Railroad Worker Profiles Wake County North Carolina 1880-1917
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Transportation, Railroads, Biography & Memoir, Historical
| Author: | Robert Grey Reynolds Jr | ISBN: | 9781301772995 |
| Publisher: | Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr | Publication: | January 17, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Robert Grey Reynolds Jr |
| ISBN: | 9781301772995 |
| Publisher: | Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr |
| Publication: | January 17, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Raleigh and Wake County, North Carolina are prominent in the history of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and Southern Railway companies. By 1880 they maintained offices in North Carolina's capitol city, on Halifax and Fayetteville Streets (downtown). My eBook is a directory of biographies of railroad employees who worked for SAL Ry & Southern. However there are also profiles of individuals who worked for Raleigh & Gaston Railroad and the Richmond and Danville Railroad. Much attention has been given to ancestral information. I have written as much as I could find from researching U.S. City Directories and United States Federal Censuses from the late 19th century until 1917. Persons living in the homes of railroad employees, their parents, birth information, and death circumstances are recorded as part of individual biographies. It interested me to find railroad employees who moved on to other professions, i.e. bank executives, cotton mill workers. In some cases my eBook lists persons who only appeared in one city directory of Wake County. Only their work title is available through research. For the majority of employees I was able to find considerably more details about their lives. I have added many illustrations to enhance the eBook.
Raleigh and Wake County, North Carolina are prominent in the history of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and Southern Railway companies. By 1880 they maintained offices in North Carolina's capitol city, on Halifax and Fayetteville Streets (downtown). My eBook is a directory of biographies of railroad employees who worked for SAL Ry & Southern. However there are also profiles of individuals who worked for Raleigh & Gaston Railroad and the Richmond and Danville Railroad. Much attention has been given to ancestral information. I have written as much as I could find from researching U.S. City Directories and United States Federal Censuses from the late 19th century until 1917. Persons living in the homes of railroad employees, their parents, birth information, and death circumstances are recorded as part of individual biographies. It interested me to find railroad employees who moved on to other professions, i.e. bank executives, cotton mill workers. In some cases my eBook lists persons who only appeared in one city directory of Wake County. Only their work title is available through research. For the majority of employees I was able to find considerably more details about their lives. I have added many illustrations to enhance the eBook.
