The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-16
President of Central of GeOT- : qia SuCCuTnbS to Attack
 of Heart Failure
CAME HERE TO ATTEND
 DEBARDELEBFN FUNERAL
Had Always shown Warm F'riend- ship for DistrIct--FuneraI
 to Occur In Macon

Atlanta, December 15.--Maj. J. F. Hanson, president of the Central of Georgia railroad and one of the best known officials In the south. died here this morning about [ o'clock of heart failure. His death was entirely unex- pected.
 Major Hanson was in apparently good health when he left his office yester- day evening, but during the night he complained of indigestion and Dr. W. s. Goldsmith was summoned and he was relieved sufficiently to fall into a restful sleep.
 About o'clock this morning he was seized with another attack, how ever. and Dr. Goldsmith was again called in. As the physician entered tfc room Major Hanson spoke to him and, turning over on his side, expired be- fore being able to utter another word. His brother. I. N. Hanson, of this city. was the only member of the family present at the time of death.
 Arrangements were completed tonight to take the body of Major Hanson to Ma COT tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Private car number 100 will be used to carry the caslSet and will be attached to a special train. which also will carry all the officials of the Central of Georgia railroad. The body will be taken direct to the cemetery where services will bs held at the grave.
 As a mark of respect to the memory of the late president of the road, every wheel will stop turning and work of all kinds will be checked for five minutes, beginning at o'clock tomorrow after noon.
 Was Seventy Years old
 Major Hanson was born in Monroe county, Georgia, on November 25, 1s40. At the outbreak of the war he enlist cd with the Spalding Grays of Griffin. Ga. winning promotions until three years later he had become adjutant of the Fifty third Georgia infantry He was brevetted major. After the war hc entered business at Barnesville. Ga, as a drug clerk but soon left the em- ploye class to become an employer. making the step up the business lad der by a bold stroke. He went to Bos- ton. to a MT. Wakefield. head of a chair supply company, to whom he said:
 T have no money and no credit. but I wish to start a chair factory have confidence in my ability to suc- ceed. l have come to ask you to sup ply me with the materials I need"
 So impressed was MT. Wakefield with the southerner's personality that he gave Major Hanson the assistance need full and a successful chair factory at Barnesville. controlled by Major Han son, was the result
 In 1876 Major Hanson withdrew from the chair factory to associate with sev- eral others In securing control of one of the first cotton manufacturing plants in the south, the Bibb Manufacturing kcompany of Macon. Ga. For several years he was manager of this plant factory to see that the fires were start ed for the weeks work just before midnight every Sunday.
 The first railroa experience of Major Hanson was as director of the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad in 1891 He became a director in the Central of Georgia Railroad company in 1885, was chairman of the Centrals board from 1900 to 1903 and became president of the company in 1903. In 1909 he be- came president of the Ocean Steamship company of Savannah
 Although a Confederate veteran Ma jor Hanson was a republican in poll ties. For the six years beginning 1881 he took an active part in newspaper we york .,s.I as princiN owner of Macon