. The Street railway journal . Broadway CableRoad have been removed from the uptown station at 51stStreet and Seventh Avenue to the cable road building andstation at Houston Street and Broadway. January, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. ,7 Death of William Richardson. We are pained to record the death, on December 31,of William Richardson, late president of the AtlanticAvenue Railway Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Rich-ardson has not only been prominently identified with thestreet railway interests of New York and Brooklyn for thelast thirty years, but he has taken a leading part in themeet
. The Street railway journal . Broadway CableRoad have been removed from the uptown station at 51stStreet and Seventh Avenue to the cable road building andstation at Houston Street and Broadway. January, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. ,7 Death of William Richardson. We are pained to record the death, on December 31,of William Richardson, late president of the AtlanticAvenue Railway Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Rich-ardson has not only been prominently identified with thestreet railway interests of New York and Brooklyn for thelast thirty years, but he has taken a leading part in themeetings of the American Street Railway Association andof the New York State Street Railway Association, ofwhich he was a regular attendant. His death occurredat his home, No. 125 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn. Hehad been ill for a week and suffered from pneumonia andheart trouble, following congestion of the brain anddiabetes. Mr. Richardson was born at Berkhampstead, Hert-fordshire, England,on December 8,1822, and, consequently,. THE LATE WM. RICHARDSON. at the time of his death was seventy-one years of twelve years old he came, with his father, to thiscountry, and the family settled at Gambier, O. Whenthe Republican party was formed he joined it and be-came a member of its first State Committee. In 1857 hewas elected clerk of the Assembly, and he served in 1858,1859 and i860. In 1861 President Lincoln appointed himan additional paymaster in the army. After the war hecame to New York, and was made superintendent of theDry Dock, East Broadway & Battery Railroad three weeks he became a director and president. Thisposition he held for two and a half years, during whichtime the income of the road increased from $600 to over$2,000 a day. In 1867 he resigned, and leased the Brooklyn &Jamaica Railroad for forty years. In 1872 a mortgageupon the property of the company was foreclosed, andMr. Richardson bought the property. He then organizedthe Atlantic Avenue Company
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