Richard Meriwether  (TMSI #8076)

Richard Meriwether
Born Oct. 13, 1875, Frankfort, Ky. Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., 1892; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1896. In 1897 in Motive Power Department Southern Railway, Knoxville, Tenn. From 1898 to 1901 with the Western Electric Co., Chicago. In 1902 Superintendent Underground Cable Company, Chicago. In 1903 Assistant Superintendant of Power Louisville City Railway, Louisville. 1905 Superintendant Lines and Feeders Louisville Railway Company, Louisville. In 1906 Superintendant Overhead Construction Louisville Railway Company, and from 1907 to the present time General Superintendant of Louisville and Eastern Railroad Company, Louisville, Ky. Is a member of the A.I.E.E. and Engineers’ and Architects’ Club of Louisville, Ky.

Source:

Rose Polytechnic Institute: memorial volume embracing a history of the Institute, a sketch of the founder, together with a biographical dictionary and other matters of interest; Terre Haute, Indiana, 1909
Alumni Biographical Dictionary, page 183
http://www.archive.org/stream/rosepolytechnici00terr#page/182/mode/2up