Background

Wilson, Thomas Bayne was born on May 26, 1892 in Williamstown, Kansas, United States. Son of Benjamin Elijah and Mary Frances (Bayne) Wilson.

Education

Student Kemper Military School, 1906-1910, Oakland Polytechnic College. Doctor of Science, honorary, Iowa Wesleyan College.

Career

With Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 1911-1926, beginning as clerk and advancing to supervisor of transportation. Vice-president and manager Southern Pacific Motor Transport Company, 1926-1929. President Pacific Greyhound Lines, 1929-1933.

Vice-president and general manager Alaska Steamship Company, 1933-1938. Chairman of the Board and director Transcontinental & Western Airlines, Inc., 1938-1947. Chairman of the Board Johnson Motor Lines, Inc., 1957-1959, Resort Airlines, Inc.

V. chairman Sea Oil & General Corporation, 1957-1960. With Resort Airlines, Inc., since 1957. Regional director Defense Materials Procurement Agency, London, 1952-1955.

Captain, Signal corpus, United States army, 1917-1919. Brigadier general Transportation corpus, United States army, 1942-1944. Brigadier general Reserve Corps, since 1944.

Membership

Member Kansas State Legislature, 1947-1949. Member Automotive Engineers Society, Institute Aviation Sciences, Newcomen Society of England. Mason (Shriner). Elk.

Clubs: Metropolitan (New York, Washington).

Connections

Married Chloe C. Byington, November 29, 1924. Children: Thomas Bayne World War II Benjamin Robert.

father:

Benjamin Elijah Wilson

mother:

Mary Frances (Bayne) Wilson

spouse:

Chloe C. Byington

child:

Thomas Bayne World War II Benjamin Robert Wilson