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Thomas Fletcher Oakes
Born(1843-07-15)July 15, 1843
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedMarch 14, 1919(1919-03-14) (aged 75)
Seattle, Washington
OccupationRailroad executive
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Thomas Fletcher Oakes (July 15, 1843 – March 14, 1919) was president of Northern Pacific Railway from 1888 to 1893.

Biography

Thomas Fletcher Oakes was born in Boston on July 15, 1843. He entered railway service June 1, 1863; to April, 1879, on Kansas Pacific Railroad; two years secretary to contractors, two years purchasing agent; three years purchasing agent and assistant treasurer; six years general freight agent; one year vice-president; one year five months general superintendent; April 1879, to May 1880, general superintendent Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf and Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern; May 1880, to May 1881, vice-president and general manager Oregon Railway and Navigation Company; May 1881, to November 1883, vice-president Northern Pacific Railway, and November 1883, to 1888, vice-president and general manager.

Oakes was placed in charge of the Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad after Charles Barstow Wright formed the Oregon Improvement Company. Harris retained Oakes as executive vice president, after Harris became president of Northern Pacific.

His son, Walter Oakes, of Seattle, a founder of the Alaska Steamship Company, was father of the ethnologist Maud Oakes.

Thomas Fletcher Oakes died at his residence at the Sorrento Hotel in Seattle on March 14, 1919.

References

  1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. I. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 183. Retrieved April 8, 2021 – via Google Books.
  2. Speidel, William (1967). Sons of the Profits. Seattle: Nettle Creek Publishing Company. pp. 170, 183.
  3. Secretary's Report, Class of 1887, Harvard College, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary 1887-1912, p. 154
  4. Snowden, Clinton A. (1911). History of Washington: The Rise and Progress of an American State. Vol. 5. Century History Company. p. 408. Retrieved April 8, 2021 – via Google Books.
  5. "Pioneer Railroad Executive Is Dead". The Seattle Star. March 14, 1919. p. 4. Retrieved April 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  • The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887. Chicago, Illinois: Railway Age. 1887. p. 236.
Preceded byRobert Harris President of Northern Pacific Railway
1888 – 1893 		Succeeded byBrayton Ives


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