WHO WERE THEY ? -- # 59 -- James Caulder Cassell - N&W

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Abe

My first thought he may have left about the same time as VP & GM Joseph 
Sands.  Sands was removed by a vote of the directors on grounds of No 
confidence.  My interpretation that means hands in the cash register at  
the N&W.

Jim


On 9/30/2018 7:38 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> Two new items of information, dredged up by a friend who trolls the 
> newspaper archives.
>
>
> 1.  From the Harrisburg Daily Independent, June 21, 1901:  J. C. 
> Cassell, General Superintendent of the Cincinnati Portsmouth & 
> Virginia Railroad, was in this city to-day.  He was in his private car 
> and was accompanied by his mother, who was on her way to Mount Joy.  
> The private car was run over the Cumberland Valley Railroad.
>
>
> 2.  From the Harrisburg Daily Independent, November 7, 1904:   Mr. 
> J.C. Cassell, assistant to the president of the Norfolk & Western, has 
> resigned and that office has been abolished.
>
>
> In thinking about why Cassell resigned his post, I checked to see who 
> was President of the railroad in 1904.  It was Lucius E. Johnson, 
> another up-from-the-cinders railroader.  There was probably no 
> conflict there.  Johnson assumed the presidency on September 30, 1903, 
> and Cassell was appointed Assistant to the president on January 1, 
> 1904, so he no doubt Johnson's choice for a right-hand-man.
>
>
> -- abram burnett
>
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