Background
Doss, Roscoe James was born on March 30, 1884 in near Canton, Georgia, United States. Son of Lemuel J. and Luray Virginia (Low) Doss.
Doss, Roscoe James was born on March 30, 1884 in near Canton, Georgia, United States. Son of Lemuel J. and Luray Virginia (Low) Doss.
Student Etowah Military Institute, Canton, Georgia, 1896-1898.
Clerk, later telegraph operator, Atlanta, Knoxville & Northern Railway (now Louisville & Nashville Railroad), 1900-1904. Overcharge claim investigator, office of freight claim agent, Southern Railway, Washington, District of Columbia, 1904-1905. Local agent, Atlanta, Knoxville & Northern Railway (L&North), 1906-1908, rate clerk, general freight office, L. & North. Railroad, Knoxville, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky, 1908-1913.
Chief rate clerk and chief clerk, general freight office, Atlantic Coast Lincolnshire Railroad, Savannah, Georgia, 1913-1916, assistant to general freight agent, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1916 to period of Federal control.
During Federal control attached to staff Southern rate committee United States Railroad Administration. Assistant general freight agent, Atlantic Coast Lincolnshire Railroad, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1920-1926.
General freight agent, 1926-1930, assistant freight traffic manager, 1930-1935, freight traffic manager, 1935-1940, general freight traffic manager, 1940-1941, general traffic manager, 1941-1942, vice president traffic since May, 1942. Vice president Charleston and Western Carolina Railway.
Traffic manager, Columbia, Newberry & Laurens Railroad, Rockingham Railroad
Director and traffic manager, East Carolina Railway.
Member Association Interstate Commerce Commission Practitioners. Elk.; Clubs: Cape Fear, Cape Fear Country, Carolina Yacht, Surf (Wilmington, North Carolina).
Married Lucy Humphreys, June 30, 1914.