Pennsylvania Railroad people

The list Pennsylvania Railroad people includes John Thayer (cricketer), Grif Teller, John Whitfield Bunn and Jacob Bunn, Alfred Wolcott Gibbs and William Wallace Atterbury. The list consists of 44 members.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

American Class I railroad (1846–1968)

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John Thayer (cricketer)

American first-class cricketer

Overview: John Borland Thayer II (April 21, 1862 – April 15, 1912) was an American businessman who had a thirty-year career as an executive with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was a director and second ...

Date of birth: 21 April 1862

Date of death: 15 April 1912

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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Penn Quakers lacrosse 1T

Thayer family 8T

Cricketers from Pennsylvania 23T
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Grif Teller

American artist

Overview: Griffith Harold "Grif" Teller (December 9, 1899 – April 8, 1993) was an artist famous for his paintings for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Date of birth: 9 December 1899

Date of death: 8 April 1993

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Artists from Newark, New Jersey 86T

American male painters 3,659T

People from Little Falls, New Jersey 9T
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John Whitfield Bunn and Jacob Bunn

American financier (1831–1920)

Overview: John Whitfield Bunn (June 21, 1831 – June 7, 1920) was an American corporate leader, financier, industrialist, and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, whose work and leadership involved a broad range of ...

Date of birth: 21 June 1831

Date of death: 7 June 1920

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

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People from Alexandria Township, New Jersey 4T

People from Hampton, New Jersey 8T

Businesspeople from Illinois 429T
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Alfred Wolcott Gibbs

Overview: Alfred Wolcott Gibbs (October 27, 1856 – May 19, 1922) was a mechanical engineer in the railroad industry who attained the position of chief mechanical engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was in ...

Date of birth: 27 October 1856

Date of death: 19 May 1922

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Engineer

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People from Doña Ana County, New Mexico 17T

Stevens Institute of Technology alumni 81T

American mechanical engineers 376T
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William Wallace Atterbury

American railroad executive

Overview: William Wallace Atterbury (January 31, 1866 – September 20, 1935) was a brigadier general in the United States Army during World War I, who began his career with the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1886 ...

Date of birth: 31 January 1866

Date of death: 20 September 1935

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

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Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni 87T

Commanders of the Order of the White Eagle (Serbia) 13T

American railroad executives of the 20th century 189T
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Alexander Cassatt

American railroad executive

Overview: Alexander Johnston Cassatt (December 8, 1839 – December 28, 1906) was the seventh president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), serving from June 9, 1899, to December 28, 1906. The painter Mary Cassatt ...

Date of birth: 8 December 1839

Date of death: 28 December 1906

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Engineer

Gender: Male

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Engineers from Pennsylvania 199T

People associated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art 41T

Businesspeople from Philadelphia 345T
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Frank Abercrombie

American baseball player

Overview: Francis Patterson "Frank" Abercrombie (January 2, 1850 or 1852 – November 11, 1939) was an American professional baseball player who played in the National Association for one game as a shortstop ...

Date of birth: 2 January 1851

Date of death: 11 November 1939

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

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Troy Haymakers players 24T

Baseball players from Oklahoma 319T

19th-century baseball players 2,192T
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Charles W. Bates

American architect

Overview: Charles W. Bates (1879–1929) was an American architect who practiced primarily in Wheeling, West Virginia, and was one of the region's most successful architects. He mostly specialized in commercial and ...

Date of birth: 1879

Date of death: 1929

Age: 49 (age at death)

Occupation: Architect

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Roscoe R. Koch

American politician

Overview: Roscoe R. Koch was a special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States and then Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania in the 1920s.

Date of death: 25 November 1963

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Richard H. Koch

American judge and railroad magnate (1852–1945)

Overview: Richard H. Koch (also known as R.H. Koch; 1852–1945) was an American judge, railroad magnate, and prominent member of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Date of birth: 1852

Date of death: 1945

Age: 92 (age at death)

Occupation: Judge

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Herman J. Lombaert

American civil engineer

Overview: Herman Joseph Lombaert (1816–1885) was an American civil engineer who helped complete the first railroad between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, and eventually became a vice ...

Date of birth: 1816

Date of death: 1885

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Engineer

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Lafayette College trustees 54T

Engineers from Pennsylvania 199T

1816 births 1,505T
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Theodore N. Ely

American railroad executive

Overview: Theodore N. Ely (July 23, 1846 – October 29, 1916) was an executive in charge of steam locomotive power development and purchases on the Pennsylvania Railroad, one of the largest railroad systems ...

Date of birth: 23 July 1846

Age: 178

Nationality: American

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19th-century American railroad executives 440T

1846 births 2,150T

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni 355T
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Milton H. Smith

American businessman

Overview: Milton Hannibal Smith (September 12, 1836 – February 22, 1921) was an executive of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in the late 19th century, and was president of the road from 1891 to 1921.

Nationality: American

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Martin W. Clement

American railroad executive

Overview: Martin Withington Clement (December 5, 1881 – August 30, 1966) was the 11th President of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), from 1935 to 1948.

Date of birth: 5 December 1881

Date of death: 30 August 1966

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

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Businesspeople from Philadelphia 345T

People from Sunbury, Pennsylvania 20T

American railroad executives of the 20th century 189T
15.

Walter S. Franklin (PRR)

American railroad executive

Overview: Walter Sidmonds Franklin, III. (May 24, 1884 in Ashland, Maryland – August 17, 1972 in Northeast Harbor, Maine) was the 12th president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR).

Date of birth: 24 May 1884

Date of death: 17 August 1972

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

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Harvard College alumni 2,012T

Businesspeople from Philadelphia 345T

Long Island Rail Road people 10T
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Allen J. Greenough

American businessman

Overview: Allen J. Greenough (September 20, 1905 – September 22, 1974) was the 14th and last President of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Date of birth: 20 September 1905

Date of death: 22 September 1974

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

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People associated with the Lehigh Valley Railroad 8T

Businesspeople from San Francisco, California 221T

Union College (New York) alumni 464T
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James M. Symes

American railway executive

Overview: James Miller Symes (July 8, 1897 – August 3, 1976), was the 13th president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Date of birth: 8 July 1897

Date of death: 3 August 1976

Age: 79 (age at death)

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W. Hasell Wilson

American railroad engineer

Overview: William Hasell Wilson (1811–1902) was a prominent American surveyor and civil engineer for both the Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads in the 19th century. Two of his sons, Joseph Miller Wilson (1838–1902) ...

Date of birth: 5 November 1811

Date of death: 17 August 1902

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Engineer

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Elisha Lee

American businessman

Overview: Elisha Lee (1870 - August 6, 1933) was Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and later Chairman of the Managers Committee of the Railroads.

Date of birth: 1870

Date of death: 6 August 1933

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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American railroad executives of the 20th century 189T

1870 births 3,671T

1933 deaths 3,014T
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Frank Thomson

American businessman

Overview: Frank Thomson (1841–1899) was a railroad executive from the United States, and the sixth president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR).

Date of birth: 1841

Date of death: 1899

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

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19th-century American railroad executives 440T

Members of the Philadelphia Club 39T

19th-century American businesspeople 2,374T