Morgan Jones (railroad builder)

Morgan Jones (7 October 1839 – 11 April 1926) was an American railroad builder, born in Wales.[1] He worked on the family farm as a young man, but served an apprenticeship with the Cambrian Railways before he emigrated in 1866.[2] In America he became foreman of a construction crew on the Union Pacific Railroad, with Grenville M. Dodge as his mentor.[3] In 1876 he was hired by Grenville Dodge, then at the Texas & Pacific Railway, to finish an extension project into Fort Worth.In 2014 there was a segment on BBC Radio Cymru about Morgan Jones the Texas railroad man.
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