. Electric railway journal . way Made President of NewEngland Street Railway Club Joseph E. Dozier, who was electedpresident of the New England StreetRailway Club at the annual meetingon March 27, is well known in electricrailway circles in the East, although heentered the traction field only fourteenyears ago. He was born in Barnesville,Ga., in 1867, and was reared in Macon,Ga., graduating from PlantersAcademyin 1886. In his boyhood he was em-ployed as night operator by the South-ern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Com-pany for five years. This experienceled to his appointment as an exchangemanage
. Electric railway journal . way Made President of NewEngland Street Railway Club Joseph E. Dozier, who was electedpresident of the New England StreetRailway Club at the annual meetingon March 27, is well known in electricrailway circles in the East, although heentered the traction field only fourteenyears ago. He was born in Barnesville,Ga., in 1867, and was reared in Macon,Ga., graduating from PlantersAcademyin 1886. In his boyhood he was em-ployed as night operator by the South-ern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Com-pany for five years. This experienceled to his appointment as an exchangemanager soon after leaving school. Heremained with the Southern Bell Com-pany until 1894, when he was called year and a half during the war whenhe served as a lieutenant in the aviationdivision of the Army. He is a nativeof Pennsylvania and was graduatedfrom the arts department of DickinsonCollege in 1914. The office in Clevelandwas opened because of the growing im-portance of the district as an indus-trial and railway J. E. DOZIER to Boston by the New England Tele-phone & Telegraph Company. Heserved as manager of various ex-changes until 1905 when he resigned tobecome associated with the Nahant &Lynn Street Railway, which he con-structed and has operated ever Dozier has been much interested inpublic affairs in the Lynn district andhas an unusually wide circle of friendsoutside as well as in the electric rail-way field who have been won by hisgenial personality and straightforwardbusiness methods. Journal Appoints ClevelandRepresentative This paper has appointed DavidCameron to take charge of its adver-tising business in Ohio, eastern Indianaand eastern Michigan. His headquar-ters will be in the Leader-News Build-ing, Cleveland. Mr. Cameron has been connected withthe New York office of this paper forthe last five years except for about a Thomas Roycraft, who has beengeneral manager of the Grand Forks(N. D.) Street Railway, for the lastseven years, has resigned to r
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