Samuel Morse Felton Jr.

Samuel Morse Felton Jr.
Born (1853-02-03)February 3, 1853
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died March 11, 1930(1930-03-11) (aged 77)
Chicago, Illinois

Samuel Morse Felton Jr. (February 3, 1853 – March 11, 1930) was an American railroad executive. He was an 1873 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.

Railroad career

He developed a reputation for being able to rapidly facilitate the health of ailing railroads. He had quite a career as an engineer, superintendent and general manager of several railroads before rising into the presidency of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway. He also led the Alton Railroad, the Mexican Central Railroad, the Tennessee Central Railway and the Chicago Great Western Railway, before his own ailing health forced his retirement.

Military service

During World War I (1914/1917-1918), Felton was appointed Director General of Military Railways with a military rank of Brigadier General and in that capacity had charge of the organization and dispatch to France of all American railway forces and supplies for the Western Front. He continued in that position during the World War years.

Personal life

Felton was the son of Samuel Morse Felton Sr. (1809-1889), [1]Civil War era influential president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (1851-1865) and earlier of the Fitchburg Railroad, and the nephew of Cornelius Conway Felton and John B. Felton [2]

In 1880, Felton married Dora Hamilton, the daughter of a prominent Philadelphia attorney, and they had three daughters and a son. Mrs. Felton died in 1923.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-02-03. Retrieved 2006-02-08.
  2. ↑ William Bentinck-Smith (1982). The Harvard Book: Selections From Three Centuries. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674373013.
Business positions
Preceded by
Timothy B. Blackstone		 President of Chicago and Alton Railroad
1899 – 1908		 Succeeded by
Preceded by
Alpheus Beede Stickney		 President of Chicago Great Western Railway
1909 – 1925		 Succeeded by
Nathaniel Lamson Howard


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