"WHO WERE THEY?" - A New Series of Articles

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Great idea!

Dave Phelps

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 5:06 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> >>>  I asked His Grace, the Ye List Moderator, for his blessing on this
> idea, and his response was, "Nihil Obstat, Imprimatur Est"  (Northing is
> objectionable, the seal is given.)  <<<
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> With this, we shall begin a little series of vignettes called,  “Who Were
> They?”   The series will be some biographies of N&W and Virginian men of
> yesteryear, all lifted from the various editions (1885 to 1922) of
> Biographical Directory of Railway Officials of America.  Some of these men
> had long and fascinatingly diverse careers on a number of different
> railroads, and some went back to the Virginia & Tennessee RR.  Insofar as
> possible, I shall conform to the orthographic conventions in which they
> submitted their own biographies for publication.  Those you meet here will
> be working-class railroaders who started “in the cinders” and rose through
> the ranks, not those who through wealth and connections began at the top
> (with the exception of Frederick J. Kimball, of course.)
>
>
> -- abram burnett
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