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Everett William Moon
Motorman
John C. Moore
Conductor
Biography
John C. Moore is also notable as the first mayor of Smyrna, Georgia.
Wick Moorman
President
Charles W. “Wick” Moorman, a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, spent more than 40 years at Norfolk Southern before joining Amtrak as its president in 2016, a role he held until 2017. At Norfolk Southern, he rose from management trainee to CEO and chairman of the Board of Directors.
Moorman graduated from Georgia Tech and Harvard Business School.Read More Biography
Charles W. “Wick” Moorman, a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, spent more than 40 years at Norfolk Southern before joining Amtrak as its president in 2016, a role he held until 2017. At Norfolk Southern, he rose from management trainee to CEO and chairman of the Board of Directors.
Moorman graduated from Georgia Tech and Harvard Business School.
William B. Munford
President
Biography
On June 25, 1855, William B. Munford was elected as president of the Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad. Munford, a native of Danville, Kentucky, moved to Clarksville in 1839 and ensconced himself in many aspects of the community before his death on July 9, 1859. Within a year of his appointment, he and fellow railroad officials met with their colleagues at the Memphis & Nashville in Paris, Tennessee, to examine a consolidation of their roads. The discussion did not yield a merger.
Harris Murner
Smyrna Agent
Biography
Harris Murner resigned as the Western and Atlantic Railroad agent in Smyrna in 1890.
Anthony Murphy
Superintendent of Motive Power
Anthony Murphy was born in county Wicklow, Ireland, in 1829 and emigrated to the United States in 1838. Murphy's family settled first in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
He went to Trenton, New Jersey, when he was 18 years old and apprenticed to the machinists' trade. After three years, he moved to Piermont, New York, where he worked in Erie railroad shops for a year.…Read More Biography
Anthony Murphy was born in county Wicklow, Ireland, in 1829 and emigrated to the United States in 1838. Murphy’s family settled first in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
He went to Trenton, New Jersey, when he was 18 years old and apprenticed to the machinists’ trade. After three years, he moved to Piermont, New York, where he worked in Erie railroad shops for a year. He then moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Murphy moved to Atlanta in the 1850s and worked as the superintendent of motive power for the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
He was to the Atlanta City Council in 1866 and was re-elected twice. He advocated for a waterworks system for the city and also for the building of the Georgia Air Line, later known as the Richmond & Danville.
He died on December 28, 1909.
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Anthony Murphy was born in county Wicklow, Ireland, in 1829 and emigrated to the United States in 1838. Murphy’s family settled first in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
He went to Trenton, New Jersey, when he was 18 years old and apprenticed to the machinists’ trade. After three years, he moved to Piermont, New York, where he worked in Erie railroad shops for a year. He then moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Murphy moved to Atlanta in the 1850s and worked as the superintendent of motive power for the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
He was to the Atlanta City Council in 1866 and was re-elected twice. He advocated for a waterworks system for the city and also for the building of the Georgia Air Line, later known as the Richmond & Danville.
He died on December 28, 1909.
W. W. Murphy
Conductor
Biography
W.W. Murphy was appointed conductor of the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad in March 1861.
“The appointment is an excellent one, and Mr. M. is rapidly growing into favor with the traveling public,” The Clarksville Jeffersonian newspaper in Clarksville, Tennessee, reported on March 27, 1861. “He has worked his way up from the position of brakeman to that of conductor, by strict attention to business, promptness and uniform urbanity, and we are gratified that his good conduct has been appreciated by the Company.”