My Present Past
A genealogical experience
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1870 - 1874
Night Operator, Chicago Burlington & Quincy at Wyanet, Illinois (age 14)
1874 - 1876
Relief Agent and Operator, Galesburg Division, Chicago Burlington & Quincy
1876 - 1880
Operator and Assistant Dispatcher, Chicago Burlington & Quincy at Galesburg, Illinois
1880 -1881
Dispatcher, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe at Emporia, Kansas
1881 - June 1883
Chief Dispatcher and Operator, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe at Emporia, Kansas  
June 1883 - October 1883
Chief Dispatcher and Operator, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe at Topeka, Kansas
October 1883 - February 1886
Trainmaster, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe at Topeka, Kansas
February 1886 - January 1887
Assistant Superintendent, Eastern Division, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe at Topeka, Kansas
January 1887 - January 1888
Division Superintendent Eastern Division, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe at Topeka, Kansas
January 1888 – May 1888
General Superintendent, Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad at Joliet, Illinois
May 1888 – January 1890
Superintendent, Kansas City Division, Chicago Santa Fe & California at Ft. Madison, Iowa
January 1890
Dispatcher, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad at Huntington, West Virginia
January 1891
Dispatcher, Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad at Sedalia, Missouri
May 1891
Dispatcher, Chicago Rock Island & Pacific at Horton, Kansas
January 1892
Chief Dispatcher, Chicago Rock Island & Pacific at Fairbury, Nebraska
August 1893
Superintendent, Illinois Division, Chicago Rock Island & Pacific at Blue Island, Illinois
January 1903
Chief Dispatcher, Chicago Rock Island & Pacific at Fairbury, Nebraska
1904
Superintendent, Chicago Cincinnati & Louisville at Richmond and Peru, Indiana
Late 1904
General Superintendent, Chicago Cincinnati & Louisville (Chesapeake & Ohio)
January 1905
Division Superintendent, Chicago Great Western at Des Moines, Iowa        
March 06, 1905
Superintendent, Southwest Division, Chicago Great Western at Des Moines, Iowa
January 17, 1908
Superintendent, Montana Division, Northern Pacific at Livingston, Montana
April 18, 1912 - 1918
Superintendent, Central District, Northern Pacific at St Paul, Minnesota
1918 - 1919
General Superintendent, Northwest Region, Northern Pacific at St Paul, Minnesota
June 01, 1919
Assistant General Manager, Northwestern Region, Northern Pacific at St Paul, Minnesota
December 01, 1921
General Manager, Lines East of Paradise, Montana, Northern Pacific at St Paul, Minnesota
January 1927
Retired from Northern Pacific Railroad
Work History of Clifford Lamotte Nichols
Clifford Lamotte Nichols
Above Left:
December 21, 1921 promotion for Clifford
Nichols as General Manager of the Northern
Pacific Railroad for Lines East of Paradise,
Montana, with Headquarters at St. Paul,
Minnesota.

Above Right:
1927 Railway Age article bio of Clifford Nichols

Left:
May 12, 1929 obituary of Clifford Lamotte
Nichols
December 10, 1921 Railway Age Page 1234
December 10, 1921 Railway Age Page 1178
April 25, 1921 letter from Charles Donnelly
to Clifford Nichols