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Clark (EDGAR ERASTUS American public)

EDGAR ERASTUS, American public official, born at Lima, N. Y., in 1856. After being educated at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y., he entered the railway service in 1873 and remained in that employment until 1889, when he became Grand Senior Conductor of the Order of Railway Conductors of America. He was Grand Chief Conductor from 1890 to 1906. In 1902 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of a commission to determine the issues involved in the anthracite coal strike. In 1906 he was appointed a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and was re-appointed by President Wilson in 1913.