Elisha Lee (1870 - August 6, 1933) was Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and later Chairman of the Managers Committee of the Railroads. [1]
Elisha Lee (1870 - August 6, 1933) was Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and later Chairman of the Managers Committee of the Railroads. [1]
The Pennsylvania Railroad, legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At its peak in 1882, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest railroad, the largest transportation enterprise, and the largest corporation in the world.
Samuel Delucenna Ingham was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative and the U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Andrew Jackson.
William Lee Tracy was an American stage, film, and television actor. He is known foremost for his portrayals between the late 1920s and 1940s of fast-talking, wisecracking news reporters, press agents, lawyers, and salesmen. From 1949 to 1954, he was also featured in the weekly radio and television versions of the series Martin Kane: Private Eye, as well as starring as the newspaper columnist Lee Cochran in the 1958–1959 British-American crime drama New York Confidential. Later, in 1964, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the film The Best Man.
John Francis Nash was an American railroad executive. He served as president of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and later the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
John Walker Barriger III was an American railroad executive; he successively led the Monon Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and the Boston and Maine Railroad. In 1969, he was chosen as Railroader of the Year by industry trade journal Modern Railroads.
The Chicago Railroad Fair was an event organized to celebrate and commemorate 100 years of railroad history west of Chicago, Illinois. It was held in Chicago in 1948 and 1949 along the shore of Lake Michigan and is often referred to as "the last great railroad fair" with 39 railroad companies participating. The board of directors for the show was a veritable "Who's Who" of railroad company executives.
Sir Henry Worth Thornton, KBE was a businessman. Thornton served as general superintendent of the Long Island Rail Road from 1911 to 1914, general manager of the Great Eastern Railway in England from 1914 to 1922, and president of the Canadian National Railways from 1922 to 1932.
George Whitfield Scranton was an American industrialist and politician, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from March 4, 1859, until his death in 1861. Moving to Pennsylvania in the late 1830s to establish an iron furnace, he and his brother Selden T. Scranton are considered the founders of the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, named for their family. They and two partners established what became known as the Iron & Coal Company. They developed a method of producing T-rails for constructing railroad track, which previously had been imported from England. The innovation led to a boom in production of track and construction of railroads.
Samuel Austin Kendall was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
John Borland Thayer II was an American businessman who had a thirty-year career as an executive with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was a director and second vice-president of the company when he died at age 49 in the sinking of the RMS Titanic, on April 15, 1912. In his youth, Thayer was also a prominent sportsman, playing baseball and lacrosse for the University of Pennsylvania and first-class cricket for the Philadelphian cricket team.
William Henry Baldwin Jr. was an American railroad executive and philanthropist. He was president of the Long Island Rail Road. and was instrumental in establishing African-American industrial education by securing donations from Northern industrial magnates. In 1894, he became a trustee of Tuskegee University and worked with Booker T. Washington.
Robert McWade, was an American stage and film actor.
Thomas J. Potter was vice-president and general manager of the Union Pacific Railroad.
James McCrea (1848–1913) was the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1907 to 1913.
Events from the year 1877 in the United States.
Robert Heysham Sayre was vice president and chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. He was also vice president and general manager of Bethlehem Iron Company, the corporate precursor to Bethlehem Steel. The borough of Sayre, Pennsylvania and the small city of Sayre, Oklahoma were named in his honor.
Walter S. Franklin was an American railroad executive. He served as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1949 to 1954.
Milton Hannibal Smith was an executive of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in the late 19th century, and was president of the road from 1891 to 1921.
Allen J. Greenough was the 14th and last president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad was a railroad line that ran down the spine of the Delmarva Peninsula from Delmar, Maryland to Cape Charles, Virginia and then by ferry to Norfolk, Virginia. It became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system.
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