1880s advertisement question
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Tue Aug 25 04:12:44 EDT 2009
NW Mailing List wrote:
> Was just going thru some recent treasures I aquired and it includes an
> advertising page from some publication of the day, no names, just a
> C&O ad on one side and and N&W ad on the other.
>
> The only thing regarding a date is that it dates at least after
> January 1882 as there is a reference to something up to that date,
> non-railroad related. The name N&W RR also helps a little and since
> the Shenandoah Valley line isn't mentioned at all, that also limits
> it.. However, they do list 3 N&W officers; Frank Huger, Supt.
> Transportation, Lynchburg; N.M. Osborne, master of transportation,
> Petersburg; and L.S. Brown, general traveling agent, Lynchburg. So the
> main offices were still in Lynchburg is also a clue.
<snip>
I've not come across anythung that (yet) pins down this period, but
these clips may be of interest:
Dominic
London
New York Times archive has Norforlk and Western Railway Superintendent
of Transportation Col. Hugar's death notice June 12th 1897 dying Friday
in Roanoke from a stroke of apoplexy aged 60.
There's a poor-ish quality digitised version
http://www.archive.org/stream/annualreportrai04unkngoog/annualreportrai04unkngoog_djvu.txt
of the
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO LAW.
RICHMOKD:
J. H. O'BANNON, SUPERINTENDEXT OF PUBLIC PRINTING.
OFFICE OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONER,
Richmond, Va., November 1, 1890.
with Frank Huger in Roanoke featured:
ROAXOKE, VA., March 27, 1890.
General Jambs C. Hill.,
RftilrfHid Ofinmmioner, Richmoml, Va. :
Dear Sir:
Your letter of the 18th instant. We have furnished Davie & Whittle
with all the box cars they want for the movement of their fertilizer, and could
now give them more if they needed them.
Yours truly,
FRANK HUGER,
Supt. Drans^n.
He features also in
*Norwood's*
*Knoxville City Directory*
*1885*
*_East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad_*
/General offices, Gay
<http://www.knoxcotn.org/directories/1885knoxville/streetguide1885.html#GAY>,
at depot./
*
*Vice-president and general manager* - H. FINK, Knoxville
*
*General superintendent* - J. F. O'BRIEN, Knoxville
*
*General passenger agent *- B. W. WRENN, Knoxville
*
*General freight agent *- J. R. OGDEN, Knoxville
*
*Assistant general freight and passenger agent* - Jos. GOTHARD
*
*Treasurer* - J. G. MITCHELL, Knoxville
*
*Superintendent East Tennessee Division* - Frank K. HUGER
http://www.knoxcotn.org/directories/1885knoxville/railroads1885.html
and in Reminiscences of an Old Timer
http://www.johnsonsdepot.com/southern/rsmith.pdf
Major Huger is referred to as joining the line in 1877, I think.
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