GEORGE WARREN KIRTLEY
KIRTLEY, GEORGE WARREN: Retired; b Panora, Iowa Dec 1, 1874; s of William Kirtley-Sarah Whisler; ed Panora HS; Iowa Business Coll, Des Moines; m Minnie Beulah Leffler May 17, 1899 Des Moines; 1893-96 emp by Bd of Mfrs & Employers Assn also Ship Owners Assn of the Pacific Coast, San Francisco Cal; 1897-98 emp in Securities Loan & Trust Co, Des Moines; 1899-1900 emp by NP RR, St Paul Minn; 1901 emp by CStP, M&O RR, St Paul Minn; 1902-03 emp by B&O RR, Chicago & Baltimore; 1904-20 employee & ultimately gen supt of transportation Erie RR, Cleveland Ohio & New York City; 1920-30 owner & opr canning industry, Harlan; 1935 apptd by federal administration industrial mbr NRA, compliance bd, Region VII, 8 mid-western states, hdqrs Omaha Neb, later administrative asst; 1937-39 exec asst to Gov Nelson G. Kraschel; ret, personal investments, Harlan; during World War appts asst commr, priority in transportation for fed govt by Pres Woodrow Wilson, jurisdiction over US RRs & coast steamship lines, also apptd transportation mbr representing fed govt of US Highways Coun, hdqrs Washington DC, on personal pay-roll of President; 1925-27 pres & dir Iowa-Neb Canners Assn; New York Athletic Club, past mbr; Travers Island Country Club, past mbr; New York Machinery Club, New York City, past mbr; Omaha Athletic Club, past mbr; Harlan Comm Club, past pres; mbr Harlan Field Club; hobby: travel; res Baldwin & 11th, Harlan.
From Who's Who in Iowa, by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940, pg. 1115. Transcribed by Denise Wurner, March, 2013.
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