Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1913 — RAILROAD OWNED BY WOMAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAILROAD OWNED BY WOMAN

Mrs. Jesse P. Williams Has a Distinction That Probably Is Possessed by None Other. Capt. Jesse P. Williams, one of the south’s greatest captains of industry, who died at Atlanta, Ga., recently, left no children, and, so far as known,

no will. Therefore, his great estate, variously estimated at $6,000,000 to $10,000,000, passes, under the Georgia law, to his widow. This gives Atlanta the only woman in the south, and possibly the only one in the whole world, who absolutely owns, in her own right, a 200mile interstate railroad, with its trains, stations, shops, terminals, docks and a steamboat line.

Mrs. Jesse P. Williams.