The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-23
Gen'l Mgr Stanyan of Mont
peIier & Wells River R.R., Dead
AFTER ONE WEEKS ILLNESS
Began as Telegraph Operator at Lake.
port, N. H., and Was Promoted from
Time to Time Until He Was Made
Manager of the Road.

! General Manager +. w. Stanyan Of
the Montpelier & Wells River and
Barre railroads died at 3 o'clock this
morning at his home, ! Ridge street,
Montpelier, after an illness which had
confined him to the bed for week but
following long period of i'll health with
a complication of diseases. During yes
terday the patients condition grew rap
| idly worse, and the end was not un-
expected
The burial will be at Wentworth, n.
IL, the remains being carried to that
place following a funeral service at his
late nome at4ooIock tomorrow. ut which
Rev. ). Edward Wright will officiate.
A delegation Of Barre Knight Temp
/ lars viii accompany the body to
/ that town, as General Manager Stanyan
was member OF st. Aldemar comman-
dery.
Fred Willis Stanyan was born in
Wentworth, n. H., September l3, 1859,
and was, therefore, 50 years of age He
was the son of James H. and EmmeIine
| Clark Atwell Stanyan of that town He
attended public school there and later
| he entered Concord, n H., high school,
/ from which he was graduated in due
| time
| Shortly after leaving school he began
| his railroad career, being first engaged as
! telegraph operator at Lakeport, n H.,
for two years. He then went to the
train dispatcher's Office at Plymouth, n.
H., where he remained one year and then
- he. ,xu,. .J-,<
OF the Boston. Concord & Montreal rail-
road. After two years service there he
became general agent for the company
at Fabyans n. Fl.
Three years later he came to Barre
as acting superintendent and general
freight and passenger agent of the Barre
railroad, and in 1890 he was appointed
general superintendent of that road, and
the year following, became also car agent
for the Montpelier & Wells River rail
road.
Further promotion brought him to the
position of general superintendent of the
Montpelire & Wells River railroad under
the Sortwell regime, and he removed to
Montpelier & Wells River railroad under
in that position, and he had remained in
active direction of the daily affairs of
tUe IhllfOau until IHheH DY QedtD. hneu
the roads re-organized after the acquisi.
tion of the Montpelier 4 Wells River
and the Barre railroads by the Boston Il
Maine system, he was retained under
President Timothy +. Byrnes and carried
the title of general manager of the
Montpelier g. Wells River road, having
his offices at the company's headquarters
in Montpelier
In connection with Mr.. Stanyan's SER
vices with the Montpelier & Wells Riv-
er and Barre railroads, it is interesting
to note that he served under three gen
erations of the Sortwell family, being
first with the late Daniel r. Sortwell,
then with the late Alvin f. Sortwell
and finally, with the present Daniel X.
until the Sortwell family dis
posed of their holdings in the two COM
panies.
General Manager Stanyan was recog-
nized as capable railroad official and
was highly regarded by his superiors in
the control of the two local railroads.
He was a member of the Masonic order
in Barre and had reached, as above stat
ed, the commandery division of that or.
eanization. Besides his wife, who was
Annie Hazelton Whitmore of Wentworth,
n. H., he leaves his mother, among his
near relatives.