His entry in the 1913 edition of The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America reads:
"President, Missouri Pacific; St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern; Denver and Rio Grande. Office: St. Louis, Missouri. Born: July 5, 1860, at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. Education: Public schools, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and State Normal School, Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Entered railway service: 1882, as rodman on the Northern Pacific, since which he has been consecutively locating and division engineer, same road; 1887 to 1889, division engineer, Union Pacific; 1889 to 1896, chief engineer and general superintendent, Oregon Improvement Company, controlling coal properties of Northern Pacific; February, 1903, to 1907, fuel agent, Missouri Pacific; 1907 to 1908, president, Western Maryland; 1908, appointed receiver, same road, and upon reorganization again elected president; May 1, 1911, to date, president, Missouri Pacific; St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern; January 4, 1912, to date, also president, Denver and Rio Grande."
^Edward Callary, Place Names of Illinois (University of Illinois Press, 2010), p. 52.
Lane, Harold Francis, editor. The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1913 Edition. New York: Simmons-Boardman, 1913, p. 78.
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