page_title: Erie Railroad
section_title: Company officers
hierarchical_section_title: Erie Railroad / Company officers
caption_attribution_description: Hugh J. Jewett (1817-1893)
context_page_description: The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's former terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake Erie. It expanded west to Chicago with its 1941 merger with the former Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, also known as the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad. Its mainline route proved influential in the development and economic growth of the Southern Tier of New York State, including cities such as Binghamton, Elmira, and Hornell. The Erie Railroad repair shops were located in Hornell, and were Hornell's largest employer. Hornell was also where Erie's main line split into two routes, one north to Buffalo and the other west to Cleveland.
  On October 17, 1960, the Erie merged with former rival Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. The Hornell repair shops were closed, and repair operations moved to the Lackawanna's Scranton facility; this had a devastating effect on Hornell from which it has never recovered.
context_section_description: Eleazer Lord (1833–35), (1839–41), (1844–45)
  James Gore King (1835–1839)
  James Bowen (1841–1842)
  William Maxwell (1842–1843)
  Horatio Allen (1843–1844)
  Benjamin Loder (1845–1853)
  Homer Ramsdell (1853–1857)
  Charles Moran (1857–1859)
  Samuel Marsh (1859–1861), (1864)
  Nathaniel Marsh (1861–1864)
  Robert H. Berdell (1864–1867)
  John S. Eldridge (1867–1868)
  Jay Gould (1868–1872)
  John A. Dix (1872)
  Peter H. Watson (1872–1874)
  Hugh J. Jewett (1874–1884)
  John King (1884–1894)
  Eben B. Thomas (1894–1901)
  Frederick Douglas Underwood (1901–1926)
  John Joseph Bernet (1927–1929)
  Charles Eugene Denney (1929–1939)
  Robert Eastman Woodruff (1941–1949)
  Paul W. Johnston (1949–1956)
  Harry W. Von Willer (1956–1960)
caption: Hugh J. Jewett, President 1874–1884.
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