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Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0640-00001
Title: Robert Stetson MacFarlene, President Northern Pacific Railway Company
Date: 10/18/1955
Creator: Kroeger, Everett Marvin —1921-1990
Inscription/Marks: [Caption pasted to back of photograph-typed] Robert S. MacFalene, President Northern Pacific Railway Company St. Paul, Minnesota (1955) [stamp] Everett Kroeger Photographer, 5 Mackbubin St., St. Paul, Minn. Kindly credit when used for reproduction to Everett Kroeger, Photographer. 1/2 column room. 1st edition Tuesday 12438. 22 [in circle]
Summary: Three-quarter face, head and shoulders studio portrait of Robert Stetson MacFarlane in dark suit, white shirt and patterned tie by Everett Kroeger, photographer St. Paul (Minn.). Photograph was used in article Northern Pacific President MacFarlane here for locomotive dedication Bismarck_Tribune_Tue__Oct_18__1955_p01. [Obituary Minneapolis_Star_Tribune_Tue__Mar_9__1982_pC5] Robert MacFarlane rail executive dies. Robert Stetson MacFarlane, a railroad executive who helped create the Burlington Northern Railroad through the merger of several lines died Saturday in United Hospitals in St. Paul (Minn.). He was 83. MacFarlane began his railroad career in 1934 when he resigned as a judge in Seattle (Wash.) to become a lawyer for the Northern Pacific Railway. He was elected an executive vice president of the railway in 1947 and president in 1950. When he retired from the president’s post in 1966, he was elected board chairman. MacFarlane played a key role in the merger of the railroads, including the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern, into what was to become the Burlington Northern. He was elected chairman emeritus and a director of the Burlington Northern in 1970. He also served as a director for several area companies and was active in the United Way of St. Paul (Minn.). MacFarlane is survived by his wife, Vivian; son Robert Jr. of Pacific Palisades (Calif.), and daughters Anne Jones, Seattle (Wash.), and Mimi Griggs and Vicki Bruns, both of St. Paul (Minn.). Private funeral services were held Monday, March 9, 1982.
Red ID: PH_I_118388 Image ID: 170073 Image Notes: B0640-00001

Collection: B Digitized Images from Collection
Title: B Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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Collection Summary
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0640-00001
Title: Robert Stetson MacFarlene, President Northern Pacific Railway Company
Date: 10/18/1955
Creator: Kroeger, Everett Marvin —1921-1990
Inscription/Marks: [Caption pasted to back of photograph-typed] Robert S. MacFalene, President Northern Pacific Railway Company St. Paul, Minnesota (1955) [stamp] Everett Kroeger Photographer, 5 Mackbubin St., St. Paul, Minn. Kindly credit when used for reproduction to Everett Kroeger, Photographer. 1/2 column room. 1st edition Tuesday 12438. 22 [in circle]
Summary: Three-quarter face, head and shoulders studio portrait of Robert Stetson MacFarlane in dark suit, white shirt and patterned tie by Everett Kroeger, photographer St. Paul (Minn.). Photograph was used in article Northern Pacific President MacFarlane here for locomotive dedication Bismarck_Tribune_Tue__Oct_18__1955_p01. [Obituary Minneapolis_Star_Tribune_Tue__Mar_9__1982_pC5] Robert MacFarlane rail executive dies. Robert Stetson MacFarlane, a railroad executive who helped create the Burlington Northern Railroad through the merger of several lines died Saturday in United Hospitals in St. Paul (Minn.). He was 83. MacFarlane began his railroad career in 1934 when he resigned as a judge in Seattle (Wash.) to become a lawyer for the Northern Pacific Railway. He was elected an executive vice president of the railway in 1947 and president in 1950. When he retired from the president’s post in 1966, he was elected board chairman. MacFarlane played a key role in the merger of the railroads, including the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern, into what was to become the Burlington Northern. He was elected chairman emeritus and a director of the Burlington Northern in 1970. He also served as a director for several area companies and was active in the United Way of St. Paul (Minn.). MacFarlane is survived by his wife, Vivian; son Robert Jr. of Pacific Palisades (Calif.), and daughters Anne Jones, Seattle (Wash.), and Mimi Griggs and Vicki Bruns, both of St. Paul (Minn.). Private funeral services were held Monday, March 9, 1982.
Red ID: PH_I_118388 Image ID: 170074 Image Notes: B0640-00001-back

Collection: B Digitized Images from Collection
Title: B Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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