. Book of the Royal blue . s Perry. In L836 Mr. Thomas health gave way,and against the remonstrances of the Board,he resigned on June 30. At a meeting ofthe Board of Directors the following resolu-tion was adopted as lietitting to the occasion: nil the commencement of this work,of which in fact he was the father andprojector, everything connected with its(•instruction was new, crude and doubtful,with little to guide the way, and thatderived from distant and doubtful sources;nw. such has been the increase of infor- mation and experience acquired under hisauspices and direction as to insure thec
. Book of the Royal blue . s Perry. In L836 Mr. Thomas health gave way,and against the remonstrances of the Board,he resigned on June 30. At a meeting ofthe Board of Directors the following resolu-tion was adopted as lietitting to the occasion: nil the commencement of this work,of which in fact he was the father andprojector, everything connected with its(•instruction was new, crude and doubtful,with little to guide the way, and thatderived from distant and doubtful sources;nw. such has been the increase of infor- mation and experience acquired under hisauspices and direction as to insure thecompletion and success of the undertaking,if prosecuted with the same zeal, assiduityand integrity which have ever marked hiscourse. Further encomiums are Mr. Thomas retirementfrom activity in the primitive railwayservice at the age of sixty years, he didnot depart this life until twenty-five yearslater, when on September 1st, 1861, hedied at Yonkers, X. V., at the house ofhis By PermUslon ol HnrparA 1 PHILIP E. THOMAS, THE FIRST RAILROAD PRESIDEN1BALTIMORE & OHH I H >AD, Lt
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