Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-09
=. j. ToWNsEND MADE VICE PRES.
lDENT IN CHARGE or TRAFFIC
or ROAD. ,-
BOTH EXECUTIVES WERE
FORMER MARahALLTowN MEN
Mr.. ersmnsr Has Been Acting Prssi-
dent q M. 4 st. l., Since Retirement
Of President e. 1. 6rown--Mr. Town.
send Traffic Manager and Old EN-
ploys Of Road.

Inc M. q 81. L., was elected pTeSlOeHt,
and f.. B. Townsend, traffic manager,
was elected vice president in charge Of
traffic. at meeting Of the directors OF
the property held In New York CITY
Tuesday. Mr. Bremner has been acting
president since April 5, when President
e. T.. Brown retired because Of sick
ness. Mr.. Townsend has been head Of
the traffic department for two and
one-half years.
+. M. Miner, general attorney, was
elected general counsel by the board
to talce the place OF Mr.. Bremner.
Both President Bremner and Vice
President Townsend are former Mar
shalltown men and for that reason
their election to important executive
positions Of the M. & st. l.. is Of dou-
BILE Importance locally. The Office Of
vice president, In charge Of traffic, is
new office on the NJ. & st. L. Vice
Hesident and General Manager james
Russell, In charge Of operation, Is con-
tinued In that office.
Townsend Old Employs.
Mr. Townsend veg scheeiea L. this
city and entered railroad work here,
where his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H..
II. Townsend, still live at 1o4 North
First avenue. He has recently CONF
pleted his twenty-hfth year Of employ
ment with the Iowa Central and the
Minneapolis & st. Louis. into which
the former road was merged.
From small clerkship in the gem
erai offices OF the Iowa Central, Mr..
Townsend has advanced by successive
steps thru the freight and traffic de-
partments OF first the Iowa Central,
then the M. & ST. L., to be head of
the traffic department and an execu-
tive officer Of the latter property.
Began With Central in 1892.
Mr.. Townsend was born at Kirby
vile, Mo. Oct. 20, 1875. He attended
the public schools in this city and en-
tered the employ OF the Iowa Central
as q clerk In the auditing department
In February. 1892. He held clerkshipts
In the accounting and later In the gem
erai freight Office in this city, and later
at Peoria, when the freight department
was moved there. for twelve years, ex-
cept for something over year when
he served AZ regimental sergeant
major OF the Forty ninth Iowa in
fantry volunteers in the Spanish Am
erican war.
q In 1904. when freight headquarters
OF the Iowa Central were at Peoria, he
was appointed travelling freight agent
at indianapolis Ind, for both the Iowa
Central and the NJ. 4 st. Z. From
December. tls0Ss tpIJanuary. 1899 he
wss commercial agent Of both lines st
Indianapolis and during the following
year he was general agent of the SANE
lines at Chicago. From January. 1910.
to January, 1911. he was coal freight
agent Of the Iowa Central, NJ. & st.
L.. Chicago & Alton. and Glover Leaf
at Chicago. In January, 1911, he was
appointed assistant general freight
agent OF the NJ. q st. L., with head
quarters At Minneapolis, and In August,
1914. was named as traffic manager.
M. srsmnsr Native Of City.
Mr.. Bremner 10 a native Of this city,
his parents, the late Mr.. and Mrs. will
liam Bremner being among the pio-
reers OF MArshnlltown. He graduated
from tho high school here and from
4 the school OF law Of the state univer-
sity. after which he practiced in Des
Moines. whore he was city. solicitor for
q number Of years. He became assoc
cIated with the M. 4 st. L. N general
attorney In 1908, and when G. w.
Sewers retired in 1913 was appointed
general counsel and head Of the legal
department 10 succeed him, an office
ne has held until appointed acting
president : few weeks ago.