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Inventory of the Jesse Lee Haugh Collection, 1908-1952
MS 23
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Title: Jesse Lee Haugh Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1908-1952
Collection number: MS 23
Creator:
Haugh, Jesse Lee
Extent: 1 document box
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library
Sacramento, California 95814
Shelf location: Big Four Building or off-site storage. Please contact
the Library in advance of your visit.
Language:
English.
Gift of James C. Haugh, 1984
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Senior
Curator. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder,
which must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Jesse Lee Haugh Collection, MS 23, California State Railroad Museum Library, Sacramento, California.
Two scrapbooks contain railroad passes issued to Mr. Haugh, photographs and clippings relating to the premier of Cecil B.
De Mille's film "Union Pacific" in Omaha, Nebraska, in April 1939. There are also clippings and ephemera regarding Union Pacific
Railroad presidents Carl Raymond Gray, Jr. and William M. Jeffers.
Jesse Lee Haugh was born October 17, 1887 in Sodus, Michigan. He entered railroad service with the Chicago & North Western
in 1905, serving successively until 1918 as a draftsman, instrument man, topographer, assistant engineer, locating engineer,
office engineer, and assistant to the chief engineer. Between 1918 and 1920 he was an engineering assistant to the regional
director of the Northwestern Region of the United States Railroad Administration in Chicago. From 1920 he was an assistant
to the President of Union Pacific and subsidiary lines, and in 1929 he was appointed a UP vice-president, working out of Omaha.