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Source: Biographical Directory of Railway Officials
Author: Harold Francis Lane

Groseclose, William B.
Assistant Freight Traffic Manager, Missouri Kansas & Texas Ry.
Office Chicago, Ill.
Born Oct. 27, 1858, at Salisbury, NC.
Entered railway service in 1876, since which he has been consecutively to 
1888, clerk, operator and agent Indianapolis & St. Louis Ry and Atchison 
Topeka & Santa Fe Rd and cashier, agent and route agent Adams Express Co. and 
Wells Fargo & Co.'s Express;
Dec. 10, 1888 to April 1, 1890, commercial agent St. Louis Arkansas & Texas Ry 
of Texas;
April to July 1890, general agent, and July 1890 to July 1893, general freight 
agent same road, now the St. Louis Southwestern Ry of Texas;
July 1893 to June 1894, general manager Tyler Car & Lumber Co. at Tyler, Tex.;
June 1894 to Jan. 1895, commissioner Galveston Freight Bureau;
Jan. 15, 1895 to Nov. 15, 1898, assistant general freight agent Missouri 
Kansas & Texas Ry of Texas at Houston, Tex.;
Nov. 15, 1898 to Jan. 15, 1901, assistant general freight agent Missouri 
Kansas & Texas Ry at St. Louis, Mo.;
Jan. 15, 1901 to June, 1910, general freight agent same road to St. Louis;
June 1, 1910 to date, assistant freight traffic manager same road at Chicago.

Additional Comments:
Source:
The Biographical Directory of 
The Railway Officials of America
1918 Edition
Edited and Compiled by Harold Francis Lane
Associate Editor Railway Age Gazette
Published by Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company
New York and Chicago

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