Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — A. J. CASSATT IS DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A. J. CASSATT IS DEAD.

Noted a President of Pennsylvania Road Sueeitmbs Suddenly. , Alexander Johnston Cassatt, President of,the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. died suddenly at his residence in Philadelphia Friday. Mr. Cassatt had been in ill health for nearly a year. His condition was aggravated by an attack of whooping cough which he, contracted from his grandchildren while at Bar Harbor in September. He never entirely recovered from the effects of the attack. Aside from being the head of the Pennsylvania railroad. Mr. Cassatt was President of six other companies and a director in twenty-three concerns, principally transportation companies, banks and trust companies. His wealth is estimated at between $50,000,000 and s7s.<H'<>.()oo. As a railroad man his career was remarkable. Mr. Cassatt was born-in Pittsburg, Dec. 6, 1839. His father, Robert S. Cassatt, moved to Europe when the son wap a child, and young Cassatt received much of his education on the Continent. 11i.4 first work was in Geor-

gia, where he was employed as a civil engineer on the construction of a new railroad. This lasted but a short time, and then Mr. Cassatt became a rodman on the Philadelphia division of the Pennsylvania. Two years later he was made an assistant engineeronthecohstructiOii of the railway linking the Pennsylvania to the Philadelphia and Trenton railroad. In 1865 he left the Pennsylvania for eighteen months, becoming superintendent of motive power and machinery for the Philadelphia & Erie railroad, but in 1867 he was back with the Pennsylvania again, in the same position as he had held on the Erie. , His next big promotion came in 1870, when he was appointed general superintendent of the Pennsylvania, and the following year lie was made general manager of all the Pennsylvania railroad lines east of Pittsburg and Erie. For two years, from 1878 to 1880, Mr. Cassatt filled the office of President, in the absence of Thomas A. Scott from active work, and in 1899 he was made President. Mr. Cassatt married Miss Lois Buchanan, a niece of President Buchanan. His son, Robert Keslo Cassatt, is married td Miss Minnie Drexel Fell of Philadelphia.

A. J. CASSATT.