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"HOWARD ELLIOTT (1860-), American railway manager, was born in New York Dec. 6 1860. After graduating from the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard (C.E. 188r), he was for several years a clerk in various offices of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway. Later he was appointed general freight agent and then general manager of several lines belonging to the Burlington system. In 1902 he became second vicepresident of the company and the following year president of the Northern Pacific. In 1913 he was made president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway and at the same time chairman of its board of directors. In 1917 he resigned and was made chairman of the committee on intercorporate relations of the New Haven system. The same year he was named by the American Railway Association as one of the six members of the Railroads War Board. He was again president of the Northern Pacific 1919-20, and then became chairman of its board of directors. He opposed the eight-hour law, urged higher freight rates, and suggested the creation of a department of transportation, with a secretary in the Cabinet.