Excerpt from Memorial of the Harvard College Class of 1856: Prepared for the Fiftieth Anniversary of Graduation, June 27, 1906 In 1869 he was appointed a member of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Massachusetts, and served upon it, by successive reappointments, until 1879, - seven years as chairman of the board, - when he declined further service. In 1879 he was se lected as a member of the Board of Arbitration of the Trunk Line Railroad Organization, and served either as chairman of the board or as sole arbitrator until June, 1884, when he was made president of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, of which he had previously. In 1e77, been a government director. He held this position until 1890. In 1892 he was appointed a member, and served as chair man, of the advisory commission which planned the Massachusetts Metropolitan Park System; and a year later was appointed on the permanent commission which carried that system into effect. He was chairman of the board until his resignation from it in June, 1895. He was (hosen to the Board of Overseers of Harvard Uni versity in 1882, and served until 1894. He was re-elected an over seer in 1895 for the further term of six years. As a member of this board, he prepared a final report of the committee upon the English Department, and the recommendations therein contained have now been practically adopted, instruction in elementary English being new transferred from the college course to the pre paratory schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.