Newspaper clipping: 'Walker on Board Union Station Co.'
Book 2, Page 241 ·1900-1930
Transcription
[a fragment of an earlier headline at the top reads] War
WALKER ON BOARD UNION STATION CO.
Annual Meeting Held Here This Morning.
J. P. Walker, general superintendent of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad at Savannah, was elected a member of the board of directors of the Savannah Union Station Co. at the annual meeting and election held this morning. Mr. Walker succeeds R. A. McCranie, former superintendent here, who has been transferred to Jacksonville. All other officers and directors were re-elected.
The officers are: Lyman Delano, Wilmington, president; F. S. Wynn, Washington, vice president; John J. Cornell, secretary; George L. Mitchell, Wilmington, assistant secretary; Savannah Bank & Trust Co., treasurer; and E. H. Kemper, Washington, comptroller.
The directors are: Mr. Walker, Mr. Wynn, M. H. Cahill, J. Randolph Anderson and R. B. Pegram, Atlanta.
Reports of officers were read and other routine matters transacted.
AI Notes
A small clipped newspaper article pasted to the album page reporting the election of James Pickens Walker, general superintendent of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad at Savannah, to the board of directors of the Savannah Union Station Co. The clipping bears a trace of an earlier headline (‘War’) at the very top edge — possibly fragment of a ‘World War’ or ‘War declared’ headline from elsewhere in the same paper. Full-resolution recrop confirms the transcription is complete. The Walker tenure at Savannah began in 1926; he was promoted to Jacksonville in June 1933 — placing this clipping between 1926 and 1933.
The subject of this clipping, James Pickens Walker Sr. (1883–1960), is the compiler Amy FitzSimons Walker’s husband. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was at this date one of the dominant carriers of the South Atlantic seaboard; Walker rose through its operating ranks to general superintendent at Savannah (1926) and later to Jacksonville (June 1933), where he served as a director of Florida Publishing Co. — the corporate parent of The Florida Times-Union, which would later employ his son James Pickens Walker Jr. as news editor (see page 250).