Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1910 — NEW PRESIDENT FOR MONON COMES FROM THE SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

NEW PRESIDENT FOR MONON COMES FROM THE SOUTHERN.

Fairfax Harrison Selected By the Directors to Succeed Ira G. Rawn, Who Met Violent Death. Fairfax Harrison was elected president of the Monon railroad at a meeting held in New York City Tuesday. He succeeded Ira G. Rawn, who met a violent death at his home near Chicago on July 20 last. Since that time the road has been In charge of E. C. Field, general counsel and vice-presi-dent. Mr. 11 ar rison 1 s now vice-president of the Southern railroad, which, with the Illinois Central, controls the Monon. It was stated at the Monon’s office Tuesday that Mr. Harrison will soon resign from this’position, which lie has held since 1906. The new president is a son of Burton Harrison and a brother of Representative Francis B. Harrison. He is 41 years old. He was graduated from Yale and after being admitted to the bar in New York City in 1892 he practiced law for a time with the firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy & McVeagh. In 1896 he went into the service of the Southern railway as solicitor, and in December, 1903, he was made assistant to the president, where he remained until 1906. Mr. Harrison is already a director of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, as he is of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, the Washington Southern, the Mobile & Ohio, the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific, the Great Southern and the Standard Trust company.