JOHN A. MIDDLETON, NEW YORK CITY. Secretary.
John A. Middleton is a native of New York City and after finishing his college education studied law and was admitted to practice at the Maryland bar. After following his profession a short time his services were secured as Superintendent of a City Stage Coach Line, and left that position in 1880 to accept a clerkship in the President's office of the Atlantic & Charlotte Air Line Railway Company. He was next a clerk in the employ of the Richmond & Danville Railroad (now the Southern Railway), and then was promoted to Chief Clerk in the office of the General Manager, and held the same through three administrations. He came to the Erie (then the New York, Lake Erie & Western) as chief clerk to the Second Vice President, and was successively advanced to the same position under the First Vice President and President. Recently his ability was fittingly recognized by his election to the position of Secretary of the Erie Railroad, and that he will make a capable officer of this great railroad is undoubted by those who know and recognize his capabilities. Mr. Middleton is married and resides in his pleasant home in New York.


Excerpted from: "American Locomotive Engineers, Erie Railway Edition," H.R. Romans Editor; Crawford-Adsit Company Publishers, Chicago, IL 1899.