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Samuel M. Felton was born on July 17, 1809, at Newbury, Massachusetts, the son of Cornelius Conway Felton and Anna Morse, and brother of Cornelius Conway Felton.
His father, a chaise maker by trade, lost his property during Samuel’s youth and moved his family to Saugus where they knew keen poverty.
At the age of fourteen Felton, Sr. went into Boston to be clerk and general errand boy at a wholesale grocery store. For four years he earned his living in this way and studied during every spare moment in order to prepare himself for high school.
Working as a clerk and bookkeeper, Felton, Sr. put himself through the Livingston County high school at Geneseo, New York, of which his brother was principal, and saved enough money to enable him to enter Harvard in 1830 where he practically supported himself by teaching.
After his graduation in 1834 Felton, Sr. spent two years teaching in a private school and then entered upon his engineering career with Loammi Baldwin, Jr. , of Boston. Upon Baldwin’s death in 1838, Felton, Sr. succeeded to the business.
His first railroad work was in 1841 when he constructed the Fresh Pond Railroad, designed to transport ice into Boston. Two years later he began the construction of the Fitchburg Railroad.
From that time he became superintendent of this road in 1845 until his death he was continuously connected with railroad management in this country.
In 1851 Felton, Sr. removed to Philadelphia to become president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad. He found the road in a demoralized condition, unsuccessful financially, and badly mismanaged. His efforts to remove the causes for its failure brought down personal abuse on his head, but he was successful, and in a few years the road had become one of the best equipped and most profitably run railroads in the country. During these difficult years he refused the presidency of both the Baltimore & Ohio and the Philadelphia & Reading railroads (the latter at a salary larger than that given to any other railroad official in the country) in order to fulfil what he felt to be his obligations to the stockholders of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore.
At the outbreak of the Civil War the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore became of great strategic importance. It was over this road that Lincoln made his entrance into Washington at the risk of his life. Felton, Sr. changed the President’s advertised route into the capital, arranging for his secret passage from Harrisburg to Washington the night before he was expected, and thus saved hint from the Baltimore mob which attacked the train supposed to be carrying him. The service he rendered in the transportation of Union troops during the war can scarcely be overestimated. For his part in getting General Butler’s troops to Annapolis and in preparing plans for the cooperation of all railroads centering in Philadelphia, the telegraph lines and Adams Express Company, he received the official thanks of the War Department.
But the stinging criticisms he received while performing the almost superhuman duties involved in the task were too much for him and in 1864 a stroke of paralysis forced him to retire from active work.
By the following year, however, Felton, Sr. had recovered sufficiently to assume the presidency of the Pennsylvania Steel Company engaged in the manufacture of steel rails. Though he devoted much time in the later years of his life to this project, he never gave up his railroad interests. He had retained even dur- inghis illness the presidency of the Delaware Railroad, a small road which he had developed in his earlier years with the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore.
From 1873 to 1883 Felton, Sr. took an important part in the development of the Pennsylvania Railroad, of which he was a director. He was also one of the organizers and later a director of the Northern Pacific Railroad. In addition to these activities he served as a commissioner of the Hoosac Tunnel from 1862 to 1865 and was for some time managing director of the Lehigh Navigation Company. Samuel M. Felton, Sr. died on January 24, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Samuel Morse Felton, Sr. was twice married: first in 1836 to Eleanor Stetson who died in 1847, and again in 1850 to Maria Low Lippitt.
Samuel Felton, Sr. had several children.
Loammi Baldwin, Jr. was an American civil engineer.
Samuel Morse Felton, Jr. was an American railroad executive.
Cornelius Conway Felton was an American educator, who was regent of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as professor of Greek literature and president of Harvard University.
