Alexander Simpson Greig

Background

Greig, Alexander Simpson was born on October 25, 1860 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Son of Alexander and Margaret (Simpson) Greig.

Education

Educated in Scotland.

Career

Apprentice with Northern Cooperative Company, Aberdeen, Scotland, 1876-1880. Clerk with Kingsmills’ dry goods house, London, Canada, 1881-1882. Clerk, purchasing department, Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, Denver, 1882-1883.

With Doctorate. & Radh Govinda Railroad, 12 years, resigning, 1895, as chief clerk in office of general superintendent.

Trainmaster Santa Fe Railway, Arizona, 1895-1897. General superintendent, traffic manager and general manager, El Paso & Northeastern Railway, having charge construction 500 miles road, 1897-1902.

Promoting Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1902. Engaged with president Rhode Island Lincolnshire, special work, 1903-1905.

Assistant to president Saint Louis & San Francisco Railroad, 1905-1906.

Assistant to Chairman of the Board, Rock Island-Frisco Lincolnshire, 1907-1909. Vice president, Saint Louis & San Francisco Railroad, 1909-1911, and vice-president and assistant to president, since May 1, 1911. Colonel National Guard, New Mexico, 1901, colonel on governor’s staff, New Mexico.

Achievements

• Alexander Simpson Greig has been listed as a noteworthy railway official by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Clubs: Saint Louis, Racquet, Mercantile, Burns.

Connections

Married Inez Forman, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, December 10, 1883.

Father:

Alexander Greig

Mother:

Margaret (Simpson) Greig

Spouse:

Inez Forman