Charles Pollard Biographical Files

POLLARD, Charles Teed from Charles Pollard Allen, Jr. 744 DuBois Drive, Baton Rouge

"Charles Teed Pollard was my great-great uncle, the brother of Eliza Jane Pollard Ball, my great grandmother."

A master's thesis on the life of Charles Teed Pollard was done by Mildred Beale of Montgomery at University of Alabama. C P Allen thinks there was an autobiography.

Charles T. Pollard married Emily Virginia Scott, daughter of Brig. Gen. John Scott, founder of Scottsboro, ga., and a leading citizen of Alabama.

February 7, 1955

Mr. Charles Pollard Allen, Jr.

744 Dubois Drive Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Dear Mr. Allen:

I'm very grateful to you for lending me the biography of Charles Teed Pollard, one of the early trustees of the University of the South and one of your ancestors. I have looked through this thesis and have made some notes which will be useful to me in the publication of my second volume of Sewanee history. I had wondered why Mr. Pollard had not continued his active interest in the University of the South, and I now suspect it was because of the blindness of his wife. Without some such reason as that, it would have appeared logical that he would have continued his interest after the Civil War.

Did I understand you to say we could keep in our archives this manuscript? If you intended that we should return it, please let me know and I will get it on its way to you immediately. If you have another copy and do not mind our retaining this one, we would be delighted to have it because we try to save material which is connected with our early trustees.

I am about to leave on a month's vacation and you won't be hearing from me again for awhile, but when I return I think I will have some interesting information to relay to you. I have received several answers to my various queries. If you and I keep working at it, we will know something about the Chitty family before we are through.

With all good wishes form Sewanee, I am Sincerely yours, ABC:bat Dictated by Mr. Chitty but transcribed and signed in his absence.

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY PRIME F. OSBORN, III GENERAL SOLICITOR September 21, 1955

Mr. Arthur Ben Chitty University of the South Sewanee, Tennessee

Dear Arthur: Four or five years ago you were visiting in Mobile on some occasion and we had a conversation relative to a Mr. C. T. Pollard. As I recall you at that time asked if I had ever heard of Mr. C. T. Pollard and that it was your understanding that he was president of some railroad which served some part of Alabama, and you thought Mobile, during the period of the War Between the States.

After some cursory investigation I advised that I could find no Mr. Pollard as having been associated with any railroad that served Mobile.

A short time ago I was in the office of the President of the Atlanta and West Point Rail Road in Atlanta and looking over some of the archives which appeared on his wall I noticed the name of Charles T. Pollard. I could not remember at the time where it was that I had had occasion to make inquiry concerning such a person. In any event I jotted down the information there reflected and just the other day remembered that it was you that had asked me for this information. I am glad now to give it to you if it is not too late to serve the purpose you had in mind.

Mr. Charles T. Pollard was President of the Montgomery Railroad Company from January 15, 1835, to February 13, 1843. This railroad operated from Montgomery, Alabama, in the direction of Atlanta through

West Point. Of course at various stages or times it reached different points as it was being constructed to Atlanta. It was subsequently merged with the West Point Rail Road which was still in the direction of Atlanta, and Mr. Pollard became President of the merged company known as the Montgomery and West Point Railroad Company. He served in this capacity from February 13, 1834, to September 1, 1870. Later these properties became associated with the Western Railroad of Alabama. Mr. Pollard became President of that Corporation on September 28, 1860, and served in that capacity until April 1, 1874. As you of course know these properties went into bankruptcy and a receiver was appointed, and the receiver operated the properties. Mr. Pollard served as receiver of the Western Railroad of Alabama from April 1, 1874, until May 31, 1875, at which time it was reorganized.

These properties, both the Montgomery and West Point Railroad Company and the Western Railroad of Alabama are now operated jointly with the Georgia Railroad as one railroad. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company jointly own these properties but they are operated as a separate railroad with headquarters in Atlanta.

If you desire any further information concerning these properties please let me know.

With kindest regards and best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Prime F. Osborn