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John Edgar Thomson
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.
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Arthur G. Ware
Mail Clerk
Biography
A.G. Ware (February 21, 1816-February 27, 1863), a native of South Carolina, was a newspaper publisher and railroad agent.
In 1847, he moved to Dalton, Georgia, and published a weekly newspaper named the Mountain Eagle.
In 1852, Western & Atlantic Superintendent William L. Wadley appointed Ware as an agent for the railroad at Atlanta. At some point, he may have also worked as a mail clerk for the railroad.
He later worked as a traveling soliciting agent for the combined Macon & Western Railroad and Central Railroad. In 1858, he accepted the local agency of the Macon & Western, where he remained until he died in 1863.
He is buried in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.
Simeon Taylor Webb
Fireman
Biography
Simeon T. “Simm” Webb (was the fireman for engineer Casey Jones on the morning of April 30, 1900, when the cannonball Express crashed near Vaughn, Mississippi.