The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-14
A Tale of Two Brothers at Last
United
of Them President Of the Ulinoi,
Central Railroad. and the Other an
Humble Well Digger-1hc Special
Car Of the Rich Brother Went to
the Poorer Brother.
Chicago Inter Ocean,

When the civil war broke out John
T. Markham. of Clarksyille. Tenn.
was among those who enlisted on tn
side of the Confederacy- He was born
in ireland. but in his boyhood his pa
rents came TO this country and set
tied in the sunny south" He Was
80 years old when he marched OF"
to the war in 1851, leaving behiuJ
him an invalid mother and Iather
with Il baby boy in her arms. Tn
baby was christened Charles H. Mark
ham, but the family always called
him Chuck" John Markham was
captured and brought TO Chicago in
September. 1862. For even months
he was held a prisoner of war al
Camp. Douglas. Then he was Tex
changed
Friendless and penniless, it took
him many weary weeks TO work his
way back to the little home town ia
Tennessee. When he did each there
it was only to find that his father
had died during his absence and that
his mother had married again ana
move away. taking little Chuck
with her. They've gone North some
where, but just where nobody knows"
the townspeople. told John Markham.
And all his efforts to find his mother
and his little brother were futile. FL
na1ly he gave up the search for them
and went to Mississippi. He worked
there and in other Southern States as
a we'll digger, bricklayer and plasterer.
For several years he has been an en-
ploye of the llinoi Central Railroad
at H~opkinsville, KY. Such has been
the life of John T. Markham.
In 1881. a boy Of 20 asked for and
got a job as a section laboTer on the
90 n r 10 ~ ~ L AL
not stay long in that job, for a chance
came to do the rough work at q little
station on the Southern Pacific line.
He had brains and ambition, and they
Kept him moving right up the rail-
way ladder. In 1887 he became a
station agent himself at Deming. ".
NJ. Ten years later he was district
freight and passenger agent of the
Southern Pacific at Fresno. Cal. In
Just 10 years more he was made gen
era1 freight and passenger agent OF
that company's lines III Oregon.
In 1901 he became yice-president
of the Houston and Texas Central rail
road. Three years later he succeeded
Julius Kruttschnitt as vice-president
and general manager Of the Southern
Pacific. Last December he was elect
ed president Of the Illinois Central
His name2 Well, he was
christened Charles II. Markham, but
"Hen q bdDy the family called him
Chuck"
The other day an old swell digger
and piasterer working Off the Illinois
Central railroad n to see the
name of Charles H. Markham on an
ORDER issued from the office of the
president of the That may
De my brother Chuck the old man
said to his feiloW-workers.
Your brother president Of III.
road You're crazy" they jeered
But the old man clung to his idea
and finally he mustered up courage
to go TO the telephone office in Hon
knsville and over the ong-distanra
W1he he talked with the brother from
whom he had been parted for half !
century. Yesterday the private car
or charles I'll. Markham, president or
the Illinois Central railroad. arrived
at 1ns KY. and. awaiting the
conl1ng OF Little Chuck was John
/. we'll digger and piasterer
weekly Interior Cotton Towns.