. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . kson and Helped Organize the Valley Railroad HROUGH the death of CaptainJames Bumgardner, Jr., at hishome at Staunton, Va., onSeptember 2, the Valley of Vir-ginia lost one of her most distinguishedcitizens. He was senior member ofthe firm of Bum-gardner & Bum-gardner, divi-sion counsel forthe ShenandoahDivision of theBaltimore andOhio Railroad,and local counselfor the Com-pany. CaptainBumgardner waseighty-two yearsold and died aftera short illness ofpneumonia. Hewas laid to restin the familyburial ground at Bethel Green,in AugustaCounty. Drap-ing the b
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . kson and Helped Organize the Valley Railroad HROUGH the death of CaptainJames Bumgardner, Jr., at hishome at Staunton, Va., onSeptember 2, the Valley of Vir-ginia lost one of her most distinguishedcitizens. He was senior member ofthe firm of Bum-gardner & Bum-gardner, divi-sion counsel forthe ShenandoahDivision of theBaltimore andOhio Railroad,and local counselfor the Com-pany. CaptainBumgardner waseighty-two yearsold and died aftera short illness ofpneumonia. Hewas laid to restin the familyburial ground at Bethel Green,in AugustaCounty. Drap-ing the bier wasa Confederateflag, and the cas-ket was borne bythe loving handsof old comrades. His connectionwith the railroadbegan with the incorporation of the Valley Railroad Com-pany, whose charter was granted byan act of the General Assembly of Virginiapassed February 23, 1866. This associa-tion continued to his death—a period ofover fifty years of unbroken service. Captain Bumgardner studied law inthe office of the late Judge Hugh CAPTAIN JAMES BUMGARDNER, JR. Sheffey and he was admitted to practicein 1859, entering into a partnership withJudge Sheffey, under the style of Sheffey& Bumgardner. This partnership con-tinued until the death of Judge Sheffev on April 4, 1889. Both membersof the firm partici-pated actively inthe movementwhich resulted inthe organizationof the ValleyRailroad Com-pany, and in itssubsequent in-corporation asa constituentcompany in theBaltimore andOhio Sheffeypresided at themeeting of thedelegates ap-pointed from thevarious countiesand cities in theValley of Vir-ginia interestedin the organiza-tion of theCompany, whichassembled atStaunton on April4, 1866, for thepurposeof takingproper steps tosecure subscriptions of sufficient stock tocomply with the conditions of the Com-panys charter. Captain Bumgardner was elected adirector of the Company in 1870. Thedirectors at a meeting held May 31, 1870,made formal appointment of Sheffey &Bumgardne
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