. Electric railway journal . 1912. He was pre-viously general managerof the Otsego & Herki-mer Railroad, Hartwick,N. Y. He was born inSalem, Mass., on K. Choate 22, 1854- He attended school at Taunton,Mass., and prepared for college, but did not enter collegeuntil later in life, when he took a degree in the University ofColorado. Mr. Choate started his business career as a civilengineer, in which capacity he served the city of New Yorkfor some time. In 1881 he became connected with the Penn-sylvania Railroad as supervisor of track of the New Yorkdivision. He next became connected with t
. Electric railway journal . 1912. He was pre-viously general managerof the Otsego & Herki-mer Railroad, Hartwick,N. Y. He was born inSalem, Mass., on K. Choate 22, 1854- He attended school at Taunton,Mass., and prepared for college, but did not enter collegeuntil later in life, when he took a degree in the University ofColorado. Mr. Choate started his business career as a civilengineer, in which capacity he served the city of New Yorkfor some time. In 1881 he became connected with the Penn-sylvania Railroad as supervisor of track of the New Yorkdivision. He next became connected with the Erie Railroadand subsequently entered the service of th-e Union PacificRailroad as assistant to the general manager. He then servedas general manager of the Nevada Central road and afterwardas superintendent of the Park division of the Uijion PacificRailroad and general superintendent of all Colorado next spent several years in New York as a consultingengineer, and acting in an advisory capacity on matters of. 400 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. 9. railway operation he went to the Otsego & Herkimer Rail-road, first as consulting engineer, and in 1907 he was madegeneral manager of the company. Mr. Choate is a past-president of the New York State Electric Railway Associa-tion. Mr. W. J. McCorkindale, vice-president and general man-ager of the Marquette County Gas & Electric Company,Ishpeming, Mich., has resigned to become connected withthe C. H. Geist Company, Philadelphia, Pa., which con-trols the Wilmington (Del.) Gas Company and public util-ity properties in Atlantic City, N. J.; Roanoke, Va.; Nash-ville, Tenn.; Peoria, 111.; Delray, Mich., and other McCorkindale has been connected with the MarquetteCounty Gas & Eectric Company, which includes the localrailway at Ishpeming, more than six years. The propertywas in the hands of receivers when he became connectedwith it, and the work of rehabilitating and modernizing theplant has been carried out un
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