Mellen, Charles S. (1851-1927)

Name:

Mellen, Charles S. (1851-1927)

Title:

Member, Eureka Lodge, No. 70, A. F. A. M.
Member, Trinity Chapter, R. A. M.

Other Names:

Mellen, Charles Sanger

Born:

08/16/1851

Birthplace:

Lowell, MA

Died:

11/17/1927

Death Location:

New Haven, CT

Residence:

Lowell, MA 1851-1855
Concord, NH 1855-1872, 1873-1880
St. Albans, VT 1872-1873
Boston, MA 1880, 1892-
New Haven, CT

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Clerk, Northern Railroad
Clerk, Vermont Central Railroad
Assistant to the General Manager, Boston Lowell Railroad
Auditor, Boston, Lowell Concord Railroad
Superintendent, Boston Lowell Railroad
General Superintendent, Boston Lowell Railroad
Assistant Purchasing Agent, Union Pacific Railroad
Assistant Manager, Union Pacific Railroad
General Traffic Manager, Union Pacific Railroad
General Manager, New York New England Railroad
Vice President, New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad
President, Northern Pacific Railroad
President, New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad
Presidnet, Boston Maine Railroad

Father:

Mellen, George Kingsbury

Mother:

Sanger, Hannah Maria

Relations:

Business associate with J. P. Morgan

Spouse:

Married (1) Marion Beardsley Foster, September 23, 1875, St. Albans, Vermont
Married (2) Katharine Lloyd Livingston, November 15, 1893

Children:

Graham Kingsbury, born May 10, 1880
Marion Foster,
Kathryn
Amory
Raymond,
Candace
Priscilla

Notes:

George W. Batson, "Charles S. Mellen, Railroad Organizer," The American Review of Reviews, 36( July-December 1907), 169-176.

H. H. Metcalf, "Charles Sanger Mellen," The Granite Monthly, 45(January 1913), 1-15.

Obituary, Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, November 18, 1927