Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1895 — THE NEW PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEW PRESIDENT.

Head of the American Street Railway Association. Mr. Joel Hurt, recently elected President of the American Street Railway Association, is a resident of Atlanta, Ga.,

and one of the most enterprising men in that city. He was born in Russell County, Alabama,in ISSO. The close of the war found the Hurt plantation completely desolated and the son, then 15 years of age, had to begin the battle of life for himself. He managed to acquire a good educa-

tion. obtained the degree of civil engineer at the age of 21, and followed his profession till 1875. Then he located in Atlanta, entered the real estate and insurance business, and in 1876 entered on the organization of building and loan associations. He became head of the Atlanta Home Insuanee Company, the East Atlanta Land Company, and finally manager of the Consolidated Street Railroad Company, and in recognition of his shrewdness and success in this last enterprise was elected to the Presidency of the American Street Railway Association.

JOEL HURT.