Caledonia

FOLSOM, Harley E.

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 193

Harley E. FOLSOM, railroad superintendent, Lyndonville [Caledonia County, 
Vermont], was born 14 January 1850 at Lyndon [Caledonia County, Vermont], son 
of Charles and Flavia (McGAFFEY) FOLSOM. Educated in the public schools and 
at Newbury Seminary. Entered the employ of the Passumpsic Railroad Company, 
01 September 1870, as clerk in the office of the general freight agent, and 
was appointed superintendent in September 1875. On 01 June 1887 was 
appointed division superintendent of the Boston & Maine Railroad. President 
of the Vermont Valley Railroad, St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad 
Company, vice president of the Montpelier & Wells River and Barre Railroads, 
and director in the Connecticut & Passumpsic Railroad, the Sulllivan County 
Railroad, and the Newport & Richford Railroad. Formerly a Democrat; and was 
delegate-at-large to the Democratic national convention of 1892. Has been a 
Republican since the national election of 1896. In religion is a 
Universalist. In 1878 he [Harley E. FOLSOM] married [Miss?] Clara S. BAILEY 
of Troy [Orleans County, Vermont]; she [Clara S. FOLSOM] died in 1880. In 
1887 he [Harley E. FOLSOM] married [Miss?] Jennie L. DARLING of Lyndon 
[Caledonia County, Vermont]; they have two children: Fred S., and Flavia G.

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