1880s advertisement question

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Tue Aug 25 04:12:44 EDT 2009




NW Mailing List wrote:

> Was just going thru some recent treasures I aquired and it includes an

> advertising page from some publication of the day, no names, just a

> C&O ad on one side and and N&W ad on the other.

>

> The only thing regarding a date is that it dates at least after

> January 1882 as there is a reference to something up to that date,

> non-railroad related. The name N&W RR also helps a little and since

> the Shenandoah Valley line isn't mentioned at all, that also limits

> it.. However, they do list 3 N&W officers; Frank Huger, Supt.

> Transportation, Lynchburg; N.M. Osborne, master of transportation,

> Petersburg; and L.S. Brown, general traveling agent, Lynchburg. So the

> main offices were still in Lynchburg is also a clue.

<snip>

I've not come across anythung that (yet) pins down this period, but
these clips may be of interest:

Dominic
London


New York Times archive has Norforlk and Western Railway Superintendent
of Transportation Col. Hugar's death notice June 12th 1897 dying Friday
in Roanoke from a stroke of apoplexy aged 60.


There's a poor-ish quality digitised version
http://www.archive.org/stream/annualreportrai04unkngoog/annualreportrai04unkngoog_djvu.txt
of the

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.

PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO LAW.

RICHMOKD:
J. H. O'BANNON, SUPERINTENDEXT OF PUBLIC PRINTING.
OFFICE OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONER,
Richmond, Va., November 1, 1890.

with Frank Huger in Roanoke featured:

ROAXOKE, VA., March 27, 1890.
General Jambs C. Hill.,

RftilrfHid Ofinmmioner, Richmoml, Va. :
Dear Sir:

Your letter of the 18th instant. We have furnished Davie & Whittle
with all the box cars they want for the movement of their fertilizer, and could
now give them more if they needed them.

Yours truly,

FRANK HUGER,

Supt. Drans^n.


He features also in

*Norwood's*

*Knoxville City Directory*

*1885*



*_East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad_*

/General offices, Gay
<http://www.knoxcotn.org/directories/1885knoxville/streetguide1885.html#GAY>,
at depot./



*

*Vice-president and general manager* - H. FINK, Knoxville

*

*General superintendent* - J. F. O'BRIEN, Knoxville

*

*General passenger agent *- B. W. WRENN, Knoxville

*

*General freight agent *- J. R. OGDEN, Knoxville

*

*Assistant general freight and passenger agent* - Jos. GOTHARD

*

*Treasurer* - J. G. MITCHELL, Knoxville

*

*Superintendent East Tennessee Division* - Frank K. HUGER

http://www.knoxcotn.org/directories/1885knoxville/railroads1885.html

and in Reminiscences of an Old Timer
http://www.johnsonsdepot.com/southern/rsmith.pdf

Major Huger is referred to as joining the line in 1877, I think.

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