Word: jefferey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought of as "just a train" while in Chicago it is an institution. If that be true, perhaps Conductor Frank V. Hendrix will seem even more of a personage than Conductor Kennedy, when he officiates at the Chicago end of the anniversary run with his colleagues, Conductor Frank A. Jefferey and John S. Lund.* Gruff as a Southern colonel and as proud of tradition, Conductor Hendrix lacks but a few days of Conductor Kennedy's seniority. Both joined the road in 1873 when Commodore Vanderbilt was its president. Both retire before another Century anniversary rolls around...
...stout, elderly, ruddy nabobs . . . the two rotund conductors, Tweedledum and Tweedledee" whom he, during a Chicago-to-New York trip on the Century, saw conferring on the LaSalle Street and Elkhart, Ind., platforms. N. Y. Central men are agreed that Mr. Morley must have seen Conductors Hendrix and Jefferey, of whom only one, however, might be called stout, rotund? Conductor Jefferey. (Conductor Lund may have been Tweedledee to Conductor Jefferey's Tweedledum; he is heavier than Conductor Hendrix. But between Conductors Lund and Jefferey there has long been a "feud"; they rarely confer...