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Ira Fort
Conductor
William Allen Fuller
Conductor
Biography
William Allen Fuller (April 15, 1836-December 28, 1905) was born in 1836 in Morrow Station, south of Atlanta in Henry County. He entered service as a conductor on the Western & Atlantic Railroad on September 8, 1855.
He is perhaps best known for his role in the Great Locomotive Chase during the Civil War. He was the northbound passenger train conductor on the morning of April 12, 1862, when Union spies stole the locomotive from Big Shanty, Georgia.
Fuller led a pursuing party, first via foot, then on a “pole” car and finally by commandeering locomotives. His dogged pursuit of the “engine thieves” helped save the railroad from total destruction.
In 1863, Georgia Gov. Joseph E. Brown commissioned Fuller as a captain. He retired around the turn of the century and lived on Washington Street in Atlanta.
After the war, Fuller was among the hundreds of Western & Atlantic employees dismissed from the railroad. Fuller, a descendant of Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen, went to work on the Macon & Western Railroad.
After leaving railroads, he entered the mercantile business in Atlanta.
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P. C. Gleeson
Conductor
Biography
P.C. Gleeson was one of three people killed in August 1850 when the Bobuel locomotive, pulling a freight train, exploded at Moon’s Station.
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Frank Hamby
Biography
Frank Hamby joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad circa 1865.
Thomas Haney
Machinist
Biography
Thomas Haney (1812-July 20, 1901), a native of Belfast, Ireland, came to Atlanta in 1852 and began working for the Western & Atlantic Railroad’s shops shortly after his arrival.
During the Civil War, Haney ran on the Western & Atlantic as an engineer. At the war’s close, he returned to the shops, where he proved valuable as a machinist. He spent more than 28 years with the Western & Atlantic.
In 1867, he was elected to represent the first ward on the city council.
Haney died on July 20, 1901, and held membership in the old Volunteer Company No. 1 at his death. He had been an active member for many years.
Richard R. Hargis
Conductor
Biography
Dick Hargis was the conductor on the last Western and Atlantic Railroad train from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Atlanta, Georgia, to operate over the railroad’s five-foot gauge. The railroad subsequently changed the railroad’s gauge to match the national gauge.
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B. S. Ivy
Foundry Foreman
Biography
B.S. Ivy joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad circa 1873.