(Source: Baltimore Sun, November 3, 2017)
BALTIMORE, Md. — John Work Garrett, the legendary and visionary president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad whose tenure from 1858 to 1884 coincided with American expansion or what was commonly called in those days “manifest destiny,” and included such tumultuous events as the Panic of 1873, the Civil War, and the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, is the subject of Baltimore writer Kathleen Waters Sander’s long overdue and recently published biography, “John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.”
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