. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ^ which beckonedto all the world to come and share itsfreedom and opportunities, with her newspirit of unhampered individual initiative and enterprise. These were the piin-ciples, with such men as Jackson andClay and Lincoln to maintain them,which made possible the amazing growththat Judge Gephart saw—that enabledour nation to weather the Mexican andCivil wars and the other great crises ofhis time. To us, Judge Gephart seems the typicalAmerican of the last century. A pioneer. The Late Judge Oliver Cromwell Gephart, of CumberlandBurn September 10, 1818
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ^ which beckonedto all the world to come and share itsfreedom and opportunities, with her newspirit of unhampered individual initiative and enterprise. These were the piin-ciples, with such men as Jackson andClay and Lincoln to maintain them,which made possible the amazing growththat Judge Gephart saw—that enabledour nation to weather the Mexican andCivil wars and the other great crises ofhis time. To us, Judge Gephart seems the typicalAmerican of the last century. A pioneer. The Late Judge Oliver Cromwell Gephart, of CumberlandBurn September 10, 1818 Died May 18, 1916 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZL\E 31 when he struck out with his familyearly in life, one of the thousands seekingtheir fortune in and anxious to developthe little known country of the AUe-ghenies, he recognized and capitalizedthe vast industrial possibilities of thecoal regions in which he took his first agent of the Baltimore andOhio in Cumberland, he seems to havebeen a winged-footed Mercury announc-ing to the outposts of the nation thecoming of that greater messenger ofbusiness and civilization, the Americanrailroad. Yet he was not more this inhis early years than later in hfe, theconstant admirer and well wisher of thetransportation industry, and especially,of course, of the Baltimore and his home on the hills in Cumber-land he looked toward those greater hillsto the east and saw in his minds eye thecompletion of our ]\Iagnolia Cut-off, froman economic and eng
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