITH, W. D. [Hersey] Detroit, Lansing & Lake Copper Range [Detroit] Lake George & Muskegon Michigan [Portland] First Director, Director River First Director, Director 1899-1917 Director 1877 1871-72 Lansing Manufacturers [Detroit] SMITH, W. G. # SMITH, Roland Kidder # First Director 1904 Sanilac BiogRy1893, 509; First Director 1901 BiogRy1913, 505 SMITH, Thomas W. # Born Feb. 22, 1869 [Marquette] SMITH, W. M. [Hersey] ---- Born Sept. 1874 Lake George & Muskegon Various roads ---- River Various work 1887-10/1902 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Director 1879-80 St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Asst. Superintendent 1899- Southern 1904 SMITH, W. S. # [Wyandotte] Div. Superintendent Mineral Range Wyandotte Southern 10/1902-6/05 Asst. Superintendent 1899- Director 1917 Ann Arbor [Toledo] 1905 General Manager 6/1905- Superintendent 1906-08 SMITH, William Alden # 11/06 [Grand Rapids] Detroit, Toledo & Ironton SMITH, Van R. # [New York MichBiog,,2:307-08; HerrNL, [Toledo] City] 5: 268; CongBiog; General Manager 6/1905- Detroit River & Lake Erie HistMich1915, 3:1649-52; 11/06 Terminal HistMich1915, Mississippi Central First Director 1902 4:2978-80; BiogRep, 2:360- [Hattiesburg, Miss.] 62 Vice President, General SMITH, Vernon Horace # Born May 12, 1859, Dowagiac Manger 11/1906-17 [Ionia] Son of George Richardson HerrNL, 5: 267 Smith SMITH, Samuel Latta # Born Dec. 29, 1838, Norfolk 1872 to Grand Rapids; became [Houghton, ? Marquette, Co., Ont. attorney 1879 Lansing] farmer, lawyer, banker U. S. Representative MichBiog, 2:306; MPHC, 1882-94 circuit court judge 1895-1907, U. S. Senator 39:137 Died Apr. 21, 1908, Ionia 1907-19 Born June 28, 1830, Algonac ---- Died Oct. 11, 1932, Grand Father of Angus Smith (#2); Ionia & Stanton Rapids Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 201 ---- ---- General Freight Agent 1879 Chicago & West Michigan Illinois Central Chicago & Grand Trunk Attorney Engineering Dept. 1854-55 General Freight Agent 1880 Detroit, Lansing & Northern [Chicago] Attorney 1893-96 SNOW, Frank E. # [Detroit] Chicago & North Michigan SMITH, William T. [Oscoda] BkDet, 417 First Director, Director St. Helens Lake & Southern Born June 2, 1847, Bangor, Me. 1891-97 First Director 1883 ---- Vice President 1892-95 Michigan Central Escanaba, Frankfort & SMITHERS, Henry W. Clerk 1862-68 Southeastern [Louisville, Ky.] General Agent 1868-74 First Director 1895 Michigan Ry [Detroit] Detroit, Grand Rapids & First Director 1880 Western General Agent Western 1874-75 [Chicago] Attorney 1897 SNELLING, Harry G. # [New Toledo, Canada Southern & Grand Rapids, Kalkaska & York City] Detroit Southeastern BiogRy1922, 585 General Passenger Agent First Director 1897 Born Sept. 4, 1865, Stamford, 1875-80 [Buffalo] Vice President 1899 Conn. Wabash Treasurer 1900 ---- General Agent 1881-84 Michigan Central [Detroit] Metropolitan Electric SMITH, William G. [New York Treasurer’s office 6/1882- First Director 1885 City] 99 Highland Park Mineral Range Canada Southern First Director 1886 Director 1887-92 Transfer Agent 1899-1904 East Detroit & Grosse Pointe Lake Shore & Michigan First Director 1887 SMITH, William Grierson # Southern Union Street of Saginaw [Detroit] Transfer Agent 1904-06 First Director 1893 BkDet, 416 Asst. Treasurer 1906-14 Riverside Park of Saginaw Born Mar. 26, 1853, Detroit & Bay City First Director 1894 Edinburgh, Scotland Asst. Treasurer 1911-15 Saginaw Consolidated Street 1872 to Detroit Detroit Belt Line First Director 1894 Officer and director many Asst. Treasurer 1912-16 Inter-Urban of Saginaw Detroit companies Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw First Director 1895 ---- Asst. Treasurer 1911-14 Detroit Terminal RR Michigan Air Line RR SNOW, Loum (Jr.) [New First Director 1905 Asst. Treasurer 1911-16 Bedford, Mass.] St. Clair & Western Born Aug. 5, 1840, New SMITH, William Sooy # Asst. Treasurer 1911-17 Bedford, Mass. BkChi, 537-38; HerrNL, 5:271 Toledo, Canada Southern & Started in whaling Born July 22, 1830, Tarlton, Detroit Owned several businesses Pickaway Co., Ohio Asst. Treasurer 1911-14 Died 1916, New Bedford 1849 graduated Ohio Univ. New York Central [New York ---- 1853 graduated West Point City] Flint & Pere Marquette In 13th Ohio Infantry, 1861- Asst. Treasurer 1915-20 Director 1880-97 64; brig. general Asst. General Treasurer Civil engineer on many 1920-(22) SNOW, Muir Burtenshaw # government projects BiogRy1913, 507 1877 published design for a SNIVELY, L. E. [Port Huron] Born Nov. 27, 1877, Detroit Detroit River tunnel Chicago & Lake Huron No date, pres. Detroit Twist Died Mar. 4, 1916, Medford, General Freight Agent Drill Co. Ore.; 1878-79 Died Oct. 4, 1953, Detroit buried Forest Park, Ill. Northwestern Grand Trunk ---- 202 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Michigan Central 6/82 Early 1890s co-founder of Various work 1898-8/1902 Trainmaster 6/1882-8/91 Ottawa Car Co. Div. Superintendent 8/1902- Div. Superintendent Partner of Thomas Ahearn in 2/05 [Jackson] 8/1891-2/1905 many electric railways Div. Superintendent 2/1905- Asst. Gen. Superintendent and later telephone cos. 10/07 [Chicago] 1/1906-10/07 [Detroit] Died May 13, 1924, Ottawa Asst. Gen. Superintendent Div. Superintendent ---- 10/1907-(13) [Detroit] 10/1907-(13) [Chicago] Ottawa Electric Ry. Indiana Harbor Belt First Vice President 1890 SNOW, W. G. [New York City] General Superintendent 2- Saginaw & Bay City Toledo & South Haven 12/1905 First Director 1894 Secretary, Director 1890-93 South Haven & Eastern SNYDER, John G. [Patterson SOUDER, W. J. # [Houghton] Secretary, Director 1894-96 Mills] Copper Range Patterson General Passenger Agent SNYDER, Abram A. [Almont] First Director 1870 1899-1900 HistOak1, 128; PortraitOak, General Freight Agent 1899- 801-02 SNYDER, O. K. # [Onaway] 1900 Born Dec. 9, 1824, Warren Co., Onaway & North Michigan Auditor 1899-1900 N. J. Superintendent 1905-09 c.1833 family to Almont 2nd Vice President 1909-11 SOUTHARD, Alphonso J. Farmer; also built grist mill [Harbor Springs] Died Oct. 23, 1886, Almont SNYDER, Robert McClure # Born c.1839, New York state ---- [Kansas City, Mo.] c.1876 to Harbor Springs, Rochester, Almont & Northern EncyHistMo, 6:13-14 attorney First Director 1879 Born Mar. 10, 1852, Columbus, Became mill owner, banker Ind. ---- SNYDER, Irving Washington # 1876 to St. Louis, Mo., grocery Bay View, Little Traverse & Bay City] business Mackinaw BiogRep, 2:362-63 1880 to Kansas City, wholesale First Director 1879 Born Oct. 24, 1858, Dryden, groceries, also real Director 1882-87 Tompkins Co., N. Y. estate speculation and 1881 to Bay City, clerk for T. H. banking SOUTHWELL, Henry E. # McGraw Died Oct. 27, 1906, Kansas [Chicago] 1896 into newspaper City, Mo. Lumber Manufacturer and management ---- Dealer, 59:70 1904 co-publisher of Bay City Detroit & Lima Northern (Poss. born May 1834, New Tribune Vice President, Director York state) ---- 1897-1900 Father-in-law and partner of Dead River Charles H. Worcester First Director, Director SOLOMON, William H. [Grand Lumberman 1889-90 Rapids] Died Feb. 23, 1917, Chicago President, Secretary 1889- Born May 4, 1830 ---- 90 Died Aug. 26, 1888, Grand Houghton, Chassell & Rapids Southwestern SNYDER, James Hiram # ---- First Director, Director BkDet, 418; BiogRy1913, 508 Grand Rapids RR 1909-17 Born Dec. 7, 1844, Carbon Co., First Director 1871 Pa. SOUTHWICK, Henry Keith ---- SOPER, Warren Young # [New York City] Michigan Central [Ottawa, Ont.] Born May 20 or Oct. 11, 1838, Train Service 9/1871-11/80 Born Mar. 9, 1847, Old Town, Grafton, Mass. Asst. Trainmaster 11/1880- Me. ---- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 203 Allegan & State Line Director 1879-82 Attended Oberlin Coll., studied First Director 1887 Ingalls, White Rapids & law Northern Ry 1858 to St. Johns, lawyer SOUTHWORTH, Alexander P. # First Director 1886 1858-64 regent Univ. Mich. [Adrian] Union Pacific 1862-65 officer in Civil War Bonner, 685-88 Director 1889-?? 1890-93, 1897 Asst Secy of Born Apr 4, 1869, Raisin Twp., Chicago Union Traction Co. Treas (U.S.) Lenawee Co. President no dates Died July 30, 1922, Jaffrey, N. Died Dec. 21, 1938, Sebring, H.; buried Arlington Natl. Cem. Fla. SPARKS, Thomas W. # ---- ---- [Philadelphia] Lansing & St. Johns Jackson & Adrian Electric Pennsalt First Director 1871 First Director 1899 First Director 1901 Adrian Street Wyandotte Southern SPEER, Charles Edward # First Director, Director Director 1917 [Pittsburgh] 1900-06 Born Sept. 8, 1837, President 1902-06 SPARROW, Edward W. Pennsylvania General Manager 1902-06 [Lansing] Pres. First Natl. Bank Toledo, Adrian & Jackson BiogRep, 2:364-66 Died May 2, 1905, Pittsburgh First Director 1900 Born Dec. 14, 1846, ---- Toledo & Western Euniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & General Superintendent Ireland Chicago 1901-03 1858 to Michigan Director 1887 1886 first pres. City Natl. Bank Grand Rapids & Indiana SOWLES, William H. 1895 former Sparrow-Kroll Director 1890-95 Muskegon River & Rose Lake Lbr. Co. at Kenton First Director 1878 Died Feb. 21, 1913, New York SPENCER, James Clinton City; buried Lansing [Milwaukee] SPAFFORD, Samuel L. ---- BiogRy1885, 227 Born Mar. 1, 1806, Jaffrey, N. Y. Lansing, St. Johns & Northern Born July 29, 1828 or 1829, No date to Tecumseh First Director 1888 near Albany, N. Y. Died in Tecumseh ---- ---- SPAULDING, George J. # Various roads Ypsilanti & Tecumseh Born Oct. 15, 1847, Bath, Engineering Dept. 7/1848- Commissioner 1838 Steuben Co., N. Y. 6/66 Worked as engineer on a Milwaukee & Northern SPALDING, George # [Monroe] variety of ships and as Receiver 5/1879-6/80 Detroit River & Lake Erie engineer for other Vice President, Director Terminal companies 6/1880-89 First Director 1902 Chief engineer for Traverse Republic Branch City lighting co. First Director 1881 SPALDING, Jesse [Chicago] ---- Ontonagon & Brule River HerrNL, 5:288; HistChi3, 128- Benton Harbor-St Joe Ry & Director 1882-87 29 Light Menominee Branch Born Apr. 15, 1833, Athens, Pa. Chief Engineer 1908-17 First Director 1883 c.1855 to Chicago; lumber yard owner SPAULDING, Oliver Lyman [St. SPENCER, John C. [Milwaukee] Owned timberlands in Wisc. Johns] Ontonagon & Brule River And Mich. MichBiog, 2:313; ABH-1,6:64- Auditor 1883-85, 1888-89 Died Mar. 17, 1904, Chicago 65; HerrNL, 5:291; Milwaukee & Northern ---- BiogRep, 2:366-67 Asst. Treasurer 1887-89 Marquette, Houghton & Born Aug. 2, 1833, Jaffrey, N. Ontonagon H. SPENCER, Judah Colt [Erie, Pa.] 204 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Born July 1, 1813, Hadlyne, Farm implement dealer First Director 1892 Conn. ---- Grand Trunk Western 1852 into banking Marshall & Coldwater Director 1900-02 Died Sept. 1, 1885, Erie First Director 1870 St. Clair Tunnel Co. ---- Director 1901-02 Erie & North East SPICER, W. H. # [Detroit] Secretary, Treasurer Grand Trunk Western SPIES, Augustus # Lake Shore & Michigan Division Freight Agent 1911- [Menominee] Southern 15 NPMemorial, 95-96 Director 5/1875-5/76 Born Oct. 23, 1836, Hessel, SPICER, William J. # [Detroit] Darmstadt, Germany SPENCER, Samuel # [New York Pennington, 169-70; Railroad 1850 family to Winnebago Co., City] Gazette, 39:198 Wisc. BiogRy1893, 349, BiogRy1901, Born 1832, England 1866 to Menominee, merchant 514; BHB19, 374-76 1854 moved to Canada 1880 built lumber mill Born Mar. 2, 1847, Columbus, 1884 to Detroit Founded banks Ga. Died Dec.1905, Detroit Died Aug. 13, 1915, 1869 graduated Univ. of Va.- ---- Menominee civil engineer Various English roads ---- 1889 joined Drexel, Morgan & Various work Menominee Street Co. as RR expert Great Western Ry Canada First Director 1888 Died Nov. 19, 1906, Station Agent 1854-60 Menominee Electric Ry & Lynchburg, Va., train collision Superintendent 1860-62 Power ---- Grand Trunk Ry Canada First Director 1891 Various roads Superintendent 1862-84 Menominee Electric Light Ry & Engineering Dept. 8/1869- Chicago, Detroit & Canada Power 1/78 Grand Trunk Jct. First Director 1892 Long Island RR General Superintendent Menominee & Marinette Light General Superintendent 1872-83 & Traction 1/1878-10/79 General Manager 1884-89 First Director, Director Baltimore & Ohio Director 1891-1902 1902-06 Asst. to President 10/1879- Michigan Air Line Ry President 1902-06 12/80 General Superintendent Division General Manager 1880-81 SPIES, Frank Albert # 12/1880-7/81 Director 1889-1902 Born Apr. 28, 1865, 3rd Vice President 7/1881- Vice President 1891-95 Menominee 12/82 Detroit, Grand Haven & Died 1935 2nd Vice President Milwaukee ---- 12/1882-11/84 Director 1883-1902 Menominee Electric Light Ry & Vice President 11/1884- General Manager 1884-89 Power 12/87 Chicago & Grand Trunk Director 1902-03 President 12/1887-12/88 General Manager 1884-95 Menominee & Marinette Light Milwaukee & Northern Director 1886-1900 & Traction Director 1891-92 Vice President 1895-97 First Director, Director Elgin,, Joliet & Eastern Port Huron Tunnel Co. 1903-06 President 1893 First Director 1886 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon SPITZER, Adelbert Lorenzo # Director 1893-1906 Vice President, Director [Toledo] Southern Ry and subsidiary 1888-94 NatCyc, 11:277-78 roads Cincinnati, Saginaw & Born Aug. 15, 1852, Medina, President 6/1894-(1901) Mackinaw Ohio Director 1890-97 Cousin of Ceilan M. Spitzer SPICER, Pratt A. [Marshall] Detroit Belt RR 1872 bank clerk Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 205 Founder and director several Michigan Ry Director 1879-81 Ohio banks Vice President, Director New York, Chicago & St. Louis 1911 co-founder of bank 1914 General Freight Agent Died Dec. 5, 1933, Toledo 8/1882-(1901) ---- SPRAGUE, Rufus M. Jackson & Battle Creek [Greenville] SPRINGER, James Dallas Traction Born c.1866 [Minneapolis] Director 1903-05 Died Nov. 1933, Traverse City; BiogRy1893, 350 Vice President 1903-04 buried Greenville Born Aug. 14, 1844, ---- Gettysburg, Pa. SPITZER, Ceilan Milo # Paris & Pere Marquette River ---- [Toledo] Acting General Manager Minneapolis & St. Louis NatCyc, 11:276-77 1888 General Solicitor 1881- Born Nov. 2, 1849, Batavia, N. 11/89 Y. SPRAGUE, Thomas S. Vice President 1886-11/89 Cousin of Adelbert L. Spitzer [Saginaw] Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault 1851 family to Medina, Ohio “editor and printer” Ste. Marie 1871 into banking with his In Civil War Attorney 1888 father ---- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 1911 co-founder of bank Grand Rapids Street Asst. to President 11/1889- ---- Investor 1864 90 Jackson & Battle Creek Saginaw Street 3rd Vice President 1890- Traction First Director 1864 4/93 Director, President 1903-04 Chicago Elevated Terminal Ry SPRIGGS, Alexander R. General Counsel 4/1893- SPITZER, Jeremiah W. [Charles City, Ia.] (93) [Centreville] Born 1847, in Pennsylvania Born c.1826, N. Y. state ---- SPRY, John C. [Sault Ste. Marie] Dry goods merchant Sault Ste. Marie & Chicago lumberman Died c.1896, Centreville Southwestern ---- ---- First Director 1885 St. Marys Falls Toledo & South Haven/S First Director 1887 First Director 1876 SPRIGGS, George Burdett [Hamilton, Ont.] SQUIER, Heber [Grand Haven] SPOONER, Samuel Hammond Pennington, 195-98; Born Mar.23, 1823, Erie Co., N. [Chicago] BiogRy1893, 350; Y. ---- BiogRy1901, 515 Tug boat operator and ship Bay City & Battle Creek Born Nov. 1834, England repair contractor Director 1889 1862 to Hamilton, Ont. Died Nov. 10, 1883, Battle Creek & Sturgis ---- Philadelphia; burial Grand Director 1889 Various English roads Haven Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis Clerk 1852-62 ---- First Director 1889 Great Western Ry Canada Michigan Lake Shore Indiana Block Coal Agent 1862-?? First Director 1869 Secretary 1893 General Freight Agent ??- Evansville, Terre Haute & 1870 SQUIER, Wilbur P. # Chicago General Traffic Manager Born Apr. 1854, Indiana Secretary 1892-93 1877-8/82 by 1880 to South Haven, RR Baltimore & Ohio telegrapher SPRAGUE, George, Jr. # [New Asst. General Freight Agent by 1899 to Paw Paw York City] 1871-77 1910 East Jordan bank Born July 28, 1886 Detroit, Grand Haven & president ---- Milwaukee ---- 206 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) South Haven & Eastern [Paw STAFFORD, H. P. # [Marquette] (May be Born Mar. 29, 1859, Paw] Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Morenci; Died May 23, 1951) Auditor 1899-1901 Asst. Superintendent 1908 1907 became co-owner of Director 1902 Detroit Free Press Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & STAFFORD, William [Stafford] ---- Columbus Lake George & Muskegon Detroit & River St. Clair Director 1902 River First Director 1895 Michigan Shore & Eastern First Director, Director [Paw Paw] 1876-78 STALEY, John First Director 1903 General Superintendent PortraitNMich, 365-66 Detroit & Charlevoix [East 1877-78 Born Aug. 2, 1844, Columbia Jordan] Co., Pa. Auditor 1906-10 STAGE, Robert F. 1868 to Tuscola Co., eventually Born Aug. 27, 1806, Genesee county office SQUIRE, Frank O. # [Boston] Co., N. Y. 1887 to Grayling, est. Grayling Detroit, Hillsdale & South “Early settler in Flint” Exchange Bank Western Died Aug. 11, 1847, Flint Died Sept. 13, 1924 Director 1892-1901 ---- ---- Saginaw & Genesee Grand Rapids, Grayling & STACK, John King # [Escanaba] Commissioner 1837 Alpena Born Mar. 18, 1847, Listowel, First Director Ireland STAGER, Anson [Chicago] 1891[Grayling] Died Sept. 1, 1920, Escanaba HerrNL, 5:308-09 ---- Born Apr. 20, 1825, Ontario STALEY, N. F. # [Boyne City] Escanaba Electric Street Co., N. Y. Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena First Director 1892 became Gen. Supt, Western Mechanical Superintendent Director 1902-08 Union 1915 Treasurer 1902-07 Organized military telegraph President 1908 during Civil War STALKER, George H. # General Manager 1908 1869 to Chicago [Detroit] Escanaba Traction Died Mar. 26, 1885, Chicago BiogRy1901, 516 Director, President 1909-17 ---- Born Feb. 16, 1856, South General Manager 1909 Chicago & North Western Milford, Yorkshire, Engl. Director 6/1881-3/85 ---- STACKPOLE, J. (for Joseph) Michigan Central Manistique Lewis # [Boston] Director 1878-84 Auditor 1889-1907 Born Mar. 28, 1838, Boston Director 1893-1911 1857 graduated Harvard Univ., STAHL, Jacob # [Lansing] Secretary 1908-11 1859 law school Turner, 667-68; Alpena & Northern 1861-65 in Civil War PortraitIngLiv, 419-20 Auditor 1893-94 Died Jan. 2, 1904, Boston Born Aug. 23, 1845, Germany ---- 1867 to Cleveland, machinist STALKER, John Nellis # Flint & Pere Marquette 1871 to Amherst, Ohio, [Detroit] Director 1888-97 hardware store WhosWhoFB, 646 Marquette, Houghton & 1881 to Lansing, owned 2 Born May 20, 1881, Mt. Ontonagon hardware stores Clemens Director 1879-85 ---- 1916 vice pres. Union Trust Secretary, Treasurer Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Co. 1879-82 First Director 1897 Died Oct. 5, 1959, St. President 1885 Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Petersburg, Fla. Marquette & Western First Director 1900 ---- Director 1885 Traverse City, Leelanau & STAIR, Edward D. Manistique Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 207 Secretary, Director 1914-17 STANLEY, F. D. Born c.1849, in Mich. Benzie Co. surveyor Died Oct. 10, 1925, Chicago STANARD, David [Bloomfield ---- ---- Twp., Oakland Co.] Frankfort & South Eastern Rapid River & Eastern c1820 to Bloomfield Twp., inn First Director 1885 First Director 1892 keeper ---- STANLEY, George S. # STANNARD, Linus [Rockland] Detroit & Pontiac Born June 30, 1858, Chester, NPMemorial, 464-65; HistUP, Commissioner 1834 England 545 ?? to Columbiaville Born June 19, 1840, Conn. STANFIELD, Thomas Stilwell 1891 to Cadillac, bought 1861 to Rockland, general [South Bend] newspaper store HistSJIN, 509-12; SouthBend, Mayor of Cadillac 1901-02 Died Mar. 1, 1908, Rockland 87 1911 to Muskegon, bought ---- Born Oct. 17, 1816, Logan Co., Muskegon Times Ontonagon, Gogebic & Ohio ---- Wisconsin 1830 family to Cass Co. Cadillac Traction First Director 1882 1831 family to South Bend, First Director 1903 farming STANSELL, Arthur D. # Attorney; judge STANLEY, Louis Crandall # [Detroit] 1882 first pres. South Bend [Detroit] BkDet, 460 Electric Co. BkDet, 425 Born Mar. 8, 1876, Detroit Died Sept. 12, 1885, South Born Nov. 9, 1855, 1899 graduated Univ. Mich, Bend Washington, D. C. 1902 law school ---- 1864 family to Detroit Attorney Northern Indiana 1877 began law practice in 1911 secy., treas. Bellevue Built line between South Detroit Furnace Co. Bend and White Pigeon Died c.1936 Died July 15, 1961; buried Chicago & Grand Trunk ---- Nashville Director 1880-85 Grand Trunk Ry ---- Attorney 1877-1900 Marlborough STANLEY, Albert H. # [Detroit] Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon First Director 1906 Born Nov. 8, 1874, England Director 1888-92 Named Lord Ashfield Grand Trunk Western STANTON, Abram A. [Oxford] Died Nov. 4, 1948 Attorney 1908-11 Born Jan. 7, 1818, New Lisbon, ---- Chicago, Detroit & Canada N. Y. Detroit United Grand Trunk Jct. Died Apr. 3, 1889, Oxford General Superintendent Attorney 1912-16 ---- 1902-03 Detroit & Huron Detroit & Bay City Public Service Corp. of New Director 1914-17 First Director 1871 Jersey Detroit, Grand Haven & Pontiac & Oxford General Manager Milwaukee First Director 1879 London Underground (subway Attorney 1910-11 system) Director 1917 STANTON, E. [Grand Rapids] Director, General Manager Grand Rapids Terminal Lake Shore & Michigan 1909 Attorney 1909-10 Southern Director 1909-17 Div. Superintendent 1897- STANLEY, C. F. # [Benton Michigan Air Line Ry 98 Harbor] Attorney 1908-11 Benton Harbor-St. Joe Ry & Pontiac, Oxford & Northern STANTON, Erastus Hamilton Light Director 1910-16 MichBiog, 2:319; ABH-1,5:116; General Ticket Agent HistIonMont, 163-67 STANMOUR, John B. [Chicago] Born Nov. 13, 1816, Durham, 208 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) N. Y. First Director, Director STARBUCK, Raymond Donald c.1858 to Rockton, Ill. 1879-81 # 1867 to Ionia, manufacturing, Born July 26, 1878, Fort Ann, banking STANTON, Lovett W. [Pontiac] N. Y. State senator 1881-82 Born Dec. 27, 1830, Italy Hill, 1901 graduated Cornell Univ. Died May 8, 1886, Ionia Yates Co., N. Y. Died Aug. 16, 1965 ---- Brother-in-law of John T. ---- Ionia & Stanton Stanton Michigan Central [Detroit] First Director 1869 1852 to Genesee Co. Asst. Engineer 1902-?? [Sheridan] 1862 to Oxford, hotel business Division Engineer Grand Rapids & Bay City 1877 to Pontiac, sheriff Asst. Chief Engineer 1905- First Director 1871 No date to Oxford 06 Ionia, Stanton & Northern 1884 founder of bank New York Central & Hudson First Director 1872 [Ionia] Died Jan. 22, 1899, Oxford River ---- Special Engineer 1912-13 STANTON, Frank McMillan # Oxford & Port Austin New York Central [New York [Atlantic] First Director 1879 City] BiogHBM, 51-53; Pontiac & Oxford Engineering Dept. MenProgress, 276 First Director 1879 Vice President 1924-?? Born May 23, 1865, New York Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Executive Vice President City First Director, Director 1932-?? 1887 graduated Columbia Coll. 1879-81 Director 1940-47 School of Mines Toledo & Saginaw Bay 1887 to Atlantic Mine First Director 1881 STARK, Gilbert M. # [Saginaw] Father one of founders of HistMich/SagLen, 3:177-78 Atlantic Mine STANWOOD, Frederic # Born Aug. 28, 1853, Clinton Co. ---- [Boston] 1875 graduated Univ. Mich. Copper Range Copper Range law school Director 1901-12 First Director, Director Mayor of Saginaw 18991917 ---- STANTON, John # [Marquette] Secretary, Treasurer 1899- Saginaw Valley Traction Marquette, Negaunee & 1917 Director 1902-07 Ishpeming Interurban Cincinnati, Saginaw & First Director 1907 STANWOOD, Henry Perkins Mackinaw Born July 18, 1832, Hopkinton, Director 1894-97 STANTON, John T. [Oxford] N. H. Director 1910-(22) Born c.Aug. 1820, New York 1869 to Chicago Vice President 1913-(22) state 1873 to San Franciso Brother-in-law of Lovett W. 1883 to New York City, agent STARK, James Landon (Jr.?) Stanton for fast freight line [Chicago] Died July 29, 1882, Oxford 1886 to San Francisco Born Feb. 6, 1823, South ---- Died July 11, 1888, San Halifax, Vt. Detroit & Bay City Francisco Vt. state senator 1858 First Director 1871 ---- 1859 toChicago, attorney Lapeer & Holly Chicago & North Western Died Feb, 17, 1873, Chicago First Director 1872 Various work 1866-69 ---- Lapeer & Port Austin General Ticket Agent 1869 Northern Iron RR First Director 1872 [Chicago] First Director 1862 Toledo & Port Austin General Passenger Agent Lakes Superior & Michigan Air First Director 1879 1869-72 Line Oxford & Port Austin General Western Agent First Director 1864 First Director 1879 1873-77 [San Francisco] Peninsula Branch Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin First Director 1865 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 209 17 Ind.] STARKE, Arthur # [New York Brother of Martin V. Starr City] STARKE, Robert H. # [Arcadia] 1883 to Goshen, Ind., publish (also missp. STARKS) Born c.1890 newspaper ---- Son of Charles J. Starke ---- Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Died 1981, Arcadia Canada & St. Louis Secretary 1902-05 ---- Receiver 1889 Arcadia & Betsey River St. Joseph Valley STARKE, Charles J. # [Arcadia] Auditor 1915-17 First Director 1889 Born 1864, Wisconsin Adopted son of Henry Starke; STARKWEATHER, George STAYNER, George H. [New father of Robert Starke Anson # [Plymouth] York City] Lumberman MichBiog, 2:320 Brokerage firm partner of Died 1933, Arcadia Born Feb. 20 or 26, 1826, Henry S. Ives ---- Plymouth Tried for grand larceny in Arcadia & Betsey River State representative 1859-60 Sept. 1889; acquitted Secretary, Treasurer Pres. First Natl. Bank ---- 1895-98 Died Feb. 7, 1907 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Director 1895-1917 ---- Control of road 1886-87 Traffic Manager 1896-97, Detroit & Howell Mineral Range 1902-07 First Director 1864 President, Director 1885-86 President 1900-1917 Hancock & Calumet General Manager 1900-1917 STARR, Henry C. # Director 1886 General Freight Agent 1900- Died June 6, 1923; burial Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan 01 Richmond, Ind. Director 1887 Traffic Manager 1902-07 ---- Gogebic & Montreal River STEARNS, A. A. [Fruitport] STARKE, Henry [Arcadia] [Chicago] Fruitport & Lake Shore Born c.1828, Hanover, Vice President, Director First Director 1870 Germany 1906-09 Husband of Maria Starke; Wisconsin Central STEARNS, Edward H. # father of Charles J. Starke Vice President, Director [Chicago] Harbor contractor in 1906-09 Attorney Milwaukee Chicago, Cincinnati & ---- 1880 to Arcadia, lumberman Louisville [Richmond, Ind.] Aurora, DeKalb & Rockford Died 1898, Arcadia General Counsel 1906-09 Director 1909 ---- Chesapeake & Ohio of Indiana Port Huron Southern Arcadia & Betsey River Train Vice President 1910 Secretary, Director 1910-16 First Director 1883 Chesapeake & Ohio Arcadia & Betsey River [Indianapolis] STEARNS, Justus Smith # President, Director 1895-97 Asst. General Counsel 1916- [Ludington] General Manager 1895-97 19 MichBiog, 2:320; Powers, 3:1311-14; STARKE, (Eleonora) Maria STARR, Martin V. [Goshen, BiogRep, 2:367-69 (nee Behrens) # [Arcadia] Ind.] Born April 10, 1845, Pomfret, Born c.1836, Hanover, Brother of Thomas A. Starr N.Y. Germany 1883 to Goshen, Ind., publish Father of Robert L. Stearns Wife of Henry Starke newspaper c.1876 to Ludington, store 1880 to Arcadia ---- clerk Died 1929, Arcadia St. Joseph Valley 1882 began lumber mill in ---- First Director 1889 Lake Co.; eventually owned Arcadia & Betsey River two mills in Wisc. Director 1895-1910, 1912- STARR, Thomas A. [Goshen, Mich. Secy. of State 1899-1901 210 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Died Feb. 14, 1933, Ludington ABH, 2:part6:69-70; CycMich, ---- STEBBINS, Francis Ranna 246-48; PortraitCliShi, Traverse City & Leelanau [Adrian] 191-93; PastClint, 2:60-64 First Director 1900 ABH-1,2:66-67; MPHC, Born Oct. 21, 1833, Craftsbury, Ludington & Northern 22:214-17 Vt. Director 1902-17 Born Oct. 26, 1818, 1856 to St. Johns, RR President 1902-08, 1912-17 Williamstown, Vt. contractor 1837 to Palmyra, cabinet Village pres. 1862 STEARNS, Robert Lyon # maker 1862 started as contractor on [Ludington] Died Sept. 29, 1892, Adrian Western RRs Powers, 3:1314 ---- 1867-68 built Burlington, Ia Born Mar. 14, 1872, Conneaut, Adrian & Detroit depot for James F. Joy Ohio Vice President 1872 Died Nov. 15, 1897 Son of Justus S. Stearns Director 1876-77 ---- Died Nov. 2, 1939, Tucson, Adrian & State Line Detroit & Milwaukee Ariz. Director 1874-79 Contractor 1856 ---- Grand Trunk Ry Ludington & Northern STEBBINS, L. [Lawrence] Contractor Detroit-Port Director 1902-17 Toledo & South Haven Huron line 1859 Treasurer 1902-08, 1912-17 First Director 1876 Lansing, St. Johns & Mackinac President 1909 First Director 1869 Secretary 1912-17 STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence Lansing & St. Johns # [New York City] First Director 1871 STEARNS, William A. [Ionia] Born Oct. 8, 1833, Hartford, Died Sept. 19, 1897, Saranac Conn. STEELE, Charles # [New York ---- Died 1908 City] Ionia & Stanton ---- NatCyc, Supl 1:78 First Director 1869 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Born May 5, 1857, Baltimore, Michigan Md. STEARNS, William D. # Director 1895 1878 graduated Univ. of Va. BiogRy1901, 517 1880 admitted to N. Y. bar Born Aug. 1864 STEDWELL, Chauncey J. Long involvement with Erie ---- BiogRy1893, 352 RR and predecessors Chicago & West Michigan Born June 6, 1853, Greenwich, 1899 joined J. P Morgan & Co. Telegraph Operator 1878-82 Ohio Director many companies Missouri, Kansas & Texas by 1880 to Cleveland Died Aug. 5, 1939, Long Island, Various work 1883-?? 1892 to Wabash, Ind. N. Y. Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City later to Calif. ---- Various work no dates Died 1908 in California; buried Detroit & Mackinac Illinois Central Conneaut, Ohio Director 6/1900-6/02 Various work ??-1890 ---- Pere Marquette Michigan & Mackinaw Cleveland, Columbus, Director 1906-10 [Toledo] Cincinnati & Indiana First Director 1891 Various work 1867-91 STEELE, Frederick Morgan # Cincinnati, Jackson & [Cleveland] [Chicago] Mackinaw [Toledo] Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan DSA, 636; BkChi, 547; NatCyc, Superintendent Telegraph [Wabash, Ind.] 147-48 1890-94 Div. Superintendent [M] Born Nov. 27, 1851, Albany, N. Cincinnati Northern 1892-1/93 Y. Various work 1894-99 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 1869 in Marquette with Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Various work unknown railroad [Marshall] 1873 cashier Citizens State Trainmaster 1899-1902 STEEL, Robert M. [St. Johns] Bank, Marquette Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 211 1879 to Chicago Born June 5, 1829, business Organized Chicago Forge & Dufftown,Scotland 1861 to Almont, store Bolt, American Bridge 1850 to Canada, in textile Stationmaster on underground Works, Standard Forging Co. business railroad Died June 1932, Chicago 1860s into railroad business 1868 began buying pine lands; ---- 1876-81 pres. Bank of soon into logging Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Montreal Died Feb. 22, 1884, Mission Columbus 1881 San Jose, Calif. First Director, Director 1891 made baron ---- 1897-1902 Died Nov. 29, 1921, Welwyn, Romeo & Almont President 1902 Hertfordshire, England First Director 1870 South Haven & Eastern ---- Detroit & Saginaw River Director 1901-02 Chicago, Detroit & Canada First Director 1871 Treasurer 1901 Grand Trunk Jct. President 1902 Director 1872-76 STEPHENS, Henry (Jr.) Michigan Shore & Eastern Canadian Pacific [Detroit] First Director 1903 President 1881-88 Son of Henry Stephens Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic ---- STEELE, W. W. # [Detroit] Director 1888-90 Iron Range & Huron Bay Ionia & Owosso Director 1895-97 First Director 1903 STEPHENS, Albert Leete # Dayton & Kenton [Detroit] STEPHENS, William C. Director 1904 BkDet, 427; HistMich1915, Great Western Ry Canada 2:709-10 Secretary 1853-(63) STEIN, Charles Born Nov. 11, 1857, Romeo Detroit & Milwaukee Lake Shore & Michigan Son of Henry Stephens Secretary 1862-65 Southern [Hillsdale] Investor in and officer of many Roadmaster 1884-87 companies STEPHENSON, Burnette F. # Toledo, Ann Arbor & North ---- [Detroit] Michigan [Owosso] Iron Range & Huron Bay Highland Park & Royal Oak Superintendent Roadway President, Director 1895-97 First Director 1916 1891 Grand Rapids, Holland & General Superintendent ??- Chicago STEPHENSON, Charles D. [Paw 12/1894 First Director, Director Paw] 1904-09 Paw Paw Valley STENNETT, William H. First Director 1869 [Chicago] STEPHENS, Augustus C. Paw Paw BiogRy1893, 352; Detroit & Pontiac Secretary 1871 BiogRy1901, 518 Commissioner 1834 Acting Superintendent 1871 (Poss. born Aug. 29, 1835, Keswick Lake, Ont.) STEPHENS, Clarence M. # [Mt. STEPHENSON, Edward Francis Died July 22, 1915, Oak Park, Clemens] # [New York City] Ill. Alpena, Gaylord & Western BiogRy1922, 595 ---- First Director 1901 Born July 19, 1868, Chicago & North Western Philadelphia, Pa. General Passenger Agent STEPHENS, Henry [Almont] ---- 1873-10/84 HistMich1915, 2:708-09 New York, West Shore & Asst. General Manager Born Mar. 14, 1823, Dublin, Buffalo 10/1884-8/87 Ireland Various work 5/1885-11/90 Auditor of Expenditures father of Albert L. and Henry New York Central & Hudson 8/1887-1915 (Jr.) Stephens River 1844 to Romeo, owned store Secretary’s office 11/1890- STEPHEN, George [Montreal] 1856 to Detroit, hardware 5/1909 212 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Asst. Secretary 5/1909- Stephenson; 1846 to Delta Co., w/Wm. 12/14 brother of S. M. Stephenson Holmes in logging Lake Shore & Michigan 1858 to Marinette, Wisc. 1858 to Menominee, prtnr w/ Southern Wisc. Legislature 1866-68 Abner Kirby - logging Asst. Secretary 5/1900- U. S. Representative (from State representative 1877-80, 12/14 Wisc.) 1883-89 1885-86; Michigan Central 1889 back into lumber U.S. Representative 1889-96 Asst. Secretary 5/1900-2/20 business also involved in lumbering in Secretary 2/1920-(22) U. S. Senator (from Wisc.) South and West Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 1907-15 Died July 31, 1907, & St. Louis Died Mar. 15, 1918, Marinette, Menominee Asst. Secretary 6/1911-2/20 Wisc. ---- Secretary 2/1920-(22) ---- Ingalls, White Rapids & New York Central Escanaba & Lake Superior Northern Ry Asst. Secretary 1/1915-2/20 First Director, Director First Director 1886 Secretary 2/1920-(22) 1900-17 Menominee Street Rutland RR President 1900-17 First Director 1888 Secretary 2/1920-(22) Menominee & St. Paul Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo STEPHENSON, Isaac Watson # First Director 1899 Secretary 2/1920-(22) [Marinette, Wisc.] Menominee Electric Light Ry & Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Born Aug. 1, 1877, Marinette Power Secretary 2/1920-(22) Son of Isaac Stephenson Director, Vice President (1829-1918) 1902-03 STEPHENSON, George H. # Died July 18, 1910, Marinette Menominee & Marinette Light [Philadelphia] ---- & Traction Michigan Ry & Light Escanaba & Lake Superior First Director, Director First Director 1905 Director 1906-10 1903-06 Secretary 1908-09 Vice President 1903-06 STEPHENSON, Grant T. # [Wells] STEPHENSON, Jackson # STEPHENSON, Thomas H. Born June 22, 1885, Marinette, [Gladstone] [Paw Paw] Wisc. Born July 28, 1863 1865 co-founder First Natl. Son of Isaac Stephenson Died Oct. 29, 1939, Gladstone Bank Nephew of Samuel M. ---- 1867 first pres. of village Stephenson Garden Bay ---- Died Jan. 29, 1951, Calif. Secretary, Director 1916-17 Lawton, Paw Paw & South ---- Haven Escanaba & Lake Superior STEPHENSON, M. L. First Director 1868 Director 1908-17 Lake George & Muskegon Paw Paw Valley Escanaba & Lake Superior River First Director 1869 Secretary 1910-17 Attorney 1878-80 Paw Paw Treasurer, Secretary 1871 STEPHENSON, Isaac # STEPHENSON, Samuel Merritt [Marinette, Wisc.] # [Menominee] STERLING, Azariah Whittlesey NPMemorial, 239-40; HerrNL, HistNP, 2:673-76; MichBiog, Born June 29, 1797, Ontario 5:330; CongBiog; 2:322; CongBiog; Co., Mass. Isaac Stephenson, HerrNL, 5:330; BiogRep, c.1830 to Romeo, farmer Recollections of a Long 2:372-73 Died Feb. 27, 1876, Romeo Life: 1829-1915, Born Dec. 23, 1831, Hartland, ---- Chicago:author, 1915 Carleton Co., New Brunswick Romeo & Mt. Clemens Born June 18, 1829, Brother of Isaac Stephenson Commissioner 1833 Fredericton, New Brunswick Uncle of Grant T. and Isaac W. Father of Grant T. and Isaac W. Stephenson STERLING, J. M. [Grand Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 213 Rapids] Born Feb. 9, 1856, Jackson Co., 1857 to Bay City, lumbering Chicago & West Michigan Ohio 1860 pioneer in salt-making General Roadmaster 1886 Owned Superior Coal Co. State representative 1861-62 (Jackson, Ohio) Died Aug. 29, 1878, Bay City STERLING, John William # Died June 2, 1912, Jackson Co., ---- [New York City] Ohio Bay City & East Saginaw PPA, 2:211-13 ---- First Director 1864 Born May 12, 1844, Stratford, Ann Arbor Director 1872 Conn. Director 1906-09 1864 graduated Yale Dayton, Lebanon & Cincinnati STEVENS, Byron H. [New York 1867 graduated Columbia law President 1909-?? City] school Toledo, Ann Arbor & North c.1879 began to specialize in STETSON, Francis Lynde # Michigan railroad law [New York City] Director 1895 Represented Jay Gould and BiogRy1901, 518; James Fisk BiogRy1913, 515 STEVENS, B. Wendell [Charles Residence: Sterling House, Born Apr. 23, 1846, Keeseville, City, Ia.] Stratford N. Y. Sault Ste. Marie & Died July 5, 1918, Prov. 1869 graduated Columbia law Southwestern Quebec; buried in Stratford school First Director 1885 ---- 1883 became attorney for Marquette, Houghton & several railroads STEVENS, C. Ford # Ontonagon Died Dec. 5, 1920, New York [Philadelphia] Director 1888 City; burial Grand Rapids Ry Marquette & Western Williamstown, Mass. Asst. Secretary 1902 Director 1888 ---- Saginaw-Bay Ry & Light Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Southern Ry Director 1904 Director 1888-1917 General Counsel 6/1894- (1916) STEVENS, Edward F. # STERLING, Joseph Marvin Detroit & Mackinac [Benton Harbor] [Monroe] General Counsel 4/1895- West Michigan Ry HistMonr2, 2:822-26 (1913) First Director 1905 Born Aug. 16, 1818, Adams, N. Erie RR Y. General Counsel 12/1895- STEVENS, Ezra [Laketon Twp] Brother of William C. Sterling (1916) Born c.1827 1835 to Monroe Northern Pacific 1848 to Muskegon Mayor, Monroe, 1862-63 General Counsel 7/1896- Died Jan. 9, 1869, Muskegon Died May 18, 1891, Monroe (1916) ---- ---- Muskegon & Ferrysburg Detroit, Monroe & Toledo STEUDELL, Curtis W. # First Director 1868 First Director 1855 Michigan Central Traction First President 1902 STEVENS, Fitz Edward [Paw STERLING, William Ca(l)dwell Paw] Born June 30, 1816, Sterling STEVENS, Adolph [Milwaukee] Born 1840 City, Conn. Mecosta Died 1912, Redding, Mass. Brother of Joseph M. Sterling Director 1885 ---- Died July 12, 1848, Monroe Paw Paw ---- STEVENS, Appleton Director 1884-85 Michigan Southern [Portsmouth Twp] Kalamazoo, Paw Paw & Lake Incorporator 1846 MichBiog, 2:323; HistBay1, Michigan 117 First Director 1885 STERNBERGER, Morris L. # Born Aug. 17, 1818, Moodus, [Jackson, Ohio] Conn. STEVENS, Fitz Henry [Paw 214 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Paw] Surphur Springs, W. Va. MichBiog, 2:323 ---- STEVENS, John Frank # Born May 27, 1817, Baltimore & Ohio BkChi, 549; BiogRy1901, 519; Tyngsboro, Mass Various work 2/1864-2/70 BiogRy1913, 516 1837 to Van Buren Co. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Born Apr. 25, 1853, West State senator 1853-4 Louis Gardiner, Me. Died Sept. 7, 1870, St. Joseph Various work 2/1870-9/73 Asst. Engr., City of Minneapolis ---- Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific 1874-76 Paw Paw Various work 9/1873-80 Isthmian Can 7/1905-5/07 First Director 1857 Div. Superintendent [Fort 5/1911 became pres. of his Chicago & Michigan Lake Wayne] 1881 own firm Shore Div. Superintendent [Peru, Died Jan. 2, 1943, Southern Commissioner 1869 Ind.] 1883-86 Pines, N. C. Asst. General ---- STEVENS, Fred W. [Grand Superintendent 1/1887-1/90 Sabine Pass & North Western Rapids] Chesapeake & Ohio Chief Engineer 1876-79 Grand Rapids & Mineral General Superintendent Denver & Rio Grande Springs 1/1890-7/91 Asst. Engineer 1879-80 First Director 1889 General Manager 7/1891- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 2/1900 Asst. Engineer 1880-82 STEVENS, Frederick W. [Grand President 2/1900-20 Canadian Pacific Rapids] Division Engineer 1882-86 Grand Rapids & Mineral STEVENS, George W. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Springs BiogRy1885, 231; 1st Asst. Engineer 1886 First Director 1889 BiogRy1893, 353; Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic BiogRy1901, 519 1st Asst. Engineer 1887-89 STEVENS, Frederick Waeir # Born July 27, 1847, Concord, Spokane Falls & Northern [Detroit, 1910 N Y C] N.H. Asst. Engineer 1889 BkDet, 429 ---- Great Northern Born May 24, 1865, Clinton Lake Shore & Michigan Asst. Engineer 1889-95 1889 graduated Univ. of Mich. Southern Chief Engineer 1895-2/1903 Law school Engine service 1861-8/73 General Manager 6/1902- ---- Master Mechanic 8/1873- 2/03 Pere Marquette 12/83 [Cleveland] Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific General Attorney 1899-1900 Superintendent Motive Chief Engineer 3-8/1903 [Detroit] Power 1/1884-6/99 4th Vice President 8/1903- General Counsel 1901-04 4/04 General Solicitor 1905-08 STEVENS, Henry [Almont] 2nd Vice President 4/1904- Director 1908-17 Northern Michigan Ry 5/05 Pere Marquette International Commissioner 1869 New York, New Haven & Bridge Hartford First Director 1903 STEVENS, James E. [St. Joseph] Vice President 5/1907-5/09 Fort Street Union Depot Merchant 3 roads in Oregon Director 1907-09 ---- President 9/1909-5/11 Attorney 1909 Chicago & Michigan Grand Trunk STEVENS, Joseph F. STEVENS, George W. First Director 1865 [Ironwood] BiogRy1885, 231; St. Joseph River Ironwood & Hurley Street BiogRy1893, 353; HerrNL, First Director 1867 First Director 1886 5:335 Born June 29, 1851, Utica, STEVENS, Jesse E. STEVENS, Sherman Ohio St. Joseph Brother-in-law of Grant Died Nov. 3, 1920, White Commissioner 1850 Decker Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 215 ---- Secretary, Treasurer 1902- Pontiac & Genesee STEVENSON, Benjamin 03 Commissioner 1846 Clifford # Director 1903 Detroit & Pontiac BiogRy1913, 517 Promoter Born June 9, 1874, Lewis Co., STEVENSON, George H. # Ky. [Philadelphia] STEVENS, Sidney F. [Grand 1899 admitted to Ohio bar Owosso & Corunna Electric Rapids] ---- Director, President 1902-06 GrRapids, 2:358 Various roads Born July 7, 1847, Lynchburn, Clerk 1890-99 STEVENSON, John # [Detroit] Va. Toledo, St. Louis & Western Raisin River Nephew of Wilder D. Foster Traveling Freight Agent First Director 1900 1854 family to Grand Rapids 8/1900-10/03 Went into uncle’s hardware Commercial Agent 10/1903- STEVENSON, W. F. # [New business 5/04 [Buffalo] York City] ---- Commercial Agent 5/1904- Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Grand Rapids Belt Line 3/05 [Toledo] Director 1913-16 First Director 1891 Asst. General Freight Agent Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co. 3/1905-5/08 Director 1914-15 STEVENS, Thomas L. Toledo, St. Louis & Western - (May be TLS of Paw Paw or of Chicago & Alton STEVENSON, William H. Stevensville) Asst. Gen. Freight Agent [Fruitport] Chicago & Michigan Grand 5/1908-12/09 [Chicago] PortraitMuskOtt, 144-45 Trunk Asst. Freight Traffic Manager Born July 31, 1830, Elbridge, First Director 1865 12/1909-9/12 N. Y. Vice President 9/1912-(13) In Civil War STEVENS, William F. # Detroit & Toledo Shore Line 1869 to Fruitport, real estate [Saginaw] [Toledo] dealer Born 1853, Newboro, Ont. Director 1913-17 Died 1917; buried in Grand 1876 to Saginaw, owned saw Rapids mill STEVENSON, Elliott Grasette # ---- ---- [Detroit] Fruitport & Lake Shore Pontiac & Flint Electric BkDet, 431; CityDet, x:943 First Director 1870 First Director 1900 Born May 12, 1856, Middlesex Co., Canada STEWARD, John [New York STEVENS, William H. [Detroit] 1877 began law practice (?in City] Father of William P. Stevens Port Huron) Marquette, Houghton & ---- 1887 to Detroit, lawyer Ontonagon Union Street of Saginaw ---- Director 1873-78 First Director 1893 Toledo & Monroe Saginaw Consolidated Street First Director 1898 STEWART, Addison First Director 1894 Detroit, Utica & Romeo HistGen1, 323 Iron Range & Huron Bay First Director 1898 Born May 19, 1811, Truxton, Director 1895 Detroit Municipal Courtland Co., N. Y. First Director 1899 1833 to Flint, farmer STEVENS, William P.[Detroit] Interstate Died Mar. 8, 1848, Flint BkDet, 431-32 First Director 1900 ---- Born Sept. 19, 1871, Detroit Saginaw Suburban Genesee & Oakland Son of William H. Stevens Director 1902 Commissioner 1848 1893 graduated Yale Univ. ---- STEVENSON, F. B. # STEWART, C. D. # [Port Saginaw Consolidated Street [Philadelphia] Huron] First Director 1894 Owosso & Corunna Electric Port Huron Southern 216 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Superintendent 1905-16 Born Aug. 26, 1822, New York Newburyport, Mass. City Died Jan. 7, 1852, Toledo STEWART, C. H. # 1853 first Secy. U. S. Trust Co.; ---- Detroit & Port Huron Shore 1865 pres. Erie & Kalamazoo Line Died Dec. 17, 1926, New York Commissioner 1833 Treasurer 1902 City ---- STIFF, Charles [Hamilton, Ont.] STEWART, Charles D. # Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul BiogRy1885, 232 [Owosso] Director 9/1903-21 Born Nov. 5, 1840, West Ann Arbor Derby, Lancashire, England Director 1901 STEWART, L. M. # [Port Died Apr. 28, 1914, Hamilton, Huron] Ont. STEWART, David [New York Port Huron Southern ---- City] Auditor 1914-16 Great Western Ry Canada Lake Superior Iron Mountain Various work 8/1861-3/76 First Director 1862 STEWART, Nathaniel Superintendent 3/1876- Detroit & State Line Hammond # [Detroit] 4/82 First Director 1872 HistMich1915, 4:2056-58; Asst. Manager 4/1882-8/82 Toledo, Canada Southern & CompKal, 188-89 Grand Trunk Ry Canada Detroit Born July 20, 1847, Johnstown, Superintendent 8/1882-(93) Director 1873-75 N. Y. Detroit, Grand Haven & Chicago & Canada Southern 5/1868 to Kalamazoo, studied Milwaukee Director 1874-75 law Director 1879, 1882-92 3/1869 to Plainwell, worked STEWART, G. S. # at grain elevator STILLMAN, James # [New York Detroit & Port Huron Shore 1872 admitted to bar City] Line ---- PPA, 1:321-23 Secretary 1902 Michigan Central Born June 9, 1850, Local Attorney Wethersfield, Conn. STEWART, Jefferson Davis # Chicago & Grand Trunk 1868 to New York City [Louisville, Ky.] Local Attorney 1891 pres. Natl. City Bank Born June 14, 1868, Conyers, Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw (vice Percy R. Pyne) Ga. Director 1906-17 Died Mar. 15, 1918, New York Officer of Ohio Falls Car Co. Attorney 1908-11 City ---- ---- Benton Harbor-St. Joe Ry & STEWART, Nelson P. [Pontiac] Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Light Detroit & Pontiac Director 1890 Director 1913-17 President 1852-55 Chicago & North Western Louisville Ry Director 6/1895-1917 Director 1919 STEWART, William [Port Lake Shore & Michigan Huron] Southern STEWART, John [Owosso] HistStCl, 496-97 Director 1910-14 Born Mar. 15, 1825, Romulus Born Apr. 30, 1827, Michigan Central Twp., Seneca Co., N.Y. Ernestown, Frontenac Co. Director 1905-14 Partner with Thomas D. 1847 to Port Huron Dewey in flour mill Into hardware business STILLWELL, Daniel C. Died Apr. 13, 1895, Owosso Died Feb. 3, 1881, Port Huron [Jonesville] ---- ---- Supervisor, Fayette Twp. 1838 Northern Michigan Central Port Huron Ry ---- First Director 1881 First Director 1877 Jonesville Commissioner 1840 STEWART, John Aikman # STICKNEY, Benjamin Franklin [New York City] Born Apr. 1, 1773, STILLWELL, Wendell Hough # Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 217 BiogRy1901, 522; Monroe Co., N. Y. Indiana BiogRy1906, 575 1843 to Michigan Director 1901-11 Born Aug. 8, 1859, Kilbourn Kalamazoo Co. surveyor Traverse City City, Wisc. Died Dec. 14, 1888, Kalamazoo Director 1909-11 Died Mar. 28, 1922, Des ---- Moines, Iowa Michigam. Internal STIMSON, Willard Horace # ---- Improvement Born May 1854 Various roads “Axe man”-Central Son of Thomas D. Stimson; Various work 1876-87 Michigan Central brother of Charles D. Stimson Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Engineering Dept. ??-1852 Died 1929 Div. Superintendent 1887- Illinois Central ---- 5/92 Engineering Dept. no dates Big Rapids & Western Div. Superintendent 5/1892- Grand Rapids & Indiana [Muskegon] 8/96 [Des Moines] Division Engineer no dates First Director 1887 Asst. General Chief Engineer 1881-83 Superintendent 8/1896-5/99 STITES, Artemas S. [Jackson] General Superintendent 5- STIMSON, Thomas Douglas Jackson City 10/1899 [Chicago] First Director 1881 Superintendent-Lines West Born July 31, 1828, Fort 10/1899-5/01 Covington, N. Y. STIVEN, David L. # [Grand Superintendent-Lines East Father of Charles D. and Rapids] 5/1901-5/02 Willard H. Stimson Born 1832, Scotland Div. Superintendent 5- Died Jan. 31, 1898, Los Angeles Clay & pottery manufacturer 9/1902 [Des Moines[ ---- Died Nov. 16, 1916, Illinois Central Big Rapids & Western Kalamazoo; buried Grand Div. Superintendent 5- First Director 1887 Rapids 8/1903 ---- Pere Marquette [Saginaw] STIMSON, Warren Burlingame Grand River RR Div. Superintendent # [Grand Rapids] First Director 1891 10/1903-3/04 BiogRy1901, 522 Central Michigan Great Northern Born Oct. 24, 1848, Copley, Auditor, Director 1895-1901 Trainmaster 3-8/1904 Summit Co., Ohio Div. Superintendent 8- Died Dec. 24, ?1911, Grand STOCKBRIDGE, Francis Brown 12/1904 Rapids [Kalamazoo, Allegan] ---- MichBiog, 2:327; CycMich, 50- STIMSON, Charles Douglas # Grand Rapids & Indiana 51; HerrNL, 5:350; Born July 26, 1857, Newaygo Asst. Engineer 7/1871-76 BiogRep, 2:375-78 Co. Chicago & Alton Born April 9, 1826, Bath, Me. Son of Thomas D. Stimson; Asst. Engineer 1876-78 1847 to Chicago, owned brother of Willard H. Stimson Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific lumber yard No date to Chicago, managed Division Engineer 1878-80 1851 to Allegan Co. to run his lumber yard Marquette & Western saw mills 2/1899 to Washington Terr. Resident Engineer 1883-84 State representative 1869-70, Died Aug. 29, 1929, Seattle, Grand Rapids & Indiana State senator 1871-72 Wash. Asst. Engineer 1880-83 U. S. Senator 1887-94 ---- Roadmaster 1884-90 Died April 30, 1894, Chicago Big Rapids & Western Div. Superintendent [N] ---- [Muskegon] 1890-1905 Grand Rapids, Traverse Bay & First Director 1887 Asst. to General Manager Mackinac 1906-11 First Director 1856 STIMSON, Morris Montriville Asst. General Manager 1912- Grand Rapids & Indiana [Grand Rapids] 13 Director 1883-93 Born Nov. 13, 1822, Mendon, Muskegon, Grand Rapids & 218 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) STOCKTON, Elmer Ellsworth # Cleveland, Painesville & Director 1908-17 [Bayonne, N.J.] Ashtabula Born Nov. 15, 1863 Superintendent 1852 STONE, Charles H. [New York Died May 7, 1938 Cleveland, Columbus & City] ---- Cincinnati Pontiac & Southern Kalamazoo City & County President 1857-58 First Director 1883 First Director 1890 Chicago & Milwaukee Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Contractor 1858 Director 1886-88 STODDARD, William Cleveland, Painesville & General Manager 1887-88 [Litchfield] Ashtabula Pontiac, Oxford & Northern HistHill, 165-66; MichBiog, President 1858-69 Director 1889-91 2:330 Lake Shore & Michigan Born Aug. 17, 1821, Sheldon, Southern STONE, Charles M. # Wyoming Co., N. Y. Director 8/1869-11/82 [Cleveland] (maybe 1836 family to Hillsdale Co., Detroit, Monroe & Toledo same as Carlos M. Stone) farming Director 1872-82 Toledo & Western State representative 1857-58; President 1873-82 Director 1902-06 state senator 1871-73` Kalamazoo & White Pigeon President 1906 Died Aug. 14, 1873, Litchfield Director 1872-82 ---- Northern Central Michigan STONE, Farnam Chickering Jonesville, Marshall & Grand Director 1872-76 [East Saginaw] River CycMich, 140-41; HistSag, First Director 1867 STONE, Bradley C. [Belding] 2:12-13 Belding Street Born Nov. 17, 1836, STODDARD, William # First Director 1892 Waterbury, Vt. [Minneapolis] 9/1867 to Saginaw, co- Pontiac & Flint Electric STONE, Carlos M. # founder mercantile est. First Director 1900 [Cleveland] Also into lumbering with Saginaw Suburban (maybe same as Charles M. Ammi W. Wright Director 1902 Stone) Died Dec. 5, 1893, Saginaw Born Mar. 27, 1846, ---- STOFFER, Martin J. # [Capac] Strongsville, Ohio Ontonagon & Brule River Thumb Ry No date graduated Ohio State First Director 1880 First Director 1912 Univ. Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw 1869 admitted to bar Director 1889 STOKES, G. A. # [Port Huron] ---- Cincinnati, Saginaw & Grand Trunk Western Toledo, Adrian & Jackson Mackinaw Superintentdent of First Director 1900 Director 1890-92 Terminals 1916 STONE, Charles Augustus # STONE, George Frederick STONE, Amasa, Jr. [Cleveland] [Boston and New York City] [New York City] RRLeaders, 466-467; WhosWhoFB, 657 Born Jan. 29, 1836, New LS&MSHist., 309-315 Born Jan. 16, 1867, Newton, Haven, Conn. Born Apr. 27, 1818, Charlton, Mass. Died Jan. 7, 1895, Morristown, Mass. 1888 graduated Mass. Inst. N. J. Died May 11, 1883, Cleveland Tech. ---- ---- Principal in Stone & Webster, Cincinnati, Jackson & New Haven, Hartford & investment holding co. Mackinaw Springfield ---- Director 1887-89 Superintendent 1844 Houghton County Street Cleveland, Columbus & First Director 1899 STONE, George Preston Cincinnati Director 1900-07 [Ithaca] Superintendent 1849 Houghton County Traction BiogGrat, 45-50 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 219 Born Aug. 18, 1848, 1887 to Houghton, attorney Wheatland, Monroe Co., N. Y. 1890-1909 circuit court judge STONER, Wilbur L. [Goshen, 1855 family to Kent Co. 4/1909-3/22 Mich supreme Ind.] 1873 admitted to bar court justice Canada & St. Louis 1873 to Carson City, attorney Died Mar. 24, 1922, Lansing; General Counsel 1889 ---- buried, Marquette St. Joseph Valley Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis ---- First Director 1889 First Director 1897 Grand Rapids Transfer & Junction STORROW, James Jackson STONE, Henry Baldwin Secretary, Treasurer, [Boston] [Chicago] Director 1886 Born July 29, 1837, Boston Born Sept. 4, 1851, New Hancock & Calumet Died Apr. 15, 1897, Longwood, Bedford, Mass. Attorney 1887-90 Mass. 1890 named pres. Chicago [Houghton] ---- Telephone Co. Mineral Range Detroit, Hillsdale & South Died July 5, 1897, Nonquitt, Attorney 1887-90 Western Mass., fireworks Director 1875-78 ---- STONE, Nathaniel H. # [Milton, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Mass.] STORRS, Carlton L. [Grand Shops Dept. 1876-81 Houghton County Street Haven] General Superintendent Director 1902-07 Born Feb. 6, 1824, Westport, 1881-83 Houghton County Traction N. Y. Asst. General Manager 1883- Director 1908-09 1866 built sawmill in Grand 85 Haven General Manager 1885-89 STONE, ?? Died 1894 2nd Vice President 1889-97 Michigan, Internal ---- Flint & Pere Marquette Improvement Board Michigan Lake Shore Director 1892-97 Secretary 5/1842-4/1843 First Director 1869 Ohio & Grand Haven STONE, John Grover # STONE, William Buckley First Director, Director [Houghton] [Sheridan] 1872-73 Born Sept. 29, 1871, Allegan Born June 14, 1833, Pillar Michigan & Ohio Ry Son of John W. Stone; son-in- Point, N. Y. First Director, Director law of Daniel H. Ball Died Sept 9, 1898, Lansing 1873-79 Died May 21, 1939, Hancock ---- Treasurer 1874 ---- Ionia, Stanton & Northern Copper Range First Director 1872 STORRS, George [Kalamazoo] Attorney 1913-17 Lake Shore & Michigan STONE, William H. [Adrian] Southern STONE, John Wesley # Born Aug. 1827, N. Y. state Roadmaster 1884 NPMemorial, 195-98; HistNP, Banker 2:638-40; ABH, Died Sept. 1878, Adrian STORRS, Henry Stanton # 2:part5:119-20; MichBiog, ---- [Cleveland] 2:332; CongBiog; Adrian & State Line Born Feb. 22, 1849 HistMich1915, 3:1710-11; First Director 1871 Died Oct. 25, 1905, Cleveland BiogHBM, 273-77 Secretary 1872-73 ---- Born July 18, 1838, Lake Shore & Michigan Wadsworth, Ohio STONE, William R. [Duluth] Southern Father of John G. Stone Born Aug. 1827, Mass. state General Superintendent 1856 to Allegan, teacher, then Wholesale grocer 1903-04 attorney ---- 1874 to Grand Rapids, lawyer Ontonagon & Montreal River STORRS, Lucius Caryl [East 1877-81 U. S. Representative First Director 1880 Saginaw] 220 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Born June 10, 1837, Buffalo First Director 1866 STRATTON, Alice A. (nee 1861 in Civil War (12th N. Y. Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Bre(e)cher) # [Alpena] Vols.) First Director 1869 Wife of DeForest A. Stratton 2/1863 to Saginaw Toledo & Ann Arbor ---- Died Jan. 7, 1908; burial First Director, Director Onaway & North Michigan 187 Lansing Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Director 1901-02 ---- Trunk Flint & Pere Marquette First Director, Director 1880 STRATTON, DeForest Albert # Cashier 1882-83 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North [Onaway] Saginaw & Mt. Pleasant Michigan BiogNM, 709-10 Director 1886-87 First Director 1882 Husband of Alice A. Stratton ---- STOUT, Byron Gray [Pontiac] STOWELL, William A. [Sault Onaway & North Michigan MichBiog, 2:334; HerrNL, Ste. Marie] First Director, Director 5:364; CongBiog Sault Ste. Marie 1901-04 Born Jan. 12, 1829, Richmond, First Director 1887 Treasurer 1901-03 Ontario Co., N. Y. Superintendent 1901-04 1831 to Oakland Co. with STRADLEY, John G. [Sault Ste. family Marie] STRAY, George N. # 1851 graduated Univ. Mich. Sault Ste. Marie [Ludington] State representative 1855-58; First Director 1887 Powers, 3:1183-85 state senator 1861-62 Born Feb. 10, 1849, Evans, Erie 1891-93 U. S. Representative STRAIT, George S. Co., N. Y. 1893-96 pres. Oakland County South Lyons & Northern 3/1870 to Ludington Bank First Director 1890 w/Danaher & Melendy Died June 19, 1896, Pontiac 1877 bankruptcy trustee for ---- STRANG, P. # [Chicago] same co. St. Clair River, Pontiac & Wisconsin & Michigan 1882 bought bank; also w/H. Jackson Chief Engineer 1912 Butters First Director 1872 ---- St. Clair & Chicago Air Line STRATHCONA and MT. ROYAL, Mason & Oceana Director 1872-74 Lord # [London, England] Vice President 1890-94, Born SMITH, Donald 1900-09 STOVER, John R. # [AuSable] Alexander Director 1890-1909 AuSable & Northwestern Born Aug. 6, 1820, Forres, Ludington & Northern General Superintendent Morayshire, Scotland Director 1902-08 1901-02 1838 to Canada, clerk for Grand Rapids & North Hudson Bay Co.-- Western STOW, F. T. # [Detroit] stayed 75 years with First Director 1908 Delray Connecting company General Superintendent 1886 knighted STREETER, James B. [Allegan] 1916-17 1887 pres. Bank of Montreal Born July 4, 1829, Allegan 1896 to London, England, high ---- STOWELL, Joseph Alexander commissioner for Canada Allegan & Lake Shore [Dundee] Died Jan. 21, 1914, London, First Director, Director HistMonr1, 15 Engl. 1883-85 Born Mar. 5, 1810, Earlville, N. ---- Y. Canadian Pacific STREETER, William Henry c.1838 to Monroe Co. Director 1883-?? [Houghton] No date to Dundee Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Born Ohio Died Mar. 12, 1886, Dundee Director 1888-97 ---- ---- Director 1901-02 Mineral Range & L'Anse Bay Toledo, Ann Arbor & Saginaw First Director 1871 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 221 First Director 1891 [Chicago] STRICKLAND, George # BiogRy1885, 234 [Detroit] STROH, Julius # [Detroit] Born May 16, 1837, Detroit Southern Born 1856 Brownington, Vt. Cashier 1902 Brother of Emil Stroh Died 1914 Died 1939; buried Detroit ---- STRICKLAND, Randolph [St. ---- Various roads Johns] Hecla Belt Line Various work 3/1855-7/70 ABH, 2:part6:70-71; MichBiog, First Director, Director Burlington & Missouri River 2:336 1902-11 Asst. General Born Feb. 4, 1823, Dansville, N. President 1908-11 Superintendent 7/1870-11/72 Y. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy State senator 1861-62 STROHM, William # [Suttons Asst. General U. S. Representative 1869-71 Bay] Superintendent 11/1872-9/74 Died May 5, 1881, Battle Creek Born Nov. 1875. Michigan Central ---- ---- General Superintendent Lansing & St. Johns Leelanau Transit 9/1874-3/76 First Director 1871 First Director 1919 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy General Superintendent STRICKLAND, Samuel George STRONG, Alvah [Rochester, 3/1876-12/77 # [Chicago] N.Y.] Atchison,Topeka & Santa Fe BiogRy1922, 603-04 Born July 18, 1809, Scipio, N. Y. Vice President 12/1877- Born Aug. 15, 1859, Lakefield, Founded Rochester 8/81 Ont. newspaper General Manager 12/1877- ---- Founder of Univ. of Rochester 8/81 Various roads Died Apr. 20, 1885, Rochester, President 8/1881-9/89 Various work 1877-80 N. Y. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis ---- STROUP, Lawrence Kulp & Omaha Iron Mountain RR [Wapakoneta, Ohio] Various work 1880-1900 First Director 1855] Born 1836, Miffin Co., Pa Div. Superintendent 1900- Bay de Noquet & Marquette Died 1894, Wapakoneta 05 [Omaha] First Director 1856 ---- General Superintendent Columbus, Lima & Michigan 1905-08 [St. Paul] STRONG, Frank G. [Monroe] First Director 1889 Chicago & North Western Monroe, Dundee & Lake Erie Asst. General First Director 1896 STRUBEL, J. A. # [Detroit] Superintendent 1908-10 Ann Arbor General Superintendent STRONG, George W. Asst. General Manager 1908- 1910-4/12 HistMonr2, 1:527-29 09 Asst. General Manager Born Apr. 10, 1800, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton 4/1912-13 Glastonbury, Vt. Asst. General Manager 1908- General Manager 1914- 1831 to Monroe 10 3/20 Owned docks, port facilities, Asst. to Receiver 1911-14 ships STROH, Emil [Detroit] Mayor, Monroe, 1855 STRUBLE, Daniel # Born Sept. 23, 1862, Detroit Died Feb. 29, 1892, Monroe Born 1820, Pennsylvania Brother of Julius Stroh ---- Died Mar. 18, 1902, Vicksburg Owned Wolverine Portland Michigan Southern ---- Cement Co. Incorporator 1846 Schoolcraft & Three Rivers Died Mar. 14, 1939, Detroit; First Director, Director First Director 1855 buried Coldwater 5/1846-6/1847 ---- STRYKER, John Gratiot Avenue STRONG, William Barstow # Born Dec. 8, 1808, Orange, N. J. 222 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1829 admitted to bar Wabash Ingalls, White Rapids & N. Y. state assemblyman Director 1916-17 Northern RR c.1849 First Director 1889 Founder Rome Locomotive STUDWELL, William J. # [New Works York City] STURGIS, William Died Apr. 30, 1885, Rome, N. Y. Detroit & Chicago Traction Michigan Central ---- First Director 1901 Incorporator 1846 Michigan Southern First Director, Director Director 5/1849-4/1855 STURGES, Henry Hale 8/1846-8/1846 Northern Indiana [Mansfield, Oh.] President 1851 Born Dec. 1, 1835, Mansfield STURM, John J. # [Chicago] Michigan Southern & Northern Merchant South Haven & Paw Paw Lake Indiana Died Oct. 17, 1909, Mansfield Electric First Director, Director ---- First Director 1900 4/1855-9/57 Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan SUFFERN, A. J. # [East Jordan] STUART, Charles E. First Director 1870 East Jordan & Southern MichBiog, 2:338; CompKal, Asst. Treasurer 1872 Cashier 1905 208-09 Born Nov. 25, 1810, Canaan STURGES, S. B. [Mansfield, Oh.] SUHLKE, Herman A. # Corners, Columbia Co., N.Y. Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake [Wyandotte] 1835 to Kalamazoo, lawyer Michigan Wyandotte Southern State representative 1842 Director 1873-76 Director 1908-12 U. S. Representative 1847-9, 51-3; U. S. Senator 1853-9 STURGIS, Frank Knight [New SULLIVAN, Dr. Arthur George Died May 19, 1887, Kalamazoo York City] # [Madison, Wisc.] ---- PPA, 1:330-31 Born Feb. 27, 1885, Madison Kalamazoo & Lake Michigan Born Sept. 19, 1847, New York Son of Florance D. Sullivan Commissioner 1836 City Died Aug. 30, 1954, Madison Kalamazoo & Schoolcraft 1863 began as clerk in ---- First Director 1866 insurance co., then into Iron River, Stambaugh & Kalamazoo & Allegan banking firm Crystal Falls First Director 1867 1869 partner in his own First Director 1914 banking firm STUART, H. C. # [Traverse Died June 15, 1932 SULLIVAN, Florance David # City] ---- [Ashland, Wisc.] Traverse City, Leelanau & Marquette, Houghton & Born Dec.2, 1859, Ireland Manistique Ry Ontonagon Father of Arthur G. Sullivan General Manager 1914-17 Director 1887 Died Dec. 12, 1942. Dane Co., Wisc.; burial Eau Claire STUART, John [Coldwater] STURGIS, James B. [Houghton] ---- Lake Shore & Michigan HistUP, 286 Gogebic & Iron Counties Ry & Southern Born c.1843, Worcester, Md. Light Roadmaster 1884 1867 to Houghton First Director 1910 1871-78 county treasurer Director 1915 STUART, William V. # 1879 cashier, First Natl. Bank Iron River, Stambaugh & [Lafayette, Ind.] of Houghton Crystal Falls Born Nov. 1, 1857, Logansport ---- First Director 1914 1880 graduated Amherst Coll. Houghton & L'Anse c.1882 graduated Yale Law First Director 1881 SULLIVAN, Henry [Grand School Northern Michigan RR Rapids] Died May 31, 1922, Lafayette First Secretary, First Grand Rapids & Indiana ---- Treasurer 1888 Paymaster 1899 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 223 Commissioner 1834 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic SULLIVAN, J. C. # [Peru, Ind.] Asst. Superintendent Wabash SUMMERS, William [Utica, 1889-92, 1899-1906 Div. Superintendent 1905- N.Y.] Div. Superintendent 08 Mackinac & Lake Superior 1893-99 [Thomaston] First Director 1873 SULLIVAN, John Emmett # SUTHERLAND, David Smart # [Detroit] SUMNER, John [Jackson] [Detroit] Born c.1864 Born Mar. 17, 1812, in Maine BkDet, 437; BiogRy1901, 528; 1886 graduated Univ. of Mich. 1842 partner of Allen Bennett, BiogRy1913, 526 law school dry goods store Born Feb. 13, 1849, Detroit Attorney Vil. pres., Jackson, 1847-48, Died Dec. 17, 1913, Detroit Died Aug. 2, 1915, Detroit 1850-52 ---- ---- Died Oct. 15, 1855, Jackson Michigan Central Detroit & Dearborn Street ---- Various work 2/1864-1881 First Director 1891 Grand River Valley Trainmaster 1875-80 City & Suburban Traction Commissioner 1846 Div. Superintendent [E] First Director 1894 1880-8/1912 Michigan & Indiana SUMNER, Watson General Agent 8/1912-13 First Director 1898 Born May 29, 1794, Bethlehem, Pa. SUTHERLAND, Thomas [Fort SULLIVAN, James 1834 to Constantine, physician Gratiot] Howell & Lansing Died Feb. 3, 1847, Constantine HistStCl, 634 First Director 1868 ---- Born Dec. 31, 1832, Scotland Constantine & Niles 1858 to Fort Gratiot SULLIVAN, Maurice F. [New Commissioner 1836 ---- York City] Chicago, Detroit & Canada Chippewa Valley SUNNY, Bernard Edward Grand Trunk Jct. First Director 1888 [Chicago] Various work 1859-?? Born 1856 Foreman Car Dept. ??- SULLIVAN, S. F. [New York 1879 joined Chicago 1/1880 City] Telephone Co. Fort Gratiot & Lexington Marquette & Western 1891-1908 vice-pres. General First Director 1872 Director 1889 Electric Chicago & Grand Trunk 1913 pres. Chicago Telephone Foreman Car Dept 1/1880- SULLIVAN, Thomas G. # Co. 1/82 [Detroit] Died 1943 Master Car Builder 1884, 97 Ontonagon & Southwestern ---- First Director 1904 Citizens Street (Kalamazoo) SUTTON, Elmer S. B. # [Sault Detroit, Flint & Saginaw First Director 1893 Ste. Marie] Director 1904-07 HistNP, 2:872-74; HistUP, 227 Vice President 1906-07 SUTHERLAND, Alexander Born Mar. 20, 1854, (Lake) Marvin # Orion SULLIVAN, W. B. # [Grand BiogRy1901, 528 1876 admitted to bar Rapids] Born Apr. 2, 1844, Hartford, 1877 to Sault Ste. Marie, Grand Rapids & Indiana Conn. attorney Paymaster 1900-07 Died Oct. 16, 1937, Marquette Circuit judge Purchasing Agent 1906-08 ---- ---- Grand Trunk Ry Canada St. Ignace, Sault Ste. Marie & SUMMERS, Jacob A. Various work 1861-67 Northern 1837, pres. “wild-cat” bank Chicago & North Western First Director 1888 ---- Various work 1867-91 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Shelby & Detroit Roadmaster 1881-89 Ste. Marie 224 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Local Attorney ?-(1910) SWAYNE, Frank (for Francis) Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Bond [Toledo] Michigan SWAINE, Wager see SWAYNE, Born June 8, 1850, Columbus, Director 1873-74 John Wager Ohio Toledo & Milwaukee Brother of (John) Wager First Director, Director 1879 SWANSON, John K. # Swayne and Noah H. Swayne Secretary, Treasurer 1879 Michigan RR 1872 grad Yale Univ.; attorney First Director 1919 1895 to New York City; SWAYZE, Hiram D. # attorney [Kalamazoo, 1916 Lawton] SWARTHOUT, Anthony [Ovid] Died Sept. 18, 1928, Fort Born June 26, 1859, Ontario, Ovid & Traverse Bay Salonga, L. I., N. Y. Casnada First Director 1882 ---- Died Dec. 21, 1933, Kalamazoo Cincinnati, Jackson & ---- SWARTHOUT, Arthur M. Mackinaw Michigan Central [Saginaw] Secretary 1888-89 Freight Agent 1897 [Battle Saginaw Suburban Jackson & Cincinnati Creek] First Director 1898 First Director, Director 1896 Freight Agent 1905 [Kalamazoo] SWARTHOUT, Charles [Palo] SWAYNE, Isaac H. Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & HistIon, 2:354-55 Fort Street & Elmwood Chicago Born 1819 or 1820, First Director 1865 Superintendent 1909 Barrington, Yates Co., N. Y. [Kalamazoo] 4/1865 to Palo, farmer, SWAYNE, Noah Haines General Superintendent carpenter [Toledo] 1910-12 Died Dec. 25, 1883, Palo Born Nov. 30, 1847, Columbus, Traffic Manager 1912 ---- Ohio General Manager 1916-17 Carson City & Palo Brother of (John) Wager [Lawton] First Director 1871 Swayne and Francis B. Swayne c.1868 graduated Yale Univ. SWEENEY, Patrick H. # SWARTZ, Albert # [Toledo] Died 1924, Toledo [Coldwater] Born July 20, 1878, Columbus, ---- Born Feb. 1864 Ohio Cincinnati, Jackson & City clerk, Coldwater 1898- ---- Mackinaw 1902 Various roads Director 1897 ---- Engineering Dept. 1895- Coldwater Train 1901 SWAYNE, (John) Wager # Secretary, Treasurer, Baltimore & Ohio [Baltimore] [Toledo] Director 1906-08 Engineering Dept. 1901-05 Born Nov. 10, 1834, Columbus, Erie RR Ohio SWEET, Benjamin W. [Rodney] Engineering Dept. 1905-?? Brother of Francis B. and Noah Son of John Sweet; brother of Toledo & Western Haines Swayne William J. Sweet Director 1913-17 1856 graduated Yale ---- Vice President 1914-20 1859 graduated Cincinnati Mecosta General Manager (1924) Law School First Director, Director Toledo, Ottawa Beach & 1861-69 in Civil War and U. S. 1882-85 Northern Army; retired Secretary 1885 Director 1913-17 1869 became attorney 1881 to New York City, SWEET, John [Rodney] SWARTZ, James S. # attorney PortraitMec, 318-19 [Philadelphia] Died Dec. 18, 1902, New York Born Apr. 8, 1835, New Trans-St. Marys Traction City; Brunswick, Canada Director 1903 buried Arlington Nat. Cem. Father of Benjamin W. and ---- William J. Sweet Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 225 1849 to Milwaukee SWIFT, Heman Sedgwick # 1856 to Manistee, saw mill SWENSBERG, Conrad G. ProgMenNOH, 175 owner [Grand Rapids] Born Sept. 26, 1865, 1881 to Grand Rapids, HistGrRap, 242-43 Bennington, Vt. lumberman Born Sept. 20, 1835, Cassel, 1903 to Toledo w/Toledo Ry & ---- Germany Light Mecosta 1857 family to Muscatine, ---- First Director, Director Iowa Detroit & Lake St. Clair 1882-85 1861-65 in Civil War [Detroit] President, General Manager 1/1866 to Grand Rapids First Director 1900 1885 1866 opened Grand Rapids Toledo, Ottawa Beach & Commercial Coll. Northern [Toledo] SWEET, Martin L.# [Grand Director several banks Auditor 1907-11 Rapids] ---- Treasurer 1910-12 ABH, 2:part5:120-21; Grand Rapids Street Ry Toledo & Western BiogRy1893,360 Director, Vice President no Auditor 1907-11 Born Feb. 21, 1819, Paris, N. Y. dates Treasurer 1910-12 1842 to Washtenaw Co. Street Ry Construction 1846 to Grand Rapids, miller First Director 1886 SWIFT, J. M., Jr. 1872 owned sawmill in Detroit & Howell Ludington SWIFT, Charles M. # [Detroit] First Director 1864 Died Feb. 21, 1905, Grand BkDet, 439; HistMich1915, Rapids 2:990 SWIGART, George W. # ---- Born March 19, 1854, Born Sept. 27, 1869, Grand Rapids RR Middlebury, Vt. Maquoketa, Iowa First Director 1855 to Detroit when young ---- Chicago & Michigan Lake 1877 admitted to bar Manistee, Filer City & East Shore 1890 involved himself in Lake Contractor 1868-70 electric railways Director, Secretary 1902 [Holland-Grand Rapids] ---- Auditor 1902 Director 1870 Detroit Suburban Street Asst. Manager 1902 Contractor 1870-72 First Director 1890 [Muskegon-Pentwater] Wyandotte & Detroit River SWINGARD, Thomas Grand Rapids & Lake Shore First Director 1892 [Hamilton, Ont.] President 1870 Rapid Ry Northern Michigan RR Grand Rapids, Newaygo & First Director 1894 First Director 11/1867 Lake Shore Treasurer 1902 President 1870 Rapid RR SWITZER, James W. # Grand Rapids & Holland First Director 1898 BiogRy1922, 609 First Director 1871 Detroit, Mt. Clemens & Marine Born Apr. 18, 1881, Galesburg, Lowell & Hastings City Ill. General Manager 1889-(93) First Director 1899 ---- General Manager, Director Detroit & Lake St. Clair Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 1890-97 First Director, Director Clerical 1900-02 Illinois Central SWEET, William J. [Rodney] Treasurer 1902 Clerical Son of John Sweet; brother of Detroit & Port Huron Shore Michigan Central Benjamin J. Sweet Line Asst. Gen. Passenger Agent ---- Director 1902-05 11/1917-(22) Mecosta Treasurer 1902 First Director, Director Detroit United SWITZER, William F. # [Davis 1882-85 Director 1908-09 Twp, Macomb Co.]] Treasurer 1885 Born Feb. 22, 1855, 226 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Williamsville, N. Y. Vice President 1879-81 Died c.1907, prob. Macomb Co. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & ---- Western Detroit, Mt. Clemens, Romeo & Treasurer, Director 1891-92 Armada Vice President 1892 First Director 1900 SYMON, William L. # [Detroit] SWORD, Porter L. [Adrian] Born c.1869 Born c.1831, New York state ---- Died May 19, 1902, Adrian Delray Connecting ---- Equipment Maint. Adrian & Detroit Superintendent 1916-17 First Director 1870 SYRETT, Walter S. # [Chicago] SYKES, Carleton Z. # [Benton Princeton & Wisconsin River Harbor] Incorporator 1900 Chicago, Michigan & Indiana Grand Rapids & North First Director 1903 Western First Director 1908 SYKES, Martin Luther, Jr. # Muskegon Ry. & Navigation [New York City] First Director 1918 RRLeaders, 470-471 Born March 26, 1826, SYVERSON, August # Springfield, Mass. BiogRy1922, 609 ---- Born June 18, 1878, Norwalk, New Haven, Hartford & Wisc. Springfield ---- Clerk 1844-53 Chicago & North Western Superintendent 1853 Telegrapher, Dispatcher, Morris & Essex Trainmaster 1893-2/13 Superintendent 1853 Ann Arbor [Owosso] New York & Harlem Superintendent 2/1913- Superintendent 1854-57 4/20 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Lake Superior & Ishpeming Superintendent, Vice [Marquette] President 1857-60 Superintendent 4/1920-(22) Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Director 4/1860-8/65 President 4/1864-8/65 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Vice President 1865-67 Chicago & North Western Director 7/1867-11/1902 2nd Vice President 7/1867- 6/70 1st Vice President 6/1870- 1900 Treasurer 6/1873-1900 Secretary 6/1873-1900 Menominee River Director 1879-81 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 227 T 5/1897-3/1903 Director 1870-77 Fort Street Union Depot TABOR, Nelson A. # [Flint] Director 1901-02 TALMADGE, Archibald Saginaw & Flint Victoria Ry - Australia Alexander [St. Louis, Mo.] First Director, Director Commissioner 3/1903-10 BiogRy1885, 236 1908-11 Born Apr. 25, 1834, Warren Treasurer 1909-11 TAIT, William # [Detroit] Co., N.J. General Manager 1909 Detroit, Armada & Northern 1854 to Chicago Asst. General Manager 1910- First Director 1916 Died June 29, 1887 11 ---- TALBOT, James H. Lake Shore & Michigan TAFT, Willis P. [East Tawas] HistStCl, 417 Southern Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Born Port Huron Various work 1852-58 Chief Engineer 1885-92 Brother of John F. Talbot Various roads Worked at Port Huron Various work 1858-3/71 TAFTS, William Commercial Missouri Pacific Detroit & Howell ---- General Superintendent First Director 1864 Port Huron Electric 3/1871-3/84 First Director 1886 Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific TAGGART, Rush B. [New York Gratiot Electric General Manager 3/1884-87 City] First Director 1887 4th Vice President 3/1884- BiogNY, 482 87 Born Sept. 4, 1849, Smithville, TALBOT, John Finley # Ohio HistStCl, 417 TALMAN, George F. [New York ---- Born Jan. 19, 1850, Otterville, City] Mineral Range Ont. Michigan Central Director 1888-89 Brother of James H. Talbot Director 1862-77 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton 1851 family to Port Huron Vice President 1876-77 Director Worked at Port Huron Detroit & Bay City Commercial Director 1876 TAIT, Thomas # [Montreal] Died Sept. 9, 1939, Bedford, BiogRy1893, 362; Va. TANDY, Thomas S. [Detroit] BiogRy1901, ---- BiogRy1885, 236-237 Born July 24, 1864, Melbourne, Port Huron Electric Born Sept. 8, 1848, London, Que. First Director 1886 England Died July 25, 1940 Gratiot Electric ---- ---- First Director 1887 Grand Trunk Ry Canada Grand Trunk Ry Canada Clerk 1862-4/68 Clerk 9/1880-10/82 TALCOTT, Mancel (Jr.) Great Western Ry Canada Canadian Pacific [Chicago] Clerk 4/1868-10/78 Secretary to Vice President HerrNL, 5:406 Detroit, Grand Haven & 10/1882-9/86 Born Oct. 12, 1817, Rome, N. Y. Milwaukee Clerk for General Traffic c.1833 to Chicago Asst. General Freight Agent Manager 9/1886-5/87 1849-52 in California, “gold 10/1878-82 Asst. Superintendent rush” General Freight Agent 1879 5/1887-2/89 [Moose Jaw] 1854 entered stone business, General Passenger & Freight Superintendent 2/1889- became wealthy Agent 1882-83 3/90 [Toronto] 1867 became director, First Grand Trunk Ry Canada General Superintendent National Bank and General Freight Agent 1883- 3/1890-3/93 [Montreal] several street railways (85) Asst. General Manager 3/93- Died June 4, 1878, Chicago 5/97 ---- TANNER, Charles H. # [Grand Manager, Eastern Lines Grand Rapids & Indiana Marais] 228 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Manistique Died June 8, 1909, Detroit; Superintendent 1892- Gen. Freight and Passenger buried Saginaw 5/1900 Agent 1908-11 ---- Wheeling & Lake Erie Detroit, Flint & Saginaw Asst. to General Manager TANNER, William Smythe Director, President 1904-06 5/1900-5/01 [Benton Harbor] General Manager 1905-06 Superintendent of South Bend & Benton Harbor Telegraph 5/1901-12/04 First Director 1886 TASKER, William K. # Wabash [St. Louis, Mo.] BkDet, 441 Superintendent of Terminals TAPPAN, Charles S. [Chicago] Born Nov. 17, 1866, 12/1904-2/11 BiogRy1885, 237; Milwaukee Assistant to President BiogRy1893, 362 ---- 8/’1915-2/16 Born Dec. 29, 1820, New York Flint & Pere Marquette Vice President-Operations City [Saginaw] 2/1916-3/20 ---- Various work 1881-1900 President 3/1920-31 Various roads Pere Marquette [Detroit] Houston & Texas Central General Agent 1846-61 Various work 1900-03 Superintendent of Terminals Chicago & North Western Clerk Traffic Dept. 1903-05 2/1911-7/12 General Freight Agent 1861- Superintendent Telegraph Div. Superintendent 7/1912- 68 1905-06 6/13 Erie RR Texas & Pacific General Agent 1869-73 TATE, Daniel C. # [New York Superintendent of Canada Southern City] Transportation 6/1913-5/14 General Agent 1873-78 Died Jan. 8, 1916, New York General Superintendent Several fast freight lines City 5/1914-8/15 Various work 1878-(93) ---- Ann Arbor TAWSE, Robert William # TARKINGTON, W. B. # Secretary, Treasurer BiogRy1913, 531 Born 1864 1895-1902 Born Oct. 2, 1865, Peterhead, Harvey Stone Co. founder, Treasurer 1895-1900 Scotland 1909 Director 1897, 1902 ---- Died Jan. 18, 1912 Michigan Central [Jckson] ---- TATMAN, George B. [Benton Locomotive shops 12/1879- Omaha, Council Bluffs & Harbor] 11/83 Suburban 1861-64 in Civil War Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe General Superintendent 1887 pres. Benton Harbor Locomotive shops 1902 [Council Bluffs] Milling Co. 11/18838-7/90 Detroit, Monroe & Toledo ---- Ann Arbor [Owosso] Short Line South Bend & Benton Harbor Shop Foreman 7/1890- Manager 1904-05 [Monroe] First Director 1886 11/93 Grand Rapids, Chicago & St. General Foreman 11/1893- TARSNEY, Timothy E. # Louis 1/95 [Detroit] First Director 1890 Master Mechanic 1/1895- MichBiog, 2:347; HerrNL, 10/07 5:412; CongBiog TAUSSIG, James Edward # Superintendent Motive Born Feb. 4, 1849, Ransom, BiogRy1922, 612 Power 10/1907-5/10 Hillsdale Co. Born May 4, 1865, St. Louis Detroit, Toledo & Ironton c.1865 to Saginaw, after 1872 Died Oct. 3, 1949, St. Louis Superintendent Motive attorney ---- Power 10/1907-(13) 1872 graduated Univ. Mich. Various roads law school Various work 1882-1891 TAYLOR, Charles Hatch [Grand U. S. Representative 1885-89 Wheeling Bridge & Terminal Rapids] 1893 to Detroit, attorney Agent 1891-92 ABH, 2:part 5:123; GrRapids, Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 229 506 General Brother of Fred Taylor Born Nov. 20, 1813, SuperintendentTransportation c.1889 to Pickford Cooperstown, N. Y. 1890-1920 Died 1955, burial Pickford 1836 to Grand Rapids Pennsylvania RR ---- Many public offices 2nd Vice President 1920-22 Soo-Detour Editor Grand Rapids Enquirer Grand Rapids & Indiana First Director 1901 Died 1889, Grand Rapids Director 1902-17 Sault Ste. Marie & Lake Huron ---- Muskegon, Grand Rapids & First Director 1916 Grand Rapids RR Indiana First Director 1855 Director 1916 TAYLOR, Frederick # [Pickford] TAYLOR, Charles W. # [Grand TAYLOR, Edward Bancroft # Born Aug. 1872, Arnprior, Ont. Rapids] [Port Huron] 1882 family to Pickford Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo MichBiog, 2:349; Brother of Frank H. Taylor Electric HistMich1915, 4:1999 Died 1944, burial Pickford First Director 1899 Born Aug. 13, 1841, ---- Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Sault Ste. Marie & Lake Huron Muskegon 1869 to Port Huron First Director 1916 First Director 1899 1877 began door & sash Grand Rapids, Belding & manufacturing TAYLOR, H. V. P. # [St. Louis, Greenville Died Apr. 28, 1910, Grand Mo.] First Director 1899 Rapids Wabash Traverse City & Leelanau ---- Asst. General Passenger First Director 1900 Flint & Lansing Agent 1895-11 First Director 1872 TAYLOR, Charles W. # Port Huron & Lake Michigan TAYLOR, John G. [Minneapolis] [Stockbridge] Treasurer, Director 1872-73 BiogRy1885, 238 Lansing, Dexter & Ann Arbor Chicago & Lake Huron Born March 21, 1851, Hudson, 1897 Secretary 1873-79 Ohio First Director [Dansville] General Superintendent ---- Lansing, Dexter & Ann Arbor 1873-76 Atlantic & Great Western 1899 Various work 3/1863-4/72 First Director [Dansville] TAYLOR, F. W. # [Houghton, Union Pacific Detroit, Mt. Clemens, Romeo & 1912 Calumet] Various work 1872-10/84 Armada Copper Range Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & First Director 1900 Cashier 1899-1900 Atlantic Lansing & Southeastern Keweenaw Central General Freight & Ticket First Director 1900 Auditor, Gen. Psgr. & Freight Agent 10/1884-88 Agent 1908-17 Auditor 10/1884-88 TAYLOR, Edward Ballinger # Secretary, Treasurer 1912- Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault [Pittsburgh] 17 Ste. Marie WhosWhoFB, 672; General Passenger Agent BiogRy1913, 532 TAYLOR, Frank B. 1888-89 Born Feb. 6, 1850, Riverton, N. Jackson & Northern J. First Director 1891 TAYLOR, John S. [Bay City] Died Nov. 8, 1922 Owned saw mill ---- TAYLOR, Frank D. # Founded bank Pennsylvania-East Detroit & Adrian Traction ---- Engineering Dept. 1870-76 First Director 1906 Grand Rapids & Bay City Div. Superintendent 1876- First Director 1871 88 TAYLOR, Frank Herbert # General Superintendent [Pickford] TAYLOR, Joseph [Detroit] 1888-90 [Pittsburgh] Born Dec. 17, 1866 Negaunee & Palmer 230 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1888 Director 1872-81 N. J. Portage RR 1869 to Allentown, Pa. First Director 1888 TAYLOR, Moses # [New York Owned several coal mining City] companies TAYLOR, Louis Denison # [Ann Detroit, Hillsdale & South ---- Arbor] Western Houghton County Street Born 1858 Director 1902-17 First Director 1899 Mayor several times ---- TAYLOR, Nathaniel T. [Romeo] TAYLOR, William L. # Ann Arbor Street Born Mar. 16, 1800 [Indianapolis] First Director 1886 1829 to Romeo, opened store Ind. attorney general 1898- 1830 began stagecoach line to 1900 TAYLOR, M. Everett # Detroit ---- [Algonac] ---- Indianapolis & Cincinnati Detroit, Mt. Clemens, Romeo & Romeo & Mt. Clemens Traction Co. Armada Commissioner 1833 Secretary 1904 First Director 1900 Southern Michigan TAYLOR, Oliver B. [Sherman] General Counsel 1907-09 TAYLOR, M. H. [St. Thomas, Cadillac, Manistee Valley & Ont.] Lake Michigan TAYLOR, William Perry Chicago & Canada Southern First Director 1884 [Buffalo] Treasurer 1876 BiogRy1885, 238 Michigan Midland & Canada TAYLOR, Orla Benedict # Born Apr. 15, 1846, State Line, Treasurer 1876-77 [Detroit] N.Y. Cashier 1878-79 WhosWhoFB, 673 ---- Toledo, Canada Southern & Born Sept. 29, 1865, Buffalo & Erie Detroit Fowlerville Various work 10/1862-9/73 Treasurer 1876-77 1887 graduated Univ. of Mich. Lake Shore & Michigan Auditor 1880 Law School Southern Died Dec. 1, 1945; buried Superintendent 9/1873- TAYLOR, Moses [New York Chelsea 4/79 City] ---- Canada Southern Born Jan. 11, 1806, New York Marlborough General Superintendent City First Director 1906 4/1879-6/79 1832 became sugar broker, General Manager 6/1879- trading with Cuba TAYLOR, R. C. # [Albion] 1/83 1847 listed as a millionaire Michigan Ry Canada Southern Bridge 1857 bought control of Mechanical Superintendent General Manager Delaware, Lackawanna & 1915-17 6/1879-1/83 Western Michigan Midland & Canada Died May 23, 1882, New York TAYLOR, R. W. [St. Joseph] General Manager 1881-1/83 City St. Joseph, South Bend & Toledo, Canada Southern & ---- Southern Detroit Michigan Central Auditor 1899 General Manager Director 1867-77 6/1879-1/83 Detroit & Bay City TAYLOR, William B. [Toledo] Michigan Central Director 1876-80 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand General Superintendent Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Trunk [Canada] 1/1883-4/84 Director 1877-78 Director 1883 Fort Wayne & Jackson TEDFORD, Wallace # Director 1880-87 TAYLOR, William H. [Roseville, [Houghton] Marquette, Houghton & N. J.] Copper Range Ontonagon Born Sept. 30, 1859, Paterson, Auditor 1905-10 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 231 Born July 13, 1858, White First Director 1883 TEED, Augustus J. # [Cadillac] Pigeon PortraitNMich, 138-41 Attorney TERRY, John Taylor # [New Born Sept. 16, 1844, Tecumseh Died 1941, Grand Rapids York City] 1851 family to Van Buren Co. ---- WhosWhoAm3, 3:1764 1864 served in U. S. Navy Grand Rapids, Chicago & St. Born Sept. 9, 1822, Hartford, 1877 to Cadillac, became city Louis Conn. surveyor First Director 1890 Banker, importer Died Jan.. 14, 1928, Cadillac Grand Rapids, Grayling & Died May 1913 ---- Alpena ---- Boyne City & Southeastern First Director 1891 Wabash Chief Engineer 1896-1901 Director 1889-1912 TEMPLETON, Thomas G. TEELSON, H. [Battle Creek] TERRY, John T., Jr. # [New Michigan Central Peninsular Ry York City] Auditor 1855 Superintendent Motive WhosWhoFB, 675 Power 1872 Born Aug. 17, 1857 TEFFT, William H. [Detroit] 1879 grad. Yale Univ. Landmarks, 640 TenEYCK, Jacob 1881 grad. Columbia Law Born July 11, 1819, Little c.1835 to Medina Twp., School Valley, N. Y. Lenawee Co. ---- 1855 to Detroit, hardware ---- Trans-St. Marys Traction business Michigan Southern Director 1905-06 1864 co-founder of Detroit Director 6/1847-5/1849 Secretary, Treasurer 1905- Stove Works 06 ---- TenEYCK, Junius [Pontiac] Detroit, Adrian, Logansport & BiogOak, 34-35 TERRY, Will Albert # St. Louis Born Feb. 24, 1825, Colts Neck, DSA, 139; HerrNL, 5:430; First Director 1869 Monmouth Co., N. J. BiogRy1922, 616 Detroit, Howell & Lansing Attorney Born Mar. 20, 1864 First Director 1870 ---- ---- Detroit, Lansing & Lake Oxford & Port Austin Canada Southern Michigan First Director 1879 Telegraph Operator 1879-80 First Director, Director 1871 Pontiac & Oxford Fort Wayne & Jackson Detroit River Street First Director 1879 Telegraph Operator 1880- First Director 1872 Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin 1/83 [Jackson] First Director, Director Various roads TEMPLE, Ansel French # 1879-83 Various work 1/1883- [Muskegon] Attorney 1883 1/1910 CycMich, 334-35 Pontiac & Southern New York Central [Chicago] Born July 14, 1842, First Director 1883 Asst. Freight Traffic Manager Dorchester, Mass. Coldwater & Central Michigan 1/1910-3/20 1868 to Milwaukee, wholesale First Director 1884 Freight Traffic Manager clothing business Riverdale & Lake Michigan 3/1920-(24) 1871 opened factory in Grand First Director 1884 Asst. Freight Traffic Manager Haven, 1872 to Montague (1930 Died Apr. 21, 1915, Holton tenHAVE, J. L. [Amsterdam, ---- Netherlands] THATCHER, Charles A. # Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Chicago & North Western [Toledo] Director 1909-11 Director 6/1869-6/79 Attorney ---- TEMPLE, Charles Edward # TERRELL, H. L. Petoskey, Harbor Springs & [Grand Rapids] Michigan & Ohio Shore 232 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1899 Died Aug. 17, 1889, Paris, Detroit, Grand Rapids & Petoskey, Harbor Springs & France Western Northern ---- Vice President, Director First Director 1900 Michigan Lake Shore 1897 Petoskey & Harbor Springs Ry Director 1872-78 White River First Director 1901 Grand Rapids & Indiana Director 1882-84 Petoskey & Harbor Springs RR Director 1873-85, 1888 Saginaw & Grand Rapids First Director 1901 Allegan & Southeastern Director 1887-95 Director 1878-82 Saginaw & Western THATCHER, Erastus [Pontiac] Director 1883-96 HistWayne, 3:711; THAW, William, Jr. Saginaw Valley & St. Louis HistMich1915, 4:1777 [Pittsburgh] Director 1886-96 Born Oct. 30, 1825, North Born Dec. 14, 1853, Pittsburgh Bennington, Vt. Died Sept. 3, 1892 THAYER, Eugene Van 1849 grad. Amherst Coll. ---- Rensselaer (Jr.) # [Boston] 1853 to Pontiac, attorney Grand Rapids & Indiana WhosWhoFB, 675-76 First Mayor, Pontiac, 1861-62 Director 1889-91 Born Sept. 27, 1881, Boston 1876 to Washington, D. C. Son of Eugene V. R. Thayer Died Dec. 25, 1898, THAYER, Artemas [Flint] 1894 graduated Harvard Coll. Washington; burial Pontiac ABH, 2:part6:72-73 ---- ---- Born Nov. 9, 1814, Orleans Co., Pere Marquette East Saginaw City N. Y. Director 1912-17 First Director 1863 1837 to Ann Arbor, mercantile Salina Street 1839 to Flint, lawyer, real THAYER, George H. [Chicago] First Director 1863 estate developer BiogRy1896, 465 Died Nov. 17, 1880, Flint Born Jan. 8, 1844, Perkinsville, THATCHER, L. C. [Chicago] ---- Vt. St. Joseph & Lake Shore Flint & Pere Marquette Died possibly 1906 First Director 1894 First Director 1857 ---- Port Huron & Lake Michigan Illinois Central THATCHER, William P. # Director 1870-73 Telegraph Operator 1862 [Toledo] Chicago & North Western Born July 10, 1856m, Dover, N. THAYER, Charles [Ann Arbor] Telegraph Operator 1863-65 J. PortraitWash, 610 Chief Operator 1865-73 Attorney Born Dec. 26, 1802, Tioga, Pa. Superintendent Telegraph Died Mar. 11, 1912, Toledo 1824 family to Ann Arbor 1873-1904 ---- Died Dec. 14, 1890, Ann Arbor Petoskey, Harbor Springs & ---- THAYER, George W. [Grand Shore Detroit & St. Joseph Rapids] First Director 1899 Commissioner 1835 ABH, 2:part5:124 Petoskey, Harbor Springs & Born Sept. 27, 1827, Northern THAYER, Eugene Van Burlington, Vt. First Director 1900 Rensselaer # [Boston] Nephew of Lucius Lyon Petoskey & Harbor Springs Ry Born Dec. 27, 1855, Boston 1845 to Detroit, surveyor First Director 1901 Son of Nathaniel; father of 1861 to Grand Rapids, grocery Petoskey & Harbor Springs RR Eugene V. R. Thayer (Jr) business First Director 1901 Died Dec. 20, 1907, Boston Mayor 1877 ---- Died Sept. 2, 1916, ?Grand THAW, William [Pittsburgh] Chicago & West Michigan Rapids; buried Detroit Born Oct. 12, 1818, Pittsburgh Director 1882-97 ---- Owned steam and canal boats Vice President 1890-97 Street Ry of Grand Rapids Investor in Pennsylvania Co.--a Detroit, Lansing & Northern First Director 1869 PRR holding co. Director 1884-96 Grand Rapids Street Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 233 General Manager ?? Chicago & West Michigan Western Reeds Lake Street Director 1879-82 Director 1897 First Director 1880 President 1879-82 Pere Marquette Detroit, Lansing & Lake Director 1900-02 THAYER, John Otis Michigan Grand Rapids, Belding & [Milwaukee] First Director, Director Saginaw Born Sept. 23, 1830, 1871-75 Director 1901 Barnstable, Mass. Detroit, Lansing & Northern 1858 to Sheboygan, Wis. Director 1875-82 THEALL, Thornton J. # [New Local offices White River York City] Died June 1, 1906, Sheboygan Director 1880 Born Nov. 19, 1877 ---- Attorney Sheboygan & Fond du Lac THAYER, Nathaniel, Jr. ---- Secretary, Treasurer 1858- [Boston] Manistique & Lake Superior 62 Born June 13, 1851, Boston First Director 1909 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Son of Nathaniel Thayer Western Died Mar. 21, 1911, Boston THICK, Joseph A. # Land Agent 1883-84 ---- Saginaw, Owosso & Lansing General Land Agent 1885-88 Detroit, Lansing & Northern First Director 1906 Director 1874-82 THAYER, John Elliott Saginaw Valley & St. Louis THICKENS, John W. Born Aug. 23, 1803, Lancaster, Director 1879-80 [Ironwood] Mass. Saginaw & Grand Rapids Ironwood & Hurley Street Brother of Nathaniel Thayer Director 1881-82 First Director 1886 (Born 1808) Chicago & Michigan Lake Died Sept. 29, 1857 Shore THOMAN, Frederick # ---- Director 1876-78 [Lansing] Michigan Central Chicago & West Michigan Born 1844, New York state Incorporator 1846 First Director, Director Died Dec. 28, 1915, Lansing First Director, Director 1878-97 ---- 3/1846-1853? President 1880-97 Lansing Transit White River First Director 4/1886 THAYER, Nathaniel E. [Boston] Director 1880-84 Lansing Transit Born Sept. 11, 1808, Lancaster, Detroit, Lansing & Northern First Director 8/1886 Mass. Director 1883-96 Lansing, St. Johns & Northern Father of Nathaniel Thayer President 1887-96 First Director 1888 and Eugene V. R. Thayer Grand Rapids, Lansing & Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Brother of John Elliott Thayer Detroit First Director 1900 Died Mar. 7, 1883, Boston President, Director 1888-97 ---- Saginaw Valley & St. Louis THOMAS, Anthony J. # [New Northern Michigan RR Director 1879, 1881-96 York City] First Director 11/1867 President 1890-96 Born 1826, Baltimore Michigan Central Saginaw & Grand Rapids 1874 started into RR affairs Director 1858-75 Director 1881-95 for Drexel Morgan & Co Vice President 1867-71 President 1886-95 Died Apr. 24, 1903, New York Detroit & Bay City Saginaw & Western City Director 1873-75 President, Director 1883-96 ---- Fort Wayne & Jackson Marquette, Houghton & Various roads Director 1880 Ontonagon Director, Treasurer Chicago & Michigan Lake Director 1884-85 Northern Pacific Shore Marquette & Western 2nd Vice President no dates Director 1872-78 Director 1885 Pittsburgh & Western President 1874-78 Detroit, Grand Rapids & Vice President (1893) 234 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Detroit & Mackinac Son of Gen. Samuel R. Thomas 1915 Director 1895-1901 Owner, N. Y. Morning Telegraph THOMAS, H. W. [Minneapolis] THOMAS, B. H. [Bay City] Died July 6, 1926, New York Died May 6, 1895, Son-in-law of Charles H. City Minneapolis; murdered Prescott ---- ---- ---- Detroit & Cincinnati [New Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Tawas & Bay County York City] Ste. Marie Director 1880 First Director 1896 Superintendent Telegraph Detroit & Lima Northern [New 1892-5/95 THOMAS, Bryan # York City] BiogRy1922, 617 President, Director 1897 THOMAS, J. Boyd Born Mar. 15, 1876, Louisville, Cincinnati, Jackson & [Edwardsburg] Ky. Mackinaw [New York City] Born 1838, ---- Director 1897 Sheriff, Cass Co., 1875-76 Various roads Died 1924 Various work 9/1897- THOMAS, F. W. [Boston] ---- 3/1907 Marquette, Houghton & Peninsular Ry Extension Pere Marquette Ontonagon First Director 1866 Claim Dept. 3/1907-3/12 Director 1882-83 Toledo Terminal THOMAS, J. E. [Windsor, Ont.] Auditor 3/1912-3/20 THOMAS, H. E. # [Lansing] Glencoe, Pinconning & Lake Asst. Secretary 10/1918- Lansing Connecting Shore 3/20 First Director 1914 Director 1878 Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Pinconning Auditor 10/1918-(22) THOMAS, Henry Tracy # Director 1879 BiogRy1893, 365; THOMAS, Daniel E. [Sturgis] BiogRy1913, 537 THOMAS, J. P. [Lansing] BenchOhio, 1:191 Born Apr. 21, 1848, Chatham, Lansing Transit Born Mar. 16, 1846, Quincy Ont. First Director 4/1886 c.1864 graduated Kalamazoo ---- Lansing Transit Coll. Michigan Central [Detroit] First Director 8/1886 1873 became attorney, Sturgis Machinist 1866-74 1885 to Toledo, attorney Detroit, Lansing & Northern THOMAS, James H. [Grand Died May 6, 1896, Toledo [Ionia] Rapids] ---- (Engineering) 1874-83 South Park & Crystal Springs Sturgis & Indiana Chief Engineer 1875-79 First Director 1889 First Director 1882 General Superintendent 1877-79 THOMAS, Joseph B. [Boston] THOMAS, David # Detroit, Bay City & Alpena St. Marys & Minneapolis Soo-Snows [East Tawas] First Director 1881 First Director 1916 Master Mechanic 7/1883- 11/94 THOMAS, M. T., see THOMAS, THOMAS, E. D. [Centreville] Detroit & Mackinac [East Henry T. Merchant Tawas] ---- Master Mechanic 11/1894- THOMAS, N. J., see THOMAS, Toledo & South Haven/S (1909) Anthony J. First Director 1876 Equipment Maint. Superintendent 1915-17 THOMAS, Quincy A. [Oxford] THOMAS, Edward Russell # Erie & Michigan Ry & Born May 12, 1842 BiogNY, 489 Navigation [East Tawas] Died May 24, 1907, Oxford Born Dec. 30, 1874/75, Chief Engineer 1912-17 ---- Columbus, Ohio Mechanical Superintendent Toledo & Port Austin Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 235 First Director 1879 City Thompson) Coldwater & Central Michigan c.1856 to Europe on father’s Ann Arbor First Director 1884 business Director 1910-11 Riverdale & Lake Michigan In Civil War First Director 1884 1866 cofounder of THOMPSON, James Wilfred # predecessor of Citibank [Detroit] THOMAS, (General) Samuel R. Died Apr. 10, 1899, New York BkDet, 445 # [New York City] City Born May 2, 1847, Dansville, N. BiogRy1885, 240; ---- Y. BiogRy1901, 540 Vieux Desert & Lake Superior In Civil War, 1864-65 Born Apr. 27, 1840, South First Director 1881 1872 began insurance agency, Point, Ohio Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Kalamazoo Father of Edward R. Thomas Western Director of many companies In 27th Ohio Infantry, 1861-63 Director 1883-92 Died 1927; burial Detroit Died Jan. 11, 1903, New York ---- City THOMPSON, G. W. # Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & ---- [Springfield, Oh.] Chicago Ohio Central Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Director 1916-17 President ca.1878-82 General Superintendent East Tennessee, Virginia & 1916-17 THOMPSON, Robert B. [Terre Georgia Haute, Ind.] President 4/1882-(85) THOMPSON, George P. [Port BiogRy1901, 542, BiogRy1922, Memphis & Charleston Huron] 619 President 9/1883-(85) Chicago & Lake Huron Born Mar. 27, 1861, Arbroath, Michigan & Ohio Superintendent Telegraph Scotland First Director, Director 1877-79 Died 1926; burial Terre Haute 1883-84 Northwestern Grand Trunk ---- Marquette, Houghton & Superintendent Telegraph Terre Haute & Indianapolis Ontonagon 1879 Various work 1881-90 Director 1886-88 Treasurer 4/1890-1/1905 Marquette & Western THOMPSON, H. A. [Chicago] Terre Haute & Peoria Treasurer 1886 Wisconsin & Michigan Asst. Treasurer (1890) Director 1888 Auditor 1894 Indiana & Lake Michigan Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Treasurer 1896-97 Director 1887-1901 THOMPSON, Henry E. [Grand Vandalia RR President 1890-1901 Rapids] Asst. Treasurer 1/1905- Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co. In Co. A, 6th Mich. Cavalry, 1/17 President, Director 1900 1861-64 Pennsylania-West Cincinnati, Jackson & Became lawyer [Philadelphia] Mackinaw 1901 to Calif. Asst. Treasurer 1/1917- Director 1887-89, 1892-93, Died Jan. 6, 1913, San Jose, 3/20 1897 Calif. Pennsylvania [Philadelphia] Cincinnati Northern ---- Asst. Treasurer 3/20-(22) Director 1897 South Park & Crystal Springs First Director 1889 THOMPSON, W. A. THOMPSON, Charles # [Queenstown, Ont.] [Fremont, Ohio] THOMPSON, J. D. [New York See William A. Thomson Toledo, Ann Arbor & Detroit City] First Director 1904 Detroit & Cincinnati THOMPSON, Walter # First Director 1896 [Ironwood] THOMPSON, Frederick Ferris Bessemer & Ironwood [New York City] THOMPSON, J. W. # [Wilkes- Interurban Born June 14, 1836, New York Barre, Pa.] (may be J. N. First Director 1904 236 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Michigan Central 5/1839-4/1840 THOMPSON, Weston Station Agent 12/1841-50 [Brunswick, Me.] [Jackson] THOMS, William Alexander Born Aug. 12, 1850, Bowdoin, Purchasing Agent 1850-52 BiogRy1885, 240; Me. [Niles] BiogRy1893, 368 Attorney Lansing & Jackson Born Dec. 28, 1847, Ypsilanti Died Jan. 6, 1907, Brunswick, First Director 1863 ---- Me. Jackson, Fort Wayne & Michigan Central ---- Cincinnati Telegraph Operator 3/1864- Muskegon Street First Director 1868 9/67 First Director 1897 Fort Wayne, Jackson & Cleveland, Columbus & Saginaw Cincinnati THOMPSON, William [Pontiac] Director 1871-79 Telegraph Operator 6/1867- HistOak2, 1:251 Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw 7/68 Born Jan. 15, 1786, Lenox, Treasurer, Director 1872-97 Louisville, New Albany & Mass. Paw Paw Chicago 1819 to near Rochester Director 1872-74 Telegraph Operator 7/1868- Judge, county court, 1820-27 Main Street (Jackson) 10/68 Physician First Director 1873 Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Organizer, Pontiac Co., town Central developer THOMPSON, William H. Various work 10/1868-6/69 Died 1867, Pontiac [Mancelona] Chicago & North Western ---- Born Apr. 1847, in Telegraph Operator 6/1869- Pontiac & Detroit Pennsylvania 7/70 Commissioner 1830 First president, Mancelona Cleveland, Columbus, village 1889 Cincinnati & Indianapolis THOMPSON, William A. ---- Train Dispatcher 7/1870- HistUP, 434 Mancelona & North Western 6/71 Born May 23, 1848, Crawford First Director, President Atlantic & Pacific Co., Pa. 1892 Train Dispatcher 2/1872- 1873 to Marquette 10/75 ---- THOMPSON, William M. # St. Louis-San Francisco Various roads [Jackson] Various work 5/1876-1/80 Engineering Dept. 1865-73 Born 1858, Jackson Div. Superintendent Marquette, Houghton & Son of William D. Thompson [Kansas] 1/1880-6/81 Ontonagon [Marquette] Died 1932, Jackson Div. Superintendent Engineering Dept. 1873-82 ---- [Central] 6/1881-11/87 Roadmaster 4/26/1882- Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Div. Superintendent [Texas] Asst. Superintendent 1886 Director 1900-16 11/1887-11/90 Treasurer 1900-09 Div. Superintendent [St. THOMPSON, William Dolville Vice President 1916 Louis] 11/1890-(93) [Jackson] HistJack2, 335-37; HistJack1, THOMPSON, William R. [Ann THOMSON, R. R. # 227-28 Arbor] Michigan & Chicago Born Feb. 24, 1815, Chenango 1830 to Ann Arbor First Director 1912 Co., N. Y. President, village of Ann Arbor Father of William M. 1843-44 THOMSON, William A. Thompson ---- [Queenstown, Ont.] 1831 to Jackson Detroit & St. Joseph Born 1816/17 Stramaer, 1850 to Niles Commissioner 1832 & 1835 Scotland 1852 to Jackson, established Michigan, Internal 1834 to Hamilton, Ont. bank Improvement Board no date to Buffalo ---- Commissioner 1854 to Queenstown Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 237 Died Oct. 1, 1878, Queenstown General Passenger Agent Pontiac & Genesee ---- 6/1890-1/95 Commissioner 1846 Michigan Midland Oakland & Ottawa First Director 1870 THRESHER, George Madison # Incorporator 1848 Michigan Midland & Canada [Benton Harbor] Genesee & Oakland Director 1874 Born Aug. 29, 1858 Commissioner 1848 Son of Joseph P. Thresher THORNTON, Howard A. # Died Apr. 22, 1942, Benton THURBER, H. P. [Grand Rapids] Harbor Detroit & Pontiac GrRapids, 1:471 ---- Superintendent 1852 Born Nov. 9, 1872, near Eastern & Northwestern Lawton First Director 1899 THURBER, Jefferson Mann 1891 graduated Univ. Mich. [Detroit] 1893 admitted to bar, moved THRESHER, Joseph P. # BkDet, 447 to Grand Rapids [Benton Harbor] Born Aug. 28, 1844, Monroe Died Mar. 12, 1914, Grand Born Mar. 16, 1831, Officer, several iron-forming Rapids Washington Co., Vt. businesses ---- Father of George M. Thresher Died Mar. 5, 1930, Detroit Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Postmaster 1873-77 ---- Muskegon Died July 11, 1908, Benton Iron Range & Huron Bay Director 1912-13 Harbor Director 1895-97 ---- THORNTON, John Russell Elkhart, Niles & Lake Michigan THURBER, Nathan Thomas [New Bedford, Mass.] First Director 1880] [Fenton] Born Oct. 8, 1808, New South Bend & Benton Harbor ABH, 2:part6:74 Bedford First Director 1886 Born Oct. 30, 1828, Bristol, Died Dec. 1, 1893, New South-Eastern & North- Ontario Co., N. Y. Bedford Western Transcontinental Brother of Horace C. Thurber ---- First Director, First 1849 to Pontiac, store clerk Flint & Fentonville Secretary 1890 1850 to Flint First Director 1863 Eastern & Northwestern 1853 to Pontiac Flint & Holly First Director 1899 1855 to Fenton, hardware First Director 1863 store THUEMLING, Fred # [Chicago] Died Mar. 19, 1896, Detroit THRALL, L. G. # [Toledo] South Haven & Paw Paw Lake ---- Cincinnati Northern Electric Toledo, Ann Arbor & Saginaw Cashier 1899-1901 First Director 1900 First Director 1866 THRALL, William Austin # THUEMLING, Julius # THURBER, Philip [Detroit] [Chicago] [Chicago] HistJack2, 200 BiogRy1885, 241; BkChi, 570; South Haven & Paw Paw Lake Born Rochester, N. Y. BiogRy1893, 368 Electric 1842 to Jackson Born Aug. 3, 1834, Sharon, N.Y. First Director 1900 Hardware and real estate Retired Jan. 1896 businesses ---- THURBER, Horace Chase no date to Detroit Galena & Chicago Union [Pontiac] ---- Clerk 11/1854-10/58 MPHC, 18:264-65 Jackson Union Illinois Central Born Feb. 19, 1813, New First Director 1855 Asst. General Passenger Hampshire Agent 10/1858-1/73 Brother of Nathan T. Thurber THURBY, A. # [Manistee] Chicago & North Western Merchant Manistee, Filer City & East General Ticket Agent Died Jan. 23, 1891, Saginaw Lake 1/1873-6/90 ---- Manager 1903-04 238 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Master Mechanic no dates Utica & Schenectady THURING, Z. C. [Grand Rapids] Various work 7/1850-10/51 Grand Rapids Belt Line TILDEN, Myron H. [Toledo] Rome, Watertown & First Director 1891 Born Aug. 18, 1812 Ogdensburg Mayor of Toledo 1840-43 Asst. General THURSTON, Griffin DeGarmo # Died 1888 Superintendent 10/1851-4/56 [Sturgis] ---- Toronto Northern Born 1838, Sturgis Erie & Kalamazoo Asst. General Died Jan. 7, 1906, Sturgis Manager 1842 Superintendent 4/1856-4/64 ---- Michigan Southern & Northern Sturgis & Indiana TILDEN, Samuel B., see Indiana First Director 1882 TILDEN, Samuel J. Master Mechanic [LaPorte, Sturgis & State Line Ind.] 4/1864-7/64 First Director 1886 TILDEN, Samuel Jones [New Buffalo & Erie York City] Asst. General THURLBY, Alfred [Marquette] Born Feb. 9, 1814, New Superintendent 7/1864-2/65 HistUP, 434 Lebanon, N. Y. New York Central & Hudson Born Feb. 16, 1841, Graduated New York Univ. River Lincolnshire, England 1841 admitted to bar Div. Superintendent 1864 to U.P. Skilled corporate lawyer [Western Div.] 2/1865-1/69 1879 to Marquette 1876 lost pres. election to General Superintendent ---- Rutherford B. Hayes 1/1869-4/81 Various roads Wealthy from investments Asst. to President 4/1884- Various work Died Aug. 4, 1886, Yonkers, N. (85) Marquette, Houghton & Y. Canada Southern Bridge Ontonagon ---- President 4/1877-96 Tie Inspector 1879-(83) Mineral Range Ry Director 1878-97 [Marquette] First Director 1864 Michigan Midland & Canada Superintendent Telegraph Chicago & North Western Director 1877-97 1880 Director 6/1864-6/68 President 1879-97 Michigan Lake Shore Toledo, Canada Southern & TIBBETTS, Samuel B. [Grand Director 1872-78 Detroit Rapids] President, Director Reeds Lake, Grand Rapids & TILESTON, Thomas [New York 4/1877-97 Soldiers Home City] Canada Southern First Director 1889 Born Aug. 13, 1793, Boston President 6/1877-6/79 Kent County Street Died Feb. 29, 1864, New York First Director 1889 City TILLOW, Rufus [Lawrence] South-Eastern & North- ---- Toledo & South Haven Western Transcontinental Michigan Central First Director, Director First Director, First Vice Director 1855-58 1876-80 President 1890 TILLINGHAST, James [Buffalo] TIMMERMAN, Henry P. # TIBBS, Henry L. BiogRy1885, 241; HerrNL, [Toronto] BiogRy1893, 369 5:466; MenMark, 101; BiogRy1913, Born 1855, Pipestone, Berrien National Magazine, 5:391- 542 Co. 400 Born Nov. 6, 1856, Odessa, Died 1944,, Eau Claire Born May 8, 1822, Ont. ---- Cooperstown, N.Y. ---- Various roads President, New York Central Grand Trunk Ry Canada Various work 1876-?? Sleeping Car Co. 1881-(85) Various work 1872-82 St. Joseph Valley [Berrien Died Oct. 25, 1898, Buffalo Canadian Pacific Springs] ---- Various work 1882-90 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 239 General Supt. 1890-1901 [St. TOBIN, Thomas J. # [St. Louis, 1886 invested in Mexican John, N.B.] Mo.] mining General Superintendent Wabash Died Nov. 9, 1908, Owosso 1901-06 [Toronto] Auditor 1905-15 ---- General Superintendent General Auditor 1916-17 Owosso & Big Rapids 1906-08 [Montreal] First Director, First Industrial Commissioner TOD, John Kennedy # [New Treasurer 1869 1908-(16) York City] Owosso & Northwestern Fort Street Union Depot WhosWhoAm3, 1489 First Director, Director Vice President 1906 Born Sept 1853, Glasgow, 1871-77 Scotland Toledo, Ann Arbor & North TINKER, Stephen Bruce 1868 to U. S., returned to Michigan BiogRy1885, 241 Scotland Director 1888-92 Born 1831, Morrisville, N.Y. 1879 to U. S., iron trade with Toledo, Ann Arbor & Lake Died April 12, 1891, Wabash, uncle Michigan Ind. Involved in RR reorganizations First Director 1888 ---- ---- Various roads Cincinnati, Jackson & TODD, Edwin A., Jr. [Owosso] Employee 1854-71 Mackinaw Son of Edwin A. Todd Chicago & Northeastern Director 1887-89, 1892-93 ---- Employee 1871-77 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Master Mechanic 1877-78 TODD, Albert M. [Nottawa] Mackinaw Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan MichBiog, 2:362-63; HerrNL, First Director 1891 Master Mechanic 1878-91 5:472 [Wabash, Ind.] Born June 3, 1850, near TODD, Harvey Nottawa Born Mar. 13, 1801, Stamford, TIPPY, Charles W. # [Jackson] Mint farmer; founded A. M. Conn. Born 1876, Three Oaks Todd Co. c.1836 to Madison Twp., Manager, Consumers Power U. S. Representative 1897-99 Lenawee Co. Co. Died Oct. 6, 1931, Kalamazoo Died Oct. 16, 1866, Adrian Died Sept. 15, 1924, Jackson ---- ---- ---- Toledo & South Haven Erie & Kalamazoo Manistee Ry First Director 1882 Director 1846-47 Director 1914-15 TODD, Alvah K. # [Boston] TODD, Wiliam Rogers # [New TITTEMORE, James Nelson # Officer, Stone & Webster York City] BiogRy1913 (holding company) WhosWhoFB, 684 Born Mar. 2, 1864, Waushara ---- Born June 15, 1837, Co., Wis. Houghton County Street Cambridge, Mass. ---- Secretary 1907 Pres. Quincy Mining Co. Various roads Houghton County Traction ---- Various work 1881-(93) Secretary 1908-17 Quincy & Torch Lake Pere Marquette President, Director 1903-17 General Traffic Manager TODD, Edwin A. [Owosso] PortraitCliShi, 354-56 TOLFORD, William D. [Grand TITUS, Silas Born Jan. 16, 1828, Pontiac Rapids] Detroit & Shiawassee Father of Edwin A. Todd, Jr. Born c.1823, N. Y. state Commissioner 1837 1830 family to Flint Manufacturer 1849-54 in Calif., successful in Receiver for Union Mutual Fire TOBE, F. E. # [Kalamazoo] gold mining Ins. Co. Michigan Traction 1855 to Owosso, built first ---- Superintendent 1903 steam sawmill Grand Rapids & Lake Michigan 1878-81 in Leadville, Colo. First Director 1889 240 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Grand Rapids, Chicago & St. Germany TOMPKINS, William M. [Eaton Louis 1878 grad. Royal Rapids] First Director 1890 Polytechnikum (Berlin) MichBiog1924, 2:364 1881 to St. Paul Born Mar. 6, 1820, New TOLFREE, James E. # [New 1910 formed Toltz Rochelle, N. Y. York City] Engineering Co. 1844 to Michigan Born c.1839 Died Jan. 11, 1932, St. Paul 1845 to Eaton Rapids U. S. Navy officer, Civil War ---- State representative 1867-68 (1862)-1899 Great Northern [St. Paul] Died 1868, prob. Eaton Rapids Died Jan. 10, 1920, New York Engineering Dept. 1881- ---- City 2/1904 Northern Central Michigan ---- Canadian Pacific [St. Paul] First Director 1866 Ann Arbor Consulting Engineer 2- Director 1906-08 10/1904 TOMS, Robert P. [Detroit] Manistee & Grand Rapids [St. Born Oct. 20, 1820, Bloomfield, TOLFREE, James H. # [Toledo] Paul] Oneida Co.., N. Y. Alpena & Western Vice President 1906 1831 family to Detroit First Director 1900 General Manager 1906-09 Became attorney Director 1906-09 Died Mar. 10, 1884, Detroit TOLL, Charles [Monroe] ---- HistMonr2, 2:854-57 TOMLINSON, John C. # [New Detroit, Grand Haven & Born 1830, Schenectady, N. Y. York City] Milwaukee 1855 graduated Univ. Mich. Jackson Consolidated Director 1878 1858 to Monroe Co., farmer Director 1907 In local and state politics Michigan United Rys TOOKER, John S. [Lansing] Died Dec. 25, 1912 Director 1906-07 MichBiog, 2:364 ---- Born July 7, 1836, Tyrone, N. Y. Toledo & Northern TOMLINSON, William A. 1838 family to Ann Arbor First Director 1869 [Kalamazoo] 1847 family to Lanisng Born c.1819, Connecticut In Civil War 10/1862-3/64 TOLLERTON, E. W. [Toledo] Manufacturer c.1883 to Montana Terr., Ann Arbor Died Oct. 1, 1900, Kalamazoo mining, also public ofc. Director 1895-96 ---- Secretary Mont. Terr. 4/1884- Flat River & Houghton Lake 10/85 TOLMAN, F. J. [Toledo] First Director 1871 Died 1915 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand ---- Trunk TOMPKINS, J. M. # [Boyne Lansing Street Superintendent Telegraph City] First Director 1876 1880 Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Auditor 1908-17 TOOMBS, Robert # TOLMAN, Frank Leland # General Freight Agent 1911- BiogRy1885, 242; [Chicago] 14 BiogRy1893, 371 Born Dec. 9, 1876, Chicago Born Apr. 19, 1859, Milwaukee Died Feb. 21, 1957 TOMPKINS, James Theron # Died Oct. 10, 1912, ---- Born Dec. 27, 1845, Girard Minneapolis South Haven Traction Twp., Branch Co. ---- First Director 1905 Died June 10, 1931, Girard Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Twp. Western [Milwaukee] TOLTZ, Max (for Maximilian) ---- Clerk 9/1873-7/82 Ernst Robert # Battle Creek, Coldwater & Milwaukee & Northern HistSPMn, 2:736-37; Southern Auditor 7/1882-89 BiogRy1913, 545 First Director 1908 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Born Sept. 2, 1857, Koeslin, [Marquette] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 241 Auditor 1890-5/94 Detroit River Tunnel Co. Hancock & Calumet Director 1910-17 TOURTELLOTTE, Daniel Dow Auditor 1893 # [Glenn] Mineral Range TORRENT, John [Muskegon] Born 1843 Auditor 1893 Lumber World Review, 29:96 Died Feb. 1919 Wisconsin Central Born Nov. 20, 1833, ---- [Milwaukee] Watertown, N. Y. South Haven & Lake Shore Auditor 5/1894-1909 1854 to Grand Haven, worked First Director 1901 Comptroller, Auditor in Ferry sawmill 5/1894-1909 1857 to Muskegon to install TOUSEY, Nelson H. Gogebic & Montreal River sawmill equipment Union Street (Bay City) Auditor 1900-12 c.1859 opened his own First Director 1890 Director 1910-12 sawmill to Muskegon Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault 1883 pres, Merchants Natl. TOUSEY, Walter C. # [Toledo] Ste. Marie [Minneapolis] Bank BiogRy1901, 547 Auditor 1909-12 Died Oct. 21, 1915, Muskegon Born Jan. 11, 1871, Genesee ---- Son of Wilson H. Tousey TOPLIFF, Samuel # [Chicago] West Branch & Moorestown ---- Northern Michigan RR President, Director 1885-86 Flint & Pere Marquette First Director 1901 Clerk 1891-92 [Ludington] TORREY, Augustus # Ticket Clerk 1894-94 TOPPING, George Washington BiogRy1901, 547 [Detroit] [DeWitt] Born Nov. 21, 1850, Beverly, Traveling Passenger Agent Born Dec. 11, 1827, Mass. 1894-99 Montezuma, Cayugo Co., N. Y. 1874 grad. Univ. Vermont Pere Marquette Died Jan. 14, 1895, DeWitt Worked for Burlington, Vt. city Division Passenger Agent ---- 1876-80 1/1900-02 Lansing, St. Johns & Mackinac Died Aug. 20, 1902, Detroit First Director 1869 (Died as a result of jumping TOUSEY, William H., see from track car at Albion c. Wilson H. Tousey TOPPING, Morris [Plainfield 1903) Twp. Livingston Co.] ---- TOUSEY, Wilson Hoag [Bay ABH, 2:part 6:73-74; HistLiv, Burlington & Lemoille City] 321 Division Engineer 1874-76 Born Jan. 31, 1838, Perry, N. Y. Born Jan. 29, 1827, Turin, Michigan Central [Detroit] Father of Walter C. Tousey Lewis Co., N. Y. Asst. Engineer 1880-84 Lumber dealer, business 1837 to Parma, Ohio Principal Asst. Engineer investor 1839 to Undailla, Livingston 1884-10/92 Died Feb. 26, 1896, Flint Co. Chief Engineer ---- 1853 opened store 10/1892-1902 Bay City & Midland 1867 built sawmill, 1873 built Detroit, Delray & Dearborn First Director 1882 grist-mill First Director, Director Bay City, Caro & Port Huron Died Jan. 16, 1901, Plainfield 1895-1901 First Director 1886 Twp. Buchanan & St. Joseph River Flint & Pere Marquette ---- Director 1900-01 Director 1889-96 Lansing, Dexter & Ann Arbor Monroe & Toledo First Director 1897 TORREY, E. E. # First Director 1893 First Director 1899 Michigan Central [Detroit] Bay City Belt Line Superintendent Telegraph Director 1891-96 TORRANCE, William P. # 1884-1902 Vice President 1891-92 [Toronto] Mobile & Ohio [Jackson, Tenn.] Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Superintendent Telegraph TOWER, Osmond Director no dates (1908) MichBiog1924, 2:365; ABH, 242 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1:part5:125-26; 5/1920 ---- HistIonMont, 160-61 Chief Engineer 6/1920-(22) Jackson & Adrian Electric Born Feb. 16, 1811, First Director 1899 Cummington, Mass. TOWNSEND, Amos [Cleveland] 1835 to Ionia, builder CongBiog TOWNSEND, Charles Van State senator 1859-60 Born 1821, Brownsville, Rensselaer # [Negaunee] Died Aug. 4, 1886, Ionia Fayette Co., Pa. Born Oct. 6, 1862, Cedar Hill, ---- 1839 to Mansfield, Ohio, Albany Co., N. Y. Ionia & Lansing mercantile Land agent, Cleveland Cliffs First Director, First 1858 to Cleveland, wholesale Mining Co. Treasurer 1865 grocery business Director of several banks and Director, Treasurer U. S. Representative 1877-83 other businesses Ionia & Stanton Died Mar. 17, 1895, St. Died Jan. 21, 1925, Chicago First Director, First Augustine, Fla; burial ---- President Cleveland Munising ---- Land Commissioner 1908- TOWN, David E. # [Chicago] Cleveland, Columbus, 11 Chicago, Detroit & Toledo Cincinnati & Indianapolis Munising, Marquette & First Director 1898 Director 1886 Southeastern Lakewood Street Cincinnati & Westwood Land Commissioner 1912- Director 1914-16 Director 1889 17 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago TOWNE, Walter James # & St. Louis TOWNSEND, Dwight [New BiogRy1922, 626 Director 1889-3/95 York City] Born Nov. 29, 1867, CongBiog Leavenworth, Kan. TOWNSEND, Charles [Buffalo] Born Sept. 26, 1826, New York 1895 graduated Rensselaer HistBuff, 2:108-09 City Polytechnic Born Jan. 22, 1786, Norwich, In variety of businesses Asst engineer, N. Y. state Conn. U. S. Representative 12/1864- canals 1896-99 1811 toBuffalo, drug business, 3/65, 3/1871-3/73 Died Nov. 23, 1930, Oak Park, then shipbuilding Died Oct. 29, 1899, New York Ill. County judge 1813-26 City ---- 1835 in town development at ---- Chicago & North Western Maumee (later in Ohio) Detroit Citizens Street Asst. Construction Engr. Died Sept. 14, 1847, Buffalo First Director 1891 1899-1900 [Boone, Ia.] ---- Asst. Engineer 1900-01 Maumee Branch TOWNSEND, Henry C. # [Kaukauna, Wis.] Commissioner 1835 BiogRy1885, 243; Asst. Engineer 1901-02 BiogRy1906, 605 [Escanaba] TOWNSEND, Charles Elroy # Born Aug. 11, 1847, Pittsburg, Division Engineer 1902-04 [Jackson] Pa. [Baraboo, Wis.] HistMich1915, 2:695-99; Died June 20, 1908, Port Division Engineer 7- BiogRep, 2:382; CongBiog Huron 10/1904 [Escanaba] Born Aug. 15, 1856, Concord ---- Division Engineer 10/1904- 1880 to Parma, school Various roads 3/06 [Chicago] principal Clerk 1863-12/71 (System) Engineer 3/1906- c.1886 to Jackson, Co. register Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw 4/12 of deeds [Peoria] General Superintendent 1895 admitted to bar General Passenger & Ticket 4/1912-5/14 U. S. Representative 1903-11; Agent 12/1871-6/77 Asst. General Manager U.S.Senator 1911-23 Wabash [Toledo] 5/1914-2/20 Died Aug. 3, 1924, Jackson; General Passenger & Ticket Engineer of Maintenance 3- buried in Concord Agent 6/1877-11/79 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 243 Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific [St. 1876-1915 in banking Asst. to President 2/1904- Louis] Died Sept. 19, 1921, 4/08 General Passenger Agent Hubbardston Chicago & North Western 11/1879-5/83 ---- Div. Superintendent 4/1908- Missouri Pacific Crystal Lake 13 General Passenger Agent First Director 1900 Ann Arbor 5/1883-7/84 Vice President, Director General Passenger & Ticket TOWNSEND, Uriel [Almont] 1913-17 Agent 7/1884-(1906) HistLap, 47; MichBiog 2:367 General Manager 1913-17 Born Dec. 4, 1829, Hunter, N. Manistique & Lake Superior TOWNSEND, James Barry # Y. Vice President 1913-14 [Lima, Ohio] 1859 to Almont, farmer General Manager 1913-17 HistAllenOh, 729-30 State representative 1875 President 1915-17 Born 1851, Allen Co., Ohio Died Apr. 1918, Almont Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 1859 to Bluffton, Ohio. ---- [Chicago] 1862 to Lima Detroit & Saginaw River Asst. to Vice President-Gen. Mayor of Lima for 5 years First Director 1871 Mgr. 9/1917-(22) Died Oct. 25, 1932, Ocean Beach, Calif. TOWS, Francis H. [New York TRACY, John A. [Erie, Pa.] ---- City] Born Feb. 1798, Scipio, Cayuga Lima Northern Chicago & North Western Co., N. Y. Director 1896 Director 6/1871-3/77 Father of John F. Tracy Detroit & Lima Northern Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Father-in-law of William L. Director 1897 Secretary, Treasurer 1879 Scott Receiver 1899-1900 Rock Island & North Western c.1816-17 to Erie, clerk, then Director ??-1884 merchant TOWNSEND, John Died Feb. 27, 1875, Erie, Pa Born June 14, 1783, Sterling, TOWSLEY, Alfred Wellington # ---- N. Y. [Toledo] New York & Erie 1802 to Albany to work in BiogRy1922, 626-27 Contractor c.1849 brother’s iron foundry Born Sept. 15, 1863, Erie & North East Mayor of Albany 1829-30, ‘32 Whitewater, Wis. Contractor 1849-50 1838 took over business- ---- Lake Shore & Michigan brother died Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. Southern President, Commercial Bank of Various work 1878-93 Director 5/1870-2/75 Albany Chicago & Eastern Illinois Director of several companies Various work 1893-95 TRACY, John Franklin Died Aug. 26, 1854, Albany, N. Great Northern [Chicago] Y. Various work 1895-9/97 Born Jan. 7, 1827, Erie, Pa. ---- Norfolk & Western Son of John A. Tracy Michigan Central Various work 9/1897-9/99 Died Feb. 13, 1878, Chicago Incorporator 1846 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe ---- [Topeka] Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific TOWNSEND, John [St. Paul] Asst. to 3rd Vice President President 8/1866-4/77 Detroit & Northern 9/1899-2/1901 Lake Shore & Michigan First Director 1897 Superintendent Southern Transportation 2-5/1901 Director 5/1870-2/74 TOWNSEND, Oliver Clark # Seaboard Coast Line Chicago & Canada Southern [Hubbardston] [Portsmouth, Va.] Director 1872-73 Born July 28, 1838, Jefferson Asst. to General Manager Chicago & North Western Co., N. Y. 5/1901-10/02 Director 6/1870-6/77 1858 to Hubbardston Div. Superintendent President 6/1870-6/1873 In Civil War 1862-65 10/1902-2/04 [Raleigh] 244 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) TRAIN, Jarvis C. [Lowell] Michigan Central BiogMass, 5:unpaginated; MichBiog1924, 2:367-368; Traveling Freight Agent MenMark, 100 ABH, 1:part5:127 1884-5/1907 Born Apr. 22, 1865, Wells, Born July 8, 1834, Tunbridge, Division Freight Agent York Co., Me. Vt. 5/1907-(13) [Grand Rapids] 1890-95 installed electric 1840 to Ionia Co. systems on street railways 1856-67 in Illinois TREADWELL, Edward 1895-97 auditor of street car 1867 to Lowell, farm products PortraitWash, 343-44 holding co. dealer Born Dec. 19, 1823, Ledyard, 1897-1912 auditor, Stone & Died Mar. 10, 1906, Lowell Cayuga Co., N. Y. Webster ---- 1847 to Ann Arbor Twp., Worked up to pres. of Stone & Kalamazoo, Lowell & Northern farmer Webster Michigan 1859 to Ann Arbor, agrl. 1912 Chmn. Bd. of Directors, First Director 1871 implement sales Westinghouse Electric Director 1874-79 Died Jan.24, 1895, Ann Arbor Died June 14, 1927, New York Hastings, Lowell & Northern ---- City Michigan Toledo, Ann Arbor & North- ---- First Director 1883 eastern [Ann Arbor] Eastern Ry (of Mass.) First Director 1878 Clerk 1883-90 TRAVER, William E. # [New Houghton County Street York City] TREW, A. R. [St. Thomas, Ont.] [Hingham, Mass.] Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Toledo, Canada Southern & Director 1905-06 Director 1902-06 Detroit Houghton County Traction Chief Engineer 1881-82 [Hingham, Mass.] TRAVERS, Richard P. [Chicago] Director 1908-10 Owned iron mines TREYSDELL, Gideon Wabash [New York City] ---- [Muskegon] Director 1916-17 Marquette Iron Range Cable Grand River & Muskegon Transit First Director 1857 TRIPP, Samuel Anthony [South First Director 1886 Haven] TRIGENT, P. [Detroit] Born Aug. 15, 1834, Barre, N. TRAVOUS, Charles Norton # Detroit & Port Huron Y. [St. Louis, Mo.] First Director 1857 Owned general store; became Born Jan. 25, 1857, Shiloh, St. banker Clair Co., Ill. TRIGENT, Patrick, Jr. [Detroit] Village president 1878 Died July 2, 1907, Detroit, Port Huron & Sarnia Died July 25, 1878, South Edwardsville, Ill. First Director 1858 Haven ---- ---- Wabash TRIPP, Charles [Ann Arbor] Toledo & South Haven/B General Attorney 1906 MichBiog1924, 2:369 First Director 1876 Born Dec. 2, 1812, Epsom, N. TREADWAY, Elmore A. # H. TROTTER, Charles W. [? PA] BiogRy1913, 547 1843 to Ann Arbor, foundry Lac La Belle & Calumet Born Whiting, Vt. business First Director 1883 ---- State senator 1855-56 Various roads c.1857-58 Mich. RR TROUT, Joseph F. [Grand Various work 1866-68 Commissioner Rapids] Detroit & Milwaukee Died July 16, 1878, Ann Arbor South Park & Crystal Springs Agent 1868-77 ---- First Director 1889 Grand Rapids & Indiana Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern General Agent 1878-81 Vice President 1872-74 TROWBRIDGE, Charles Fast freight lines Augustus [Detroit] Agent 1881-84 TRIPP, Guy Eastman # MPHC, 14:162 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 245 Born Aug. 5, 1817, and Smith Trowbridge Horseheads, N. Y. Uncle of William H. TROWBRIDGE, William Brother of Luther S. Trowbridge Hastings Trowbridge; nephew of Lumberman Born May 16, 1842 Charles C. Trowbridge Died Feb. 16, 1869, Detroit Nephew of Hubbard c.1833 to Detroit, into grocery ---- Trowbridge, John Trowbridge business Corlies & Thunder Bay and Smith Trowbridge 1855 organizer of Collins Iron Incorporator 1864 Died Dec. 22, 1889, Danville, Co. Va. c.1865 to New York City TROWBRIDGE, John [Detroit] ---- Interested in several mining Born Apr. 22, 1805, Truxton, Corlies & Thunder Bay companies N.Y. Incorporator 1864 Died Apr. 13, 1889, New York Brother of Hubbard City Trowbridge and Smith TRUDELL, Fabian J. # ---- Trowbridge HistNP, 3:1209-10 Lake Superior Uncle of William H. Born Dec. 29, 1859, Green Bay, First Director 1857 Trowbridge Wis. Flint & Pere Marquette Lumberman c.1869 to Menominee, 1875 Director 1860 Died Apr. 9, 1893, Detroit became a printer ---- c.1880 to Vulcan TROWBRIDGE, Charles Corlies & Thunder Bay c.1881 to Menominee Christopher Director 1870 1884 graduated Univ. Mich. MichBiog, 2:369; ABH, 1:part law school 1:144-45; MPHC, TROWBRIDGE, Luther Stephen c.1884 to Iron Mountain 6:478-91 # [Detroit] Mayor of Iron Mountain, 2 Born Dec. 29, 1800, Albany, ABH, 1:part1:143-44, BkDet, terms N.Y. 450 Died May 1945, Menominee Uncle of Charles A. and Luther Born July 28, 1836, Troy ---- S. Trowbridge Brother of Charles A. Chicago & North Western 1819 to Detroit; Trowbridge; nephew of [Vulcan] 1825-43 with Bank of Charles C. Trowbridge Employee 1880-81 Michigan Died Feb. 2, 1912, Detroit Menominee Range Street 1844-53 pres., Michigan State ---- [Menominee] Bank Detroit RR & Tunnel First Director 1901 Died Apr. 3, 1883, Detroit First Director 1888 ---- Wyandotte & Detroit River TRUESDALE, Wesley [Detroit] Allegan & Marshall 1891 Michigan Air Line Extension Commissioner 1836 First Director First Director 1869 Oakland & Ottawa Michigan Midland Secretary and President no TROWBRIDGE, Smith [Detroit] First Director 1870 dates Born May 12, 1819, Truxton, Detroit & Milwaukee N. Y. TRUMBLE, James # [Manistee] Director 1863 -1878 Brother of Hubbard Manistee Light & Traction Secretary 1855-62 Trowbridge and John Asst. General Manager 1908 President 1863-78 Trowbridge Receiver Uncle of William H. TRUMBULL, Walter F. # 4/15/1875-10/1878 Trowbridge [Salem, Mass.] Lumberman Northern Michigan Traction TROWBRIDGE, Hubbard Died Mar.31, 1884, Chicago First Director 1905 [Detroit ---- President 1905 Born Jan. 17, 1813, Truxton, Corlies & Thunder Bay N.Y. Incorporator 1864 TRUMP, Edward N. # Brother of John Trowbridge Director 1870 [Syracuse, N.Y.] 246 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Born Nov. 9, 1857, Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena 7/85 [Elkhart] Philadelphia Chief Engineer 1904-06 New York, Pennsylvania & Pioneer in U. S. alkali industry Grand Trunk Pacific Ohio Died c.1944 Resident Engineer 1906-08 Div. Superintendent 7/1885- ---- 2/87 [Galion, Oh.] Delray Connecting TUCK, Edward [New York City] Div. Superintendent 2- Director 1904-15 Born Aug. 25, 1842, Exeter, N. 12/1887 [Elmira, N. Y.] Syracuse, Lakeside & Y. Div. Superintendent 8- Baldwinsville 1862 graduated Dartmouth 9/1888 [Youngstown, Oh.] Director 1902-05 Coll. General Superintendent 1866 with bank that allowed 9/1888-1/91 [Cleveland] TRUMP, William D. # frequent trips to France General Manager 1/891- BkDet, 451; BiogRy1913, 550 1881 retired from business; (93) Born Mar. 28, 1864, Milford managed his own investments ---- 1890 moved permanently to TUCKER, Charles Russell [New Flint & Pere Marquette France Bedford, Mass.] Telegraph Operator 1883-86 Died Apr. 30, 1938, Monte Born Mar. 5, 1809, Darmouth, Clerk to Asst. Carlo, Monaco; Mass. Superintendent 1886-92 buried near Paris Made his money in whaling [Saginaw] ---- 1844-76, director, Merchants Clerk to General Marquette, Houghton & Natl. Bank (N. B.) Superintendent 1892-95 Ontonagon Died Dec. 21, 1876, New Asst. to General Manager Director 1888-89 Bedford 1895-97 Marquette & Western ---- General Superintendent Director 1888-89 Flint & Pere Marquette 1/1897-12/99 Great Northern Director 1875-76 Pere Marquette Director no dates Div. Superintendent 1/1900- TUCKER, Fred Dillon 4/1903 [Saginaw] TUCKER, Alba Mark BiogRy1901, 551 Asst. Gen. Superintendent BiogRy1885, 244; Born Sept. 1, 1863 4/1903-10/04 [Detroit] BiogRy1893, 374 1880-81, with Dominion General Superintendent Born Nov. 14, 1836, West Telegraph, Toronto 10/1904-3/12 Hartford, Vt. ---- Detroit Terminal 1861-66 in Civil War; brev. Lt. Wisconsin Central Manager 3/1912-17 Col.; Telegraph Operator 1881-82 Died Feb. 7, 1900, prob. Milwaukee & Northern [Green TRYON, William [Royalton Elkhart, Ind. Bay, Wis.] Twp., Berrien Co.] ---- Superintendent Telegraph St. Joseph River Various roads 1882-90 First Director 1867 Engineering Dept. 1847- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 6/54 Trainmaster 1890-(1901) TUBBS, Nelson J. # [Cadillac] Michigan Southern & Northern [Ottumwa, Ia.] Born Aug.15, 1871, Eaton Co., Indiana Mich. Clerk [Tecumseh, Elkhart] TUCKER, James G. (Jr.) # [Mt. Taught at State Normal Coll., 5/1855-5/57 Clemens] Albany, N. Y. c.1891-95 Clerk [Toledo] 9/1858-7/62 PastMacomb,540-41 1908 to Spokane, Wash., civil Milwaukee & Mississippi Born Nov. 30, 1855, Mt. engineer Clerk 7/1857-8/58 Clemens Died Oct.22, 1956, Civil War, U. S. Military RRs 1880 admitted to bar Washington, D. C. --- 10/1863-12/65 Pros. attorney 1888-96 ---- Lake Shore & Michigan Circuit court judge 1899-1905, Pere Marquette Southern 1912-23 Engineering Dept. 1901-04 Div. Superintendent 1/1878- Died 1923 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 247 ---- Mineral Range Flushing Detroit & River St. Clair Secretary 1888-92 First Director 1886 Receiver 1897 Treasurer, Director Detroit, Mt. Clemens, Romeo & 1890-92 TURNER, Charles H. [Fenton] Armada PortraitGenLapTus, 832-33; First Director 1900 TUNSTEAD, William J. # HistGen1, 218 Born 1840, Canada Born July 2, 1827, Ontario Co., TUCKER, Joel [Mt. Clemens} 1898-1906 director Oxford N. Y. 1839 to Mt. Clemens (from Savings Bank 1850 to Fenton, boot and shoe Pennsylvania) Died 1924, Oxford merchant no date to Algonac, lumbering ---- President, Fenton village ---- Toledo & Port Austin 1865-66, ’68, ’77, ‘79 Romeo & Mt. Clemens First Director 1879 Died 1886, Fenton Commissioner 1833 ---- TURCK, William S. # [Alma] Ohio & Lake Superior TUCKER, Robert [Toledo] MichBiog, 2:372; PortraitGrat, First Director 1865 Attorney 657-58 ---- Born Aug. 7, 1839, Port Hope, TURNER, George [Bay City] Jackson & Cincinnati Ont. HistBay3, 707-08; First Director, Director 1896 1860 to Mich. PortraitSagBay, 1:1010 1862-65 in 26th Mich. Infantry Born Jan. 19, 1835, Clinton Co. TUCKERMAN, Leverett Held several county offices Worked for U. S. surveyor Saltonstall # [Boston] State representative 1877-80 Lyons WhosWhoNE, 1081 Pres. & treas. Farmers Mutual 1861-65 in Civil War, mostly Born Apr. 19, 1848, Fire Ins. Co. engineering corps Washington, D. C. Died Sept. 19, 1902, Alma 1865-81 contracting work 1868 graduated Harvard Univ.; ---- 1881 to Bay City, city engineer 1871 Harvard law school Ithaca & Alma Died Aug. 30, 1906, Bay City Attorney First Director 1882 ---- ---- Lansing, Alma, Mt. Pleasant & Bay City Belt Line Detroit, Hillsdale & South Northern First Director, Director Western First Director 1884 1889-96 Director 1896-97 Chief Engineer 1890-92 TURNER, Alvin TUCKERMAN, Lucius [New Michigan, Internal TURNER, George B. [Cass Co.] York City] Improvement Board MichBiog, 2:372; ABH-1,4:60- Born Mar. 19, 1818, North Chief Engineer [Southern] 61 Chelsea, Mass 5/1841-4/1842 Born Mar. 1, 1822, Franklin Died June 10, 1890, (also of canals Co., N. Y. Stockbridge, Mass. 5/1840-4/1841) 1835 to Detroit ---- c.1836 to Cassopolis Detroit & Bay City TURNER, Brunson # [Flushing] 1844 admitted to bar Director 1877 PortraitGenLapTus, 267-68; State representative 1848-49 HistGen2, 2:463 Died Apr. 15, 1903, Cassopolis TULLER, William D. [Newaygo] Born May 15, 1826, Pine ---- Newaygo Plains, Dutchess Co., N. Y. Peninsular Ry Extension First Director 1886 1855 to Saginaw Co. First Director 1866 1858 to Flushing Twp. TULLY, John [New York City] Began mercantile business TURNER, Horace Hancock & Calumet Held local offices Michigan Central Secretary, Treasurer Founder of bank Auditor 1857-59 1890-92 Died Feb. 24, 1908, Flushing Director 1890-92 ---- TURNER, James 248 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) MichBiog, 2:373; ABH-1,6:75- 4th Vice President 6/1901- Died Feb. 26, 1871, Chicago 76 1/02 ---- Born Apr. 1, 1820, Cazenovia, 3rd Vice President 1/1902- Galena & Chicago Union N.Y. 1/07 Promoter 1847 on, with Father of James M. Turner (b. Vice President 1/1907-3/20 William B. Ogden 1850) Grand Rapids & Indiana President 1854-59. 1864 to Leoni 1840, clerk [Pittsburgh] Chicago & North Western to Mason 1841, mercantile Director 1901-17 Director 6/1864-4/69, to Lansing 1847 7/1869-6/71 State senator 1867-8 TURNER, James Munroe Sponsor of Lansing-Howell [Lansing] TURNER, John W. plank road MichBiog,,2:373; CycMich, 60- MichBiog, 2:374 Died Oct. 10, 1869, Lansing 61; Born Feb. 23, 1800, Oneida Co., ---- HistMich1915, 3:1530-32 N. Y. Saginaw & Lansing Born Apr. 23, 1850, Lansing 1848 to DeWitt First Director 1855 Son of James Turner (b. 1820) State representative 1851 Amboy, Lansing & Traverse 1864 Promoted RR from Lived 11 years in Dakota Terr. Bay Lansing to Jackson Died Apr. 11, 1883, Turner, First Director 1857 c.1871 began dealing in timber Dakota Terr. Lansing & Jackson and mining land ---- First Director, First State representative 1877-8; Saginaw & Lansing Treasurer 1863 Many business interests First Director 1855 Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw 1889 founder of Michigan Treasurer Slate Co. TURNER, Joseph [Bay City] Ionia & Lansing Part owner of Great Western Union Street (Bay City) Director Iron Mine First Director 1890 Died July 7, 1896, Lansing Bay City Belt Line TURNER, James [Bay City] ---- Treasurer 1890-96 Bay Cities Consolidated Ionia & Lansing Director 1890-97 First Director 1898 Asst. Treasurer 1869-c1871 Chicago & Northeastern TURNER, Nelson Marmaduke. TURNER, James Jewett # First Director 1874 [Stanton] BiogRy1913, 552 President, Director 1874-79 ABH, 2:part 8:54 Born Apr. 7, 1853, Baltimore General Superintendent Born Dec. 10, 1817, Winfield, Died May 29, 1928, prob. 1878-79 N. Y. Pittsburgh 1852 to Reading, saw mill ---- TURNER, Jesse Foote 1859 to Mason Pennsylvania-West MichBiog, 2:374 1863 to Stanton, saw mill predecessors Born Dec. 24, 1810, Ilion, N.Y. Died May 17, 1874, Stanton Various work 2/1870-5/80 to Dewitt 1838, mercantile ---- Div. Superintendent 5/1880- State senator 1844-5 Greenville, Stanton & St. Louis 4-/88 [various] to California 1851 First Director 1871 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago Died Aug. 28, 1871, Jackson, Ionia, Stanton & Northern & St. Louis Calif. First Director 1872 and predecessor ---- Superintendent 4/1888- Port Huron & Lake Michigan TURNURE, Lawrence [New 1/96 Commissioner 1847 York City] Terre Haute & Indianapolis [St. Born c.1828 Louis] TURNER, John Bice [Chicago] Banker Vice President, General Yesterday, 8; Chicago Times RR investor with Percy R. Pyne Manager 1/1896-6/1901 Feb. 27, 1871 and R. G. Rolston Pennsylvania-West Born Jan. 14, 1799, Colchester, ---- [Pittsburgh] Delaware Co., N. Y. Fort Wayne & Jackson Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 249 Director 1884-85, 1888-96 Minnesota, St. Croix & Western TUTTLE, Harry A. Various work 1884-85 TURRELL, James [Lapeer] [Minneapolis] Wisconsin Central Born Sept. 24, 1797, HistMpls, 3:384-87 [Milwaukee] Shoreham, Vt. Born Sept. 19, 1846, Oswego, Asst. Engineer 1885-90 Died July 31, 1876, Lapeer N. Y. Chief Engineer 1892-4/1902 ---- c.1861-1886 with Western Marinette, Tomahawk & Chicago & Michigan Grand Union Western [Tomahawk, Wis.] Trunk 1882 to Minneapolis Vice President, Treasurer First Director 1865 1896-1909 pres. North 1902-(22) Port Huron & Lake Michigan American Telegraph Director 1870 Died June 16, 1919, TWICHILL, J. J. # [Chicago] Minneapolis Erie & Michigan Ry & TUTHILL, Job ---- Navigation BiogRy1896, 480 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Auditor, Director 1906 Born Oct. 26, 1855, Blooming Ste. Marie Grove, N. Y. Superintendent Telegraph TWOMBLEY, J. D. # Grad. Univ. of Mich. 1895-1908 Detroit United ---- Div. Superintendent 1908 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul TUTTLE, Jonathan Brown # Bridge Dept. 1884 [Detroit] TWOMBLY, Hamilton McKown Detroit, Lansing & Northern Bingham, 649; Landmarkss, # [New York City] Asst. Engineer 9/1884-8/89 843-44 Born Aug. 11, 1849, Boston Asst. Chief Engineer 8/1889- Born Aug. 15, 1841, Lodi, Ohio Brother-in-law of William 9/90 1862-64 in Civil War, Ohio Vol. Henry Vanderbilt Engineer, Bridges & Infantry Died Jan. 10, 1910 Buildings 9/1890-(96) no date to Alpena, attorney ---- Chicago & West Michigan Probate and circuit court judge Chicago & North Western [Grand Rapids] 1890 to Detroit, attorney Director 6/1884-1/1910 Engineer, Bridges & ---- Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Buildings 9/1890-(96) AuSable & Northwestern Western Attorney 1893-1901 Director 1891-92 TUTT, Thomas E. [St. Louis, Lake Shore & Michigan Mo.] TUXBURY, George H. [Hart] Southern Born Oct. 9, 1822, Page, Born 1832 Director 8/1890-1909 Shenandoah Co., Virginia --- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 1848 to St. Louis, merchant Lowell & Hastings & St. Louis 1870 to St. Louis after some Director 1890-97 Director 1892-1902 years in far west Michigan Central 1877-89, pres., Third Natl. TUXBURY, James R. [Grand Director 1901-09 Bank Rapids] Died Mar. 23, 1897, St. Louis West Side Street of Grand TYLER, (Sir) Henry Whatley ---- Rapids [London, Engl.] Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific First Director 1878 BiogRy1885, 246 Director 1881-84 Born March 7, 1827, London, Receiver 5/29/1884-86 TWEEDY, Robert Benedict # England BiogRy1901, 555; Died Jan. 30, 1908, London, TUTTLE, Elijah J. # [Detroit] BiogRy1922, 632 England Born Dec. 1857, N. Y. state Born Sept. 27, 1864, ---- ---- Milwaukee English roads Alpena & Western 1890-92 in private business Various work 4/1853-77 First Director 1900 [Chicago] Grand Trunk Ry Canada Constructing Engineer 1900 ---- Vice President 1876-10/76 250 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) President 10/1876-5/95 Michigan Air Line Ry Director 1878-80 TYLER, Willis E. # BiogRy1913, 553-54; HistUP, 469 Born May 29, 1853, Cincinnati ---- Various roads Various work 1868-72 Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Station Agent 1872-88 [various] Milwaukee & Northern Freight Agent 1888-93 [various] Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul [various] Traveling Freight & Passenger Agent 1893-98 Division Freight & Passenger Agent 1898-4/1903 Asst. General Freight Agent 4/1903-8/10 [Chgo] General Agent 8/1910-(16) [Mendota, Ill.] Ontonagon & Southwestern [Chicago] First Director 1904 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 251 U BiogRy1885; 247, BHBg1900, UNDERWOOD, William 442-443; PPA, 1:347- Jackson # UHL, Edwin Fuller # 49; WhosWhoFB, 694-95; BiogRy1913, 555 Born Aug. 14, 1841, Rush, N. Y. WhosWhoNY, 944; Born Apr. 19, 1852, Milwaukee Partner of Lyman D. Norris MenErie, 221-31 Died Jan. 2, 1917, Milwaukee Bank president in Grand Born Feb. 1, 1849, Wauwatosa, ---- Rapids, 1881-1901 Wis. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Mayor, Grand Rapids, 1890-91 Brought Daniel Willard to B&O Various work 10/1872-1/84 U. S. ambassador to Germany, Died Feb. 18, 1942 Div. Superintendent 1/1884- 1890-91 ---- 94 [St. Paul] Died May 17, 1901, Grand Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Asst. Gen. Superintendent Rapids; burial Ypsilanti Various work 7/1868-81 1894-2/1900 [Chgo] ---- Div. Superintendent General Superintendent 2- Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana [LaCrosse, WI] 1881-85 12/1900 [Ypsilanti] General Superintendent Asst. General Manager Secretary 1873-74 1886 12/1900-12/05 Treasurer 1873 Minneapolis & Pacific General Manager 12/1905- Detroit, Hillsdale & South [Minneapolis] 10/09 Western General Manager 1886-88 Div. Superintendent Receiver, General Manager Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault 10/1909-(13) [Milwaukee] 1874 Ste. Marie South Park & Crystal Springs General Manager 1888-99 UPHAM, Horace Alonzo [Grand Rapids] Baltimore & Ohio [Baltimore] Jacques # [Milwaukee] First Director 1889 General Manager 1899 HerrNL, 5:521 Vice President 1899-1901 Born Aug. 14, 1853, UNDERHILL, Andrew J. Erie RR [New York City] Milwaukee [Pentwater] President 1901-26 graduated West Point and Born 1832 Pere Marquette [New York Univ. Mich.; attorney Served in 26 Mich. Infantry, City] Died Aug. 22, 1919, Wisconsin 1862-63 President 1905-06 Dells, Wis. Died Nov. 1, 1908, Pentwater Director 1905-09, 1912-13 ---- ---- Escanaba & Lake Superior Montague, Pentwater & UNDERWOOD, William H. # First Director, Director Manistee [Chicago] 1900-06, 1910-17 First Director 1871 BiogRy1913, 555 Secretary 1900-07 Born May 6, 1858, Rochester, Treasurer 1900-15 UNDERWOOD, Daniel K. N. Y. Vice President 1908-17 [Adrian] ---- MichBiog, 2:378; MemLen, Michigan Central UPHAM, William Henry # 1187-89; HistLen, 135-39 Clerical work 1874-5/76 [Marshfield, Wis.] Born June 15, 1803, Enfield, N. Western Passenger Agent HerrNL, 5:522 H. 4/1883-4/87 [Chicago] Born May 3, 1841, 1826 graduated Dartmouth Eastern Psgr. Agent 4/1887- Westminster, Mass. College 4/1905 [Buffalo] 1861-75 in U. S. Army 1836 to Adrian, physician Asst. Gen. Psgr. Agent In lumber, furniture mfg, and State representative 1840 4/1905-(13) [Chicago] banking Died May 6, 1875, Adrian Canada Southern [Detroit] 1895-97 Gov. of Wis. ---- Ticket office clerk 5/1876- Died July 2, 1924, Marshfield, Erie & Kalamazoo 7/78 Wis. Director 1844, 1846 Wabash [ Detroit] ---- City Ticket Agent 7/1878- Sault Ste. Marie & UNDERWOOD, Frederick 4/83 Southwestern Douglas # First Director 1885 252 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) First Director 1846 Grand Rapids Belt Line UPJOHN, James Townley # Treasurer 1846-54 First Director 1891 [Kalamazoo] Director 3/1848-1855?? Born Nov. 29, 1858, Richland UTLEY, Philip L. # [Escanaba] 1886 grad. Univ. of Mich. URBAHNS, C. Emil # Born 1869/70, Neenah, Wis. medical school BiogRy1922, 634-35 ---- 1886, a founder of Upjohn Co. Born Nov. 3, 1870, Valparaiso, Escanaba Electric Street State representative 1925-28 Ind. General Superintendent State senator 1929-36 ---- 1908 Died Jan.18, 1936, Kalamazoo New York, Chicago & St. Louis Escanaba Traction ---- Telegrapher, Train Asst. General Manager 1909 Kalamazoo, Gull Lake & Dispatcher 9/1885-4/1904 General Manager 1910-17 Northern Wisconsin Central Secretary, Director 1910-17 First Director 1906 Chief Train Dispatcher Delta Traction 4/1904-1/06 First Director 1909 UPSON, Charles Trainmaster 1/1906-4/07 MichBiog, 2:379; HerrNL, Assistant UTLEY, William T. # [Detroit] 5:522 Superintendent4/1907-4/09 Detroit, Lansing & Grand Born March 19, 1821, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Rapids Southington, Conn. Ste. Marie First Director 1909 1845 to Constantine Assistant Michigan Light & Traction 1846 to Centreville Superintendent4/1909-4/11 First Director 1909 1856 to Coldwater Div. Superintendent 4/1911- State senator 1855-56, 81-82 5/20 [Stevens Pt.] Mich. Atty. Gen. 1861-63 General Superintendent U. S. Representative 1863-71 5/20-(22) [Minneapolis] Died Sept. 5, 1885, Coldwater ---- UREN, William J. # [Calumet] Michigan BiogHBM, 45-47 Member, Mich. RR Born Dec. 1863, Keweenaw Commission 1857-61? Co. 1880-85 with father in mining UPSON, D. Carey [Otisco Twp. 1888 graduated Mich. Coll. of Ionia Co.] Mines Born Oct.14, 1831, Euclid, Ohio 1895 re-entered mining Died Feb. 18, 1897, Otisco Died Mar. 12, 1897 Twp. ---- ---- Hancock & Calumet Patterson Civil Engineer 1888-95 First Director 1870 Keweenaw Central General Manager 1915-17 UPTON, Albert B. Toledo, Ann Arbor & Cadillac URICH, J. C. [Marquette] First Director 1886 Lake Superior & Ishpeming Auditor 1896-97 UPTON, George Bruce HerrNL, 5:523 UTLEY, Jay D. [Grand Rapids] Born Oct. 11, 1804, Eastport, HistKent, 1150 Me. Born July 14, 1845, Portland, Mass. state senator N. Y. Died July 1, 1874, Boston 1855 to Grand Rapids ---- Furniture manufacturer Michigan Central ---- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 253 V Freight Traffic Manager 1892 VANCE, William B. [St. Ignace] VAIL, Carl Montaigne # [New 2nd Vice President 1892-95 St. Ignace, Sault Ste. Marie & York City] Northern WhosWhoFB, 697; VALENTINE, George # First Director 1888 WhosWhoNY, 947 [Detroit] Born Apr. 14, 1863, New York Detroit, Lansing & Grand VanCLEVE, Charles E. # City Rapids [Berrien Springs] 1882-1913 some connection First Director 1909 Lake Shore with Westinghouse First Director 1901 1913 into banking VanAICLEN, Aaron [Paw Paw] Lake Michigan & Eastern ---- Paw Paw First Director 1901 Lackawanna & Wyoming Director 1875 Valley VanCLEVE, Frank H. # Treasurer, Director 1902-11 VanBERGEN, Peter A. [Escanaba] Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & [Menominee] HistNP, 2:660 Muskegon 1867 to Menominee Born June 12, 1850, Ypsilanti Director 1907-11 County clerk and register of 1876 to Escanaba Treasurer 1902-11 deeds 1873-74 Pres. First Natl. Bank Escanaba ---- ---- VAIL, Charles W. # [Chicago] Menominee Street Chicago & North Western Born Mar. 14, 1861, near First Director 1888 Engineer 1871-74 [Green Fairbury, Ill. Menominee Electric Ry & Bay] ---- Power General Land Agent South Haven & Paw Paw Lake First Director 1891 [Chicago, Escanaba] Electric Menominee Electric Light Ry & First Director 1900 Power VanCLEVE, John Archer # First Director 1892 [Marinette, Wis.] VAIL, Edward P. # [Chicago] Born Oct. 1846, Ypsilanti Manistee & Grand Rapids VanBERGEN, William Fred ---- Director 1906 BkChi, 582; BiogRy1906, 616 Wisconsin & Michigan Born Aug. 27, 1849, Troy, N. Y. Director 1894-95 VAILLANT, George Henri ---- Escanaba & Lake Superior BiogRy1885, 248 Chicago & North Western Director 1911-17 Born Oct. 16, 1840, Various work 6/1865-9/82 Dunkerque, France Ticket Auditor 9/1882- VanCLEVE, John W. # [Berrien 1850 family emigrated to (1906) Springs] Cleveland Michigan & Indiana Died Sept. 29, 1895, Bristol, VanBRUNT, Charles [Boston] First Director 1898 Long Island, N. Y.; President, Kearsasrge Mining Kalamazoo & Lake Michigan burial Cleveland Co. 1895 First Director 1900 ---- ---- Interstate Cleveland, Painesville & Hancock & Calumet First Director 1900 Ashtabula Director 1885 Lake Shore Clerk 4/1854-7/73 First Director 1901 Lake Shore & Michigan VanBRUNT, Tunis Lake Michigan & Eastern Southern [Cleveland] Born Aug. 25, 1803, Jamaica, N. First Director 1901 Asst. General Freight Agent Y. 7/1873-9/81 Died Dec. 29, 1867 VanCLEVE, Nathaniel W. General Freight Agent ---- Michigan & Indiana 9/1881-4/85 Michigan Southern First Director 1898 New York, Lake Erie & Director 12/1846-5/1849 Western [New York City] President 6/1847-12/1848 VanCORTLANDT, Robert B. # 254 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) [New York City] City Director 1890-92 HistNY, 533 ---- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Born Aug. 14, 1862, Kings New York & Harlem & St. Louis Bridge, N. Y. Treasurer 1868-77 Director 1892-97 1882 graduated Columbia New York Central & Hudson College River VANDERBILT, Frederick Investment banker 1st Vice President 1877-83 William # [New York City] ---- Lake Shore & Michigan WhosWhoFB, 698 Detroit United Southern Born Feb. 2, 1856, New York Director 1902-10 Director 5/1877-9/99 City Toledo Rys & Light Michigan Central Son of William Henry Director Director 1878-97 Vanderbilt Chairman, Bd. of Directors Died June 29, 1938, Hyde Park, VanDeMARK, Stewart O. # 1888-97 N.Y. [Detroit] Treasurer 1878-82 ---- Detroit & Flint Vice President 1880-82 Chicago & North Western First Director 1901 Canada Southern Director 10/1881-1917 Treasurer 1878-83 Lake Shore & Michigan VANDENBURGH, F. H. Vice President 1879-83 Southern City RR (Port Huron) President 1883-(85) Director 5/1884-1914 First Director 1873 Battle Creek & Sturgis Michigan Central Director 1890-97 Director 12/23/1891-1917 VANDERBILT, Cornelius Bay City & Battle Creek Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago ("Commodore") Director 1890-97 & St. Louis RRLeaders, 474-475; Canada Southern Bridge Director 1896-1917 LS&MSHist, 741-742 Director 1880-97 Canada Southern Bridge Co. Born May 27, 1794, Staten Treasurer 1878-82 Director 1901-17 Island, N.Y. Detroit & Bay City Detroit & Bay City Father of William Henry Director 1879-97 Director 1901-09 Vanderbilt President 1881-97 Detroit & Chicago Died Jan. 4, 1877, New York Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Director 1911-14 City Director 1879-97 Detroit, Monroe & Toledo ---- Kalamazoo & South Haven Director 1911-14 New York & Harlem Director 1881-97 Detroit River Tunnel Co. President 1863-70 Michigan Air Line RR Director 1910-17 Hudson River Director 1887-97 Kalamazoo & White Pigeon President 1865-69 Michigan Midland & Canada Director 1911-14 New York Central Director 1878-97 Michigan Midland & Canada President 1867-77 Treasurer 1878-82 Director 1901-15 Lake Shore & Michigan Toledo, Canada Southern & Northern Central Michigan Southern Detroit Director 1911-14 Director, President 7/1873- Director 1878-97 New York Central 1/77 Treasurer 1878-82 Director 1915-17 Chicago & Canada Southern Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis VANDERBILT, Cornelius II Director 1879-88 Director 1911-14 [New York City] Treasurer 1879-82 Toledo, Canada Southern & BiogRy1885, 248; RRLeaders, Detroit & Chicago Detroit 475; PPA, 2:220-22 Director 1889-97 Director 1901-16 Born Nov. 27, 1843, Staten Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Island, N.Y. Director 1887-97 VANDERBILT, Harold Stirling Son of William Henry Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis # [New York City] Vanderbilt Director 1890-97 Born July 6, 1884, Oakdale, N. Died Sept. 12, 1899, New York Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Y. Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 255 Son of William Kissam Vice President 1869-77 Detroit & Bay City Vanderbilt I President 1877-5/83 Director 1879-1909 Died July 4, 1970; burial Lake Shore & Michigan Detroit & Chicago Portsmouth, R. I. Southern Director 1889-1914 ---- Director 7/1873-12/85 Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Chicago & North Western 1st Vice President Director 1887-1914 Director 5/1914-12/40 5/1874-2/76 Detroit River Tunnel Co. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago President 5/1877-5/83 Director 1911-17 & St. Louis Michigan Central Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Director 1916-17 President, Director Director 1903-17 Detroit & Chicago 6/1878-5/83 Kalamazoo & White Pigeon Director 1914 President 1878-85 Director 1911-14 Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Canada Southern Michigan Air Line RR Director 1914 President 1879-83 Director 1887-88 Detroit River Tunnel Co. Canada Southern Bridge Michigan Midland & Canada Director 1914-17 Director 1878 Director 1876, 1884-1905 Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Chicago & Canada Southern Northern Central Michigan Director 1913-17 Director 1880-84 Director 1890-1914 Kalamazoo & White Pigeon Northern Central Michigan Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis Director 1914 President 1880 Director 1890-1914 Michigan Central Toledo, Canada Southern & Director 1914-17 VANDERBILT, William Kissam Detroit New York Central # [New York City] Director 1876, 1884-1916 Director 1915-17 BiogRy1885 , 248 New York Central Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis Born Dec. 12, 1849, Staten Director 1915-17 Director 1914 Island, N.Y. Son of William H. Vanderbilt VANDERBILT, William Kissam VANDERBILT, William Henry Died July 22, 1920, Paris, II # [N. Y. C.] [New York City] France; burial Staten Island Born Mar. 2, 1878, New York BiogRy1885, 248; RRLeaders, ---- City 477 New York Central & Hudson Son of William K. Vanderbilt Born May 8, 1821, New River Grandson of William Brunswick, N.J. 2nd Vice President 1877-83 H.Vanderbilt Son of Cornelius Vanderbilt New York, Chicago & St. Louis Died Jan. 8, 1944, New York Father of Cornelius Vanderbilt President 1882-(85) City; burial Staten Island II, William K. Lake Shore & Michigan ---- Vanderbilt Southern Lake Shore & Michigan Brother-in-law of Hamilton Director 5/1877-1914 Southern McK. Twombly and Michigan Central Director 1906-14 William Seward Webb Director 1878-1917 Vice President 1912-14 Died Dec. 8, 1885, New York Canada Southern Bridge New York Central City Director 1879-1917 Vice President, Director ---- Chicago & Canada Southern 1915-17 Staten Island Director 1885-88 Michigan Central Receiver 1861-63 Chicago & North Western Director 1906-17 President 1863-64 Director 8/1884-1917 Vice President 1912-17 New York & Harlem Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Canada Southern Bridge Co. Vice President 1864-77 Director 1892 Director 1915-17 President 1877-(85) Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Cincinnati Northern Hudson River & St. Louis Vice President 1914-16 Vice President 1865-69 Director 1892-1917 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago New York Central & Hudson Cincinnati Northern & St. Louis River Vice President 1913-14 Vice President, Director 256 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1916-17 ---- Commissioner Detroit & Chicago Michigan Central 5/1840-4/1841 Director 1911-14 Attorney 1852 Vice President 1914 VanHAGEN, George E. [Benton Detroit, Monroe & Toledo VanDYKE, John Henry # Harbor, 1901 Chicago] Director 1910-14 [Milwaukee] Born c.1874, Canada Vice President 1914 Born Oct. 17, 1823, Vice President, Chicago Forge Detroit River Tunnel Co. Pennsylvania & Bolt Co. Director 1911-17 President, Northwestern Died Apr. 6, 1946, Miami Vice President 1914-17 Mutual Life, 1869-74 Beach, Fla. Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Died Mar. 9, 1909, Milwaukee ---- Director 1906-17 ---- Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Vice President 1913-17 Menominee River Columbus Kalamazoo & White Pigeon First Director 1875 Secretary 1899-1902 Director 1912-14 Director 1901-02 Vice President 1914 VanDYKE, Philip J. D. Treasurer 1902 Northern Central Michigan ABH, 1:part 1:146 South Haven & Eastern Director 1910-14 Born June 28, 1843, Detroit Secretary 1899-1902 Vice President 1914 Son of James A. VanDyke Treasurer 1899-1900, 1902 Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis 1863 graduated St. Johns Director 1901 Director 1906-14 College Toledo, Canada Southern & Wayne Co. prosecuting VanHARLINGEN, Martin # Detroit attorney 1869-72 [Philadelphia] Director 1914-16 Died 1883, Detroit Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo & ---- South Haven Traction VanderWERP, John # Hamtramck Street First Director 1901 [Muskegon] First Director 1868 (May be MichBiog1924,,2:382) VanHORNE, William Cornelius ---- VANE, James E. [Allegan] # [Montreal] Muskegon Traction & Lighting Born July 6, 1846 N. Y. state BiogRy1885, 249; DSA, 103-04 Director 1911-15 Died Apr. 28, 1921, Kalamazoo Born Feb. 1843, Will Co., Ill. President 1914-15 ---- Died Sept. 11, 1915, Montreal, Muskegon Lake Que.; buried Joliet, Ill. VanDEUSEN, Robert P. First Director 1879 ---- [Chicago] Grand Haven Various roads Chicago, Lake Michigan & Roadmaster 1879 Various work 10/1856-58 Eastern Michigan Central First Director 1891 VanETTEN, George H. [Bay Various work [Joliet Br.] City] 1858-64 VanDREZER, Sumner [Grand Born Oct. 30, 1840, Chemung Chicago & Alton Haven] Co., N. Y. Div. Superintendent 1864- Michigan Lake Shore Mayor, Bay City 1871-73 72 First Director 1869 Lumberman, Pinconning, 1872 St. Louis, Kansas City & Died Sept. 9, 1894, Albany, N. Northern VanDYKE, James Adams Yl General Superintendent [Detroit] ---- 7/1872-7/74 Leake, 3:879-84 Glencoe, Pinconning & Lake Southern Minnesota Born Dec. 1813, Mercersburg, Shore General Manager 7/1874- Pa. First Director, Director 1876 10/78 Father of Philip J. D. VanDyke President 1877-12/79 Attorney for defense, RR VanFOSSEN, John M. Chicago & Alton Conspiracy trial 1851 Michigan, Internal General Superintendent Died May 7, 1855, Detroit Improvement Board 10/1878-12/79 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 257 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Born Oct. 17, 1811, VanWINKLE, John Quincy # General Superintendent Waansperveen, Netherlands BiogRy1922, 639 1/1880-1/82 1848 established Dutch colony Born Jan. 16, 1851, Madison Canadian Pacific at Holland Co., Ind. General Manager 1/1882-84 Died Nov. 7, 1876, Holland Died Jan. 1936, Indianapolis Vice President 1884-88 ---- ---- President 1888-(98) Allegan & Holland Various roads Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic First Director 1868 Clerk, Station Agent 3/1861- Director 1888-97 5/87 Vice President 1891-97 VanRIPER, Jacob J. [Buchanan] Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault ABH, 1:part 4:63; MichBiog, & St. Louis Ste. Marie 2:385; PortBerCas, Division Freight Agent Director 1890-1909 677-78; HistBerVB, 185-86 5/1887-9/88 Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co. Born March 8, 1838, Division Superintendent Director 1902-09 Haverstraw, N. Y. 9/1888-1/92 1857 to Cass Co. General Superintendent VanHOVENBURGH, James D. 1862 to Dowagiac, attorney (x- 3/1893-5/1906 [Indpls.] Jonesville Univ. of Mich.) Asst. General Manager 5- Commissioner 1840 1872 to Buchanan 10/1906 Died Dec. 4, 1912, Niles; burial General Manager 10/1906- VANIER, Joseph A. [Marquette] Buchanan 7/13 Marquette City & Presque Isle ---- Asst. to Vice First Director 1890 St. Joseph Valley President7/1913-(22) Attorney, Director 1881-82, Director 1908-13 VanLOAN, Zelah [New York 1890-92 [Cincinnati] City] Terminal Railroad of St. Louis Born Oct. 6, 1853, N. Y. state Van SANTVOORD, A. # [New General Superintendent Banker York City] 1/1892-3/93 ---- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Cincinnati Northern Marquette, Houghton & Director 1893-1900 General Manager 1906-13 Ontonagon Director 1912-16 Director 1890 VanSICKLE, Charles Central Indiana Ry [Muskegon] President 4/1915-(22) VanNESS, Sybrant St. Marys Falls River Raisin & Lake Erie First Director 1887 VanZANDT, Milton B. # [New Commissioner 1836 York City] VanSLYKE, Erma H. # Born 1849, N. Y. state VanORDEN, Matthew Flint & Saginaw Traction ---- [Houghton] First Director 1904 Chicago & North Western HistUP, 286 Treasurer 1911-14 Born Oct. 28, 1845, New York VanVLECK, Albert [Palo] City Born Oct. 1, 1826, N. Y. state VanZANT, George W. [Chicago] 1863 to Cliff Mine, clerk 1837 to Palo Battle Creek Street 1867 to Calumet Farmer, miller, merchant First Director 1886 1872 to Houghton, attorney Died Nov. 23, 1887, Palo Died Sept. 19, 1926, Houghton ---- VARNEY, Almon Clother ---- Carson City & Palo [Detroit] Houghton & L'Anse First Director 1871 BkDet1914, 501 First Director 1881 Born Mar. 28, 1849, Luzerne, VanVLECK, H. J. # [Detroit] N. Y. VanRAALTE, Albertus C. Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw 1879 to Detroit, architect [Holland] Asst. Auditor 1913-14 Died Jan. 8, 1930, Daytona ABH, 2:part 5:129-30 Beach, Fla. 258 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ---- BiogRy1913, 560 ---- Detroit, Rouge River & Born Mar. 21, 1866, Montreal Erie & Kalamazoo Dearborn ---- Commissioner 1833 First Director 1889 Grand Trunk Ry of Canada Clerk 7/1881-8/99 VIDAL, Alexander # [Sarnia, VAUGHAN, Sidney L. # [Grand Asst. Gen. Psgr. Agent Ontario] Rapids] [Montreal] 8/1899-5/1900 Born 1819, in England Born 1862, Canada Asst. Gen. Psgr. Agent Died Nov. 18, 1906, Sarnia ---- [Chicago] 5/1900-4/09 ---- Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & General Passenger Agent Port Huron Tunnel Co. Muskegon [Montreal] 5/1909-2/11 First Director 1886 Traffic Manager 1907-14 Grand Trunk Western St. Clair Tunnel Co. Attorney 1908 Asst. General Passenger Director 1901 Director 1914-15 Agent 5/1900-4/09 General Passenger Agent VIELE, Augustus H. VAUGHAN, W. A. [Bay City, 5/1909-2/11 [Houghton] 1890 Knoxville, Tenn.] Union Pacific Ran 1st train from Hancock to Born May 1850, Vermont General Passenger Agent Calumet 10/11/1873 ---- 6/1911-(13) ---- Burlington & Missouri River Mineral Range Various work 1870-74 VEALE, William # [Calumet] Secretary, Treasurer Michigan Central Born c.1862, England 1874-80 Mechanical Dept. 1874-75 ---- General Passenger & Freight [Jackson] Mineral Range Agent 1877-80 Clerk 1875-79 [Detroit] Director 1906-17 Director 1880 Div. Superintendent 1879-7/90 [Bay City] VERMILYE, William H. VILAS, George B. # Saginaw Bay & Northwestern Born Feb. 12, 1814 BiogRy1922, 640 Director 1883-90 Died Apr 3, 1883, Westchester Born Apr. 18, 1868, East Tennessee, Virginia & Co., N. Y. Ogdensburg, N. Y. Georgia ---- ---- General Superintendent Michigan Southern & Northern Chicago & North Western 7/1890-7/94 Indiana Station work 9/1887-1904 Southern Ry Director 4/1857-9/57 Trainmaster 1904-08 General Superintendent 7- Asst. Superintendent 1908- 9/1894 VHAY, James H. 10 [Baraboo, Wis.] Superintendent Car Service Born May 15, 1839, New Div. Superintendent 1910- 9/1894-11/95 Bedford, Mass. 12 Div. Superintendent 4/1897- Wholesale grocer Asst. General 4/1903 Died June 23, 1895, Detroit Superintendent 1912-15 Asst. to General ---- [Chicago] Superintendent 4/1903-1/04 Fort Wayne & Belle Isle General Superintendent Alabama Great Southern First Director 1892 1915-(22) [Chicago] [Chattanooga] Asst. General VICKERY, Stephen VILAS, Joseph, [Jr.] # Superintendent 11//1895- [Schoolcraft] BiogWisc, 233-37; DWH 4/97 MichBiog, 2:388; HistKal, Born Mar. 31, 1832, Mississippi Central facing 504 Ogdensburg, N. Y. [Hattiesburg, Miss.] Born 1795, N. Y. State 1852 to Manitowoc; teacher, Trainmaster, Car Accountant State representative 183-43- then mercantile 9/1904-6/05 45, 1848 Wis. state senator 1863-64 Died Dec. 12, 1857; burial 1870s promoter of Milwaukee, VAUX, George William # Schoolcraft Lake Shore & Western Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 259 President, Algoma Packing Co. mercantile, bank, utilities Father of William F. Voigt Died Jan.8, 1905, Manitowoc Died June 17, 1909, Hancock 1854 to Madison, Wis. ---- ---- 1871 to Detroit, bought Vieux Desert & Lake Superior Northern Michigan RR father’s brewery First Director 1881 First Director 1888 ---- Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Grand River Electric Western [Kaukauna, Wisc, VLIET, Ernest [Milwaukee] First Director 1898 1888 Manitowoc, Wis.] Born July 2, 1851, Dartford, Detroit & Northwestern President 1880-84 Wis. First Director 1899 Director 1883-90 1890 institutionalized Grosse Ile Died Sept. 15, 1893, First Director 1910 VINCENT, Frank A. # Milwaukee; paresis [Washington, D.C.] ---- VOIGT, William F. [Detroit] Albion, Charlotte, Northern Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Son of Edward W. Voigt First Director 1914 Western ---- Various work 1871-89 Grand River Electric VINCENT, Orvill J. [Pentwater] General Passenger Agent First Director 1898 Montague, Pentwater & 1889-90 Detroit & Northwestern Manistee First Director 1899 First Director 1871 VOICE, Ernest Albert # [Empire] vonSCHON, H. # VINCENT, S. W. Born Jan. 28, 1862, Chicago Trans-St. Marys Traction Michigan & Ohio [Toledo] President, vil. of Empire 1900 First Director 1901 Superintendent Telegraph With Empire Lumber Co. 1883-85 Died Oct. 21, 1936, Empire VonSCHRADER, Otto U.# [St. Michigan Car Service Assn. ---- Louis, Mo.] [Detroit] Empire & South Eastern Born May 8, 1857, Belleville, Manager 1901 Traffic Manager 1908-09 Ill. 1880 graduated Washington VINTON, David, Jr. VOIGT, Carl G. A. # [Grand Univ. [Williamsburg] Rapids] 1882 graduated Columbia Traverse, 91 ABH, 2:part 5:130 Univ. law school Born Sept. 16, 1828, Born Dec. 5, 1833, Wennugen, Died Dec. 6,, 1939, St. Louis, Hampshire Co., Mass. Saxony, Germany Mo. 1870 to Williamsburg, 1847 arr. U. S. ---- merchant 1865 opened store in Michigan Michigan Traction State representative 1883-84 City, Ind. First Director 1896 Died Sept. 7, 1896, 1870 opened store in Grand Williamsburg Rapids VOORHEIS, Albert B. # ---- 1875 to Grand Rapids; flour [Cincinnati] Elk Rapids, Williamsburg & miller Born Aug. 1843 Southern Died Sept. 8, 1908, Grand ---- First Director 1889 Rapids Detroit Southern ---- Director 1901-02 VIVIAN, Johnson, Sr. # Grand Rapids Belt Line [Hancock] First Director 1891 VORCE, L. D. # [Wyandotte] HistNP, 3:1328; BiogHBM, 21- Wyandotte Southern 23; HistUP, 318 VOIGT, Edward W. # [Detroit] Superintendent 1908-15 Born May 20, 1829, Cambone, (sometimes spelled VOIGHT) Director 1908-16 Cornwall, England ABH, 1:part 1:145; CityDet, 1853 to Eagle Harbor, miner 3:30-34 VOSBERG, John F. # 1856 mining superintendent Born Apr. 5, 1844, Debein, Cadillac Traction 1896 retired from mining; into Saxony, Germany First Director 1903 260 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) VOSBURGH, Loren F. # BiogRy1922, 641 Born Apr. 7, 1868, Adrian ---- Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Various work 1893-1906 New York Central & Hudson River [New York City] Gen. Eastern Psgr. Agent 1906-10 Asst. General Passenger Agent 1910-16 New York Central [New York City] Passenger Traffic Manager 1917-20 Traffic Manager 1920-(30) Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 261 W Lake Shore & Michigan Director 1878-81 Southern Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan WACHTEL, Philip B. # First Director, Director Director 1888-89 [Petoskey] 4/1869-1/70 Lake Superior & Ishpeming MichBiog, 2:391 Director 5/1883-8/90 Director 1896-1917 Born Oct. 28, 1851, Centerville, Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Marquette & Southeastern Pa. Rapids First Director, Director State representative 1889-94 President, Director 1872-89, 1900-11 1873 to Petoskey, banker 1892-1917 Munising Died Nov.14, 1912, Petoskey Kalamazoo & White Pigeon Director 1900-11 ---- Director 1872-93 Detroit & Petoskey Grand Haven WADE, Kirtland H. [St. Louis, First Director 1889 First Director 1878 Mo.] Vice President, Director BiogRy1885, 252 WADDEN, William M. # 1878-81 Born June 9, 1843, Wolcott, [Boston] Saginaw & Grand Rapids N.Y. Born c.1871, Massachusetts First Director 1878 Died Mar. 12, 1897, Los ---- Cleveland, Columbus & Angeles Ann Arbor Cincinnati ---- Director 1910-17 Director 1870-72 Toledo, Wabash & Western Vice President 1914-17 Valley RR Telegraph Operator Treasurer 1916-17 President 1879-(85) 11/1857-11/67 Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Indianapolis, Cincinnati & WADE, Jeptha Homer President, Director 1880-88 Lafayette [Cleveland] Vice President, Director Train Dispatcher 1867-1/70 BiogRy1885, 252; HistClev, 79- 1889 Wabash 85 New York, Pennsylvania & Various work 1/1870-2/75 Born Aug. 11, 1811, Romulus, Ohio Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Seneca Co., N.Y. Vice President, Director Div. Superintendent 1847 built telegraph line 1880-81 [Lafayette IN] 1875-78 Detroit to Jackson New York, Chicago & St. Louis Div. Superintendent [Ft Company became part of Director 1883-(85) Wayne IN] 1878-81 Western Union in 1856 Columbus, Hocking Valley & Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Co-founder of Case Western Toledo Div. Superintendent /1881- Reserve Univ. Director 1883-(85) 12/82 predecessor Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific ca.1856 moved to Cleveland WADE, Jeptha Homer, Jr. # Superintendent Father of Randall P. Wade; [Cleveland , N. Y. C.] Transportation 12/1882-86 grandfather of BkClev, 275; HistClev, 87-89 Wabash Western Jeptha H. Wade Born Oct. 15, 1857, Cleveland General Superintendent President, Western Union Son of Randall P. Wade 1887 1866-67 Grandson of Jeptha H. Wade Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Died Aug. 9, 1890, Cleveland (b.1811) General Superintendent n.d. ---- Vice President, Cleveland Cliffs Cleveland, Painesville & Iron Co. WADE, Randall Palmer Ashtabula Died Mar. 6, 1926, Cleveland [Cleveland] Director 1862-67 ---- HistClev, 86-87 Cleveland & Toledo Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Born Aug. 26, 1835, Seneca Director 1862-67 Rapids Falls, N. Y. Lake Shore Ry Director 1878-91 Son of Jeptha Homer Wade Director 1867-71 President 1890-91 (b.1811) Cleveland & Pittsburg Grand Haven Father of Jeptha Homer Wade Director 1871-(85) First Director 1878 (b.1857) 262 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Died June 24, 1876, Cleveland 1860 to Muir; 1870 to Ionia Comptroller 12/1900-7/07 ---- Lumberman; bank president Vice President 7/1907-14 Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Died Aug. 11, 1916, Ionia Chicago, Detroit & Canada Rapids ---- Grand Trunk Jct. Director 1872-75 Battle Creek & Bay City Director 1913-14 First Director 1888 Detroit, Grand Haven & WADSWORTH, Isaac R. # [Port Milwaukee Huron] WAGNER, Martin V. Director 1913-14 BiogRy1885, 252; HistStCl, (Misspelled WAGONER on Grand Rapids Terminal 599-600 (under R. J. W.) some records) Director 1913 Born Feb. 13, 1843, Born 1845 Michigan Air Line Ry Westmoreland Co., Pa. Died Aug. 31, 1891, Marshall Director 1913-14 Served in 11th Pa. Infantry, ---- Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Civil War Marshall & Coldwater Director 1913-14 Died Jan. 12, 1911, First Director 1870 St. Clair Tunnel Co. Webberville Director 1913-14 ---- WAGNER, William H. # Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Pennsylvania-East [Cleveland] Director 1913 Various work 11/1850-6/80 Marquette, Negaunee & Port Huron & Northwestern Ishpeming Interurban WAIR, Harry R. # [South Bend, General Superintendent First Director 1907 Ind.] 6/1880-88 Born Sept. 1871, La Porte, Ind. General Passenger & Freight WAHL, John [Monroe] Attorney Agent 1884-88 Born Mar. 4, 1819, in Bavaria 1900 to South Bend (birth name Johann Wahl) Died July 11, 1931, South Bend WADSWORTH, Melvin R. # No date to Adrian, brewer ---- [Chicago] 1856 to Monroe, brewer Southern Michigan Michigan City, Lakeside & St. Died Jan.25, 1886, Monroe Attorney 1910-15 Joe Electric ---- Director 1910 First Director 1912 Toledo & Northern First Director 1869 WAIT, Frank Wadsworth # WADSWORTH, Wedworth [Sturgis] [Monroe] WAINWRIGHT, William # MenProgress, 423; HistStJo, Born 1811, Durham, Conn. BiogRy1913, 565 2:452-54 Died 1876, Durham Born Apr. 30, 1840, Born Dec. 22, 1858, Sturgis. ---- Manchester, England Lumberman, mint farmeer Michigan Southern 1862 to Canada Died Jan.1, 1933, Sturgis Incorporator 1846 Died May 14, 1914, Atlantic ---- City, N. J. Sturgis, Indiana & Ohio WADWORTH, James [New ---- First Director 1889 York City] English railroads Canada, LaCrosse & Clerical work 1/1858-62 WAIT, Jonathan Gould Southwestern Grand Trunk Ry of Canada [Sturgis] First Director 1883 [Montreal] MichBiog, 2:393; ABH, 1:part Various work 1862-72 4:63-64; WAGER, Humphrey R. [Ionia] General Passenger Agent PortStJos, 209-10 (Sometimes misspelled 1873-5/81 Born Nov. 22, 1811, York, N.Y. WAGAR) Assistant Manager 5/1881- 1835 to Sturgis, lumbering, MenProgress, 184 1/91 building, merchant, Born June 4, 1835, Summit Asst. General Manager grain dealer, manufacturer Co., Ohio 1/1891-5/96 Supplied construction 1856 to Battle Creek; 1857 to General Assistant to materials to Michigan Jackson; 1858 to Lyons; President 5/1896-7/1907 Southern Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 263 State representative 1851, Creek] MemUtica, 247 State senator 1863-8 Born Mar. 17, 1821 Born Aug. 9, 1794, Founder-editor "Sturgis Merchant Cumberland, R. I. Journal" 1860-72; postmaster Died Apr. 5, 1889, Battle Creek c.1840 to Utica Died Oct. 24, 1893, Sturgis ---- Died Nov. 8, 1859, Utica ---- Peninsular Ry ---- Grand Rapids & Southern Treasurer 1872 Michigan Southern & Northern First Director 1855 Battle Creek Ry Indiana Grand Rapids & Indiana First Director 1882 Director 9/1857-10/59 First Director 1855 Treasurer no dates Director 1870-91 WAKEMAN, Austin [Fenton] Chicago & Rock Island Grand Rapids, Traverse Bay & HistGen1, 214-15 Director late 1850s Mackinac Born Feb. 11, 1804, First Director 1856 Watertown, Conn. WALD, Charles F. # [Garden Sturgis & Mansfield 1828 to Mich., then to Bay] First Director 1870 Livingston Co. Garden Bay St. Louis, Sturgis & Battle First Director 1915 Creek Tyrone Twp. Supervisor, 1847, First Director 1884 1849, 1859, 1865. WALDBY, William H. [Adrian] Sturgis & State Line MemLen, 458-59 First Director 1886 c.1865 to Fenton Born May 16, 1826, Died Dec. 13, 1876, Fenton Cooperstown, N. Y. WAITE, Morrison Remick ---- 1846 to Adrian [Toledo] Ohio & Lake Superior 1851 bought bank HerrNL, 5:567 First Director 1865 Mayor, Adrian 1873 Born Nov. 29, 1816, Lynne, Ct. Died Apr. 24, 1900, Adrian 1836 graduated Yale Univ. WAKEMAN, George Lee # ---- c.1837 to Maumee, Ohio; [East Tawas] Adrian & Detroit attorney BiogRy1922, 644-45 First Director, First 1849-50 state senator Born Nov 17, 1877, Owosso Treasurer 1870 1850 to Toledo; attorney ---- Adrian City Train & Street 1874-88 Chief Justice U. S. Detroit & Mackinac First Director 1883 Supreme Court Station work 1/1899-1918 Died March 23, 1888, Toledo General Freight & Passenger WALDO, Frank Owen # ----- Agent 1918-1/19 DSA, 83 Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Traffic Manager 1/1919- Born Dec. 11, 1854, Hammond, First Director 1855 (22) N. Y. Died Oct. 4, 1922, Detroit WAITE, R. W. # [Chicago] WALBRIDGE, Henry D. # [New ---- Marquette County Electric York City] Rome, Watertown & First Director 1917 Bay City Traction & Electric Ogdensburg First Director, Director Various work 1869-8/76 WAKEFIELD, Cyrus [Boston] 1903-09 Michigan Central [Detroit] Born Feb. 14, 1811, Roxbury, President 1904-09 Auditor Offfice 1876-87 N. H. Saginaw-Bay Ry & Light Ticket Accountant 1887-92 Furniture manufacturer Director 1904 Asst. Auditor 11/1892- Died Oct. 26, 1873, Wakefield, Saginaw Valley Traction 10/08 Mass. President, Director 1904-09 Auditor 10/1908-17 ---- Saginaw-Bay City Battle Creek & Sturgis St. Marys & Minneapolis President, Director 1910 Director 1911-17 First Director 1881 Asst. Secretary 1911-17 WALCOTT, William [Utica, N. Bay City & Battle Creek WAKELEE, Clement [Battle Y.] Director 1911-15 264 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Asst. Secretary 1911-15 Western Buchanan & St. Joseph River WALDRON, Henry Director 1874 Secretary, Treasurer, MichBiog, 2:396; ABH, 1:part Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Director 1911 2:74-75; HistHill, 114 Trunk Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Born Oct. 11, 1816, Albany, First Director 1880 Secretary, Director 1909-17 N.Y. Auditor 1911-17 Brother of William Waldron WALES, Harry B. # [Grand Detroit & Bay City 1837 to Mich. Rapids] Asst. Secretary, Director 1839 to Hillsdale; MenGuns, 42 1911-15 manufacturer, banker Employed by Edward M. Detroit & Charlevoix State representative 1843; Deane, broker Secretary 1907-11 U. S. Representative 1855-61, ---- Director 1910-16 71-72 Manistee Light & Traction Auditor 1912-16 Civil engineer Director 1908-12 Detroit Belt Line Died Sept. 13, 1886, Hillsdale General Manager 1908 First Director, Director ---- 1909-16 Michigan Southern [Hillsdale] WALKER, A. E. [McKinley] Secretary 1911-16 Incorporator 1846 AuSable & North Western Detroit, Delray & Dearborn First Director, Director Chief Engineer 1891-94 Secretary, Treasurer 1911- 5/1846-5/1849 16 Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana WALKER, Arnold [Leslie] Director 1911-16 First Director 1869 MichBiog, 2:396 Detroit Terminal President Born 1821, Gibson, Pa. Secretary 1911-17 1844 to Vevay Twp., Ingham Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw WALDRON, Henry C. [Ann Co Asst. Secretary, Director Arbor] 1860 to Leslie; pres Leslie 1911-16 Born June 30, 1842, Northfield, Natl. Bank Kalamazoo & South Haven Washtenaw Co. State representative 1873-4 Asst. Secretary, Director Died Mar. 21, 1910, Ann Arbor Died Dec. 5, 1884, Leslie 1911-16 ---- ---- Michigan Air Line RR Toledo & Ann Arbor Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Asst. Secretary, Director First Director, Director Director no dates 1911-16 1878-79 St. Clair & Western Toledo, Ann Arbor & North- WALKER, Bertrand # Asst. Secretary, Director eastern [Chicago] 1911-17 First Director 1878 Born June 20, 1865, Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Indianapolis WALDO, James W. Trunk ---- [Williamston] Director 1880 Lake Shore & Michigan Born c.1824 Southern Died Sept. 24, 1871, WALDRON, William [Hillsdale] General Counsel 1912-14 Williamston HistHill, 114 ---- Born Nov. 2, 1824, Albany, N. WALKER, Byron E. [London, Howell & Lansing Y. Ont.] First Director 1868 Brother of Henry Waldron Born c.1849, Ontario (b.1816) Manager, Canadian Bank of WALDRON, Edwin P. # Banker Commerce Crystal Lake Died Dec. 11, 1877, Hillsdale ---- First Director 1900 [St. ---- Glencoe, Pinconning & Lake Johns] Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana Shore Saginaw & Southwestern First Director 1869 Director 1878 First Director 1905 Director 1872-73 Pinconning [Saginaw] Detroit, Hillsdale & South Director 1879 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 265 First Director 1883 Owner-editor Detroit Free WALKER, C. S. # [Boston] Lexington & Utica Press 1861-75 Gogebic & Iron Counties Ry & First Director 1883 Temperance movement Light Died Feb. 24, 1886, Detroit Director 1914 WALKER, E. C. ---- Detroit & Grand Trunk Detroit & Milwaukee WALKER, Charles G. [Detroit] Junction Director 1870-1878 Iron Mountain Ry First Director 1873 President 1855-58 First Director 1855 Houghton & Ontonagon WALKER, Edward C. First Director, First WALKER, Charles Irish Iron Mountain Ry President, First Treasurer MichBiog, 2:397; ABH, 1:part First Director 1855 1870 1:147-48 Marquette, Houghton & Born Apr. 25, 1814, WALKER, George N. [Okemos] Ontonagon Butternuts, N.Y. Howell & Lansing President, Director 1872 1836 to Grand Rapids, land First Director 1868 speculator, then WALKER, J. B. # [Alabaster] newspaperman WALKER, Harry Wilkes # Erie & Michigan Ry & c1837-51 in Vermont, studied BiogRy1906, 627 Navigation & practiced law Born Feb. 12, 1839, Brantford, Asst. General Freight Agent State representative 1841 Ont. 1908 Active historian ---- Director 1908-09 1851 to Detroit; judge Great Western Ry of Canada 1852-70 U. of Mich. professor Auditors office 1854-58 WALKER, James Harrington # Died Feb. 11, 1895, Detroit Detroit & Milwaukee [Detroit] [Detroit] ---- Accounting Clerk 1858-2/62 Born Sept. 13, 1859, Chicago & Canada Southern Grand Trunk Ry of Canada Walkerville, Ontario, Canada First Director 1871 [Montreal] Son of Hiram Walker, distiller Detroit & State Line Chief Bookkeeper 2/1862- Died Dec. 16, 1919, New York First Director 1872 1/78 City Accountant 1/1878-6/93 ---- WALKER, Charles S. [Detroit] Chief Accountant 6/1893- Detroit Terminal Ry Marquette & State Line 4/96 First Director 1901 First Director 1857 General Auditor 4/1896- Lake Superior Iron Mountain (06) WALKER, J. W. [New York City] First Director 1862 Grand Trunk Western Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Auditor 1901-04 Michigan WALKER, Dewitt Clinton Chicago, Detroit & Canada Director 1892 [Capac] Grand Trunk Jct. MichBiog, 2:397-398; HerrNL, Auditor 1902-03 WALKER, James B. [Flint] 5:573 ABH, 2:part 6:84-85 Born July 17, 1812, Clarendon, WALKER, Henry Nelson Born Sept. 10, 1812, Summer Vt. MichBiog, 2:398-99; Hill, N. Y. 1836 to Romeo; attorney HistMich1915, 3:1290-94 Brother of Levi Walker State representative 1840, Born Nov. 30, 1811, Fredonia, 1836 to Flint, store clerk 1844, 1846 N.Y. Merchant State senator 1841-42 Son-in-law of John Norvell Mayor, Flint, 1870 1857 to and platted Capac to Detroit 1834, 1835 became Died Nov. 15, 1877, Flint Died Aug. 17, 1904, Capac laywer ---- ---- State representative 1844 Genesee & Oakland Capac & Northern State Attorney General 1845-7 Commissioner 1848 First Director 1879 Fdr. & Vice President Detroit Flint & Fentonville Utica & Lexington Savings Fund Inst First Director 1863 266 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Flint & Holly Clerk 11/1890-2/97 Ste. Marie [Mpls] First Director 1863 Asst. General Freight Agent General Manager 6/1922-?? 2/1897-1901 WALKER, Levi [Flint] General Freight Agent 1902- WALLACE, David [Detroit] ABH, 2:part 6:85-86; CycMich, 11 Riverside Park of Saginaw 243-44 Vice President, Director First Director 1884 Born Dec. 28, 1803, Granville, 12/1911-17 Saginaw Consolidated Street N. Y. General Manager 12/1911- First Director 1894 Brother of James B. Walker 17 1847 to Flint, lawyer Mineral Range WALLACE, Edward State representative 1873 Asst. General Freight Agent Flint Street Died Apr. 26, 1873, Lansing 1899-1900 First Director 1890 ---- General Freight Agent 1901- Flint & Fentonville 11 WALLACE, Henry M. # First Director 1863 Vice President, Director 12- [Detroit] Flint & Holly 1911-17 BkDet1914, 509 First Director 1863 General Manager 12/1911- Born Feb. 26, 1872, Hartland 17 Twp., Livingston Co. WALKER, N. B. [Houghton] Sainte Marie Union Depot 1896 grad. Univ. Mich. law Quincy & Torch Lake President, Director 1912-17 school Director 1892 President, several gas WALL, Samuel J. [Cadillac] companies WALKER, Samuel P. [St. Johns] PortraitNM, 201-02 ---- Lansing & St. Johns Born July 10, 1851, Kent Co. Detroit, Lansing & Grand First Director 1871 1876 to Cadillac, clerk in Rapids Harris Bros. (lumber co.) First Director 1909 WALKER, Samuel Snow # [St. 1880 admitted to bar Michigan Light & Traction Johns] Held local offices First Director 1909 MichBiog, 2:400; ABH, 1:part ---- 6:87 Nirvanna & Luther WALLACE, James Clark # Born July 11, 1841, Fredonia, First Director 1883 [Cincinnati] N. Y. BiogRy1922, 647 Grad. Univ. of Mich. WALLACE, Austin Edward # Born May 22, 1874, Battle 1861 to St. Johns, mercantile, BiogRy1922, 646-47 Creek banking Born Mar. 2, 1879, Nashua, N. ---- State representative 1875-76 H. Michigan Central 1890 to Old Mission Peninsula, 1902 graduated Harvard Various work 1/1903-1/906 fruit grower University Delaware, Lackawanna & Died Dec. 9, 1909, Grand Died June 3, 1936, Minneapolis Western Traverse Co. ---- Various work 1/1906-4/09 ---- Various roads Interstate Commerce Union Depot of Durand Various work 11/1902-1/18 Commission First Director 1888 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Examiner 4/1909-12/11 Div. Superintendent 7/1912- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago WALKER, Wayland W. # 1/18 & St. Louis [Duluth] Erie RR Auditor Disbursements BiogRy1913, 568 General Superintendent 1- 12/1911-5/12 Born June 3, 1868, St. 6/1918 [Chicago] Asst. Auditor 5/1912-3/20 Catherines, Ont. Asst. Gen. Superintendent Auditor 3/1920-(22) ---- 6/1918-3/20 [Ygtn] Cincinnati Northern Various roads Manager 3/1920-6/22 Asst. Auditor 1912-14 Clerk 1883-11/90 [Chicago] Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault WALLACE, James Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 267 Lake Michigan & Lake School tannery Superior Attorney State representative 1861-62 First Director 1890 Died Jan. 24, 1908, New York 1882 to Grand Rapids, owned City tannery WALLACE, James N. [Ypsilanti] ---- Died Sept. 19, 1908; burial Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti & Detroit Detroit Southern Saugatuck First Director 1890 Director 1901-02 ---- Grand Rapids Transfer & WALLACE, Joel WALLEN, Henry Davies, Jr. Junction Toledo & Port Austin [Grand Rapids] First Director, Director First Director 1879 HistKent, 1156 1882-86 Born Jan. 24, 1845, St. Louis, President 1886 WALLACE, Russell Mo. BiogRy1901, 570 Son-in-law of George W. Cass; WALLINGER, Charles A. Born Jan.23, 1864, Beachville, grand [Branch] Ontario nephew of Lewis Cass Lake County ---- 1867 grad. U.S. Military Chief Engineer 1888-89 Michigan Central Academy Stores Dept. 1880-88 After 1875 owner Michigan WALLIS, S. H. [Detroit] Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Iron Works Michigan Air Line Ry [Marquette] Died Dec. 25, 1889, New York Secretary, Treasurer 1881 Purchasing Agent 1888-90 City; burial Pittsburgh Chicago & West Michigan- ---- WALSH, J. J. # [Chicago] Detroit, Lansing Grand Rapids & Indiana Erie & Michigan Ry & & Northern [Grand Asst. Superintendent [S] Navigation Rapids] 1870 Auditor 1908-17 Purchasing Agent 1890- Div. Superintendent 1901 1872-75 WALSH, John H. # [Detroit] Born Oct. 1, 1867, Stratford, WALLACE, William [Battle WALLER, Thomas McDonald # Ontario Creek] [New London, ---- PortCal, 318-21, ABH, 1:part Conn.] Detroit Connecting 3:98 Born 1839, N. Y. state First Director 1918 Born Aug. 3, 1807, Paulet, Vt. Served in Co. E, Conn. Vol. 1843 to Battle Creek, woolen Infantry, Civil War WALSH, John R. # [Chicago] manufacturer Attorney Banker Mayor, Battle Creek 1868 Conn.. General Assembly, Involved with several Indiana Died Dec. 2, 1895, Battle Creek 1867, 1868, 1872, 1876 railroads ---- Conn. Secretary of State 1870- ---- Peninsular Ry 71 Wisconsin & Michigan First Director 1865 Conn. Governor 1883-85 Director 1901-09 Director 1872 Died Jan. 24, 1924, New London WALSH, John T. # [Toledo] WALLACE, William H. [East ---- Ann Arbor Saginaw] Detroit Citizens Street Asst. Auditor 1910-12 Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron First Director 1891 Cashier 1910 Superintendent 1896-97 WALLIN, Franklin Bogue WALSH, Julius S. [St. Louis, WALLACH, Leopold # [New [Grand Rapids] Mo.] York City] MichBiog, 2:401-402 EncyStL, 4:2397 Born Nov. 6, 1853, Hartford, Born Mar. 25, 1832, Nelson, Born Dec. 1, 1842, St. Louis, Conn. Pa. Mo. 1872 grad. Columbia Law 1853 to Saugatuck, operated 1861 grad. St. Joseph’s College 268 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1864 grad. Columbia College Piqua & Troy 12/1906 law school Secretary, Director 1909 General Manager [Lines Died Mar. 21, 1923, St. Louis Miami Valley West] 12/1906-6/18 [Omaha] ---- Secretary, Director 1909 General Manager 6/1918- Citizens’ Railway (22) [Chicago] President 1870-?? WALSH, W. J. # [Houghton] Union Railway Houghton County Traction WALTERS, H. [Baltimore] President 1873-77 Chief Engineer 1908 Cincinnati, Jackson & People’s Railway Mackinaw President 1877-?? WALTER, A. F. # Director 1889 Tower Grove & Lafayette Michigan Traction Northern Central President 1877-?? General Superintendent Director 1893 Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific 1902 Director 1881 WALTON, Charles W. [Detroit] WALTER, James A. Detroit Metropolitan Street WALSH, Thomas Francis # [Kalamazoo] First Director 1892 [Akron, Ohio} Born c.1821, in Ohio Born Oct. 1, 1858, Cuyahoga Postmaster, Kalamazoo, 1861- WALTON, James H. Falls, Ohio 65 [Menominee] President, Swinehart Tire & Died Apr. 5, 1870, Kalamazoo NPMemorial, 243-44 Rubber Co., 1894 ---- Born Jan. 25, 1845, Died Aug. 9, 1937, Akron Grand Rapids, Traverse Bay & Bloomington, Ill. ---- Mackinac 1869 to Menominee; lumber Saginaw & Bay City Rapid First Director 1856 co. bookkeeper Transit Kalamazoo & South Haven Menominee County treasurer First Director 1895 President 1869-5/70 1873-80 Akron & Cuyahoga Falls Rapid Died May 1904 Transit WALTERS, Frank # ---- President 1898 BiogRy1922, 648 Menominee Street Born Dec. 25, 1865, Cedar First Director 1888 WALSH, Thomas Jefferson # Falls, Iowa [Cincinnati] Died Feb. 25, 1941, Los WALTON, Peter Gibbeon # BiogRy1906, 630 Angeles BiogRy1922, 649 Born Dec. 3, 1867, Cincinnati ---- Born July 21, 1871, Mineral ---- Various roads Point, Mo. Pere Marquette Various work 1882-11/86 ---- Assistant Secretary Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Missouri Pacific 10/1904-4/05 Northern Operating Dept. 10/1888- Secretary 4/1905-06 Operating Dept. 11/1886- 1905 Baltimore & Ohio 3/1902 Southern Ry Southwestern Div. Superintendent 3- Trainmaster, Div. Various work 1882-90 6/1902 Superintendent 1905-10 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Chicago & Alton Clerical work 1890-10/1904 Div. Superintendent 6- Div. Superintendent 1910- Assistant Secretary 12/1902 11 10/1904-4/05 Chicago & North Western Chicago, Indianapolis & Secretary 4/1905-06 Asst. Div. Superintendent Lousville Cincinnati, Indianapolis & 12/1902-7//03 Div. Superintendent 1911- Western Div. Superintendent 7/1903- 13 Secretary, Director 1907-09 10/05 Fort Street Union Depot Cincinnati, Findlay & Ft. Asst. General [Detroit] Wayne Superintendent 10/1905-7/06 Superintendent 1913-14 Secretary, Director 1909 Asst. General Manager 7- Seaboard Air Line Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 269 Div. Superintendent 1914- Died Apr. 1906, Evanston, Ill. 18 WANTY, Henry G. [Grand ---- General Superintendent Rapids] Port Huron & Northwestern 1918-(22) Born Dec. 22, 1854, Detroit First Director, Director Brother of George P. Wanty 1878-81 WANBAUGH, John A. # [Rolling ---- Vice President 1879-81 Prairie, Ind.] Grand Rapids & Chicago Port Huron Electric HistLapIN, 473-74 First Director 1887 First Director 1886 Born Oct. 2, 1856, Wooster, Gratiot Electric Ohio WAPPNER, George H. [Van First Director 1887 1884 to Rolling Prairie, grain Wert, Ohio] dealer Born 1847 WARD, David [Detroit] ---- Died 1913, Van Wert Born Sept. 15, 1822, Essex Co., Ann Arbor Interurban ---- N. Y. First Director 1904 Cincinnati, Jackson & Husband of Elizabeth Ward Mackinaw Father of Henry C. and Willis WANBECQ, Joseph # [Toledo] Auditor, Purchasing Agent C. Ward Ann Arbor 1886 Lumber baron Engineer 1906-10 Died May 27, 1900, Pontiac Detroit, Toledo & Ironton WARD, Arthur # ---- Resident Engineer 1906-12 BiogRy1906, 632 Grayling & Charlevoix Born Oct. 10, 1850, Middlesex, First Director 1891 WANDS, Francis “Frank” Vt. Lansing [Bay City] Died 1923, Owosso WARD, Eber Brock [Detroit] HistBay, 128 --- MPHC, 22:289-90; Leake, Born Jan. 9, 1848, Albany, N. Y. Central Vermont 3:1234-38; ASMA, 2:823-24 1876 to Bay City, insurance Various work 1870-c.85 Born Dec.25. 1811, Ontario agency Frankfort & South Eastern Died Jan.2, 1875, Detroit Died 1919, Bay City [Frankfort] ---- ---- Various work c.1885-92 Fort Street & Elmwood Bay, Tuscola & Huron General Superintendent First Director 1865 First Director 1897 1889-92 Northern Michigan RR Ann Arbor First Director 11/1867 WANLESS, William General Agent 1892-7/1900 Flint River Chicago & Grand Trunk Munising [Munising] First Director 1871 Master Car Repairs 1884 Superintendent 7/1900-11 Cass River [Port Huron] Marquette & Southeastern First Director 1871 [Munising] Bay City & East Saginaw WANTY, George Proctor # Superintendent 1901-11 Director 1871 [Grand Rapids] Flint & Pere Marquette HerrNL, 5:589; BiogRep, 2:388 WARD, Charles Albert # [Port President, Director 1870-74 Born Mar. 12, 1856, Ann Arbor Huron] Brother of Henry G. Wanty CycMich, 214; BkChi, 594 WARD, Elizabeth, nee Perkins 1873 graduated Univ. Mich. Born Oct. 11, 1849, # [Orchard Lake] c.1873 to Grand Rapids, BattleCreek Born 1832, Romeo attorney Son of Joseph M. Ward Wife of David Ward 1900-06 judge U. S. district 1877 to Port Huron, built grain Died Apr. 21, 1906, Pontiac court elevator, retired 1881 ---- Died July 1, 1906, London, 1881 into banking Detroit & Charlevoix England; buried, Grand Rapids 1886-89 collector of customs First Director, Director ---- [Port Huron] 1901-05 Grand Rapids & Chicago 1899 org. Ward Lumber Co. First Director 1887 (Mo., Miss., Ark.) WARD, Franklin B. # [Pontiac] 270 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Born Nov. 23, 1873, Pontiac First Director 1873 Pennsylvania-West Grandson of David Ward; son Director 1873-79 Asst. Trainmaster 6/1902- of Henry C. Ward 4/05 Died Feb. 7, 1946, Bay City WARD, Samuel G. [New York Trainmaster 4/1905-1/11 ---- City] Div. Superintendent 1/1911- Grayling & Charlevoix Chicago, Detroit & Canada 2/20 First Director 1891 Grand Trunk Jct. Pennsylvania-West [Grand Detroit & Charlevoix Treasurer, Director 1872-76 Rapids] First Director, Director General Superintendent 1901-06 WARD, Thomas Owen [Paw 2/1920-(22) Vice President 1901-06 Paw] Grand Rapids & Indiana Born c.1834, N. Y. state Vice President 2/1920-(22) WARD, Henry Clay # [Pontiac] Owned newspaper Mackinac Transportation Co. Born Oct. 6, 1852, Richmond ---- Secretary 2/1920-(22) Son of David Ward; father of Paw Paw Valley Franklin B. Ward First Director 1869 WARE, Cornelius N. # [Alpena] Died Apr. 16, 1915, Asheville, Alpena, Gaylord & Western N. C. WARD, Willis C. # [Detroit] First Director 1901 ---- Born Aug. 1, 1861 Grayling & Charlevoix Son of David Ward WARE, William Edward # First Director 1891 Died Apr. 24, 1944, Pontiac [Battle Creek] Detroit & Charlevoix ---- HistMich1915, 3:1745-48; Chief Engineer, Director Grayling & Charlevoix HistCal, 2:1189-92 1901-06 First Director 1891 Born Dec. 19, 1850, Allegan Co. Detroit & Charlevoix 1850’s to Athens WARD, Herbert L. # First Director, Director 1861 to Colon [Rochester, N.Y.] 1901-06 1872 to Marshall, studied law Cheboygan Southern President, Treasurer 1901- 1875 to Union City, attorney First Director 1903 06 1879 to Coldwater, attorney 1891 to Jackson, attorney WARD, John K. [Kalamazoo] WARDEN, H. H. [Boston] 1903 to Battle Creek, attorney Born May 5, 1817, Holland Michigan Central Died 1934; burial Athens Patent, N. Y. Director 1858 ---- Brother of Joseph M. Ward Battle Creek & Southeastern Operated stage coaches WARDEN, Robert, Jr. [Green First Director 1905 Died June 11, 1874, Kalamazoo Oak Twp., Livingston Co.] ---- MichBiog, 2:405 WAREHAM, Cyrus G. [Bear Flat River & Houghton Lake Born Dec. 4, 1814, Scotland Lake] First Director 1871 1833 to Green Oak Twp., Born 1858 farmer Died 1932, Bear Lake WARD, Joseph M. # [Battle Died Dec. 10, 1880, Brighton ---- Creek] ---- Bear Lake & Eastern Born Jan. 11, 1822, Holland Detroit & Shiawassee General Superintendent Patent, N. Y. Commissioner 1837 1888-97 Father of Charles A. Ward; Chief Engineer 1893-95 brother of John K. Ward WARDROP, William Miller # Died Aug. 13, 1902, Battle BiogRy1922, 650 WARFIELD, Lewis [New York Creek Born Jan. 8, 1879, Edgeworth, City] ---- Pa. Detroit River Terminal Peninsular Ry ---- First Director 1899 First Director 1865 Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Director 1872-73 Chicago WARMAN, R. V. # [South Bend] Chicago & Lake Huron Clerk 7/1898-6/1902 South Bend & Southern Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 271 Michigan ---- ---- First Director 1901 Michigan Detroit Terminal RR Member, Board of Control First Director 1905 WARNER, Chester [Chicago] Saginaw, Owosso & Lansing Kalamazoo & Grand Rapids First Director 1906 First Director 1867 WARNER, William Harrison Allegan & Holland [East Saginaw] WARREN, Charles Douglas # First Director 1868 CycMich, 209-10 [Toronto] Michigan Northern RR Born Aug. 21, 1813, Enfield, CanadianMen, 1058 First Director 1869 Conn. Born July 27, 1850, Niagara- South Eastern Michigan Lumber and salt dealer on-the-Lake, Ontario First Director 1871 Died Mar. 19, 1880, Saginaw President, Lake Superior Corp. Chicago & Canada Southern ---- (holding company of First Director 1871 East Saginaw & St. Clair Algoma Central RR, Algoma Director 1872 First Director 1872 Steel Co. & more) Treasurer 1872-73 --- Detroit River RR & Bridge WARREN, A. H. # [Houghton] Trans-St. Marys Traction First Director 1872 Houghton County Street Director, President 1905-06 Grand Rapids, Newaygo & Superintendent 1904 Lake Shore [G. R.] WARREN, Charles Elliott # First Director 1869 WARREN, Benjamin Streeter # [New York City] Secretary, Director 1870-80 [Detroit] Born Apr. 9, 1864, Brooklyn, N. Superintendent 1878-80 BkDet, 465 Y. Treasurer 1880 Born July 10, 1865, Chicago President, Lincoln Natl. Bank Grand Haven 1886 began law practice in Died Dec. 25, 1945, New York First Director, Director Detroit City 1878-81 Died 1930, Lansing; burial ---- Detroit Erie & Kalamazoo WARNER, D. E. ---- Treasurer 1902-17 Clinton & Adrian Detroit Southern Vice President, Director Commissioner 1836 Secretary 1901 1915-17 Director 1901-02 WARNER, H. E. # [Springfield, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton WARREN, Charles K. # [Three Oh.] First Director, Director Oaks] Detroit, Toledo & Ironton 1905-13 Born July 17, 1871, Three Oaks Superintendent 1908, 1912- Receiver 1908-11 Son of Edward K. Warren 13 General Counsel 1910-11 Died Aug. 10, 1932, Three Ann Arbor Oaks WARNER, J. E. # [Chicago] Director 1907-09 ---- Trans-Michigan Street Counsel 1908-09 New Buffalo & Lakeside First Director 1906 First Director 1913 WARREN, Charles Beecher # WARNER, P. Dean # [Detroit] WARREN, Edward K. # [Three [Farmington] HistMich1915, 2:722-23 Oaks] MichBiog, 2:408 Born Apr. 10, 1870, Bay City HerrNL, 5:602; HistBerr, 1001- Born Aug. 18, 1822, Hector, N. 1884 to Albion 02; PortBerrCass, 820-21 Y. 1891 graduated Univ. Mich. Born Apr. 7, 1847, Ludlow, Vt. 1845 to Farmington, merchant 1893 graduated Detroit Law Father of Charles K. Warren State representative 1861, Schoolin World War I and Paul C. Warren 1865-68 U.S. Ambassador to Japan Pres. Warren Featherbone Co. State senator 1869-70 1921-22; to Mexico 1924 Died Jan. 17, 1919, Evanston, Died Aug.29, 1910, Died Feb. 3, 1936, Grosse Ill. Farmington Pointe; buried in Detroit ---- 272 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) New Buffalo & Lakeside Houghton County Traction Born May 21, 1830, London, First Director 1913 First Director 1908 England Druggist WARREN, George Bowers WARREN, Robert K. # Died July 18, 1898, Port Huron [Troy, N.Y.] [Chicago] ---- Born June 9, 1828, Troy, N. Y. Port Huron Southern City RR (Port Huron) Died Aug. 8, 1905, Troy, N. Y. Director 1906-16 First Director 1873 ---- President, Treasurer 1910- Port Huron Ry Detroit, Hillsdale & South 16 First Director 1877 Western Director 1888-96 WASHBURN, William Drew # WATERBURY, John C. Rensselaer & Saratoga [Minneapolis] [Lexington] Vice President, Director DSA, 626; HerrNL, 5:608; MichBiog, 2:410-411 1899 CongBiog; PPA, 1:362-64 Born Nov. 27, 1815, Andes, N. President, Director 1904 Born Jan. 14, 1831, Livermore, Y. Saratoga & Schenectady Me. 1838 to Calhoun Co. Vice President, Director 1854 graduated Bowdoin Coll. 1840 to St. Clair 1899 1857 to Minneapolis; attorney 1847 to Lexington Albany & Vermont Invested heavily in flour State representative 1861-62 Vice President, Director milling Died May 23, 1894, Lexington 1899 U. S. Representative 1879-85 ---- U. S. Senator 1889-95 Fort Gratiot & Lexington WARREN, Homer Delos # Died July 29, 1912, Director 1878 [Detroit] Minneapolis Utica & Lexington HistMich1915, 2:1138-40; ---- First Director 1883 BiogRep, 2:390-91 Minneapolis & St. Louis Lexington & Utica Born Dec. 1, 1855, Shelby Founder 1869 First Director 1883 Twp., Macomb Co. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault 1873 to Detroit from South Ste. Marie WATERBURY, John M. [Tawas Lyon President 1883-89 City] 1873-78 in customs office Director 1883-1912 Tawas & Bay County 1878 started dealing in Secretary, General downtown Detroit real estate WASON, Charles W. # Superintendent 1881 1894 also had independent [Cleveland] insurance agency Born Apr. 30, 1854, Cleveland WATERMAN, Adolphus Detroit postmaster 1906-13 Electrical engineer Converse [Athens] Died Aug. 17, 1928, Detroit President, several Ohio HistCal, 2:968-70 ---- interurban lines Born July 14, 1829, Penn Yan, Detroit, Howell & Lansing Part of Everett-Moore N. Y. First Director 1901 syndicate About 1839 to Athens Detroit & Flint Died Apr. 15, 1918, Cleveland Farmer, flour miller First Director 1901 ---- Died June 20, 1907, Athens Detroit Ry ---- WARREN, Paul Chamberlain # First Director 1894 Ohio, Quincy & Grand Haven [Three Oaks] Detroit United First Director 1872 Born Jan. 24, 1883, Three Oaks Director 1904-06 St. Louis, Sturgis & Battle Son of Edward K. Warren Creek Died Mar. 1, 1948 WASTCH, W. D., see WASTELL, First Director 1884 ---- William New Buffalo & Lakeside WATERMAN, Daniel Allerton First Director 1913 WASTELL, William [Port BiogRy1896, 499 Huron] Born Nov. 21, 1836, Sodus, N. WARREN, Philip L. # [Boston] HistStCl, 600 Y. Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 273 Father of Harry S. Waterman HerrNL, 5:612 Atlantic Died Apr. 2, 1899, Detroit Born Dec. 29, 1834, West Falls, Clerk for General Manager ---- N. Y. 1886-1/88 Various roads Father of Dudley E. Waters Purchasing Agent, Claim Clerical work 1852-68 Invented several machines Agent 1-6/1888 Wabash Ry [Toledo] 1869 founded Michigan Barrel Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Treasurers Office 1868-71 Co. Ste. Marie Missouri, Kansas & Texas Founder of several Grand Purchasing Agent, Claim [Sedalia, Mo.] Rapids banks Agent 6/1888-7/91 Purchasing Agent 1871-72 Died Mar. 17, 1894, Green Asst. to General Manager St. Louis & Iron Mountain [St. Cove Springs, Fla. 7/1891-(93) Louis, Mo.] ---- Freight Dept. Clerk 1872-73 Grand Rapids & Saginaw WATROUS, George C. [Ionia] Detroit & Bay City [Detroit] First Director, Director BiogRy1885, 256 Auditor 10/1873-12/75 1871-72 Born June 12, 1831, Perry, N.Y. Michigan Central [Detroit] ---- Auditor 12/1875-11/92 WATERS, Dudley Elijah # Michigan Central Treasurer 11/1892-97 [Grand Rapids] Various work 4/1851-71 Battle Creek & Sturgis (Middle initial sometimes Ft. Wayne, Muncie & Secretary, Treasurer, given in error as K) Cincinnati Director 1890-97 HistKent2, 2:391-92 Master Mechanic 1871-74 Bay City & Battle Creek Born Nov. 27, 1862, Grand Detroit, Lansing & Northern Secretary, Treasurer, Rapids [Ionia] Director 1890-97 Son of Daniel H. Waters Master Mechanic 1874-85 Kalamazoo & South Haven Vice President, Michigan Bell Superintendent Motive Secretary, Treasurer Telephone Co. Power & Cars 1887 1881-91 Banker Chicago & West Michigan Michigan Air Line RR Died Jan. 9, 1931, Grand [Muskegon] Secretary, Treasurer, Rapids Superintendent Motive Director 1887-91 ---- Power & Cars 1886 Saginaw Bay & Northwestern Pere Marquette Secretary, Treasurer, Receiver 1912-17 WATROUS, James Redfield # Director 1883-91 Director 1913-17 [Bay City] Born Nov. 30, 1871, Conklin, N. WATERMAN, Harry S. # [East WATERS, J. J. # [Detroit] Y. Tawas] Pere Marquette Banker BiogRy1906, 635 Superintendent Motive Died Dec. 15, 1938, Bay City Born Feb. 27, 1876, Detroit Power 1915-17 ---- 1899 graduated Columbia United Traction Univ. WATERS, T. C. [Bay City] First Director 1903 Son of Daniel A. Waterman Glencoe, Pinconning & Lake Died Dec. 1, 1919, Detroit Shore WATROUS, Orville August # ---- First Director, Director 1876 [Bay City] Detroit & Mackinac Born Jan. 20, 1835, Mercer Co., Engineering 1899-1902 WATKINS, William Thomas Pa. Chief Engineer 1901-10 [Minneapolis] Shingle manufacturer BiogRy1893, 393 Mayor, Bay City, 1889-91 WATERMAN, J. T. Born Jan. 30, 1860, Clear Died Apr. 10, 1917, Bay City Croswell & Peck Creek, N. Y. ---- First Director 1879 ---- Bay City & Midland Various roads First Director 1882 WATERS, Daniel Howard Various work 1880-86 [Grand Rapids] Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & WATSON, Alfred E. # 274 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) [Hartford, Vt.] Died July 5, 1905, Marshall Bank of British North Born Aug. 1847 ---- America, then with Bank of ---- Marshall & Northern Montreal Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw First Director 1902 Died Apr. 3, 1900, Manhattan, Director 1896-1902 N. Y. WATSON, C. H. [Marquette] ---- WATSON, Amasa Brown Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic [Newaygo, Grand Rapids] Roadmaster 1884 Director 1890-97 CycMich, 68-70 Born Feb. 27, 1826, Worcester, WATSON, Edward M. WATTLES, Miles E. Vt. [Marquette] BiogRy1885, 256-257 1853 to Newaygo, into HistUP, 435 Born May 20, 1839, Franklin, lumbering Born Aug. 28, 1840 N.Y. m. Oct. 7, 1856, Martha A. 1855 to Marquette, clerk ---- Brooks, Newaygo After Civil War, merchant ---- U. S. Military RRs 9/1863- 1861-62 in Civil War Died May 12, 1906, Marquette 66 1873 to Grand Rapids ---- Cleveland & Toledo Died May 30, 1889, Grand Marquette & Iron Range Agent 8/1866-6 Rapids First Director 1895 Lake Shore & Michigan ---- Southern Grand Rapids, Traverse Bay & WATSON, George E. # [New Agent 1869-8/81 Mackinac York City] New York, Chicago & St. Louis First Director 1856 Ann Arbor Construction Grand Rapids & Northern Director 1906-09 Superintendent 8/1881-12/82 First Director 1856 Lake Shore & Michigan Street Ry Construction WATSON, Grace # [Marshall] Southern First Director 1886 [Grand Born 1870, Marshall Div. Superintendent Rapids] Daughter-in-law of Andrew W. 1/1883-10/87 [Kalamazoo] Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Watson Kalamazoo & White Pigeon Director 1888-89 Died 1934, Marshall Director 1887-93 ---- Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska WATSON, Andrew [Detroit, Marshall & Northern [Herrington, Kan.] 1875 Hamilton, Ont.] First Director 1902 General Superintendent Detroit & Milwaukee 10/1887-?? General Superintendent WATSON, J. Verree [Hersey] 1872-74 Lake George & Muskegon WATTS, Amos H. # Director 1875-78 River BiogRy1906, 638 First Director, Director Born Jan. 19, 1847, Baltimore, WATSON, Andrew [Marquette] 1876-1881 Md. Detroit, Mackinaw & Secretary, Auditor 1877-81 Died Mar. 30, 1919, Walnut Marquette Hill, Ohio General Superintendent WATSON, William P. [New ---- 1885-10/19/86 York City] Pittsburg. Cincinnati & St. Mackinaw & Marquette Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Louis General Superintendent Trunk Mechanical Dept. 1862-80 1886 Treasurer 1880 Kentucky Central Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Master Mechanic 1880-84 General Superintendent WATSON, Walter [New York Texas & Pacific 1887 City] General Master Mechanic Born Oct. 20, 1830, Edinburgh, 1884-87 WATSON, Andrew W. # Scotland St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas [Marshall] 1854 to London, Ontario Master Mechanic 1887-89 Born Sept. 29, 1825, Ireland 1864 to New York City, with Cincinnati, Jackson & Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 275 Mackinaw [Van Wert, Oh.] First Director 1917 BkDet, 469; BiogRy1913, 577; Master Mechanic 1889-1/97 Detroit United Ry CityDet, 4:699 Cincinnati Northern [Van Attorney 1912 -12/19 Born Mar. 5, 1860, Dubuque, Wert, Oh.] Iowa Master Mechanic 1/1897- WEADOCK, John C. # [Bay City] 1880 grad. Pa. Military Coll. 7/1912 Born Feb. 18, 1860, St. Marys, Civil engineer on several Ohio foreign railroads WATTS, Horace Everett # By 1910 to New York City, In 16th U. S. Engineers, World BiogRy1922, 655 attorney War I, rank Col. Born July 23, 1870, Mt. Airy, Officer and director of Awarded Distinguished Mo. Commonwealth Power, Ry. & Service Medal ---- Light Co. (holding company Died Nov. 3, 1921, Newton Wabash that owned Consumers Lower Falls, Mass. Telegraph Operator Power Co.) ---- 12/1888-5/96 Died Sept. 10, 1950, New York Various roads Ticket Agent 5/1896- City; burial Bay City Engineer , Contractor 11/1905 ---- Cincinnati, Georgetown & Div. Freight & Psgr. Agent Bay Cities Consolidated Portsmouth 11/1905-8/08 Receiver 1902-03 Chief Engineer 1897-99 Asst. General Freight Agent United Traction Various roads 8/1908-9/18 [St. Louis, Mo.] First Director 1903 Engineering Dept. 1900-02 General Passenger Agent Bay City Traction & Electric Michigan Central [Detroit] 9/1918-3/20 First Director, Director Division Engineer [M] Passenger Traffic Manager 1903-07 1/1903-1/05 3/1920-(22) Vice President 1904-05 Chief Engineer 1/1905-6/17 Saginaw & Flint Bay City & Battle Creek WAUGH, T. J. [Ionia] Director 1912-13 Director 1911-15 Detroit, Lansing & Northern Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Buchanan & St. Joseph River Superintendent Telegraph Chicago Director 1911 1877-79 Director 1912-13 Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Michigan United Traction Chief Engineer 1913-6/17 WAUGH, William E. # Director 1912-14 Michigan Air Line RR Born c.1855 Michigan United Rys Director 1911-6/17 After c.1890 worked for fast Director 1915-17 freight line Michigan Ry WEBB, Julius C. Died Mar. 14, 1908, Milwaukee Director 1914-17 BiogRy1885, 257 ---- Born Nov. 15, 1842, Syracuse, Chicago & Grand Trunk [Battle WEADOCK, Louis J. # [Toledo] N.Y. Creek] Ohio & Southern Michigan Died Apr. 3, 1918, Cleveland Asst. Superintendent 1885 First Director 1907 ---- Michigan Central WEADOCK, Bernard F. # WEAVER, M. C. # [Grand Clerk, Agent 8/1868-4/73 [Detroit] Rapids] [Jackson] BkDet1914, 515 Central Michigan Fort Wayne, Jackson & Born Mar. 24, 1884, Saginaw Secretary, Treasurer 1902- Saginaw 1904 to Detroit, attorney 06 Agent 4/1873-12/78 City attorney, Detroit 1906-12 Central Michigan Saginaw Valley & St. Louis 1929 to Washington, D. C., Director 1897-1906 Clerk, Agent 12/1878-12/79 attorney Grand Rapids Electric [Saginaw] Exec. V. P., Edison Electric Inst. First Director, Director Fort Wayne & Jackson Died Oct. Ventura, Calif. 1903-08 Various work ---- 12/1879/10/82 [Jackson] Flint & Great Lakes WEBB, George Herbert # Accountant 10/1882 276 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) [Jackson] [Charlotte] Born c. 1808 WEBSTER, Edward A. WEBB, Wllliam L. [Toledo] Merchant [Jackson] BiogRy1885, 257 Died Oct. 3, 1877, Charlotte PortJack, 873-75 Born Fairport, N. Y. ---- Born July 24, 1833, Essex Co., ---- Peninsular Ry Vt. Michigan & Ohio First Director 1865 1836 family to Kalamazoo Engineer 12/1880-1/83 1856 to Jackson, wagon Engineer Maintenance of WEBBER, William Lewis # manufacturer Way 1/1883-85 BiogRy1885, 257, MichBiog, President, American Telegraph Toledo, Marshall & Northern 2:417; ABH-II/8:55-56; Co.; sold to First Director 1884 HistSag2, 587-89 Western Union in 1866 Born July 19, 1825, Ogden, N.Y. Died June 1, 1885, Jackson WEBB, William Seward # 1836 to Hartland ---- [Shelbourne, Vt.] 1853 to East Saginaw, lawyer Jackson, Fort Wayne & WhosWhoFB, 722; HerrNL, Mayor, East Saginaw 1873-74 Cincinnati 5:624-25; PPA, 1:367-69; State senator 1875-6; several First Director 1868 BiogRy1913, 577-78 local offices Fort Wayne, Jackson & Born Jan. 31, 1851, New York Died Oct. 15, 1902, Saginaw Saginaw City ---- Director 1871-79 Son in law of William Henry Flint & Pere Marquette Vanderbilt General Counsel 1859-(85) WEBSTER, Edwin S. # Graduate of Columbia College Land Commissioner 3/1870- [Chestnut Hill, Mass.] 1883 manager of Wagner (85) Born Oct. 26, 1867, in Mass. Palace Car Co. President 2/1881-(85) 1888 grad. Mass. Inst. Died Oct. 29, 1926, Shelburne, Director 1870-92 Technology Vt. Attorney 1877-90 Partner, Stone & Webster ---- Bay City & East Saginaw (holding co.) 1889-?? Lake Shore & Michigan Director 1871-72 Died May 10, 1950, Chestnut Southern East Saginaw & St. Clair Hill, Mass. Director 12/1899-1914 First Director 1872 ---- Rutland RR Flint River Houghton County Street President ??-1905 First Director 1871 First Director, Director St. Lawrence & Adirondack Cass River 1899-1907 President ??-1905 First Director 1871 Houghton County Traction Manistee RR Director 1908-17 WEBBER, George Washington First Director, Director [Ionia] 1880-88 WEBSTER, George W. # MichBiog, 2:417; HistIonMont, Vice President 1881-84 BiogRy1922, 657 159-60 Saginaw & Clare County Born Dec. 1, 1870, Oshkosh, Born Nov. 25, 1825, Newbury, Director 1879-88 Wis. Vt. Secretary 1879-81 ---- 1852 to Manistee, lumbering Saginaw & Mt. Pleasant Milwaukee, Lake Shore & 1858 to Ionia, farmer, Director 1879-88 Western merchant, banker Secretary, Treasurer Clerk 9/1886-9/93 Mayor, Ionia, 1874-75 1879-81 Wisconsin Central [Chicago] U. S. representative 1883-85 Vice President 1882-83 Secretary to Receiver Died Jan. 15, 1900, Ionia President 1886-88 9/1893-7/99 ---- Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron Clerk to President 7/1899- Battle Creek & Bay City First Director, Director 10/06 First Director 1888 1881-99 Secretary 10/1906-3/20 President 1882-99 [Minneapolis] WEBBER, Sumner P. General Manager 1896-99 Gogebic & Montreal River Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 277 Secretary 10/1906-3/20 ---- Secretary 1892-97 Director 1910-17 Flint River Pere Marquette Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault First Director 1871 Secretary to President Ste. Marie [Minneapolis] 1/1900-(06) Secretary 9/1909-3/20 WEGNER, A. C. # [Toledo] Superintendent Telegraph Assistant to President Toledo & Western 1/1900-11/04 3/1920-5/22 Traffic Manager 1911-14 Vice President 5/1922-9/37 Toledo, Ottawa Beach & WEIL, Sidney M. # [Chicago] President 9/1937-?? Northern Born Oct. 1881, in Iowa Traffic Manager 1912-14 ---- WEBSTER, J. E. # [Fruitport] General Freight & Passenger Lac La Belle Traction & Power Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Agent 1913-14 Co. Muskegon Promoter 1908 Superintendent 1903 WEGNER, D. M. [Frankfort] Muskegon, Ludington & Frankfort & South Eastern Manistee WEBSTER, James # Auditor 1889-92 First Director 1913 BiogRy1922, 657 Born Dec. 14, 1856, Owen WEGG, David Spencer # WEISS, Matthias Sound, Ontario BkChi, 601; HistChi3, 400-02 Mt. Clemens & Lakeside ---- Born Dec. 16, 1847, St. Traction Various roads Thomas, Ont. First Director 1895 Various work 1874-1910 1873 grad. Univ. of Wisc. law New York Central -West school WEISSMAN, W. P. # [Chicago, [Chicago] 1873 to Racine, Wisc., attorney 1911 Peshtigo, Wisc.] Asst. Freight Traffic Manager 1875 to Milwaukee, attorney Wisconsin & Michigan 1910-17 Died Nov. 18, 1919, Chi8cago Auditor 1910-11 Freight Traffic Manager ---- 1917-20 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul WELCH, Charles [Grand Asst. Traffic Manager 1920- Asst. General Solicitor 1882- Rapids] (22) 85 Grand Rapids Transfer & Wisconsin Central Junction WEBSTER, Noah [Ray Twp., Director, Attorney 1885-89 First Director 1882 Macomb Co.] [Milwaukee] Born May 17, 1799 Chicago & Northern Pacific WELCH, J. Lowber Died Feb. 8, 1836, Ray Twp. President 1889-?? [Philadelphia] ---- Northern Pacific Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Romeo & Mt. Clemens Director 1890-1893 Director 1881 Commissioner 1833 WEIDMAN, George Francis # WELCHER, William E. # WEED, Thurlow [Grand Rapids] [Benton Harbor] Born Nov. 15, 1797, Cairo, N. Y. BiogRy1906, 641 Benton Harbor-St. Joe Ry & Political organizer; controlled Born Feb. 17, 1865, Light Whig party Womelsdorf, Pa. Superintendent 1907 Died Nov. 22, 1882, New York ---- Traffic Manager 1909-14 City; burial Albany, N. Y. Various roads General Superintendent ---- Telegrapher, Clerk 1882- 1915-17 Erie & Kalamazoo 2/92 Director 1852-55 Chicago & West Michigan WELD, Charles Goddard Secretary to President [Boston] WEEKS, E. F. 2/1892-1/1900 Born 1857 Born Feb. 6, 1824 Chicago & North Michigan Grandson of William F. Weld Saw mill owner; lumberman First Director, Director Physician, art collector Died Mar. 29, 1887, Flint 1891-97 Died 1911 278 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ---- General Superintendent York City] Saginaw & Grand Rapids 1899-1917 Born Nov. 30, 1821, Athens, Director 1883-86 Director 1895-1917 Pa. Asst. General Manager 1908- 1864-68 projector of Portage WELD, George W. [Boston] 14 Lake & Lake Superior Canal Born Sept. 3, 1840 Died Aug. 28, 1895, New York Son of William F. Weld; uncle WELLER, Ernest N. # City of Charles G. Weld BkDet1914, 518-19 ---- ---- Born Feb. 18, 1865, Behemia, New York & Erie Detroit, Lansing & Northern Austria Contractor 1852-53 Director 1877-79 ---- Northern Michigan RR Pere Marquette [Detroit] First Director 11/1867 WELD, William Fletcher Cashier 6/1900-6/12 Buffalo, Syracuse & Albany Born Apr. 18, 1800, Roxbury, Treasurer 6/1912-17 Director 1881 Mass. Secretary 1913-17 Father of George W. Weld WELLES, William B. Grandfather of Charles G. Weld WELLER, G. A. # [Detroit Michigan Southern & Northern 1815 began as clerk for Fort Street Union Depot Indiana importer in Boston Secretary 1912-13 Director 1/1857-9/57, 1822 owned dry goods Treasurer 1912-17 4/1858-7/59 business Asst. Secretary 1915-17 1833 owned Senator, largest WELLINGTON, Charles Lincoln ship of the day WELLER, G. A. # [Toledo] # Died Dec. 12, 1881, Ann Arbor BiogRy1906, 643 Philadelphia; buried in Boston Asst. Freight & Psgr. Agent Born Feb. 4, 1851, Cambridge, ---- 1914 Mass. Michigan Central ---- Incorporator 1846 WELLES, Edgar Thaddeus # Michigan Central [Detroit] First President, President [Hartford, Conn.] Clerk 2/1873-2/77 3/1846-8/1846 BiogRy1913, 580 Chicago & Grand Trunk Detroit & Bay City Born Aug. 29, 1842, Hartford, [Chicago] Director 1873-75 Conn. Clerk 2/1877-9/78 Detroit, Lansing & Lake Son of Lincoln’s Secretary of Wabash [Toledo] Michigan Navy Clerk 9/1878-9/80 First Director, Director 1844 grad. Yale College Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific 1871-75 President Consolidated Coal [Chicago] Detroit, Lansing & Northern Co. Asst. General Freight Agent Director 1875-76 Director several companies 9/1880-12/86 Saginaw & Grand Rapids and railroads Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Director 1881-82 Died Aug. 22, 1914, New York Western [Milwaukee] City General Freight Agent WELDT, John W. # ---- 3/1887-9/93 Powers, 3:1152-53 Wabash Western Chicago & North Western Born May 19, 1857, Batavia, Director 1887-88 Asst. General Freight Agent N.Y. Vice President 1888 9-10/1893 to Manistee 1871, chore boy in Wabash Wisconsin Central. lumber camp Vice President 1889-8/1914 [Milwaukee] Died 1941, Arcadia Director 1889-1911 General Freight Agent ---- General Counsel 1910 10/1893-9/94 Arcadia & Betsey River Detroit & State Line Wabash Traffic Manager 9/1894- [Arcadia] First Director 1889 11/96 Engineer 1881-?95 Colorado & Southern [Denver] Superintendent 1895-97 WELLES, Henry Spalding [New Traffic Manager 10/1900- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 279 (06) 1838 to Port Huron WELLS, John [Port Huron] Lumber merchant HistStCl, 601-02 WELLS, Allen G. [Kalamazoo] State representative 1871-72 Born June 19, 1799, New Born Mar. 11, 1822, N. Y. state State senator 1873-76 Milford, Conn. In Co. A, 4th Mich. Cavalry; Died May 6, 1904, Port Huron Father of Frederick L. Wells captain ---- 1838 to Port Huron Maybe a contractor/partner of Port Huron & Northwestern Merchant, then into lumbering Ransom Gardner Treasurer, First Director , Died Sept. 25, 1867, Port Died July 28, 1887, Adrian Director 1878-88 Huron ---- Secretary 1879-88 ---- Kalamazoo & Allegan Port Huron & Southwestern Port Huron & Lake Michigan First Director 1867 First Director 1882 Commissioner 1847 Kalamazoo & Grand Rapids First Director 1867 WELLS, George L. WELLS, John A. [Detroit] Allegan & Holland Frankfort, Crystal Lake & Fort Street & Elmwood First Director 1868 Glenn Arbor First Director 1865 Michigan Northern RR First Director 1890 First Director 1869 WELLS, John W. # WELLS, Hezekiah G. [Menominee] WELLS, Charles William [East [Kalamazoo] NPMemorial, 273-74; HistNP, Saginaw] MichBiog, 2:424; ABH, 2:part 3:1436-3; CycMich, 160-61 4:64-65; HistMich1915, 4:2273-74 Born July 16, 1841, Upper Jay, CycMich, 313-14 Born March 30, 1848, N. Y. Born June 16, 1812, Davenport, Ia. (some have 1862-65 in Civil War Steubenville, Oh. 1841 in error) 1867 to Saginaw, lumberman’s 1833 to Kalamazoo, attorney Father of Daniel Wells supplies Circuit court judge 1845-50 1875 to Menominee, Got into lumbering President, vill. of Kalamazoo, lumbering Died Oct. 18, 1893, Bow String 1857-58, 1864-65, 1867 Founded J. W. Wells Lumber Lake, Minn. Died April 4, 1885, Kalamazoo Co. ---- ---- Died Aug. 17, 1921, Saginaw & Grand Rapids Schoolcraft & Three Rivers Menominee First Director 1878 First Director 1855 ---- Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw Kalamazoo & Schoolcraft Escanaba & Lake Superior First Director, Director First Director 1866 First Director, Director 1887-89 Kalamazoo & South Haven 1900-09 Director 1872-80 General Manager 1900-09 WELLS, Daniel # [Wells, 1908 Kalamazoo, Lowell & Northern Vice President 1904-07 Blind River, Ont.] Michigan Born 1877, Menominee First Director 1871 WELLS, Oscar A. Son of John W. Wells Director 1874-79 Frankfort, Crystal Lake & Served in Spanish-American Glenn Arbor War WELLS, Howard P. # First Director 1890 ---- [Wyandotte] Escanaba & Lake Superior Wyandotte Southern WELLS, Thomas Wickham Director 1906-09 Traffic Manager, Director [Marshall] 1916-17 Born c.1804 WELLS, Frederick L. [Port Died Feb. 21, 1845, Marshall Huron] WELLS, Hubbard ---- MichBiog, 2:423; HistStCl, 601 Iron Mountain & Wisconsin Michigan, Internal Born March 24, 1833, State Line Improvement Board Stanford, N.Y. First Director 1856 Commissioner [Central] Son of John Wells 5/1842-4/1844 280 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ---- WELLS, W. E. # [Wells] Marquette City & Presque Isle WESSON, William Brigham Escanaba & Lake Superior Director 1904-06 [Detroit] General Superintendent MichBiog, 2:426 1902-09 WESCOTT, Frank # [Owosso] Born March 20, 1820, General Passenger Agent, Grand Rapids & Ionia Hardwick, Mass General Freight Agent 1902-09 First Director, First No date to Detroit Secretary 1903 In banking & real estate WELLS, William H. [Detroit] Ionia & Owosso Died 1890, Detroit Attorney First Director, First ---- ---- Secretary 1903 Hamtramck Street Michigan Air Line RR Grand Rapids, Belding & First Director 1868 Director 1887-88 Greenville Grand River Street East Detroit & Grosse Pointe First Director, First First Director 1869 President Secretary 1905 Detroit, Howell & Lansing First Director, Director WELSH, S. O. WESCOTT, George Hender # 1870-3/71 Croswell & Peck BiogRy1922, 660 President 1871-3/71 First Director 1879 Born Jan. 10, 1872, Waterville, Detroit River RR Tunnel Vt. First Director 1871 WENTE, William # [Manistee] Died Aug. 18, 1943, Houghton Detroit, Lansing & Lake Powers, 2:944-45 ---- Michigan Born Feb. 22, 1848, Hanover, Various roads First Director, Director Germany Various work 1889-1991 1871-72 1865 to Manistee, bookkeeper Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Detroit River Street w/Filer & Tyson, then Mark S. [Chicago] First Director 1872 Tyson & Co. Division Freight Agent 1911- 1872 to Florida 17 WEST, Frank # c.1875 to Manistee, Copper Range [Houghton] Saginaw, Owosso & Lansing bookkeeper C. F. Ruggles (1 General Freight & Psgr. First Director 1906 yr), Agent 1917-20 then Cushman Calkins & Co General Manager 1920-(30) WEST, Preston C. F. [Calumet] (1yr), Hecla & Torch Lake then Dempsey Cartier & Co WESSELIUS, Sybrant Chief Engineer 1891-93 (1877-82) MichBiog, 2:426; MenProgress, 1882 Secy-Treas Manistee 372 WEST, Samuel H. # [Cleveland] Lumber Co. (to 1911) Born June 8, 1859, Grand Lake Shore & Michigan Died 1915, Manistee Rapids Southern ---- No date graduated Kalamazoo General Attorney 1912-(24) Crawford & Manistee River College Secretary, Director Attorney from 1886 onward WEST, Thomas H. # [St. Louis, 1886-1904 State senator 1889-90 Mo.] Auditor 1888-1904 Died May 9, 1926, Grand Born July 27, 1846, in Grass Lake & Manistee River Rapids Tennessee Treasurer, Director 1888-91 ---- President, St. Louis Trust and Grand Rapids, Chicago & St. Union Trust Cos., WENTWORTH, H. H. Louis 1889-1909 Michigan Central [Chicago] First Director 1890 Died July 7, 1926, St. Louis General Passenger Agent Reeds Lake Electric ---- 1877-80 First Director 1890 Pere Marquette State of Michigan Director 1902 WERNER, Jacob # Commissioner of Railroads St. Louis-San Fancisco Born c.1862, in Michigan 1/14/1897-4/6/1899 Director until 1914 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 281 President, Standard Steel WESTLING, Jonas # WESTON, George # [Chicago] Casting Co. 1886-92 [Philadelphia] BkChi, 606 Died Dec. 31, 1934, Chester Grand Rapids & North Born Jan. 30, 1861, Kalamazoo Twp., Pa. Western 1887-96 built elevated RRs ---- First Director 1908 with brother Charles V. Cable Street Ry of Grand Muskegon Ry. & Navigation ---- Rapids First Director 1918 Various roads First Director 1887 Tuscaloosa Ry & Utilities Engineering Dept. 1880-87 Chester & Media Electric Ry Secretary, Treasurer, 1918 Michigan West Shore Traction President, Director 1902-07 First Director 1901 WESTON, Abijah [Painted Post, WETHERILL, Robert [Chester, N.Y.] WESTON, Horace O. Pa.] Born Sept. 23, 1822, Luzerne, [Grandville] NatCyc, 4:504 N. Y. Grand Rapids & Holland Born Sept. 4, 1847, Lower Father of Charles Weston First Director 1871 Merion Twp., Pa. An owner of Chicago Lumber Brother of Richard W. Co. and WESTOVER, Luther [Bay City] Wetherill Manistique Lumber Co. MichBiog, 2:428; ABH, 1;part Died June 18, 1934, Chester Died June 2, 1898, Tonawanda, 8:57; CycMich, 190-91 Twp., Pa. N. Y. Born Apr. 24, 1817, Berkshire ---- ---- Co., Mass Cable Street Ry of Grand Manistique Father of William Westover Rapids Director 1886-88 1865 to Bay City, lumbering First Director 1887 Manistique & Northwestern until 74 First Director, Director State representative 1869-70 WETMORE, Frederick 1891-97 1873 into banking P.[Marquette] President 1897 Died Nov. 12, 1884, Bay City HistUP, 435 ---- Born Oct. 30, 1813, Burlington, WESTON, Charles # [North Grand Rapids & Bay City Vt. Tonawanda, N.Y.] First Director 1871 Brother of William L. Wetmore Born July 13, 1856, Painted 1864 to Marquette, grocer Post, N. Y. WESTOVER, William [Bay City] Died Sept. 17, 1911 Son of Abijah Weston CycMich, 200-01 ---- ---- Born Nov. 16, 1827, Sheffield, Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie & Manistique & Northwestern Mass. Mackinac Director 1901 Son of Luther Westover First Director 1872 1865 to Bay City WESTON, Charles Valentine # Died Mar. 15, 1914, Alameda, WETMORE, Jerome White [Chicago] Calif. Born May 1, 1820, Warren Co., BkChi, 605 ---- Pa. Born Feb. 14, 1857, Kalamazoo Bay City, Caro & Port Huron 1846 to Erie, Pa., attorney, 1888 to Chicago, city water First Director 1886 inventor intake system Battle Creek & Bay City Died July 25, 1900, Erie, Pa. 1890-1903 built elevated RRs First Director 1888 ---- with brother George Cleveland, Painesville & ---- WETHERILL, Richard W. Ashtabula Various roads [Chester, Pa.] Director 1867 Engineering Dept. 1880-88 HistFB, 2:730; NatCyc, 4:504- Lake Shore & Michigan Michigan West Shore Traction 05 Southern [Erie, Pa.] First Director 1901 Born Sept. 28, 1850, Lower First Director, Director South Side Elevated Merion Twp., Pa. 4/1869-10/69 President, Director 1908-09 Brother of Robert Wetherill 282 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) WETMORE, William L. Div. Superintendent [Marquette] [Marquette] 1872-74 HistUP, 435 Born Jan. 3, 1821, Burlington, Born July 30, 1822, Allegany Conn. WHEEDEN, S. H. Co., N. Y. Brother of Frederick P. St. Joseph Valley 1861 to Pennsylvania Wetmore Secretary 1848 1868 to Fairport, Ohio Died Jan. 10, 1898, Marquette 1869 to Marquette Co., iron ---- WHEELER, Abram Oren # mining Iron Bay MichBiog, 2:429-430; CycMich, ---- First Director 1866 278-79 Marquette, Champion & Marquette & Peninsula Republican, 2:392-93 Chicago First Director 1871 Born May 8, 1846, Mill River, First Director 1889 Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie & Berkshire Co., Mass. Mackinac Brother-in-law of John WHEELER, Christopher O. First Director 1872 Canfield BiogRy1893, 398 c.1859 to Joliet, Ill. Born Feb. 27, 1838, Benton WEYMOUTH, Guy L. # 1866 to Manistee, became Centre, N. Y. [Boston] owner of tug boats Out of railroading 1881-88 Houghton County Traction President, Manistee Mfg. Co. ---- Vice President 1912-14 State senator 1891-92, 1895- Michigan Central 96 Station work [Dowagiac] WHALING, James P. ---- Train Master c/1875-78 BiogRy1885, 259 Hobart & Manistee River [Chicago] Born Dec. 31, 1815, Stafford [Manistee] Div. Superintendent Co., Va. First Director, Director 1878-80 [Chicago] ---- 1879-90 St. Paul, Minneapolis & Various roads Traverse City & Leelanau Manitoba Various work 1852-63 [Grand Rapids] Div. Superintendent 1880- Milwaukee & St. Paul First Director 1900 81 Acting Auditor 1863-65 Wisconsin Central Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul WHEELER, Charles C. Div. Superintendent [Milwaukee] [Chicago] 1888/11/89 Auditor 1866-81 BiogRy1893, 398 Chicago, Santa Fe & California General Auditor 1881-(85) ---- General Superintendent Various roads 11/1889-10/90 WHALING, John A. Various work c.1850-70 Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe BiogRy1896, 505 Chicago & North Western [Galveston] Born June 13, 1849, Keeseville, General Freight Agent 1870- General Manager 10/1890- N. Y. 74 4/93 ---- Asst. General Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Superintendent 1876-80 WHEELER, Daniel M. Various work 1865-1880 General Superintendent BiogRy1887, 350 General Storekeeper 1880- 1883-86 Born July 3, 1846, Rutland, 93 Escanaba & Lake Superior Mass. Wisconsin Central First Director, Director 1881 ---- [Milwaukee] Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Various roads, Purchasing Agent 1893- General Manager 7/1881- Engineering Dept. 1869- 1/96 10/83 12/80 Chicago, Fort Madison & Des St. Louis-San Francisco WHEATON, William Moines Asst. Engineer 1/1881-1/84 [Kalamazoo] President 12/1890-(93) Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Lake Shore & Michigan Northern Southern WHEELER, Charles M. Asst. Chief Engineer 1/1884- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 283 3/85 Newspaper publisher 1878- Died Nov. 20, 1889, Chicago St. Paul & Northern Pacific 1892; land dealer ---- Asst. Chief Engineer 3/1885- Died Oct. 14, 1910; burial Detroit & St. Joseph [Niles] 5/86 Mesick Commissioner 1832 & 1835 Wisconsin, Minnesota & Pacific ---- St. Joseph Valley [St. Joseph] Chief Engineer 5/1886-1/87 Cadillac, Manistee Valley & Commissioner 1848 Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Lake Michigan St. Joseph Atlantic [Mpls.] First Director 1884 Commissioner 1850 Division Engineer 1/1887- 4/88 WHEELER, Nelson Knox WHEELER, William Egbert # Winona & Southwestern Born Apr. 11, 1807, Delaware Born Nov. 21, 1843, Portville, Chief Engineer, Co., N. Y. N. Y. Superintendent 4/1888-2/92 1818 graduated Union College Brother of Nelson P. Wheeler Brother-in-law of William B. N. Y. state assemblyman 1892- WHEELER, Edward D. # Ogden 93, 1900 [Manistee] 1855 to Fond du Lac, Wisc. Died Apr. 28, 1911, Portville CycMich, 148-49 c.1859 to New York City ---- Born May 8, 1843, New Died Sept. 21, 1880, New York Manistique & Northwestern Marlborough, Mass. City [Portville, N.Y.] 1862 to Manistee, worked for ---- Director 1897-1901 his uncle John Canfield Ontonagon & State Line Later worked for Nathan First Director 1856 WHEELER, William G. # Engelman Chicago, St. Anthony & Fond [Chicago] 1871 on his own lumbering du Lac [Chicago] Chicago & North Western Died 1906, Manistee Acting President, Director General Solicitor 1916-17 ---- 1856 Hobart & Manistee River Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac WHEELER, William (Riley) First Director 1879 [New York] MichBiog, 2:432 Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President, Director Born Aug. 18, 1810, Hartford Director 1879-90 1857 Co., Conn. State representative 1861-64 WHEELER, F G. # [Wyandotte] WHEELER, Nelson Platt # 1831 to Flowerfield, farmer Wyandotte Southern [Endeavor, Pa.] 1864 to Glenwood, Mills Co., Director 1908-12 Born Nov. 4, 1841, Portville, N. Iowa Y. Died Sept. 10, 1885, Glenwood, WHEELER, George B. # Brother of William E. Wheeler Ia. [Cleveland] Lumberman ---- Lake Shore & Michigan Died Mar. 3, 1920, Pasadena, Schoolcraft & Three Rivers Southern Calif. [Flowerfield] General Freight Agent 1899- ---- First Director 1855 10 Manistique & Northwestern Director 1897-1901 WHEELOCK, Edwin D. WHEELER, George K. BiogRy1887, 350 [Chicago] WHEELER, Tolman Born Bedford, Ohio Citizens Street (Kalamazoo) BiogChSL, 2:503; HistChi2, ---- First Director 1893 3:781, 786 Lake Shore & Michigan Born Sept. 18, 1801, New Southern WHEELER, John H. [Sherman] Haven, Vt. Auditor’s Office 9/1872- HistWex, 317-18 1831 to Niles; 1835 to St. 7/85 Born Apr. 19, 1840, Joseph Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. President, Vil. of St. Joseph, [Elkhart, Ind.] In 44th N. Y. Vol. Infantry 1845, 1848-49 Auditor 7/1885-88 1861-64 1850 to Chicago, merchant 284 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) WHIPPLE, F. C. [Toledo] Wisconsin Central Detroit, Grand Haven & Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Agent 10/1893-4/1900 Milwaukee General Passenger & Freight Trainmaster 4/1900-9/04 Asst. General Manager Agent 1897 Asst. Superintendent 1878-79 9/1904-(06) [Minneapolis] Wagner Sleeping Car Co. WHITCOMB, C. D. [Detroit] [Chicago] Michigan Central WHITE, Albert E. F. # [Detroit] Manager 12/1880-(85) General Ticket Agent 1870 BkDet, 477 Born July 10, 1844, Unadilla, N. WHITE, Andrew Dickson WHITCOMB, E. H. # Y. [Syracuse, N.Y.] [Davenport, Ia.] Officer, D. M. Ferry & Co. Wikipedia Detroit Bay City Traction Director many companies Born Nov. 7, 1832, Homer, N. First Director 1904 ---- Y. Monroe Traction N. Y. state senator 1864-67 WHITCOMB, Henry Franklin # First Director 1901 First president Cornell BiogRy1922, 662 Detroit & Monroe University 1867-79, ’81-85 Born June 26, 1848, Herman, First Director 1901 U. S. ambassador to Germany N. Y. Toledo & Monroe 1879-81 Died Nov. 1, 1932, Milwaukee Secretary 1902 U. S. minister to Russia 1892- ---- Detroit, Monroe & Toledo 94 Sheboygan & Fond du Lac Short Line Died Nov. 4, 1918, Ithaca, N. Y. Various work 10/1865- First Director, Director ---- 10/68 1902-05 Lake Shore & Michigan Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Southern Western [Milwaukee] WHITE, Albert S. Director 5/1876-5/78 General Passenger & Freight BiogRy1901, 585 Agent 2/1873-84 Non-rail company work after WHITE, Arthur D. # [Boyne General Manager 1885-93 8/1894 City] Wisconsin Central ---- Boyne City & Southeastern [Milwaukee] Various roads Secretary, Director Receiver, General Manager Clerk 1868-10/75 1894-1900 1893-99 Merchants Dispatch General Passenger Agent President, Director 1899- Transportation 1895-97 10/1906 Secretary 11/1875-10/80 General Superintendent Gogebic & Montreal River Indianapolis & St. Louis 1897 Vice President 1903-04 Station Agent 11/1880-6/81 President 1905 General Agent 6/1881-9/85 WHITE, Arthur J. # Asst. General Freight Agent HistCal, 2:1143-45 WHITCOMB, William George # 11/1885-5/87 Born Apr. 8, 1846, Prattsville, BiogRy1906, 647-48 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago N. Y. Born Oct. 21, 1859, in Wisc. & St. Louis Died Oct. 1921, Battle Creek Died Jan. 30, 1928, in Wisc. Asst. General Freight Agent ---- ---- 3/1891-1/92 Jackson City Milwaukee, Lake Shore & General Freight Agent First Director 1881 Western [Milwaukee] 1/1892-8/94 [Cincinnati] [Minneapolis] Clerk 1875-6/83 Muskegon Ry Ontonagon & Brule River WHITE, Alfred First Director 1882 Clerk 6/1883-1/84 BiogRy1885, 260 [Jackson] Mineral Range [Calumet] ---- Michigan Central Traction Agent 1/1884-1/85 Detroit & Milwaukee [Detroit] First Treasurer 1902 [Battle Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Freight Agent 1867- Creek] Auditing Dept. 1/1888- General Passenger & Freight Grand Rapids & South 10/93 Agent 1870-78 Michigan Traction Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 285 First Director 1903 WHITE, Edwin E. [St. Johns] Rapids] Battle Creek & Grand Rapids Union Depot of Durand MichBiog, 2:435; ABH-1:part Inland First Director 1888 5:131 First Director 1904 Born Sept. 9, 1822, Dresden, WHITE, Elmer [Toledo] N.Y. WHITE, Clark C. [Mancelona] Detroit & Toledo 1842 to Grand Rapids Born 1865 First Director 1890 State representative 1863-4 Died Sept. 19, 1897, Jackson In many businesses ---- WHITE, Enoch J. Died May 28, 1902, Grand Mancelona & North Western HistLap, 82 Rapids First Director, Treasurer Born Mar. 2, 1814, South ---- 1892 Hadley, Mass. Grand Rapids & Indiana 1833 to Lapeer Twp., surveyor Director 1870-72 WHITE, David [Fairfield, Banker Lenawee Co.] Died May 6, 1878, Lapeer WHITE, Hamilton [Syracuse, Born 1805, in Vermont ---- N.Y.] Died 1877, Fairfield Northern Michigan Ry PastSyrNY, 2:46-47 ---- First Director 1869 Born May 6, 1807, Cortland Erie & Kalamazoo Co., N.Y. Commissioner 1833 WHITE, F. William # [Detroit] c.1836 to Lockport, N.Y. First Director 1834 Michigan Light & Traction 1839 to Syracuse. banking Maumee Branch First Director 1909 Investor in many businesses Commissioner 1835 Died Sept.22, 1865, Syracuse WHITE, George # [Boyne City] ---- WHITE, E. C. Brother of James A., Robert V., Michigan Southern & Northern Gladstone Street Thomas and Indiana First Director 1889 William H. White First Director, Director ---- 4/1855-4/57, 4/1860-9/65 WHITE, Edgar [Port Huron] Boyne City & Southeastern BiogStCl, 275-77; HistStCl, 603 Director 1893-1901 WHITE, Hugh L. Born Oct. 3, 1820, Whitestown, General Freight Agent Born Dec. 25, 1798, N. Y. 1895-1901 Whitestown, N.Y. Brother of James H. White 1830 to Cohoes, N.Y. c.1847 to Ann Arbor WHITE, George H. [Escanaba] U.S. representatives 1845-51 1849 to Port Huron, real estate HistUP, 247 Died Oct. 6, 1870, Waterford, dealer Born Dec. 24, 1843, Chatauqua N.Y. Mayor, Port Huron 1858 Co., N. Y. ---- Died Oct. 20, 1894, Port Huron Designed an early type of ore- Erie & Kalamazoo ---- hauling car Director 1848 Port Huron & Lake Michigan ---- Michigan Southern Director 1870-73 Chicago & North Western Director 5/1849-4/55 President 1870 Various work 1869-73 Michigan Southern & Northern Treasurer 1872-73 Master Mechanic 1873-5/83 Indiana Chicago & Lake Huron Duluth & Iron Range First Director, Director First Director, Director Superintendent 5/183-6/88 4/1855-4/57 1873-79 Duluth Union Depot Treasurer 1873 Superintendent 6/1888- WHITE, James A. # [Boyne President 1874-79 8/92 City, beg. 1902 Buffalo, N.Y.] Duluth, Missabe & Northern Born Jan. 11, 1863, Holland, WHITE, Edgar C. [Ovid] Superintendent 8/1892- Ontario Ovid & Traverse Bay 5/93 Brother of George, James A., First Director 1882 Thomas D. WHITE, George H. [Grand and William H. White 286 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Partner in W. H. White Lumber WHITE, Lyde [Boyne City] York City] Co.; pres. of White Transp. Boyne City & Southeastern BiogRy1922, 663 Steamship Co. Director 1893-97 Born June 9, 1860, Hartford, Died Dec. 5, 1924, Boyne City Conn. ---- WHITE, Lysle H. # [Boyne City] 1881 graduated Trinity Boyne City & Southeastern BiogRy1922, 663 College Treasurer, Director Born Jan. 19, 1887, Boyne City ---- 1893-1904 Son of William H. White Various roads Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Died Apr. 1967 Various work 1883-10/89 First Director, Director ---- New York Central & Hudson 1905-17 Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena River Treasurer 1905-(23) Director 1910-(23) Auditing Dept. 10/1889- General Passenger Agent 2/1906 WHITE, James H. [Port Huron] 1911-14 Auditor 2/1910-12/14 MichBiog, 2:436; BiogStCl, Superintendent 1913-16 New York Central 456-59; HistStCl, 603 General Manager (1923-29) General Auditor 1/1915- Born Apr. 28, 1822, 3/20 Whitestown, N. Y. WHITE, Peter # [Marquette] Brother of Edgar White HistUP, 435-36; MichBiog, WHITE, Robert V. # [Boyne c.1847 to Ann Arbor 2:436-437; City] 1850 to Port Huron, real estate BiogHBM, 289-98 Brother of George, James A., dealer Born Oct. 31, 1830, Rome, N.Y. and Thomas D, State representative 1879-82 1847 to Marquette and William H. White Died c.1906 1857 married Ellen, daughter ---- ---- of Morgan L. Hewitt Boyne City & Southeastern Port Huron & Southwestern Merchant, bank founder, Director 1893-1904 First Director 1882 involved in mining General Superintendent State representative 1857 1894-96 WHITE, Jonathan Ripley State senator 1875 Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena [Lapeer] Died June 6, 1908, Detroit; First Director, Director MichBiog,,2:436 buried in Marquette 1905-10 Born Sept. 10, 1806, South ---- Hadley, Mass. Marquette & Peninsula WHITE, Thomas D. # [Boyne 1833 to Lapeer First Director 1871 City] State representative 1855 Marquette & Ontonagon Born 1861 Lapeer vil. president 1860 Director 1871 Brother of George, James A., Died July 12, 1881 Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie & Robert V., ---- Mackinac and William H. White Auburn & Lapeer First Director 1872 Died 1935, Boyne City Commissioner 1838 Lake Michigan & Lake ---- Superior Boyne City & Southeastern WHITE, Levant E. # [Sturgis] First Director 1890 Vice President, Director PortStJos, 454-57 Negaunee & Ishpeming Street 1893-1904 Born Sept. 26, 1833, Genesee First Director 1891 Asst. General Co., N.Y. Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Superintendent 1895-1901 1859 to Sturgis, merchant Ry & Elect General Freight Agent 1902- Sturgis vil. president 1868-76 First Director . 1892 04 Bank president 1894-1906 Marquette & Southeastern Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Died Mar. 22, 1912, Sturgis Director 1901-08 First Director, Director ---- Marquette City & Presque Isle 1905-17 Sturgis & Mansfield Director, President 1903-06 Vice President 1905-(29) First Director 1870 General Freight Agent 1905 WHITE, Richard A. # [New Asst. General Manager 1908- Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 287 11, 1913 1883 to Boyne City, sawmill merchant partnership w/R. E. Newvill Univ. of Mich. regent 1859-64 WHITE, T. (for Thomas) 1883 bought out Newvill; 1861-63 in Civil War with 2nd Stewart [Grand Rapids] organized W. H. White Lumber Vt. Infantry HistGrRap, 428 Co. Died June 23, 1887, Ypsilanti Born June 28, 1840, Grand Died Aug. 14, 1933, Boyne City ---- Haven ---- Michigan Air Line Extension Son of Thomas W. White Boyne City & Southeastern First Director 1869 Lumberman; boom company President, Director owner 1893-1904 WHITING, Justin Rice # [St. Banker General Manager 1893-1904 Clair] Died Oct. 1915 First Director, Director CycMich, 244-45; MichBiog, ---- 1905-(29) 2:438-39 Traverse City, Kalkaska & President 1905-23 Born Feb. 18, 1847, Bath, N.Y. Grayling General Manager 1905-17 Son of Henry Whiting First Director 1888 1849 to St. Clair WHITEHEAD, Almeron Univ. of Mich. for 2 years WHITE, Thomas W. [Birmingham] 1869-70 in Clinton, Iowa, MichBiog, 2:437 Bloomfield & Orchard Lake merchant Born Nov. 15, 1805, Ashfield, First Director 1898 State senator 1883-84 Mass. 1886 one of founders of Father of T. Stewart White WHITEHOUSE, William F. Crystal Diamond Salt Co. to Grand Haven 1836 [Chicago] U.S. representative 1887-95 to Grand Rapids 1866 Michigan Ry Died Jan. 31, 1903, St. Clair State representative 1844 First Director 1880 ---- Lumbering, later general Detroit & St. Clair River business WHITING, Frank V. # First Director 1885 Died Jan. 9, 1884, Grand BiogRy1922, 666 Rochester & St. Clair Rapids Born Nov. 23, 1867 First Director 1900 ---- ---- Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo & Port Huron & Lake Michigan Lake Shore & Michigan South Haven Traction Commissioner 1847 Southern First Director 1900 Various work 11/1884-2/98 WHITE, V. H. # [Boyne City] Chief Claim Agent 2/1898- WHITING, Stephen Betts # Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena 2/1909 [Cambridge, Mass.] 3rd Vice President (1923) New York Central & Hudson Born Jan. 22, 1834, Redding Asst. to General Manager River Ridge, Conn. (1923) Claims Attorney 2/1909- Mechanical and mining 4/11 engineer WHITE, William Augustus General Claims Attorney 1888-1901 with Calumet & Lake Superior Iron Mountain 4/1911-12/14 Hecla First Director 1862 New York Central [New York Died Dec. 15, 1915, Cambridge City] ---- WHITE, William Howard # General Claims Attorney Hecla & Torch Lake [Boyne City] 1/1915-(22) Director 1888-1900 Powers, 3:1226-29 General Manager 1893-1900 Born Apr. 12, 1859, Owen WHITING, Henry Sound, Ont. CycMich, 240-41; MichBiog, WHITMAN, Charles Rudolphus Brother of Thomas D., George, 2:438 MichBiog, 2:439 Robert V., and James A. White Born Feb. 7, 1818, Bath, N. Y. Born Oct. 4, 1847, South Bend, Father of Lysle H. White Father of Justin R. Whiting Ind. 1881 to East Jordan, worked 1846 to St. Clair, teacher 1870 graduated Univ. of Mich.; for John Monroe 1848 lumberman and Masters U. of M. 1875 288 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1870 to Ypsilanti 1884 Owned a private bank Lawyer; school administrator 1898 to Pasadena Died Nov. 15, 1902, Adrian Univ. of Mich. regent 1886-94 Died May 8, 1908, Pasadena, ---- 1887 to Ann Arbor Calif. Adrian & State Line 1899 to Chicago, lawyer ---- First Director 1871 ---- Cadillac & Evart Treasurer 1872 Michigan, State of First Director 1882 Commissioner of Railroads WHITNEY, Charles M. [New 1/14/1891-1/10/1893 WHITMORE, Thomas A. # York City] [Chicago] Toledo, Ann Arbor & North WHITMAN, J. H. [Chicago] Grand Rapids Terminal Belt Michigan Chicago & Grand Trunk First Director 1905 Director 1890 Director 1880-85 WHITNEY, Abel [Adrian] WHITNEY, Elbert A. WHITMAN, John Munro # CycMich, 241-42; PortraitGov, [Frankfort] [Chicago] 184-86 Born July 8, 1865, Stockbridge BiogRy1906, 650; BkChi, 610- Born July 26 or 28, 1813, Lawyer; newspaper publisher 11; HerrNL, 5:679 Romulus, N.Y. Died Sept. 23, 1891, Frankfort; Born Aug. 11, 1837, Elbridge, Brother of William A. Whitney burial Stockbridge N.Y. 1828 family to Adrian ---- 1858-60 engineer, enlarging Railroad contractor 1838-39 Frankfort, Crystal Lake & Erie Canal Postmaster, Adrian 18483-49 Glenn Arbor 1867-69 engineer, deepening In variety of businesses First Director 1890 Illinois & Michigan Canal Bank officer Died Oct. 29, 1912, Chicago; Died Oct. 18, 1899, Adrian WHITNEY, Frank I. # buried in Elbridge, N. Y. ---- BiogRy1913, 587 ---- Adrian & Detroit Born Sept. 7, 1850, Milltown, Various roads First Director 1870 Me. Engineer 1856-72 Died June 13, 1919, St. Paul, Chicago & Pacific WHITNEY, Clark James # Minn. Superintendent 1872-80 [Detroit] ---- Engineer 1872-76 CycMich, 304-05 Michigan Central [Chicago] Receiver 1876-80 Born July 12, 1832, Avon, Various work before 1881 Chicago & North Western Oakland Co. Asst. General Passenger Div. Superintendent 6/1880- 1850-52 to Beaver Island, Agent 9/1881-4/87 2/83 fishery Lake Shore & Michigan General Superintendent 1855 into musical instrument Southern [Chicago] 2/1883-8/87 business City Passenger Agent 4- General Manager 8/1887- 1880 founded predecessor of 7/1887 11/1889 Detroit Edison Western Passenger Agent Vice President 11/1889- Died 1905, Detroit 7/1887-7/88 1910 ---- St. Paul, Minneapolis & Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Pontiac & Southern Manitoba [St. Paul] Western First Director 1883 Gen. Passenger & Ticket Director 1891-92 Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Agent 7/1888-3/1905 Director 1884-88 Great Northern [St. Paul] WHITMORE, Orange Scott # Detroit & River St. Clair Passenger Traffic Manager The Lumber World, May 15, First Director 1895 3/1905-7/06 1908, p. 23 Born October 26, 1836, WHITNEY, Channing # WHITNEY, George [Boston] Ashburnham, Mass. [Adrian] Detroit, Lansing & Northern In 9th Vt. Infantry, 1863 HistLen, 469-72 Director 1888-96 Lumberman in Mich., c.1865- Born Dec. 28, 1842, Adrian Detroit, Grand Rapids & Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 289 Western Mass. Born Mar. 19, 1856, Richmond, Director 1897 Died Jan. 25, 1923, Brookline, Ky. Saginaw & Grand Rapids Mass. Out of railroad service Director 1888-95 ---- 5/1908-5/14 Saginaw Valley & St. Louis St. Marys & Minneapolis Officer, American Short Line Director 1888-96 First Director 1881 RR Assn 12/1915-(22) Boston Elevated RR Died June 20, 1930, WHITNEY, George I. Director 1894-95 Washington, D.C. [Pittsburgh] ---- Pittsburgh & Lake Superior WHITNEY, Truman W. # [St. Lake Shore & Michigan First Director 1884 Louis] Southern Consolidated Traction Co. HistGrat, 1005 Various work 7/1876-9/87 (holding company) Born June 21, 1846, [various places] Director, Treasurer 1896 Stockbridge Div. Superintendent 9/887- In 8th Mich. Cavalry 1864-65 11/88 [Kalamazoo], WHITNEY, Henry A. [Boston] 1874 to St. Louis Div. Superintendent J. C. Whitney, Henry Austin Attorney 11/1888-10/90 [Hillsdale] Whitney: A Memoir, passim Gratiot Co. prosecuting Div. Superintendent Born Oct. 6, 1826, Boston attorney 1877-80 10/1890-3/93 [Toledo] 1846 graduated Harvard Died Oct. 19, 1909, Hot Lake, Toledo & Ohio Central College Ore.; burial St. Louis General Superintendent 1849-71 in manufactory ---- 3/1893-9/1901 Died Feb. 23, 1889, Boston Toledo, Ann Arbor & Toledo Ry & Terminal ---- Mackinaw General Manager 11/1901- Detroit, Lansing & Lake First Director 1891 12/04 [Toledo] Michigan Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Vice President, Director Michigan [Mobile, Ala.] 1872 Director 1891-92 General Manager 4/1905- Detroit, Lansing & Northern 2/07 Vice President, Director WHITNEY, William Augustus Seaboard Air Line 1873 [Hudson] General Manager 2/1907- Boston & Providence HistLen2, 1:86; PortraitLen, 5/08 Director 1871-89 1:187 Tennesse Ry Presidebt 1876-89 Born April 21, 1820, Shelby, General Manager 5/1914- N.Y. 3/17 WHITNEY, Harlan K. # [Battle Brother of Abel Whitney Creek] 1828 to Adrian WHITTEMORE, Don Juan # HistCal, 2:978-79; BiogCal, Merchant, postmaster, [Chicago] 589-91 newspaper publisher BiogRy1906, 65; BkChi, 611 Born Dec. 6, 1864, Battle Creek Died 1884, Adrian Born Dec. 6, 1830, Milton, Vt. Civil engineer ---- Died July 17, 1916 Died Dec. 4, 1941, Battle Creek Hudson & Jackson ---- --- First Director 1870 Various roads Kalamazoo, Gull Lake & Engineer 9/1847-61 Northern WHITRIDGE, F. M. # [New Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul First Director 1906 York City] Asst. Engineer 1861-67 Battle Creek & Grand Rapids Cincinnati Northern Chief Engineer 1867-(85) Inland Lakes President 1899-1900 Chief Engineer 1893-1910 Chief Engineer 1908 Director 1899-1902 Milwaukee & Northern Chief Engineer 1890-92 WHITNEY, Henry Melville # WHITTELSEY, Thomas [Boston] Frederick # WHITTEMORE, Gideon O. Born Oct. 22, 1839, Conway, BiogRy1922, 667 MichBiog1924, 2:441 290 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Born Aug. 12, 1800, St. Albans, Died Dec. 2, 1880; burial President 1876 Vt. Beaufort, S. C. Michigan Midland & Canada 1826 to Pontiac, lawyer ---- Director 1874-1905 1854 to Tawas City, sawmill Amboy & Traverse Bay Vice President 1874-75, owner First Treasurer 1856 1879-80, 1883, 1900-03 Mich. Secy State 1846-8 Toledo, Canada Southern & Died June 30, 1863, [buried WICKER, Henry C. [Chicago] Detroit Pontiac] BiogRy1906, 653 Director 1874-1914 ---- Born July 19, 1840, North Vice President 1874-75, Pontiac & Detroit Ferrisburg, Vt. 1879-80, 1883 Commissioner 1830 Out of railroad service 11/1889-2/1900 WICKES, Harry Tuthill # WHITTEMORE, Joseph L. ---- [Saginaw] [Detroit] Various roads HistMich1915, 2:1129-30; Port Huron & Milwaukee Clerk 1/1861-6 HistSag, 2:60-63 First Director 1855 Chicago & Alton Born Nov. 2, 1860, Flint General Freight Agent 1866- 1883 bought into boiler works WHITTEMORE, Nathaniel [Bay 68 Owned several industries City] North Missouri Died Nov. 20, 1931, Los Born Apr. 3, 1818, South General Freight Agent 1868- Angeles; burial Saginaw Boston, Mass. 12/73 ---- 1856 to Bay City, merchant Chicago & North Western Saginaw Valley Traction Several political offices Asst. General Freight Agent Director 1905-09 Died c.1880, Bay City 1873-74 2nd Vice President 1908-09 ---- General Freight Agent Saginaw-Bay City Marquette & Ontonagon 1/1875-10/79 Vice President 1910-17 First Director 1857 Freight Traffic Manager Saginaw & Flint 10/1879-11/84 Director 1912-13 WHITTIER, T. V. # [Houghton] Traffic Manager 11/1884- Houghton Country Traction 11/89 WICKES, Kirk E. # [Grand Chief Engineer 1915-17 Fort Worth & Rio Grande Rapids] President, General Grand Rapids, Holland & WHITTLE, Thomas [Hancock] Superintendent 2/1900-7/01 Chicago BiogHBM, 77-78; HistUP, 319 Director 1914 Born Jan. 1, 1845, Truro, WICKER, Joel Hoxie Cornwall, England Born c. 1820, Vermont WICKHAM, Henry P. [Detroit] 1877 to Houghton; with ---- Detroit, Plymouth & Northville Quincy Mine St. Joseph & Benton Harbor First Director 1898 Died 1911, Houghton Street Michigan & Indiana ---- First Director 1881 First Director 1898 Quincy & Torch Lake Director 1890-1911 WICKES, Edward A. # [New WICKING, Edwin W. # York City] BiogRy1922, 668 WHITWELL, Samuel W. Died Dec. 6, 1918, New York Born Feb. 23, 1887, Flat Rock, [Jackson] City Delta Co. HistJack2, 194 ---- ---- Born Nov. 11, 1816 Canada Southern Bridge Escanaba & Lake Superior 1838 to Leoni, merchant Director 1878-1917 Clerk 3/1905-7/07 1845 to Jackson, merchant, Vice President 1878-79 Accountant, Cashier 7/1907- banker Chicago & Canada Southern 1/18 1859 to New York City, Director 1874-88 Auditor 1/1918-(22) commission merchant Vice President 1874-75, 1880 to Aiken, S. C. 1879-82 WIDENMAN, Augustus [Ann Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 291 Arbor] 1/1915-4/18 Thomas E. Wilce Toledo, Ann Arbor & Saginaw Manager Purchases and ---- First Director 1866 Stores 3/1920-(22) Empire & South Eastern Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern U. S. Railroad Administration Vice President, Treasurer, First Director 1869 Member 4/1918-3/20 Director 1906-09 WIEST, Edwin Nye # WIGHT, Stanley L. [Detroit] WILCE, Jane # [Chicago] BiogRy1906, 653 Detroit River Street Empire & South Eastern Born Mar. 20, 1862, First Director 1872 Director 1906-09 Washington, Mich. Detroit Transit Ry ---- First Director 1872 WILCE, Thomas Ernest # Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin [Chicago] Machinist 9/1884-10/89 WIGREN, Eugene Aurelius # BkChi, 613 U. S. Government - War Dept. [Detroit] Born Feb. 14, 1867 Engineer 10/1889-4/91 BiogRy1922, 669 Son of Thomas Wilce; worked Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Born July 20, 1871, Andover, for him, later his partner Michigan Ill. Brother of E. Harvey and Machinist 5-12/1901 ---- George C. Wilce Manistee & Northeastern Chicago, Burlington & Quincy ---- [Manistee] various work 10/1891- Empire & South Eastern Machinist 12/1891-5/92 4/1907 Secretary, Director 1906-09 Master Mechanic 5/1892- Michigan Central (1906) Auditor’s Office 5/1907- WILCOX, Albert 11/09 MichBiog, 2:443 WIGHT, Samuel A. # [LaPorte, Auditor of Disbursements Born Nov. 15, 1805, New Ind.] 11/1909-8/12 Marlboro, Mass. Ann Arbor Interurban Asst. Auditor 8/1912-(22) State representative 1841 First Director 1904 Auditor (1924) Died July 6, 1889, Adrian Northern Traction Co. General Auditor -(1930) ---- First Director 1903 Detroit Belt Line Michigan Southern Asst. Secretary 1913-(22) Mechical Dept. 1851-?? WIGHT, Sydney Buckminster # Detroit, Delray & Dearborn [New York City] Asst. Secretary 1913-(22) WILCOX, E. N. [Detroit] BkDet, 482; BiogRy1922, 669 Grand Rapids Street Born Feb. 10, 1856, Detroit WILCE, Edmund Harvey # Incorporator 1864 1878 graduated Univ. of Mich. [Chicago] Died Nov. 20, 1931; burial BkChi, 613 WILCOX, Elliott R. Detroit Born Dec. 6, 1862, Chicago MichBiog, 2:443-444; ABH, ---- Son of Thomas Wilce; worked 1:part 1:88-89 Mackinaw & Marquette for him, later his partner Born Feb. 24, 1838, Rochester Supt. Land Dept. 1886-91 Brother of George C. and State representative 1869-70 Michigan Central Thomas E. Wilce State senator 1877-8 Secretary to President ---- Lawyer, farmer, many local 6/1892-7/96 [Detroit] Empire & South Eastern offices Asst. Purchasing Agent President, Director 1906-09 Died April 24, 1897, Pontiac 7/1896-1903 ---- Purchasing Agent 1903-11 WILCE, George Carlisle # Detroit & Bay City Lake Shore & Michigan [Chicago] First Director 1871 Southern BkChi, 613 Director 1873 General Purchasing Agent Born Dec. 7, 1864, Chicago Secretary, Attorney 1911-14 Son of Thomas Wilce; worked New York Central for him, later his partner WILCOX, Joseph H. [Howell] General Purchasing Agent Brother of E. Harvey and Born Nov. 6, 1809, Pompey, 292 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) N.Y. ---- Erie & Michigan Ry & Died May 5, 1889, Howell River Raisin & Grand River Navigation ---- Commissioner 1835 General Freight Agent 1909- Detroit & Howell 17 First Director 1864 WILDHACK, William Andrew # Director 1915-17 Howell & Lansing BiogRy1913, 591 First Director 1868 Born Jan. 1, 1854, Pekin, Ill. WILKINSON, Albert Hamilton Died Jan. 20, 1941, La [Detroit] WILCOX, Minot I. # [Toledo] Crescenta, Calif. BkDet, 484; CycMich, 145-46 HistNWOhio, 2:1116-17 ---- Born Nov. 19, 1834, Novi Born April 7, 1829, Jefferson Peoria, Decatur & Evansville ---- Co., N.Y. Various work 12/1880-3/87 Detroit & Northwestern Early 1840s to Toledo Lake Erie & Western First Director 1899 Ship chandler Auditing Dept. 3/1887- In 130th Ohio Infantry, 1864 2/1910 WILKINSON, James Milton 1898-1905, bank president Cincinnati Northern [Marquette] Died Nov. 19, 1905, Toledo [Cincinnati] HistUP, 436; NPMemorial, ---- Auditor 2/1910-(17) 198-99; MichBiog1924, 2:447 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Detroit Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Born Nov. 9, 1838, Novi First Director 1904 & St. Louis [Cincinnati] 1864 graduated Univ. Mich. Auditor 2/1910-(17) law school WILCOX, William S. [Adrian] 1864 to Marquette, attorney MichBiog, 2:445 WILDRAM, F. C. # [Boston] Mich. state treasurer 1894-97 Born Apr. 25, 1819, Riga, N.Y. Manistee Light & Traction Died Jan. 24, 1898, Marquette 1836 to Adrian, merchant Director 1908-09 ---- State representative 1865-68 Hancock & Calumet Mayor, Adrian, 1865-66 WILEY, Benjamin B. Vice President, Director State senator 1871-72 Michigan Extension 1896-97 Died Sept. 15, 1893, Adrian First Director 1878 ---- WILKINSON, John(, Jr.) Adrian & Detroit WILEY, George # [Detroit] Century, 33-259 passim; First Director 1870 BkDet1914, 530 Wikipedia President, Director 1872-77 Born Feb. 21, 1860, Detroit Born Sept. 30, 1798, Troy, N.Y. Adrian & State Line Officer, Michigan Savings c.1810 to Syracuse Director 1874-79 Bank, 1905-(14) First Postmaster, Adrian City Train & Street Died Dec. 2, 1945, Detroit Syracuse1820-40 First Director 1883 ---- Died Sept. 19, 1862, Syracuse, Delray Terminal N.Y. WILDER, B. F. [Farwell] First Director, Director ---- Lake George & Muskegon 1905-17 Syracuse & Utica River Treasurer 1905-17 President 1842-(1859) Director 1878-81 Michigan Southern & Northern WILHELM, Charles [Traverse Indiana WILDER, Oshea City] First President, President HistCal2, 134 Born Jan. 23, 1855, N.Y. state 4/1855-4/57 Born July 16, 1784, Gardner, Banker First Director, Director Mass. Died Apr. 17, 1914, Chicago 4/1855-9/57 Served in War of 1812 ---- 1832 moved to Eckford Twp., Traverse City, Peninsular & WILKINSON, L. F. [Berrien Calhoun Co. Old Mission Electric Springs] Surveyor First Director 1894 St. Joseph Valley Died Nov. 6, 1847, Eckford Director 1885 Twp.; burial Marshall WILHELM, E. E. # [Chicago] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 293 WILKINSON, Marvin B. [East Director 1910 First Director 1886 Saginaw] Baltimore & Ohio BiogRy1885, 264 President 1910-41 WILLIAMS, A. D. [New York Born July 5, 1847, Ontario Co., Chairman of Board 1941-42 City] N.Y. St. Clair & Chicago Air Line ---- WILLARD, Frederick B. Director 1872-74 Lake Shore & Michigan [Toledo] Southern and ToledoL, ??; BenchNoOH, 731- WILLIAMS, Alfred L. [Pontiac] Chicago & Canada 32 >>This may be same person as Southern Born Mar. 24, 1870, Monroe Alfred L. Williams Various work 1863-78 Co. of Owosso<< Flint & Pere Marquette 1906 became attorney Port Huron & Lake Michigan Various work 1878-3/84 Died Feb. 26, 1932, Toledo Commissioner 1847 Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron ---- Oakland & Ottawa Superintendent 4/1884-87 Pleasant Bay Incorporator 1848 First Director 1898 Detroit & Pontiac WILL, P. R. # [Wyandotte] ? Wyandotte Terminal WILLARD, Isaac W. First Director, Director MichBiog, 2:448; ABH, WILLIAMS, Alfred L. [Ann 1904-12 1:part4:66-67 Arbor] Born Dec. 1, 1803, Worcester Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern WILLARD, Daniel # Co., Mass First Director 1869 BHB19, 478-487; BkChi, 615; to White Pigeon 1828, Who’sWhoFB, xvi merchant w/Gov. Barry WILLIAMS, Alfred Leonzo Born Jan. 28, 1861, North to Kalamazoo 1833, merchant HistShiClin, 158-62, MPHC, Hartland, Vt. to Paw Paw 1840, lumbering, 10:196-98; F. D. Underwood brought him plank road, much else HistMich, 2:673 to B&O Paw Paw village president Born July 18, 1808, Concord, Died July 6, 1942, Baltimore, 1875 Mass. Md. Died Apr. 8, 1879, Paw Paw Brother of Benjamin O. and ---- ---- Gardner D. Williams Various roads Kalamazoo & Lake Michigan 1831-36 agent, American Fur Various work 1879-1883 Incorporator 1836 Co. Lake Shore & Michigan Allegan & Marshall 1837 to Owosso Southern Commissioner 1836 Died Jan. 6, 1886, Owosso Employee 1883-84 Chicago & Michigan Grand ---- Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Trunk Port Huron & Owosso Atlantic First Director 1865 [Owosso] Various work 1884-88 First Director, First Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault WILLCOX, Eben North President 1869 Ste. Marie HistMich/Det, 3:211 Various work 1888-93 Born Dec. 4, 1820, Detroit WILLIAMS, Alpha L. [Owosso] Div. Superintendent Died Jan. 19, 1891, Detroit Amboy, Lansing & Traverse [Gladstone] 1893-99 ---- Bay Baltimore & Ohio Detroit City First Director 1857 Asst. General Manager 1899- First Director 1863 President 1866 1901 Erie RR WILLCOX, Elliott R., see WILLIAMS, Benjamin O. Vice President, General Wilcox, Elliott R. HistShiClin, 158-62, ABH, Manager 1901-04 2:part 6:89-90; MPHC, 11:243- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy WILLETTS, Warren J. [Three 45 Vice President 1904-10 Rivers] Born Nov. 18, 1810, Concord, Pere Marquette Chicago & Canada Pacific Mass. 294 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Brother of Alfred L. and Albion General Manager 1910-12 Gardner D. Williams [Owosso] 1870 to Elk Rapids Superintendent 1914-17 1831 to Shiawassee Co., fur State senator 1877-78 trader, Amer. Fur Co. Died 1904, Elk Rapids WILLIAMS, George Freeman 1835-36 platted Owosso ---- [Saginaw] Died Mar. 22, 1887, Owosso Elk Rapids, Williamsburg & Born Nov. 24, 1831, Pontiac ---- Southern Son of Gardner D. Williams Michigan Intern. Improve. First Director 1889 Mayor, Saginaw, 1871-72 Board [Owosso] Elk Short Line Died Feb. 10, 1895, Saginaw Contractor, "Northern" First Director 1906 ---- Detroit & Milwaukee [Owosso] City of Saginaw Street Contractor 1855 WILLIAMS, Fred # [Petoskey] First Director 1866 Boyne City & Southeastern Saginaw Street WILLIAMS, Charles P. # Chief Engineer 1902 First Director 1868 [Chicago] Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Muskegon, Ludington & WILLIAMS, Frederick First Director 1871 Manistee Augustus [Pontiac] Director 1872-78 First Director 1913 Born May 27, 1811, Vice President 1874-78 Woodstock, Vt. Saginaw & Grand Rapids WILLIAMS, Charles Waterman Died Feb. 27, 1865, Pontiac First Director 1878 # [South Haven] ---- Saginaw Street HistVanB, 2:917-19 Pontiac & Genesee First Director 1886 Born Feb. 2, 1868, St. Joseph Commissioner 1846 Son of Henry W. Williams WILLIAMS, Gurdon Osmond 1901 became owner Williams WILLIAMS, Gardner D. Born Nov. 14, 1817, Ledyard Steamship Co. MichBiog, 2:452; MPHC, Center, Conn. ---- 10:195-96 Died Apr. 1, 1870, Detroit Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Born Sept. 9, 1804, Concord, ---- Chicago Traction Mass. Detroit & Pontiac First Director 1905 Brother of Alfred L. and President 1845-50 Benjamin O. Williams Superintendent 1850-51 WILLIAMS, Clifford H. # Father of George F. Williams Oakland & Ottawa [Chicago] to Detroit 1815 Commissioner 1848 Muskegon Ry. & Navigation to Saginaw 1827, fur trader for First Director 1918 Amer. Fur Co WILLIAMS, H. H. # State representative 1835-6, Marquette City & Presque Isle WILLIAMS, E. C. [Marquette] 40 General Manager 1904 Mineral Range State senator 1845-6 Director 1893-97 First mayor, Saginaw 1857-58 WILLIAMS, Harvey Died Dec. 10, 1858, Saginaw MichBiog, 2:452 WILLIAMS, E. P. ---- Born Jan. 19, 1812, Michigan Southern Michigan Manchester, Vt. Superintendent [Monroe] Commissioner , Internal 1837 to Chester 4/1851-3/1852 Improvement Board State senator 1857-8 Saginaw & Genesee Real estate dealer WILLIAMS, Fitch Reed # [Elk Commissioner 1837 Died Jan. 18, 1867, Charlotte Rapids] ---- MichBiog, 2:452; BenchMich, WILLIAMS, George E. # Grand River Valley 582-86 [Detroit] Incorporator 1846 Born Dec. 18, 1834, Amenia, Fort Street Union Depot N.Y. Secretary, Treasurer 1901- WILLIAMS, Henry R. # 1858 graduated Univ. of Mich. 07 [Chicago] 1866, became attorney in Manager 1908-09 BkChi, 617; HerrNL, 5:709; Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 295 BiogRy1913, 594 Haute, Ind.] Born July 14, 1849, Palmyra, WILLIAMS, James H. Born 1849, in Miss. Wisc. [Williamston] Died 1919, Terre Haute Died June 9, 1921, Seattle Howell & Lansing ---- ---- First Director 1868 Terre Haute & Indianapolis Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Vice President, General Various work 1867-82 WILLIAMS, James H. Manager (1888-94) Div. Superintendent 1882- [Palmerville] Indiana & Lake Michigan 90 [various] Paris & Pere Marquette River President 1890-94 Asst. General Cashier 1884 Director 1892-94 Superintendent 1890-99 General Manager 2/1900- WILLIAMS, Jesse Lynch WILLIAMS, John R. 1904 Born May 6, 1807, Guilford Co., MichBiog, 2:453; ABH, 1:part Vice President 1913-2/18 N.C. 1:155-56 Director 1913-2/18 c.1832 to Fort Wayne, canal Born May 4, 1782, Detroit engineer Fur trader, merchant WILLIAMS, Henry W # 1836 chief canal engineer for Mayor, Detroit, 1824-58, HistVanB, 2:918-19 Indiana 1829-30, 1844-46 Born July 1829, Vermont Died Oct. 9, 1886, Fort Wayne, Died Oct. 20, 1854, Detroit Father of Charles W. Williams Ind. ---- 1860s to St. Joseph ---- Detroit & St. Joseph 1883 to South Haven Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Commissioner 1832 1890 started Williams Chicago and predecessor Detroit & Maumee Steamship Co. Chief Engineer 1854-62 Commissioner 1835 Died 1901, South Haven Director 1862-63 ---- Union Pacific WILLIAMS, Morris L. # Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Government Director 1862- [Detroit] [Benton Harbor] 69 Born 1841, in Wales Director 1882-86 Grand Rapids & Indiana [Fort Vice president, Commercial Toledo & South Haven [South Wayne, Ind.] Natl. Bank, 1900 Haven] Receiver 1870 Died Oct. 1910, Detroit Director 1890 ---- WILLIAMS, John E. Mt. Clemens Street WILLIAMS, Horace [Clinton, Chicago & North Western First Director 1893 Iowa] Director 9/1869-6/70 Caro & Lake Huron Born 1824, Maine First Director 1901 ---- WILLIAMS, John E. Chicago & North Western BiogRy1896, 514 WILLIAMS, R. J. # Director 8/1884-8/94 Born 1863, Racine, Wisc. BiogRy1922, 675 ---- Born 1880, Indianapolis WILLIAMS, J. Eugene # Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul ?? grad. Purdue Univ. [Detroit] Telegraph Operator 1880-82 ---- BkDet, 485 Chicago & North Western Peoria & Eastern Born Sept. 19, 1856, Westville, Station Agent 1882-4/83 Engineering Dept. 1899- Ind. Milwaukee & Northern 1905 ---- Freight Dept. 4/1883-9/94 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Chicago & West Michigan Wisconsin & Michigan & St. Louis Various work 1882-86 [Menominee] Shops Dept. 1905-16 Clerk, Tariff Bureau 1886-99 Superintendent 9/1894-95 Missouri-Kansas-Texas Pere Marquette General Passenger & Freight Asst. Superintendent Motive Clerk, Tariff Bureau 1900 Agent 1894 Power 1916-17 02 Pere Marquette Chief of Tariff Bureau 1902- WILLIAMS, John G. [Terre Superintendent Motive 296 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Power 1917-(22) Died Mar. 4, 1905, Allegan WILLIAMS, Warren D. [Van ---- WILLIAMS, Richard Henry # Wert, Ohio] Michigan [New York City] RyBiog1913, 596 Commissioner of Railroads Born Sept. 11, 1854, New York Born Sept. 5, 1862, Newport, 5/1/1877-1/12/1883 City Va. Toledo, Marshall & Northern Died Apr. 28, 1923, New York ---- First Director 1884 City Various roads ---- Engineering Dept. 8/1882- WILLIAMS, William D. Chicago & North Western 5/91 MichBiog1924, 2:454; HistUP, Treasurer 1906-10 Cincinnati, Jackson & 436; ABH, 2:part 9:29 Mackinaw Born Mar. 22,1834, Chief Engineer 5/1891-93, Washtenaw Co. WILLIAMS, Sam A. [Cleveland] 1897 1859 to Ontonagon, attorney Toledo & Northwestern Cincinnati Northern 1874 to Marquette First Director, Director Chief Engineer 1897-1917 State representative 1869-70; 1897-98 lawyer; judge 1875-93 WILLIAMS, William [Buffalo] Died Nov. 27, 1893 WILLIAMS, Samuel P. [Howe, HerrNL, 5:717 ---- Ind.] Born Sept. 6, 1815, Bolton, Marquette, Houghton & HerrNL, 5:715 Conn. Ontonagon Born Jan. 20, 1814, Lebanon, 1838 to Sandusky, Ohio Attorney Conn. 1839 to Buffalo; into banking n. d. to Indiana 1871-73 U. S. Repr. WILLIAMS, William H. 1856. State representative Died Sept. 10, 1876, Buffalo [Marquette] Pres National State Bank ---- HistUP, 436 Died Mar. 31, 1897, Berkeley, Michigan Southern & Northern Born May 22, 1847, England Calif. Indiana to Ontonagon 1859 ---- Director 4/1860-5/69 to Marquette 1870 Grand Rapids & Southern Lake Shore & Michigan ---- First Director 1855 Southern Marquette, Houghton & First Director, Director Ontonagon WILLIAMS, Thomas H. # 4/1869-5/75 Roundhouse Foreman 1870- [Jackson] First Vice President, 2nd 81 MichBiog, 2:454; Vice President 4/1869- Master Mechanic 1881-(83) HistMich1915, 2:806-09 5/75 Born May 27, 1844, Kirtland, Detroit, Monroe & Toledo WILLIAMS, William Henry # Ohio Director 1872-74 [New York City] 1865 to Pontiac, learned BiogRy1922, 676-77 carpenter work WILLIAMS, William Brewster Born June 25, 1874, Athens, 1867 to Jackson # [Allegan] Ohio. Pres. Jackson Corset Co. MichBiog1924, 2:454; ABH, Died Oct. 1931, St. Louis State representative 1887-88 2:part 5:140-41; ---- Died Apr. 23, 1911, Jackson CongBiog; BiogRep, 2:396- Pennsylvania-West ---- 98 Clerk 1890-91 Michigan Central Born Jul. 28, 1826, Pittsford, Clerk 1892-1/1901 Car Dept. 1871-3/92 N.Y. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 1851 admitted to N. Y. bar Engineering Dept. 1891 WILLIAMS, W. L. # [Boston] 1855 to Allegan, attorney Baltimore & Ohio Gogebic & Iron Counties Ry & Probate judge 1857-65 Asst. Secretary 1/1901-4/04 Light State senator 1867-70 St. Louis-San Francisco Treasurer 1914-15 U. S. Representative 12/1873- Superintendent Freight Director 1914 3/77 Transportation 4-10/1904 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 297 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific U. S. Ambassador to Poland Commercial Agent 9/1891- Statistician 2/1905-6/07 1930-32 9/93 Delaware & Hudson Died Aug. 26, 1935, Riverdale, General Agent 9/1893-2/97 Asst. to President 5- N. Y. [Chicago] 10/1907 ---- Asst. Gen. Freight Agent Vice President 10/1907- Wabash 2/1897-(1906) [Milw.] (24) Director 1916-17 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Missouri Pacific Traveling Freight Agent Director 1923-30 WILMOT, John F. [Wilmot] 11/1885-6/86 Chairman, Board of Bay City, Caro & Port Huron Directors 1924-30 First Director 1886 WILSON, Charles Gilbert # Wabash [Manistee] Director , Chairman Board of WILOVER, Henry A. [Fenton] PortraitNM, 157-58 Directors 1916-31 Born 1829, N. Y. state Born Feb. 19, 1851, LaColle, President 9-10/1931 Died Mar. 18, 1874, Fenton Que. Ann Arbor ---- Brother of Albert Wilson President 9-10/1931 Fenton & Grand Blanc c.1878 to Manistee, Buckley & First Director 1871 Douglas Lbr. Co. WILLIAMSON, Douw Ditmars 1886 Supt. Buckley & Douglas [New York City] WILSON, Albert # [Manistee] mill Born Jan. 4, 1789, Neshanic, N. Buckley & Douglas Died Aug. 26, 1918, Portland, J. Director 1886-88 Ore. Died Aug. 24, 1869, Brooklyn, Manistee & Northeastern ---- N. Y. Director 1895-1902 Buckley & Douglas ---- Secretary, Treasurer, Michigan Central WILSON, C. A. # [Chicago] Director 1881-88 Director 8/1846-66 Elgin Terminal Manistee & Northeastern New Albany & Salem First Director 1913 Director 1888-1902 Receiver 10/1858-10/1868 WILSON, C. J. # [Boyne City] WILSON, Charles Moseman # WILLIAMSON, Samuel B. [New Manistique, Marquette & [Grand Rapids] York City] Northern HistKent2, 2:415-16 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North General Freight Agent 1902- Born Oct. 10, 1858, Ionia Michigan 03 Brother of Hugh E. Wilson Director 1895 General Passenger Agent 1882 grad. Univ. of Mich. law 1902-03 school WILLIS, Daniel, Jr. [Milwaukee] Auditor 1902-03 1882 to Grand Rapids Bay de Noquet & Marquette Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Died June 20, 1917, East Grand First Director 1856 General Freight Agent 1908- Rapids 10 ---- WILLSON, Frederick J. Asst. Superintendent 1908 Manistee & Northeastern [Chicago] General Passenger Agent Director 1906-08 Battle Creek Electric 1908-10 Attorney 1910-17 First Director 1891 Manistee Light & Traction WILSON, Charles E. # Attorney 1910-12 WILLYS, John North # [Toledo] BiogRy1906, 662 WhosWhoFB, 745 Born Jan 9, 1864, Stirling, WILSON, Edward Preble Born Oct. 25, 1873, Scotland BiogRy1887, 359 Canandaigua, N. Y. ---- Born Apr. 25, 1838, 1890 started bibcycle business Wisconsin Central Washington, Pa. 1907, 1909 bought two Clerk 1881-85 Grad. Washington College automobile factories Traveling Freight Agent 1859 Pres. Willys-Overland Co. 6/1886-9/91 Died 1911 298 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) ---- Born Oct. 17, 1867, Ionia Various roads Various roads Brother of Charles M. Wilson Car Dept. 8/1880-1/84 Freight Traffic Dept.7/1862- Attorney Michigan & Ohio 8/77 Died Dec. 12, 1919, Grand Car Accountant 1/1884- Cincinnati Southern Rapids 2/86 Superintendent, Gen. ---- Cashier 2/1886-3/87 Passenger Agent 8/1877-6/79 Manistee & Northeastern Cincinnati, Jackson & Gen. Freight & Passenger Director 19 1906 Mackinaw Agent 6/1879-7/85 Cashier 3/1887-97 with trade associations WILSON, J. B. [Marquette] Auditor 4/1887 7/1885-10/86 Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Director 1888 Chicago & North Western Master Mechanic 1884 [Chicago] WILSON, Richard T. (Jr.) # General Passenger Agent WILSON, James M. # [New York City] 10/1886-7/98 [Montreal] WhosWhoFB, 747 with trade associations Detroit United Born Sept. 11, 1866, New York 7/1898-?? Director 1909 City Father of Marshall Orme WILSON, Frank Hanning # WILSON, Jesse E. [Rochester] Wilson [Chicago] Born 1829 1890s promoter of New York BiogRy1913, 598 Physician City subway system Born Nov. 12, 1873, Died Nov. 7, 1913, Rochester Died Dec. 1929 Indianapolis ---- ---- ---- Detroit & Bay City Cincinnati, Jackson & Indiana, Bloomington & First Director 1871 Mackinaw Western Director 1887-89, 1892-93, Various work 1887-94 WILSON, (John) Albert # 1897 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago [Manistee] Detroit United & St. Louis Born Dec. 25, 1847, Lacolle, First Director 1900 Various work 1894-12/1902 Que. Lake Shore & Michigan Brother of Charles G. Wilson WILSON, W. E. [Nirvanna] Southern Died Oct. 8, 1922, Portland, Nirvanna & Luther Clerk for General Manager Ore. First Director 1883 1/1902-1/04 ---- Trainmaster 2/1904-4/05 Buckley & Douglas WILSON, William H. # [Toledo] Director 1886-88 [Muskegon] Asst. Div. Superintendent 4- Manistee & Northeastern Born 1870, Muskegon 11/1905 [Chicago] Director 1895-1902 Lumberman Div. Superintendent Died May 23, 1953, Muskegon 11/1905-1/10 WILSON, Marshall Orme # ---- Asst. Gen. Superintendent [New York City] Muskegon Ry. & Navigation 1/1910-12/13 [Clev.] Born 1860 First Director 1918 New York Central Son of Richard T. Wilson General Superintendent Died 1926 WILSON, Worrall # [Jackson] 1/1915-1/21 [Cleveland] ---- Born Nov. 17, 1874, New York Cleveland, Southwestern & Detroit United City Columbus First Director 1900 1897 grad. Yale Univ. law President, General Manager school 5/1921-22 WILSON, Otis Augustus c.1910 to Seattle, Wash., Receiver 1923 [Toledo] attorney BiogRy1896, 517 Died Feb. 23, 1936, Seattle WILSON, Hugh E. # [Grand Born Dec. 23, 1859, Boston ---- Rapids] ---- Calhoun County Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 299 First Director 1901 Commissioner 1835 General Counsel Detroit & Ann Arbor Michigan Southern Detroit, Monroe & Toledo First Director 1901 Incorporator 1846 Director 1873-74 Jackson & Battle Creek First Director, Director Kalamazoo & White Pigeon Traction 5/1846-12/46 Director 1872-74 First Director 1902 Battle Creek & Marshall WING, Charles Gordon # WINING, Carl C. # [Toledo] Traction [Ludington] Toledo, Ottawa Beach & First Director 1901 CycMich, 323-24 Northern Jackson & Suburban Traction Born Jan. 21, 1846, Director 1908 Treasurer 1903 Franklinville, N. Y. Toledo & Western 1873 graduated Univ. Mich. Director 1908-09 WINEGAR, Philip [Buffalo] law school Born 1805 1873 to Ludington, attorney WINNE, W.illiam North Duane ---- Died Nov. 12, 1920, Ludington # [Chicago] Ohio & Grand Haven ---- BkChi, 623; BiogRy1906, 666 First Director, Director Street Ry of Ludington Born Oct. 11, 1850, 1872-73 First Director 1889 Schenectady, N. Y. Michigan & Ohio Ry Pere Marquette & Big Rapids ---- First Director 1873 First Director 1892 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul with predecessors 1853-82 WINEGAR, William [Grand WING, Lucius M. # [Coldwater] Asst. General Auditor Rapids] HistBran1, 740-41 9/1882-12/90 Born 1826 Born Feb. 27, 1839, Coldwater General Auditor 17th Mich. Infantry in Civil Twp. 12/1890-1909 War In 19th Mich. Infantry, 1862- Comptroller 1911-13 Died May 8, 1904, Grand 65 Milwaukee & Northern Rapids 1866 to Coldwater Auditor 1890-92 ---- Pres. Coldwater Natl. Bank and Grand Rapids & Chicago Wolverine Portland WINNETT, Thomas G. # [East Director 1887 Cement Co. Tawas] Lowell & Hastings Mayor, Coldwater, 1882-83 Born Feb. 1860 Director 1890-97 Died June 20, 1921, Coldwater ---- President 1890-91 ---- Detroit & Mackinac Coldwater Train General Passenger Agent WINEMAN, Henry, Jr. # Vice President 1906 1893-1908 [Detroit] Director 1906-08 General Freight Agent 1893- Highland Park & Royal Oak 1908 First Director 1916 WING, Warner Erie & Michigan Ry & MichBiog, 2:461 Navigation WING, Austin Eli [Monroe] Born Sept. 19, 1805, Marietta, President, Director 1908-09 MichBiog, 2:460 Ohio General Manager 1908-09 Born Feb. 3, 1792, Conway, 1817 to Detroit Berkshire Co., Mass 1828 to Monroe; became WINSLOW, Albert 1814 to Detroit lawyer Chicago & North Western n.d. to Monroe State representative 1837, Director 6/1859-6/61 U.S. Terr. delegaate 1825-29, State senator 1838-9 31-33 Justice state supreme court WINSOR, Jacob W. [Grand State representative 1742 1845-56 Rapids] US Marshall; lawyer, farmer Died March 12, 1876 HistGrRap, 99 Died Aug. 25, 1849, Cleveland ---- Born June 11, 1816, ---- Lake Shore & Michigan Skeaneateles, N. Y. Detroit & Maumee Southern Brother of Zenas G. Winsor 300 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1834 to Grand Rapids ---- Died Nov. 14, 1958, Sarasota, In lumbering Michigan Central Fla. Died Dec. 26, 1874, Grand Director 1889-1902 ---- Rapids Kalamazoo & South Haven Wabash ---- Director 1889-1902 Director 1913-(30) Grand Rapids, Greenville & Vice President 1917-(30) Alpena WINTER, E. Conant Ann Arbor First Director 1872 MemLen, 1:446-47 Director 1938 Grand Rapids, Rockford & Born Aug. 3, 1802, Middlebury, Greenville Vt. WIRZ, Hugo P. A. [Newark, Director 1872, 1875 1829 to Adrian, merchant, N.J.} physician Born 1843, Switzerland WINSOR, Zenas G. 1852-53 in California and ---- ABH, 2:part 5:134-35; Oregon Flint & Lansing HistGrRap, 98-99 Died Dec. 12, 1867, Adrian First Director 1872 Born Dec. 14, 1814, ---- Skaneateles, N. Y. Erie & Kalamazoo WISE, Cyrus Brother of Jacob W. Winsor Commissioner 1833 Bear Lake Train 1833 to Ionia, fur trader with First Director 1834 First Treasurer, First Rix Robinson Director 1875 1851-53 in Calif. WINTER, John # [Detroit] 1853 to Grand Rapids Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti Electric WISE, Lester Died Aug. 2, 1890, Grand First Director 1896 E. [Detroit] Rapids Detroit & Lake Orion HistMich/Det, 3:295; BkDet, ---- First Director 1899 491 Grand Rapids RR North Detroit Electric Born Aug. 24, 1858, Branch First Director 1855 First Director 1899 Co., Mich. Detroit, Lake Orion & Flint 1889 to Detroit, real estate WINSTON, Bryant Claybourne First Director 1899 dealer # [St. Louis, Mo.] Grand Rapids, Holland & Lake ---- BiogRy1922, Michigan Detroit, Rouge River & Born Sept. 13, 1856, Illinois First Director 1900 Dearborn Died Feb. 8, 1934, St. Louis, Detroit, Howell & Lansing First Director 1893 Mo. First Director 1901 ---- Grand Rapids, Holland & WISNER, Oscar Fitz-Allen [East Wabash Chicago Saginaw] Various work (1882-1916) Director 1909-11 BenchMich, 48 General Tax Agent 1916 Born Jan. 4, 1838, in Pontiac General Claim Agent (1916- WINTER, Joseph # [Negaunee] Nephew of Gov. Moses Wisner 30) Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Attorney Assistant Attorney (1916- Director 1902-04 Died Jan. 5 1893, Saginaw; 30) burial Pontiac WINTERS, William ---- WINSTON, Frederick Seymour [Palmerville] Flint & Pere Marquette # [Chicago] Paris & Pere Marquette River Attorney c.1880-93 BkChi, 623; HistChi3, 369 Div. Superintendent 1884 Saginaw Union Street Born Oct. 27, 1856, Franklin First Director 1887 Co., Ky. WINTHROP, Henry Rogers # Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron 1875 grad. Yale Univ. [New York City] Director 1889-91 1877 grad. Columbia College BiogRy1922, 681 law school Born July 2, 1876, Newport, R. WITHEY, Lewis H. # [Grand 1877 to Chicago I. Rapids] Died May 7, 1909, Cook Co., Ill. 1898 grad. Yale Univ. MichCent, 4:500 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 301 Born Jan. 21, 1847, Grand Jackson & Ohio Co., Pa. Rapids First Director, Director 1834 to Centreville Died July 1925, Grand Rapids 1884-86 Banker ---- Died Nov. 17, 1893, Centreville Grand Rapids RR WITSON, W. # [Jackson] ---- First Director 1871 Jackson, Plymouth & Air Line Ry of Michigan Street Ry Construction Northville First Director 1869 First Director 1886 Treasurer 1903 Michigan Air Line RR Manistee & Luther Director 1872-86 Vice President, Director WITT, Stillman [Cleveland] Toledo & South Haven/S 1892-1900 Born Jan. 4, 1808, First Director 1876 Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Hubbardston, Worcester Co., Toledo & South Haven/S Director 1896-1900 Mass. First Director 1882 Manistee & Northeastern Father-in-law of Dan P. Eels Director 1908 by 1850 to Cleveland WOLFE, J. S. [Chicago] Railroad building contractor St. Joseph & Lake Shore WITHEY, William H. [Grand Often a partner of Amasa First Director 1894 Rapids] Stone Born 1809, in Vermont Died April 29, 1875, at sea WOLFENDEN, William E. # Lumber dealer ---- [Grand Rapids, 1912 Detroit] Mayor, Grand Rapids, 1852-53 Michigan Southern & Northern BiogRy1922, 682 1854, built Kalamazoo-G.R. Indiana Born Mar. 14, 1862, Port Hope, plank road Director 4/1860-5/69 Ontario Died Aug. 23, 1865, Grand Lake Shore & Michigan ---- Rapids Southern Chicago & West Michigan ---- Director 1/1870-4/75 Station work 1881-90 Grand Rapids & Northern Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Traveling Passenger Agent First Director 1856 Director 1873 1890-92 Grand Rapids City General Baggage Agent First Director 1864 WIXON, Philip L. [Lexington] 1892-99 Utica & Lexington Pere Marquette WITHINGTON, William First Director 1883 General Baggage Agent 1- Herbert # Lexington & Utica 11/1900 MichBiog, 2:464-65; CycMich, First Director 1883 Division Passenger Agent 130-31; BiogRep, 2:398-401; 11/1900-2/04 [Gr. Rapids] HistMich1915, 2:813-16 WOLCOTT, Frank Turner # Gen. Western Psgr. Agent Born Feb. 1, 1835, Dorchester, [Port Huron] 2/1904-3/12 [Chicago] Mass. MenProgress, 453 General Passenger Agent 1857 to Jackson, prison labor Born Jan. 1, 1861, Perry, N.Y. 3/1912-(24) [Detroit] contractor 1881 to Port Huron, attorney In Civil War; highest rank: Probate judge, 1897-98 WOLFF, Samuel E. # [Saginaw] general Died Jan. 27, 1930; burial St. Bay City Traction & Electric State representative 1873-4, Clair General Manager 1906-07 State senator 1891-2 ---- 2nd Vice President, Director Died June 27, 1903, Jackson Flint & Pere Marquette 1907 ---- Local Attorney (1900) Saginaw Valley Traction Grand River Valley Chicago & Grand Trunk General Manager 1907 First Director Local Attorney (1900) 1st Vice President, Director Director 1872-92 1907 Vice President 1890-92 WOLF, John F. [Centreville] Grand Rapids, Holland & Jackson, Fort Wayne & HistStJo, 2:786-87; MPHC, Chicago Cincinnati 26:193-94 Director 1915 First Director 1868 Born Jan. 1, 1825, Columbia 302 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) WOLLMAN, William J. # [New 1891 to Oakland, Calif., General Passenger Agent York City] lumbering 9/1878-4/81 WhosWhoFB, 751; Died July 30, 1917, San Pennsylvania RR WhosWhoNY7, 1168 Anselmo, Calif. [Philadelphia] Born Sept. 28, 1867, ---- General Passenger Agent Leavenworth, Kan. Ionia, Stanton & Northern 4/1881-6/1903 1887 to Kansas City, Mo., First Director 1872 Passenger Traffic Manager started brokerage firm 6/1903-3/13 1893 to Chicago, started WOOD, Frank(lin) # brokerage firm [Muskegon] WOOD, John H. [Detroit] 1897 to New York City, own Born Mar. 13, 1856, Chicago & West Michigan firm, then J. S. Bache & Co. Hopkintown, N.Y. Traveling Passenger Agent 1916 started own firm Son of Wesley F. Wood 1886 ---- 1858 to Muskegon Ann Arbor Banker until 1886 WOOD, Joseph # Director 1911-17 Lumbering after 1886 BiogRy1913, 603-04 Manistique & Lake Superior Died Feb. 22, 1904, Muskegon Born June 5, 1846, Director 1911-17 ---- Haddonfield, N. J. West Michigan Interurban 1864 grad. Pennsylvania WOLVERTON, Jacob [South First Director 1903 Polytechnic College Bend, Ind.] ---- Indiana & Lake Michigan WOOD, James C. # Various roads First Director 1887 [Manistique] Engineering Dept. 1864- MichBiog, 2:468-69; HistNP, 5/78 WOOD, Arthur B. # [Corunna] 2:1050 Pennsylvania East [Altoona, Albion, Charlotte, Northern Born Mar. 31, 1872, Hastings Pa.] First Director 1914 1895 grad. Lake Forest Univ. Asst. to Supt. Motive Power law school 5/1878-11/81 WOOD, Cornelius Delano [New c.1896 to Ishpeming, attorney Pennsylvania West York City] 1902 to Manistique, attorney [Pittsburgh] Born Dec. 21, 1832 State senator, 1913-18 Superintendent Motive Died Jun 10, 1906, Brooklyn, Died Dec. 10, 1944, Manistique Power 11/1881-11/87 N.Y. ---- General Supt. ---- Garden Bay Transportation 11/1887-3/90 Flint & Pere Marquette First Director, Director General Manager 3/1890- Director 1879-87 1915-17 1/96 Vice President, Attorney 4th Vice President 1/1896- WOOD, Denniston [New York 1916-17 9/97 City] 3rd Vice President 9/1897- Cincinnati, Jackson & WOOD, James R. 1/1902 Mackinaw BiogRy1906, 603 2nd Vice President 1/1902- Treasurer 1889 Born 1843, Auburn, N.Y. 1/07 Secretary 1893 ---- 1st Vice President 1/1907- Burlington & Missouri River (13) WOOD, Edwin K. [Stanton] Various work 1870-75 Grand Rapids & Indiana MichBiog, 2:467-68; HistMont, Michigan Central [Pittsburgh] 2:503-04 General Agent 7/1875- Director 1894-1913 Born Feb. 17, 1840,Wyoming 10/76 [Grand Rapids] President 1/1907-13 Co., N.Y. Asst. Superintendent In 17th N.Y. Infantry, 1861-63 10/1876-5/78 [Jackson] WOOD, Joseph A.[Janesville, 1865 to Day Twp., Montcalm Asst. General Passenger Wisc.] Co. Agent 5/1878-9/78 Chicago & North Western State representative 1886-87 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Director 10/1863-6/64 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 303 Div. Superintendent 7/1903- WOODARD, William A., Jr. # WOOD, Milton R. # 1/06 [Richmond, [Owosso] [Wyandotte] Ind.] PortCliShi, 252-53 Port Huron Southern Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Born May 14, 1846, South First Director 1900 Div. Superintendent 1/1906- Danville, N.Y. 1/12 1866 to Owosso, owned WOOD, Percival J. # [South Pennsylvania West planning mill, furniture factory Bend] Div. Superintendent 1/1912- Died May 11, 1911, Perry; Southern Michigan 4/14 burial Owosso Superintendent Motive General Superintendent ---- Power 1907 3/1920-(22) [Chicago] Northern Michigan Central Director 1908-09 Grand Rapids & Indiana First Director 1881 General Manager 4/1915- WOOD, Sarell [Grand Rapids] 3/20 WOODBOURNE, Fred [St. Paul] Born Feb. 18. 1817, Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Detroit & Northern Pottersville, N.Y. Indiana First Director 1897 Minister; real estate dealer Vice President, Director Died Apr. 2, 1871, Grand 1914-20 WOODBURY, Edward Knettles Rapids Traverse City # [Kalamazoo] ---- Director 1914-20 Born May 2, 1842, Bellevue Grand Rapids & Mackinaw Vice President 1915-20 Son of Jeremiah P. Woodbury First Director 1857 1847 family to Kalamazoo Kalamazoo & Grand Rapids WOOD, William Augustus President of windmill First Director 1867 [Kalamazoo] company and paper company Born Mar. 26, 1828, Rochester, Died Dec. 18, 1910, Kalamazoo WOOD, W. O. # [Port Huron] N.Y. ---- Rapid Ry Merchant Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw General Superintendent Died Mar. 8, 1880, Kalamazoo President, Director 1903-04 ---- 1896-1903 Flat River & Houghton Lake WOOD, Wesley F. [Muskegon] First Director 1871 WOODBURY, James Hervey PortMuskOtt, 514-15 Kalamazoo & South Haven [Adrian] Born June 18, 1823, Jay, N.Y. Director 1874-80 Born May 24, 1801, Charlton, Father of Frank Wood Mass. 1857 to Muskegon, real estate WOODARD, C. S. [Green Bay] Brother of Jeremiah P. dealer Ontonagon & Brule River Woodbury Died Mar. 24, 1907, Muskegon Chief Engineer 1882-83 State representative 1842 ---- Died Feb. 15, 1885, Decatur Grand Rapids & Lake Shore WOODARD, J. T. [New York Co., Iowa First Director 1869 City] ---- Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Erie & Kalamazoo WOOD, William Boas # [Grand Director 1890 Director 1845-46 Rapids] BiogRy1922, 684 WOODARD, William [Peck] WOODBURY, Jeremiah Pratt Born Sept. 11, 1876, PortraitSan, 275-76 [Kalamazoo] Harrisburg, Pa. Born Feb. 22, 1828, N.Y. state Born Feb. 7, 1805, Charlton, ---- No date to Elk Twp., Sanilac Mass. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago Co. Brother of James H. & St. Louis Died Mar. 2, 1881, Peck Woodbury; father of Engineering Dept. 10/1897- --- Edward K. Woodbury 7/1901 Croswell & Peck 1836 to Bellevue, general store Division Engineer 7/1901- First Director 1879 1847 to Kalamazoo, general 7/03 store 304 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Died Nov. 7, 1887, Kalamazoo Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand ---- Trunk WOODRUFF, Fremont Kalamazoo, Lowell & Northern General Manager 12/1881- [Detroit] Michigan 10/82 [Toledo] BkDet, 493 First Director 1871 Wheeling & Lake Erie [Toledo] Born Feb. 14, 1857, Detroit Director 1874-79 General Superintendent 1878 became attorney 10/1882-2/83 after 1882 heavily involved in WOODBURY, Leander S. Vice President, General real estate and mining cos. [Calumet] Manager 2/1883-7/84 Died Jan. 28, 1930, St. HistUP, 305 Receiver 7/1884-7/86 Petersburg, Fla.; burial Detroit Born 1839, New Hampshire Vice President, General ---- ---- Manager 7/1886-7/89 Highland Park Hecla & Torch Lake President 7/1889-2/92 First Director 1886 Chief Engineer 1879-85 Cleveland & Marietta Saginaw Consolidated Street General Superintendent First Director 1894 WOODFORD, Melancthon 10/1882-11/83 Iron Range & Huron Bay DeWitt # Vice President,General Vice President, Director BiogRy1885 , 271; Manager 11/1883-(85) 1895-97 HistCinciHamCo, 789-90 Toledo Belt Born Oct. 27, 1838, Fredonia, General Manager 11/1883- WOODRUFF, John Samuel # N.Y. (85) [Ludington] Brother-in-law: William S. Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton CycMich, 195-96; BkChi, 628 Dewing [Kalamazoo] [Cincinnati] Born Sept. 9, 1841, St.Clair With Michigan Telegraph Co. Vice President 6/1889-6/90 1871 worked for Eber Brock 1876 President 6/1890-7/1904 Ward in Wyandotte Died Sept. 15, 1907, Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling 1871-78 in Ludington as supt. Kalamazoo President 3/1893-10/99 of lumbering for EBW & estate ---- Cincinnati, New Orleans & Died Jan. 16, 1917, Chicago Erie Ry Texas Pacific and ---- Telegraph Operator 1853-56 Alabama Great Southern Lake County Michigan Central Investor Director 1880-93 Telegraph Operator, Auditor 1890-93 Superintendent Telegraph WOODHULL, Joseph A. # 1856-12/72 [Kalamazoo] [Angola, Ind.] WOODRUFF, Jonathan [Howe, “First telegraphic train Born Nov. 7, 1828, N.Y. state Ind.] dispatcher in the West.”(PPA, Attorney, judge Born Feb. 11, 1800, Westfield, 2:240) Died Dec. 9, 1912, Angola N.J. Great Western Ry Canada ---- Died Dec. 3, 1860, Howe, Ind. [London, Ont.] Fort Wayne, Jackson & ---- Asst. General Saginaw Grand Rapids & Southern Superintendent 12/1872- Director 1874-79 First Director 1855 12/75 Grand Rapids & Indiana Chicago & Michigan Lake WOODLIFF, Richard Shedrach First Director 1855 Shore # [Jackson] Asst. Treasurer 12/75-5/76 CityDet, 5:1026-29 WOODS, John L. [Cleveland] [Muskegon] Born July 10, 1866, Concord Born Feb. 11, 1821, Corinth, Toledo, Canada Southern & 1889 grad. Univ. of Mich. law Vt. Detroit school Lumber merchant Div. Superintendent Died Dec. 11, 1938, St. Cleveland bank president 1876-1/80 [Toledo] Petersburg, Fla. Died Mar. 27, 1893, Augusta, Fort Wayne & Jackson ---- Ga. General Manager Michigan, Ohio & Indiana ---- 1/1880-10/82 [Jackson] First Director 1905 Fort Gratiot & Lexington Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 305 President, Director 1878 ---- BiogRy1885, 272; LS&MSHist, Lake George & Muskegon Hermansville & Western 904 River First Director 1881 Born Nov. 19, 1828, Albany, Vice President, Director N.Y. 1881 WOODWORTH, John D. [Leslie] Died June 13, 1904, New York MichBiog, 2:475; City PortraitIngLiv, 280-82 ---- WOODWARD, Edward Keyes # Born Feb. 28,, 1825, New York Central [Detroit] Pembroke, N.Y. General Accountant BiogRy1906, 671 1851 grad. Rush Medical 12/1853-61 Born Oct. 19, 1860, St. Louis, College Asst. Treasurer 1861-63 Mo. 1852 to Leslie Treasurer 1863-69 c.1882 grad. Washington Univ. State representative 1863-66 New York Central & Hudson Died June 3, 1928, Detroit First vill. president, Leslie, River ---- 1869 Treasurer 1869-71 Various roads Died Nov. 7, 1910, Leslie Secretary 1871-(85) Engineering Dept. 11/1883- ---- Lake Shore & Michigan 12/87 Amboy & Traverse Bay Southern Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific First Director 1856 Treasurer 1871-1904 Assistant Engineer 7/1888- Lansing & Jackson Secretary 1871-1904 7/89 First Director 1863 Vice President 8/1883-1902 Wabash Director 4/1883-1902 Resident Engineer 7/1889- WORCESTER, Charles Henry # Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & 2/1900 BkChi, 629 Pittsburgh Engineer-Maintenance of Born Sept. 23, 1864, Detroit President 1872-(85) Way 2/1900-06 [Det.] Husband of Mary F. S. Battle Creek & Sturgis Pere Marquette Worcester Director 1890-1902 Chief Engineer 1906 1892-95 in securities and real Bay City & Battle Creek [Detroit] estate in Chicago Director 1890-1902 Partner of Henry E. Southwell Canada Southern Bridge WOODWARD, Lysander in lumbering Director 1878-1902 [Rochester] In lumbering 1895-1928 near Chicago & Canada Southern MichBiog, 2:474; HistOak1, Chassell Director 1876, 1879-88 148 Died Mar. 23, 1956; burial Fort Detroit & Bay City Born Nov. 19, 1817, Columbia, Atkinson, Wisc. Secretary 1879-1900 Conn. ---- Treasurer 1881-1900 to Rochester 1838, farmer Wisconsin & Michigan Detroit & Chicago to Avon Twp. 1843, farmer Director 1901-02 Director 1889-1902 State representative 1861-2 [Marinette, Wis] Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Died Jan. 14, 1880, Rochester Ontonagon Director 1875-1902 ---- Director 1908-17 [Chassell] Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Detroit & Bay City Vice President 1908-14 Secretary, Director 1902-04 First Director 1871 President, Treasurer 1915- Treasurer 1902-03 Director 1872-75 17 Kalamazoo & South Haven President 1871-72 Houghton, Chassell & Director 1881-88 Lapeer & Northern Southwestern Kalamazoo & White Pigeon First Director 1872 First Director, Director Director 1876-86 Lapeer & Port Austin 1909-17 Michigan Air Line RR First Director 1872 President, Treasurer 1910- Director 1887-1902 17 Michigan Central WOODWORTH, Hannibal Secretary, Director 1883, Asst. Secretary, WORCESTER, Edwin Dean # 1878-1903 Wisconsin Land & Lumber [New York City] Vice President 1883-1903 306 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Michigan Midland & Canada Various work 8/1891-203 Co., lumbering Director 1876-1902 Div. Superintendent Major, 13th Mich. Infantry, Northern Central Michigan 2/1893-6/96 [Hillsdale] 1862-65 Director 1872-86, 1901-02 Div. Superintendent 6/1896- Also into real estate, hotel Secretary, Treasurer 11/1902 [Detroit] ownership 1880-86 Div. Superintendent Died Aug. 22, 1898, Rockford Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis 11/1902-4/05 ---- Director 1890-1902 General Superintendent 2- Grand Rapids & Northern Toledo, Canada Southern & 10/1906 [Cleveland] First Director 1856 Detroit Northern Central Michigan Director 1876-1902 Director 1894-1902 WORK, Frank [New York City] Michigan Central Born Feb. 10, 1819 WORCESTER, George Henry Asst. Gen. Superintendent 4- Died Mar. 16, 1911 BiogRy1887, 364 11/1905 [Detroit] ---- Born June 6, 1857, Albany, N.Y. General Superintendent Chicago & North Western Son of Edwin D. Worcester 11/1905-2/06 Director 6/1878-6/81 c.1878 grad. U.S. Naval Cincinnati Northern Director 11/1902-3/11 Academy Asst. General Manager Died Nov. 17, 1917, New York 101906-7/12 [Cincinnati] WORTHINGTON, George City General Manager 7/1913- Lake Superior Iron Mountain ---- 10/18 First Director 1862 Lake Shore & Michigan Vice President, Director Southern 6/1916-10/18 WREGE, Otto Bernard # Clerk 11/1884-7/85 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago [Ludington] Asst. Superintendent [M] & St. Louis Born Mar. 4, 1859, in Mich. 7/1885-9/86 [Elkhart] Asst. General Manager Died Aug. 14, 1933, Ludington Superintendent [D] 101906-7/12 [Cincinnati] ---- 6/1886-12/87 [Detroit] General Manager 7/1913- Mason & Oceana Detroit, Monroe & Toledo 10/18 Chief Engineer 1891-1909 Director 1887-9 Vice President, Director New York Central & Hudson 6/1916-10/18 WREN, W. J. [Hancock] River and 3/1920-(30) Born 1866 Div. Superintendent Died 1900, Houghton Co. [Harlem] 12/1887-(88) WORCESTER, Mary Foster nee ---- Southwell. # [Chassell] Hancock & Calumet WORCESTER, Harry Augustus Born Sept. 20, 1861 Chief Engineer 1891-92 # Wife of Charles H. Worcester Mineral Range LS&MSHist., 437-438; Died June 20, 1954, Chicago; Chief Engineer 1891-92 BiogRy1922, 688 burial Fort Atkinson, Wisc. Born Nov. 18, 1862. Albany, ---- WRIGHT, Ammi Willard # N.Y. Houghton, Chassell & [Saginaw and Alma] Son of Edwin D. Worcester Southwestern ABH, 2:part8:62; BkDet, 494; 1884 graduated Yale Univ. First Director, Director HerrNL, 5:780 Died Sept. 18, 1938, Columbia, 1909-17 Born July 5, 1822, Grafton, Vt. Ohio; burial Vice President 1910-17 1850 to Michigan Tarrytown, N.Y. Ontonagon 1852 to Saginaw, lumber mill ---- Director 1915-17 Became wealthy; invested in New York Central & Hudson many businesses River WORDEN, Frederick William Died May 5, 1912, Alma Asst. Stationmaster [Grand Rapids] ---- 12/1885-8/91 Born Mar. 20, 1820, Ossining, Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Lake Shore & Michigan N.Y. First Director 1871 Southern 1847 to Courtland Twp., Kent Director 1872-85 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 307 Treasurer 1872-78 Copper Range Saginaw & Grand Rapids WRIGHT, C. E. # [Houghton] First Director 1899 First Director 1878 Copper Range Keweenaw Central Ontonagon & Brule River Auditor 1911-17 First President, President First Director 1880 1905-10 Ithaca & Alma WRIGHT, C. P. [Chicago] Treasurer 1908-10 First Director 1882 St. Joseph & Lake Shore Director 1905-11 Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon First Director 1894 First Director 1886 WRIGHT, Charles A., Jr. # [New Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw WRIGHT, Carl C. # [Chicago] York City] First Director, Director BiogRy1913, 607 Born Oct. 15, 1878, Hancock 1887-89 Born Apr. 19, 1859, Whitehall, Son of Charles A. Wright President 1889 N.Y. ---- Cincinnati, Saginaw & 1892-1905 in private practice Keweenaw Central Mackinaw [Omaha] Secretary 1908-11 President, Director ---- Treasurer 1911 1890-1911 Chicago & North Western Director 1908-17 Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Law Dept. 1887-92 Michigan Assistant Attorney 3/1905- WRIGHT, Daniel G. [South Director 1886-92 11/10 Haven] Vice President 1886-90 General Solicitor 11/1910- Born 1822, Onondaga Co., N.Y. Battle Creek & Bay City 17 1856 to Chicago, lumber co. First Director 1888 manager for Ann Arbor WRIGHT, Charles Augustus # Dyckman & Hale Director 1895-1902 [Hancock] c.861 to South Haven Grand Trunk Western BiogRy1885, 272-273; HistNP, Died Feb. 26, 1889, South Director 1900-11 2:757-62; Haven BiogHBM, 13-16; BiogRep, ---- WRIGHT, Amos A. [Detroit] 2:402-04 Lawton, Paw Paw & South Alpena & Michigan South- Born Dec. 4, 1854, Hartford, Haven Western Conn. First Director 1868 First Director 1874 Father of Charles A. Wright, Jr. Kalamazoo & South Haven Alpena & South-Western 1873 to Hancock, 1880 into First Director 1869 First Director 1876 banking Director 1874-80 1893 studied law, was lawyer Toledo & South Haven/L WRIGHT, Benjamin Warren # 1894-1899 First Director 1884 [Marquette] 1896-99 bank president HistUP, 451; NPMemorial, 198; Died May 17, 1911, Houghton WRIGHT, E. H. # [Houghton] HistNP, 2:960 ---- Copper Range Born July 14, 1838, Plympton, Mineral Range General Passenger Agent Mass. Secretary, Treasurer 1901-04 1855 to Ontonagon 1/1881-84 General Freight Agent 1901- 1856 to Marquette, merchant General Manager, Director 04 1867 to Ishpeming, merchant 1885-93 Auditor 1901-04 County treasurer 1882-99 Receiver 1906 to Marquette 6/4/1888-11/30/1889 WRIGHT, Edward J. # Died Mar. 23, 1923, Marquette; Hancock & Calumet Born Sept. 1868, Wellington burial Ishpeming General Manager 1886-93 Co., Ont., Canada ---- Superintendent 1887-89 Died Sept. 1933, Albany, N.Y. Peninsula Branch Director 1890-92 ---- First Director 1865 Northern Michigan RR New York Central & Hudson Marquette City & Presque Isle First Director, First River Director (1910) President 1888 Asst. Superintendent ??- 308 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) 1910 [Urica, N.Y.] ---- Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis Asst. Superintendent 1910- Michigan Southern & Northern Director 1890-1902 12 [Syracuse] Indiana General Superintendent Director 9/1857-4/60 >> 1912-14 [Albany, N.Y.] New York Central-East WRIGHT, Louis F. [Albion] WRIGHT, Raymond J. [Fort General Superintendent Toledo & Northwestern Gratiot] 1915-17 [Albany, N.Y.] First Director 1897 Fort Gratiot & Lexington First Director 1872 WRIGHT, H. M. WRIGHT, Malcolm T. # Michigan Southern & Northern BiogRy1922, 689-90 WRIGHT, Robert [Montreal] Indiana [Toledo] Born Mar. 25, 1861, Detroit Pennington, 179-80; Div. Superintendent (66)- Died Apr. 25, 1926, Oklahoma BiogRy1893, 415 4/1869 City; burial Detroit Born Nov. 5, 1843, Darlington, Lake Shore & Michigan ---- England Southern [Toledo] Michigan Central ---- Div. Superintendent Various work 5/1879- British roads 4/1869-73 (1905) Various work 1858-1/62 Div. Superintendent 1905- Grand Trunk Ry of Canada WRIGHT, J. Hood [New York 08 [Jackson] Secretary’s office 1/1862- City] Div. Superintendent (1922- 1/78 Born 1836, Pa. state 24) [Detroit] Treasurer 1/1878- Partner of J. P. Morgan Chicago, Detroit & Canada ---- WRIGHT, Phineas Persons # Grand Trunk Jct. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul BiogRy1885, 273; LS&MSHist, Director, Secretary Director 1893-94 171 10/1878-93 Born Feb. 12, 1824, Herkimer Treasurer 10/1878-93 WRIGHT, James North # Co., N.Y. Chicago & Grand Trunk [Calumet, 1893 Detroit] to Coldwater ca. 1842 Director 1886-87 BkDet, 496; HistUP, 305 in Missouri 1858-61 Michigan Air Line Ry Born Mar. 10, 1839, Died Nov. 14, 1912, East Secretary 9/1882-93 Middletown, Conn. Cleveland Treasurer 9/1882-93 1859 to Minesota Mine ---- 1860s to Quincy Mine Lake Shore & Michigan WRIGHT, William H. # 1872 to Calumet as Gen. Supt. Southern BiogRy1922, 690 Calumet & Hecla Mine Div. Superintendent 1/1870- Born June 20, 1868, Oshkosh, Died Nov. 13, 1910 6/71 [Kalamazoo] Wisc. ---- Div. Superintendent 6/1871- ---- Hecla & Torch Lake 9/73 [Buffalo] Wisconsin Central Director 1872-90 Erie RR Various work 6/1885-1900 Hecla Belt Line Various work 9/1873-10/81 General Yardmaster 1900- First Director, Director Lake Shore & Michigan 02 [Chicago] 1902-08 Southern Wisconsin & Michigan President 1906 General Superintendent Train Dispatcher 1902-09 10/1881-1/92 Superintendent 1909-18 WRIGHT, John Calvin Asst. General Manager [Peshtigo, Wisc.] Born 1801, Greene, N.Y. 1/1892-94, 1902-03 Vice President, Gen. 1820 grad. Union College Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Manager 1918-(30) Attorney Director 1887-1902 [Menominee] N.Y. state senator 1843-46 Kalamazoo & White Pigeon 1847 to Schenectady Director 1894-1902 WRIGHT, Wesley [Sturgis] Died Jan. 24, 1862, Northern Central Michigan Sturgis & Indiana Schenectady, N.Y. Director 1887-1902 First Director 1882 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 309 Frankenmuth; burial Saginaw WRIGHT, William [Sandwich, ---- Ont.] Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Detroit Transit RR Director 1911-17 First Director 1892 WYMAN, C. D. # WYANT, Ira Aloysius # Houghton County Street [Muskegon] Director 1905-07 Born Feb. 23, 1882, state of Kansas WYMAN, Charles E. [Grand Campbell, Wyant & Cannon Haven] Foundry part owner Born Feb. 10, 1826 Died July 1968, Muskegon Died Sept. 24, 1908, Grand ---- Haven Muskegon Ry. & Navigation ---- First Director 1918 Michigan Lake Shore First Director 1869 WYCKOFF, Jesse F. Born about 1827, N.Y. state WYMAN, Hal Clement # Sheriff, Kent Co., 1869-72 [Detroit] ---- BkDet, 497 Grand Rapids, Rockford & Born Mar. 22, 1852, Anderson, Greenville Ind. First Director 1870 Step-brother of Oliver C. Wyman WYCKOFF, Peter B. # [New 1873 grad. Univ. of Mich. York City] medical school Born Apr. 2, 1845, Scipio, N.Y. 1879 to Detroit, surgeon Son-in-law of Sidney Dillon ---- ---- Escanaba, Twin Cities & Wabash Western Western Director 1887-88 First Director 1889 Wabash Director 1892-1901 WYMAN, Oliver Cronwell [Minneapolis] WYGANT, E. [Grand Rapids] HistMpls, 3:34-37 Grand Rapids & Indiana Born Jan. 5, 1837, Anderson, General Baggage Agent 1884 Ind. Step-brother of Hal C. Wyman WYKES, John [Grand Rapids] 1850s to Marion, Iowa, Chicago & West Michigan merchant Traveling Auditor 1886 1874 to Minneapolis, dry goods merchant WYKES, Roger I. # [Grand Died Oct. 1, 1923, Minneapolis Rapids] ---- HistMich1915, 4:2089-93 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Prosecuted many railroad Ste. Marie cases for State of Michigan Director 1915-(17) WYLIE, James Thompson # [Saginaw] Born Dec. 6, 1861, Athens, Pa. Died Apr. 3, 1938, 310 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Y Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Director 1902-04 Ste. Marie Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Director 1902-17 Ry & Electric YARGER, John [Freeport] First Director 1892 Born Oct. 1846, state of Ohio YOUNG, F. A. [Albion] Superior Terminal Died 1938, Freeport Olivet & South Eastern First Director 1893 ---- First Director 1896 Central Michigan YOUNG, James R. [Chicago] First Director 1888 YOUNG, George Washington # Chicago & North Western Grand Rapids Electric [New York City] Secretary 8/1859-12/68 First Director 1903 WhosWhoFB, 759; Peninsular Ry WhosWhoNY7, 1181; First Director 1862 YATES, Chapman [White PPA, 2:248-49 Pigeon] Born July 1, 1864, Jersey City, YOUNG, John T. # [Muskegon] Born c.1809, N.Y. state N. J. Muskegon Traction & Lighting Died in California 1894-1905 pres. U. S. Director 1907-17 ---- Mortgage & Trust Co. General Manager 1907-12 Mottville & White Pigeon 1905 into private banking President 1910-12 Commissioner 1838 Died Feb. 18, 1926, Atlantic Vice President 1913-17 City; burial Jersey City YEMANS, Charles Chester ---- YOUNG, Joseph E. [Chicago] [Detroit] Pere Marquette Railroad contractor Born c.1835, N.Y. state Director 1906-09 ---- ---- Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Air Line Ry of Michigan St. Aubin Avenue Director 1906-09, 1912-13 First Director 1869 First Director 1873 Rochester & Romeo Gratiot Avenue YOUNG, Harvey C. [Albion] First Director, First First Director 1891 Born Nov. 11, 1864 President 1869 Died Aug. 3, 1945, Albion Romeo & Western YOUNG, Charles L. [Boston] ---- First Director 1870 Born c.1831, Massachusetts Olivet & South Eastern Michigan Air Line RR ---- First Director 1896 Director 1872-80 Detroit, Lansing & Lake Michigan Air Line Ry Michigan YOUNG, Herman # [New York General Superintendent, Director 1872 City] Director 1875-77 Detroit, Lansing & Northern Erie & Kalamazoo Director 1873-96 Secretary 1915-17 YOUNG, Joseph S. # [Toledo] Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Ottawa Beach & Southern Director 1879-96 YOUNG, Horace Olin # First Director 1905 Saginaw & Grand Rapids [Ishpeming] Toledo, Ottawa Beach & Director 1881-94 NPMemorial, 439-41; Northern Saginaw & Western MichBiog, 2:483; CongBiog; Director 1907 Director 1883-94 BiogRep, 2:405-06 Toledo & Western Grand Rapids, Lansing & Born Aug. 4, 1850, New Albion, Director, Secretary 1907 Detroit N.Y. Maumee Valley Rys & Light Director 1888-94 1872 to Ishpeming, clerk Director 1909 1879 admitted to bar YOUNG, Charles L. [London, State representative 1879 YOUNG, Marcus [Port Huron] Engl.] U. S. Representative 1903-13 Born 1844 Michigan Air Line Ry Died Aug 5, 1917, Ishpeming In 22nd Mich. Infantry, 1862- Director 1878-80 ---- 65 Negaunee & Ishpeming Street ---- YOUNG, Elbert A. # [St. Paul] First Director 1891 Port Huron & St. Clair River Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 311 First Director 1890 1881 to Chicago 1887 with partners bought gas YOUNG, Roscoe Cyprian # companies BiogRy1922, 694; ---- WhosWhoEng, 1430 West Chicago Street RR Born Nov. 21, 1864, Beaver Secretary-Treasurer 1893-?? Dam, Wisc. Chicago Union Traction ---- Asst. General Manager 1899- Chicago & North Western ?? Engineering Dept. 1883-94 Michigan West Shore Traction [Escanaba] First Director 1901 Munising [Munising] Chief Engineer 1894-1901 YUNCKER, Jacob P. Superintendent 1899-1901 [Westphalia] Des Moines, Iowa Falls & Born Dec. 23, 1837, Kimberg, Northern France Chief Engineer 1901-03 1837 family to Erie Co., N.Y. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific c.1865 to Westphalia Locating Engineer 1903-04 1881 to Beal City Lake Superior & Ishpeming Died Mar. 18, 1905, Beal City [Marquette] ---- Chief Engineer 1904-(30) Westphalia, Hubbardston & Marquette & Southeastern Northern Chief Engineer 1908-(30) First Director 1869 Munising, Marquette & Southeastern YUNGBLUTH, A. J. # Chief Engineer 1912-(30) BiogRy1922, 695 Born Nov. 3, 1861, Rockland YOUNG, William [Valparaiso, ---- Ind.] Lake Superior & Ishpeming Air Line Ry of Michigan Purchasing Agent 1916-(30) First Director 1869 Michigan Air Line Ry Director 1875-77 General Manager 1876 Michigan Extension First Director 1878 YOUNGS, John S. [Coldwater] HistBrani1, 861 Born Oct. 11, 1828, N.Y. state Railroad contractor; banker No date to Flint, abstract business Died 1898, Flint; burial Coldwater ---- Michigan & Ohio First Director 1870 YUILLE, George A. # [Chicago] HistChi3, 130 Born 1864, Dane Co., Wisc. 312 Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials, 1830-1917 (Volume 2) Z Clerical work 5/1892- Thumb Ry 2/1906 First Director 1912 ZABEL, John Otto # General Yardmaster [Petersburg, 1914 Toledo] 2/1906-9/09 [Indianapolis] ZIMMERMAN, Eugene # HistMonr1, 465; HistNWOhio, Inspector of Transportation [Toledo] 2:960-61 9/1909-12/10 HistCinci&Ham, 790-93; Born Oct. 29, 1856, Postenkill, Trainmaster 12/1910- HerrNL, 5:804 N.Y. 10/13 Born Dec. 17, 1845, Vicksburg, 1860 to Dundee Acting Superintendent Miss. 1879 grad. Univ. of Mich. law 10/1913-4/14 In U.S.Navy in Civil War school Trainmaster 4-10/1914 1870 into oil business; 1879 to Petersburg, attorney Div. Superintendent c.1875 "built" RR in Kentucky, Pres. vil. of Petersburg, 1883, 10/1914-4/16 [Mt. Carmel, sold to C. P. Huntington 1887-88 Ill.] worked with C. P. Huntington 1906 to Toledo, attorney Div. Superintendent 4/1916- Died Dec. 20, 1914, Cincinnati Died 1935, burial Petersburg (30) [Wabash, Ind.] ---- ---- Cincinnati & Green River Ohio & Michigan Interurban ZENKERE, Richard # Asst. Engineer 1878-81 First Director 1908 [Indianapolis] Kentucky & South Atlantic Toledo, Ann Arbor & Jackson Grand Traverse President, Chief Engineer First Director, Director First Director 1907 1881-83 1911-15 Traverse City Street Chesapeake & Nashville First Director 1907 President, Chief Engineer ZAGELMEYER, Alexander # 1883-88 [Bay City] ZIESEL, Henry A. # Dayton, Fort Wayne & HistBay3, 477-81 BiogRy1922, 696 Cincinnati Born Oct. 28, 1858, Saginaw May 12, 1862, Elkhart, Ind. President 1888-92 State representative 1889-90 ---- Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton “Father of coal industry in Bay Lake Shore & Michigan Vice President 6/1892- County” Southern 7/1904 Died Mar. 13, 1914, Detroit; Various work 1875-5/1901 President 7/1904-10/05 burial Bay City Div. Supt. [Ill.] 5/1901- Pere Marquette ---- 12/1914 [Gibson, Ind.] Director 5-10/1905 Bay City & Caro New York Central Ann Arbor First Director 1904 Div. Superintendent [Ill.] President, Director 1/1915-(24) [Gibson] 11/1905-09 ZANG, Charles # [Jackson] Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Battle Creek & Marshall ZIGLER, Howard H. # President, Director Traction [Columbus, Ohio] 11/1905-13 First Director 1901 Born Dec. 27, 1864, Columbus, Jackson & Battle Creek Ohio ZIMMERMAN, Frederick # Traction Owned laundry company BiogRy1922, 696-97 First Director 1902 Died Nov. 1, 1916, Franklin, Born July 26, 1866, Portland, Wolf Lake Ry & Resort Ohio Me. First Treasurer 1902 ---- ---- Battle Creek & Southeastern Various roads ZEIGLER, Edward H. # First Director 1905 Various work 1882-2/90 BiogRy1922, 696 Michigan Central [Chicago] Born Apr. 12, 1875, Attica, Ind. ZIKE, Robert C. # [Capac] Freight Dept. 2/1890-10/99 Died 1939; burial Attica Born Aug. 18, 1855, Shelby Co., Asst. Gen. Frt. Agent ---- In.d 10/1899-7/1900 [Buffalo] Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago Died Aug. 14, 1918, Capac Asst. Gen. Freight Agent & St. Louis ---- 7/1900-11/09 [Chicago] Biographical Directory of Michigan Railway Officials (Volume 2) 313 Indiana Harbor Belt First Director 1901 General Freight Agent 11/1909-3/14 ZOOK, Jacob A. “J Gust” # Chicago, Indiana & Southern [Lancaster, Pa.] General Freight Agent Born Mar. 27, 1847, in Pa. 1/1911-3/14 Died Nov. 15, 1908, Lancaster Lake Shore & Michigan ---- Southern [Cleveland] Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo & General Freight Agent 3- South Haven Traction 11/1914 First Director 1901 Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville [Chicago] ZUEHLKE, Edwin F. # Vice President-Traffic [Escanaba] 11/1914-(22) Escanaba Traction General Superintendent ZINK, David L. # 1910-17 Born Dec. 1, 1833 Died May 25, 1916, Crestline, ZWEMER, Adrian C. Ohio [Saugatuck] ---- Born May 23, 1835, Pr. Allegan & Southeastern Zeeland, Netherlands First Director 1877 1847 family emigrated to Grand Rapids with Van Raalte ZIPF, Oscar Robert # c.1855 to Saugatuck [Freeport, Ill.] Building contractor Born Feb. 14, 1866, Kankakee, Died Jan. 24, 1909, Saugatuck Ill. ---- Died Mar. 28, 1942, Freeport, Grand Rapids Transfer & Ill. Junction ---- First Director, Director Cheboygan Southern 1882-86 First Director 1903 ZOLLINGER, Charles Augustus [Fort Wayne] FortWayne, 1:492 Born Dec. 9, 1838, Germany Col., 129 Ind. Volunteers Mayor, Fort Wayne, 1873-85, 1893 Died Dec. 27, 1893, Fort Wayne ---- Grand Rapids & Indiana Director 1879-84 ZOOK, Charles Augustus Bitner # [Lancaster, Pa.] Born Jan. 10, 1879, Lancaster Co., Pa. Died Jan. 26, 1952, Lancaster ---- Grand Rapids & Chicago