Career
- President — Pennsylvania Railroad
1852–1874
Biography
J. Edgar Thomson led the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1852 until 1874. Under his leadership, the Pennsylvania Railroad grew exponentially, including the acquisition of the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company.
“In all the movements which have resulted in the present enormous extension of the business of the Pennsylvania Railroad Mr. Thompson, as its president, took an active and leading part and is deserving of credit,” The New York Herald wrote in Thompson’s May 1874 obituary.