Historical Background
Jesse Lee Haugh was born October 17, 1887 in Sodus, Michigan. He entered railroad service with the Chicago & North Western in 1905, serving successively until 1918 as a draftsman, instrument man, topographer, assistant engineer, locating engineer, office engineer, and assistant to the chief engineer. Between 1918 and 1920 he was an engineering assistant to the regional director of the Northwestern Region of the United States Railroad Administration in Chicago. From 1920 he was an assistant to the President of Union Pacific and subsidiary lines, and in 1929 he was appointed a UP vice-president, working out of Omaha.
From the guide to the Jesse Lee Haugh Collection, 1908-1952, (California State Railroad Museum Library)
