The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-14

poor pioneer farmer who went to tho Lone Star State from Alabama. As q boy he worked on the farm and went to 8 country school. When he was 14 years ola the construction crew of the Houston Hast and West Railway reached the neighborhood in which he lived, and the boy was given employment by a contrac- tor at digging out stumps from the right of way. Then he drove a scraper and after several months of hard work for several contractors he became clerk in a store and railroad agent at Shep- nerd, Texas. Then he studied law in Houston in the office of Charles Stewart at that time representative in congress
 Beginning the practice of law at Cold Springs, the county seat of his home county, after being admitted to the bar in Houston in 1852, Lovett obtained his first railway connection when the Hous- ton East and West Railway went into a receivers hands. He was employed to look after the roads interests at Nacog- doches. After year of this work he re- turned to Houston and was made general counsel for the road.
 From this time on his record shows rapid climbing as a Texas railway law yer. In 1889 he became assistant general attorney of the Texas and Pacific Rail- way Company at Dallas, and two years idtCl Ao WdS iIldue ScueItI attorney. Be- coming a member of the firm of Baker, Botts Baker & Lovett, he was soon In the front rank of Texas railroad law yers. Trained in the Gould system, as his practice expanded he came into con- tact with MT. Hartman through the large interests of the Southern Pacific system in Texas. January 1, 1904, he was made general attorney and counsel for all the Hartman lines in Texas and went to New York to live.
 MT. Lovett has the following large rail- road and steamship interests in addition to his Union Pacific connection:
 Director of the Central Railway of Georgia.
 Director of the Guaranty Trust Com pany of New York
 President and Director of the Houston and Shreveport Railroad Company.
 President and director of the Houston East and West Texas Railway Company. President and director of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company.
 Director of the Louisiana Western Railroad Company.
 Director of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company.
 Director of the Oregon Short Line.
 Director of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
 Director of the Railroad Securities Company.
 Vice President and director of the Southern Pacific Company.
 Director of the Erie Railroad Company.
 Director of the Susquehanna a.. Vest ern Railway Company.
 Prior to his election as chairman of the executive committee of the Union Pacific system MT. Lovett was vice president and acting president of the system. Though not an operating man, he has been so long familiar with the Hartman plans of operation that no substantial change is looked for in the personnel of the systems fexecutive force. Julius Kruttschnitt, as director of maintenance and operation, and J. C. Stubbs. as traf- fic manager, are said to be assured of continuance in their-respective depart ments MT. Lovett's field will continue to be questions of policy and law. say those close to the Hartman management in New York. He Is said to have the confidence and hearty support of the National City Bank. Standard Oil and Kuhn, Loeb 6 Co.,, f1nanciers, who have large interests in Union Pacific.