Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-04-01
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Officers.

dent for the ensuing year. Mr.. Lewis
Nelson was reelected Secretary.
Mr.. John P. Green declined re-elect-
ion as First Vice President, in order
that the official changes consequent
upon his impending retirement, under
the pension regulations of the Com
pany might take place at this time
Mr.. Chas. E. Pugh, previously Second
President, was accordingly elect
ed First Vice President and Director
in charge of the Pension, Insurance,
Real Estate, and Purchasing Depart
ments.
Mr.. J. B. Hutchinson, previously As-
sistant to the Second Vice President,
was appointed Assistant to the First
President.
Mr.. Samuel Rea, previously Third
ce-President, was elected Second
President and Director, in charge
of the Engineering and Accounting
Departments.
Mr.. A. ]. County, previously Assist
ant to the Third Vice President, was
appointed Assistant to the Second
Vice President.
Mr.. G. M. Bunting, previously AS
sistant to the First President, was
appointed Assistant Comptroller.
Mr.. J. B. Thayer, previously Fourth
Vice-President, was elected Third Vice.
President and Director, in charge of
the Traffic Department.
Mr. Henry Tatnall, previously Fifth
Vice President and Treasurer, was
elected Fourth Vice. President and
Director, in charge of the Company's
finances.
Mr.. j. F. Fahnestock, previously As
sistant Treasurer, was elected Treas
urer.
Mr.. w. w. Atterbury, previously
General Manager, was elected Fifth
Vice President, in charge of the Trans
portation Department.
Mr.. w. Hayward Myers, previously
General Superintendent of the North
ern Central Railway and Erie Division,
was appointed General Manager.
Mr. H. M. Carson, previously Assist
ant to the General Manager, was ap-
pointed General Superintendent of the
Northern Central Railway and Erie
Division.
Mr.. J. G. Rodgers, previously Super
intendent of the New York, Philadel-
phia & Norfolk r. r. Co., was appoint
ed Assistant to the General Manager
All the other officers of the Com
pany were re-appoinied for the ensu-
ing year.
William Hayward Myers was born in
San Antonia, Texas, April 9th, 1855,
and was educated in private schools,
and at the School of Mines of Friberg,
Germany. Mr. Myers entered the SER
vice of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, January 18th, 1875, as Rod
man in the Office of the General Super
intendent at Altoona. He was ap-
pointed Assistant Supervisor at Down
ingtown in June, 1876; Supervisor at
Lancaster in April, 1879; Assistant En-
gineer of the Tyrone Division in Janu-
ary, 1881; Assistant Engineer of the
Middle Division in September, 1881;
Assistant Engineer of the Philadelphia
Division, January 1st, 1884; Superin-
tendent of the Bedford Division, April
1st 1889; Superintendent of the Belvi-
dere Division, September 1st, 1889;
Superintendent of the Schuylkill Divi-
sion, January 1st, 1891: Superintendent
Middle Division Pennsylvania Rail-
road Division, January 1st, 1899.
Mr.. Myers was appointed General
Superintendent Philadelphia and Erie
Railroad Division and Northern Cen.
tral Railway on August 1st, 1900. On
March oath, 1909, Mr.. Myers succeeded
ager of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Herbert Mackenzie Carson was born
at Baltimore, Maryland, March 18th
1867. He graduated at Lehigh Univer.
sity, Glass of 1889, with the degree o.
Mechanical Engineer.
Mr. Carson entered the employ o.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
July 18th, 1889, as Special Apprentice
in the Altoona Shops. He was Inspec
tor at the West Philadelphia Shops
from February Sth, 1893, until Augus
1st, 1893, when he was made Assistant
Road Foreman of engines on the Phila
delphia Division. On April 1st, 1895
he was appointed Assistant Engineer
Motive Power, Pennsylvania Railroad
Division, at Altoona, and on February
10th, 1909. became Master Mechanic
at Pittsburg. On October 1st, 1901
he was appointed Superintendent o
Motive Power of the Buffalo and ALE
gheny Valley Division, at Buffalo.
Mr.. Carson became Assistant to thu
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