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Show Head TicXft Agnt M Henry C. Towntend, general pas- H aenger and ticket agent of tbe Mis- H sourl Pacific Iron Mountain, haa been H elected president H the American H Association iSk. H General Passen- vTY sbbbH ger and Ticket fo r U H Agents. He was I!! V) L born at Pittsburg, SJ V H Pa., In August. Vv k kaLH 18(7. He entered 2tsJ H railway service In MKg4 .. ... .asB the auditor's ofllcs " M ot the Bellcfon- .. - To-nuad H talne road, In 1881 "' & Tona(, jH be was appointed ksH a clerk In the freight office ot the fjH Philadelphia, Wilmington and Haiti- H more railroad. In the following year H ho waa given a position In the general B advertising department ot the Penn- H sylvanla railroad. In December, 187L H he was appointed general passenger 1 and ticket agent ot the Toledo, Peoria H and Western, and at that time he was H the youngest geniral passenger agent H In the United States. He held that M position for six years, and left Peoria H June 1, 1877 to accept the general iH passenger agency nt the Wabash at iH Toledo. From November, 1870, to IH May, 1883, he filled the office ot gen- lssi eral passenger and ticket agent ot the (ssH Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific, with jH beadquartera In St. Louis. At the lat I M ter date hi was appointed general pas- M tenter agent ot tbe Missouri Pacific bbbH and Wabaah lines, and In July, '81, he afJH was appointed general passenger and) r ftH ticket agent of the Mluourl Paclfle' ffl system. j ilsH |