Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — MONON’S NEW PRESIDENT [ARTICLE]

MONON’S NEW PRESIDENT

Fairfax Harrison, Formerly of Southern Railway, Elected. New York, August 17.—Fairfax Harrispn. vice-president of the Southern railway, has been elected president of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company (the Monon) at a meeting of the board of.directors of that company, called to fill the vacancy caused by the death of I. G. Rawn. Mr. Harrison is a brother of Francis Burton Harrison, congressman from New York. The new president of the Monon was born in New York on March 13, 1869. He was educated at Yale and Columbia, and was admitted to the bar at New York in 1892. From 1892 to 1896 he practiced in New York and then entered the .service of the Southern railway. From 1896 to 1903 he was solicitor for the railroad. From 1903 to 1906 he was assistant to the president and since December. 1906, had been vice-president. He is a director of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Company, Washington Southern Railroad Company, Mobile & Ohio, Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific, Alabama Great Southern, C I. & L.,C Chespeake Steamship Company, Standard Trust Company of New York,

Transportation Mutual Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, and the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company. He is a member of the University and Midway Clubs, of New York, and the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs of Washington. His home has been at Belvoir, Facquier county, Virginia, and his office at 1300 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. It is possible Mr. Harrison may retain his position as vice-presi-dent of the Southern, in connection with his position as president of the Monon.