State County NyArchives Obituaries.....Parsons, Charles October 20, 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheron Faynor nitwittwin@hotmail.com March 22, 2008, 1:40 pm Monring Oregonian October 21,1904 Prominent Financier Dead Charles parson,banker and Railroad Man, Expires in New York New York,Oct.20-Charles Parsons, who had been at the head of many railroads,andone of the most prominent financiers of the country,is dead at his home from heart disease.he began his business career at Savanaah,Ga., joined the New York Stock Exchange in 1870,and a few years later began reorganizing various railroad properties. He was elected President of the Rome,Watertown & Ogdensburg in 1883,and after leasing that road to another line,became president of the New York and New England Railroad.He also served for five years as president of the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad. He was a director in many railroad companies and of several New York Banks File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/ny/state/obits/p/parsons866gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb