. History of the "Old High School" on School Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1828 to 1840 : with a personal history of the teachers : also, the names of 265 pupils, with their history in part : with portraits and a sketch of the building. e was transferred to the freight office under R. N. Dowd,accent at New Haven, and then to the general offices of thecompany at Hartford, and became clerk to the president,Charles F. Pond, and successively to general superintend-ents Amasa Stone, Jr., E. H. Brodhead, and Chief Engin-eer T. Willis Pratt. In those early days of railroads wehave the fact
. History of the "Old High School" on School Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1828 to 1840 : with a personal history of the teachers : also, the names of 265 pupils, with their history in part : with portraits and a sketch of the building. e was transferred to the freight office under R. N. Dowd,accent at New Haven, and then to the general offices of thecompany at Hartford, and became clerk to the president,Charles F. Pond, and successively to general superintend-ents Amasa Stone, Jr., E. H. Brodhead, and Chief Engin-eer T. Willis Pratt. In those early days of railroads wehave the facts that one clerk at headquarters on a railroadsixty-two miles long performed the duties not only of thegeneral office work, but also acted as a reserve for stationagents when absent for cause, spare conductor, auditor ofstation reports, and pay-master of the road, all of whichand various other duties he performed and remained withthe company until 1853, passing through various grades upto the post of superintendent. During these nine years, however, he left the road for ashort time in 1851 at the desire of the late Chester and took the superintendency of the ConnecticutRiver Railroad after Mr. Chajiin l>ccanie president of that. M. L. SYKES, old high school. 57 company. Owing to his desire to return to the Hartford& New Haven Railroad he resigned his office upon theConnecticut River road and returned to his old positionupon the Hartford & New Haven. During the intervalof a change, in 1853 or 1854, he was for a short time in theeqiploy of the late D. L. Harris and A. D. Briggs, the emi-nent bridge builders. He was superintendent of the Morris & Essex Rail-road in New Jersey, and resigned the office in 1854 totake charge of the Hudson River Railroad as superin-tendent under Hon. Edwin D. Morgan, president, where heremained until 1857, having been promoted from the gradeof superintendent to that of vice-president, at which time heresigned and went to Chicago as superin
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