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Devereux, John Henry

president of railroads, was born April 5, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He received a thorough education in the Portsmouth academy, New Hampshire; and in 1848 commenced life as a civil engineer on construction of the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati railroad, and the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula railroad. In 1853 he went to Tennessee to engage in the construction of the Tennessee and Alabama railroad; and during the great rebellion entered the United States service, and was made superintendent of the United States railroads of Virginia. He became president, until consolidation, of all the lines between Buhalo and Chicago; at which time he was made general manager of the entire lines. In 1873 he became president of the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati railroad; and also president of the Atlantic and Great Western railroad. He was instrumental in building the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad, and remained a trustee and director until his death, on March 17, 1886, in Cleveland, Ohio.

DEVEREUX, THOMAS POLLOCK, lawyer, author, was born Dec. 17, 1793, in Newbern, N. C. He was a North Carolina lawyer who published Reports of North Carolina Supreme Court in 1826-34; Reports in the Superior Court in 1834-40; and Equity Reports in 1826-40. He died March 24, 1869, in North Carolina.