In appreciation of Edwin Burgess : 1952 April 21.
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Burgess, Edwin H. (Edwin Haines), 1888-
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Mr. Edwin Burgess, a lawyer with wide railroad experience, was chosen in 1960 to represent the interests of the Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore in the proposed merger of the Atlantic and the Seaboard. Mercantile held fiduciary control over nearly 35 per cent of the Atlantic Coast Line and thus would gain a controlling interest in the newly merged company. This new railroad would bring together the 5,573 miles of track of the Atlantic with the 4,146...