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[Up] [Dromo's Den] James Joy Biography JOY,
James F., lawyer, railroad president, was born Dec. 2, 1810, in Durham, N.
H. In 1846 he entered, the railway service as attorney and general counsel of
the Michigan Central railroad. He was subsequently connected with the Illinois
Central railroad; organized the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, and was
for many years at its head. In 1867 he was president of the Michigan Central
railroad; was for several years president of the Wabash, St Louis and Pacific
railway; and is now President and treasurer of the Detroit Union Railway Depot
and Station company at Detroit, Mich. Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1901) 542. |