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Newcomb, Horatio Victor

railroad president, banker, was born July 26, 1844, in Louisville, Ky. Upon the death of the senior Newcomb, Aug. 24, 1874, he entered upon a short but extremely successful career as a railroad man. Having been elected a director of the railroad company, little later he became vice-president and then president.

To the development of the Louisville and a Nashville railroad as a property, the new officer devoted a vast amount of labor and untiring energy and contributed largely to make the system the great property it is to-day. In 1880 he removed to New York city and organized the United States National bank, of which the stockholders elected him president.