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Benjamin Bartle
Engineer
Biography
Benjamin Bartle was the engineer on August 6, 1860, when the first Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad train crossed the bridge over the Cumberland River in Clarksville, Tennessee. The bridge represented a major hurdle in building a vital portion of the rail line linking Memphis and Louisville.
In October 1860, Bartle traveled to Philadelphia “where he had been to receive a fine new locomotive just finished there for the” Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville.
Thomas J. Bradley
Engineer
Biography
Thomas J. Bradley was at the throttle of Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad locomotive No. 9 on February 10, 1870, when its boiler suddenly exploded.
The blast sent Bradley “whizzing through the air for some distance” into a telegraph wire, nearly severing his body in half.
Bradley, who was also the master mechanic at the railroad’s shops in Clarksville, left behind a wife.
Gilbert C. Breed
General Freight Agent
Biography
Gilbert C. Breed (November 17, 1829-November 17, 1886) held a series of posts with the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad.
A native of Stonington, Connecticut, Breed was elected Clarksville, Tennessee, city engineer circa January 1858. He resigned from the railroad by November 1858 to form a business partnership with contractor A.J. Harrison.
By February 1860, Breed was secretary of the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad.
In October 1861, Superintendent George B. Fleece appointed G.C. Breed as master of transportation and assistant superintendent in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
In about April 1862, Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville President Robert W. Humphreys apparently dismissed Breed for his pro-Union sentiments.
After the Louisville & Nashville company took over the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville, Breed was the general purchasing agent with headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. He was later the assistant general manager of the Louisville & Nashville. In his last years, he was the auditor of another railroad.
William Brown
Master Mechanic
Biography
William Brown was appointed master mechanic of the Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad in July 1866.
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John Cain
Conductor
Biography
John Cain, a native of Clarksville, Tennessee, was appointed conductor on the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad after its completion.
After the Civil War, Cain went to work on the Louisville & Nashville and the Memphis & Tennessee railroads. He moved to Arkansas in the late 1870s.
He was killed during a March 1883 train robbery on the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, where he worked as a conductor.