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Arthur G. Ware
Mail Clerk
Biography
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.
Simeon Taylor Webb
Fireman
Biography
Simeon T. “Simm” Webb (was the fireman for engineer Casey Jones on the morning of April 30, 1900, when the cannonball Express crashed near Vaughn, Mississippi.
George Welch
Blacksmith
Biography
George Welch joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad circa 1857.