Belknap, Hugh Reid
business man, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1860, in Keokuk, Iowa. He attended the public schools there, and also took a course of instruction at the Adams academy, Quincy, Mass., completing his education at Phillips academy at Andover, Mass.; being unable to take a collegiate course, at the age of eighteen he entered the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company in a minor capacity; remained with that company for twelve years, filling various positions in practical railroading in the operating department, and retired as chief clerk to the general manager, in 1892, to become superintendent of the South Side Rapid Transit rail- Rapid Transit railroad of Chicago. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.