Leonor F. Loree (April 23, 1858 – September 6, 1940) was an American civil engineer, lawyer, railroad executive, and founder of the American Newcomen Society. He obtained a

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degree in 1877, a

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in 1880, a

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degree in 1896 and a

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in 1917, all from

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. He also obtained a

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degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1933. He was President of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad and had interests in Kansas City Southern,

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, New York Central, and the

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s. He was a Trustee at

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from 1909–1940 and was Chairman of the Rutgers Board of Trustees Committee on New Jersey College for Women (now

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) until 1938. He was the donor of the New Jersey College for Women Athletic Field (Antilles Field). Rutgers has a building named after him, Leonor Fresnel Loree, erected in 1963 on the Douglass campus.

Accomplishments

In 1923, Loree was a principal founder of The Newcomen Society in North America, a

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promoting engineering, technology and free enterprise. In 1903, Loree, together with Frank PJ Patenall, received , for the upper quadrant semaphore, which soon became the most widely used form of railroad lineside signal in North America. Railroads continued to install them until the 1940s.

"This is a helluva way to run a railroad!"

In 1906 a committee of creditors asked Leonor to take charge of the Kansas City Southern Railroad. At the time it was considered no more than "two streaks of rust, its engines lost steam, the men were disheartened and the stations were shacks." After Mr. Loree gave his initial inspection, in a speech in front of the financial community, he ended his professional and technical description of the railroad line by stating, "This is a helluva way to run a railroad". Within three years after accepting the chairmanship, Loree turned it into what they call a banner railroad of the Southwest.

Career

* Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: president 1901 - 1904 *

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president - 1904 *

Kansas City Southern Railway The Kansas City Southern Railway Company is an American Class I railroad. Founded in 1887, it operates in 10 midwestern and southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and ...

: president 1918 - 1920 * Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad: chairman 1926 - 1928 *

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: president 1907 - 1938

Published works

* ''Economy in railway operation''-

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, Volume 9, 1895.

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