Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Edmonds, Albert Sidney July 7, 1881 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 660
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     ALBERT SIDNEY EDMONDS.  Continuously for thirty years Albert S. Edmonds 
has been closely connected with railroad operations and during the past seven 
years has served as assistant traffic manager for the Union Pacific system at 
Portland. Mr. Edmonds was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on the 7th of July, 
1881, and is a son of James Addison and Adeline (Beeler) Edmonds, of whom the 
former was engaged in manufacturing in that city. Both parents are now 
deceased. Mr. Edmonds attended the public schools of his home city, graduating 
from high school and, in July, 1899, entered the railroad service as messenger 
and correspondence clerk under the assistant freight traffic manager of the 
Southern Railway at Louisville. In March, 1901, he was made assistant rate 
clerk, and later rate clerk, with the same road and transferred to Washington, 
D. C. From there he was sent to Atlanta, Georgia, where he continued his 
service in the same capacity until September, 1903, when he was appointed a 
traveling freight agent for the Mallory Steamship Company, filling that 
position at Atlanta and Birmingham until January, 1906, when he was appointed 
commercial agent of the Mallory Steamship Company, with headquarters at 
Atlanta, which position he filled until June, 1908, when he was appointed 
general agent of the Missouri Pacific Railroad at Birmingham, Alabama.

     In February, 1912, he was transferred to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as 
general agent of the Missouri Pacific, serving in that capacity until May, 
1915, when he was appointed traffic manager of the Chesapeake Steamship 
Company, at Baltimore, Maryland.

     Mr. Edmonds remained with the Chesapeake Steamship Company in the 
capacity of traffic manager until July, 1917, when he returned to the Missouri 
Pacific as assistant freight traffic manager, with headquarters at St Louis.

     From August, 1918, to January, 1919, Mr. Edmonds was assistant chief of 
the inland traffic service under the war department, with headquarters at 
Atlanta, Georgia. From January 1, 1919, until March 1, 1920, he served as 
traffic assistant under the directors of traffic of the federal Railroad 
Administration, his headquarters being at Washington, D. C.

     Upon the return of the roads to private control he was appointed general 
traffic manager of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, with headquarters at 
Los Angeles, remaining there until September, 1921, when he was appointed 
traffic manager of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company at 
Portland, Oregon. In November, 1921, he was made assistant traffic manager for 
the Union Pacific system, with headquarters at Portland, in which capacity he 
is still serving.

     In September, 1905, Mr. Edmonds was united in marriage to Miss Laura 
Caldwell, of Atlanta, Georgia, and they are the parents of two children, 
Albert S., Jr., who graduated in mechanical engineering and business 
administration at Harvard University in 1928, and Laura, who is thirteen years 
of age.

     He is a member of the Waverley Club, the Oswego Country Club, the 
Arlington Club, of which he is a director, and the Portland Chamber of 
Commerce, where he has served on the foreign trade committee and is now a 
member of the land settlement committee.

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