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Allen H. Harris
General Superintendent
Biography
Allen H. Harris was involved with the streetcar system in Clarksville, Tennessee, for about 25 years and was general superintendent for the Citizens Street Railway from about 1916 until 1928.
Reginald Fairfax Harrison
President
John LaRue Helm
President
Biography
John LaRue Helm became the railroad’s second president on October 2, 1854, after the previous president had been forced out following a disagreement with Louisville’s board of aldermen. On February 4, 1860, two members of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad’s board of directors asked Helm to resign, saying they voted for his re-election as president of the company with the understanding that he would resign when the main line between Louisville and Nashville was finished. Helm resigned on February 21, 1860, and was replaced by James Guthrie.
G. A. Henry
President
Biography
Gustavus Adolphus Henry (1804-1880) was a Whig Party leader and a law school classmate of future Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Henry, nicknamed the “Eagle Orator of Tennessee,” ran for governor of Tennessee in 1853, an election he lost to Democrat Andrew Johnson. During the Civil War, he served for three years in the Confederate Senate.
Robert W. Humphreys
President
Biography
Robert W. Humphreys (1824-1878), a Montgomery County native, was a prominent lawyer in Clarksville, Tennessee.