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John William Kendrick

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28: 161:, since which he has been consecutively 1879 to 1880, location work; 1880 to 1883, in charge of construction of 160 miles of Missouri and Yellowstone divisions; 1883 to 1888, chief engineer, St. Paul and Northern Pacific Railroad, in charge of main line and terminals between 169:; 1888 to July, 1893, chief engineer, Northern Pacific Railroad and leased lines; July, 1893, to February 1, 1899, general manager for receivers, same road and reorganized road, the Northern Pacific Railway; February 1, 1899 to date , second vice-president. 281:
Men of 1914: An Accurate Biographical Record of Prominent Men in All Walks of Life Who Have Achieved Success in Their Chosen Vocations in the Various Civil, Industrial, and Commercial Lines of Activity.
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on that road. John William Kendrick played a vital and active role in the construction and formulation of business policies at two of the largest corporations in the American West.
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John William Kendrick was later vice-chairman of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. In the 1890s he formulated the engineering plans the reconstruction of the
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John William Kendrick, Second Vice-President Born on October 14, 1853, ... 1883 to 1888, chief engineer of the St. Paul & Northern Pacific Railway, ...
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Ironically, four of the five WPI civil engineering graduates listed in this article are early veterans of the Northern Pacific!
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and corporate reorganizations. At the dawn of the Twentieth Century he joined the Santa Fe, helping usher in an era of
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He was born on October 14, 1853. He entered railway service in 1879 as levelman construction party in
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An Illustrated Biographical Directory of Officials of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
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after its construction era, a period during which the Northern Pacific endured two
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The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1901 edition.
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Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1915. Available on the Web at
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From June 5, 1901, to October 4, 1905, Kendrick was third vice-president
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Chicago : Railway Age and Northwestern Railroader, 1901, p. 298.
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Annual Report of the New England Society in the City of New York
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Chief engineer, general manager, vice-president, vice-chairman
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1992, various.
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History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
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Worcester, Massachusetts
American
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
railroad
Northern Pacific Railway
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Civil engineering
Northern Pacific Railway
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Yellowstone River
Northern Pacific Railroad
Brainerd, Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Northern Pacific Railway
receiverships
scientific management
An Illustrated Biographical Directory of Officials of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
World War I
Annual Report of the New England Society in the City of New York
Categories
1853 births
1924 deaths
People from Worcester, Massachusetts
Northern Pacific Railway people
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway people
American civil engineers
Worcester Polytechnic Institute alumni

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