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

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Abram, 

Excellent idea; thank you for your efforts.  And the remembrance of early lessons in Latin.... before it was a dead language.

Frank Bongiovanni 



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> >>>  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.)
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> -- abram burnett
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