Samuel Rea
Samuel Rea (September 21, 1855 – March 24, 1929) was an American engineer and the ninth president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, serving from 1913 to 1925. He joined the PRR in 1871, when the railroad had hardly outgrown its 1846 charter to build from
Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, and helped it grow to a 12,000-mile (19,000 km) system with access to
Manhattan, upstate New York, and New England.
Rea was elected to the
American Philosophical Society in 1913, awarded the
Franklin Medal in 1926, and was elected as an honorary member of the
Institution of Civil Engineers in 1928.
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