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Thomas Alexander Scott (December 28, 1823 – May 21, 1881) was an American businessman, railroad executive, and industrialist. In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to serve as U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, and during the American Civil War railroads under his leadership played a major role in the war effort.
Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad established the South Improvement Company in the fall of 1871. [5] A group representing the trunk railroad interests and oil refinery interests met in New York in late November, 1871, to discuss the creation of the company.
Camp Thomas A. Scott, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was a Railway Operating Battalion training center for the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1942 to 1944 and a prisoner of war camp during World War II. It was named for Thomas A. Scott , who served as the fourth president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1874 to 1880.
1872 - Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, becomes president of the Texas & Pacific. May 2, 1872 - an Act of Congress changes the name to Texas and Pacific Railway Company; June 12, 1873 - Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company purchased. July 1, 1873 - First rail line opened between Longview, Texas, and Dallas, Texas
Thomas A. Scott, vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), served as an Assistant Secretary of War during the period 1861–1862. [3] In January 1862 Scott prepared a report on military transportation that anticipated the creation of the USMRR. [4]
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The only railroad and telegraph lines connecting the Northern states to Washington left were located in Maryland, a state whose loyalty to the Union was not trusted. [5] Thomas A. Scott became Assistant Secretary of War in 1861 and helped establish the U.S. Military Telegraph Corps