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Arthur G. Ware
A.G. Ware (February 21, 1816-February 27, 1863), a native of South Carolina, was a newspaper publisher and railroad agent.
In 1847, he moved to Dalton, Georgia, and published a weekly newspaper named the Mountain Eagle.
In 1852, Western & Atlantic Superintendent William L. Wadley appointed Ware as an agent for the railroad at Atlanta. At some point, he may have also worked as a mail clerk for the railroad.
He later worked as a traveling soliciting agent for the combined Macon & Western Railroad and Central Railroad. In 1858, he accepted the local agency of the Macon & Western, where he remained until he died in 1863.
He is buried in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.
George Welch
George Welch joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad circa 1857.
John Welch
T. Y. Whitehead
T.Y. Whitehead was killed in head-on collision between two freight trains a mile north of Ringgold, Georgia, on September 12, 1906.
H. L. Wing
Tom Wooley
Alf Worley
Bob Wylie
Dave Wylie
Dave Wylie joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad in September 1865 as a brakeman. He was promoted to baggagemaster, freight conductor, passenger conductor and yardmaster.
After a company started leasing the railroad in 1870, Wylie’s title changed to the master of trains. He resigned from the railroad in about February 1891 and went into the livery business. He was later elected commissioner of Atlanta’s public works.