List of presidents and trustees of the Long Island Rail Road
Knowles Taylor: 1835-1837 Valentine Hicks: 1837-1838 Waldron B. Post: 1838-1839 George B. Fisk: 1839-1847 James H. Weeks: 1847-1850 Isaac E. Haviland: 1850-1851 Moses Maynard, Jr.: 1851-1852 Isaac E. Haviland: 1852-1853 William E. Morris: 1853-1862 Coffin Colket: 1862-1863 Oliver Charlick: 1863-1875 Henry Havemeyer: 1875-1876 Conrad Poppenhusen: 1876 David N. Ropes: 1876-1877 Adolph Poppenhusen: 1877 Thomas R. Sharp: 1877-1881 Austin Corbin: 1881-1896 William H. Baldwin: 1896-1905 William F. Potter: 1905 Ralph Peters: 1905-1923 Samuel Rea: 1923-1928 The LIRR was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1928 to 1949. The people from Smucker and Delatour through Wyer were trustees rather than presidents, as the LIRR was in Chapter 77 bankruptcy.
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