Cassius Milton Wicker

Cassius Milton Wicker (August 25, 1844 – November 2, 1913)[1][2] was a railroad manager and banker.

[3] Wicker began his railroad career at twenty-one as a check clerk for the Star-Union Line in East St. Louis, moving up to cashier for the People's Dispatch, Chinese emigrant agent for the North Missouri Railway, and assistant general freight agent for the North Missouri Railway.

Concurrently he was also a vice-president of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad, president of the Hudson Valley Railway, the Denver Railroad, Land and Coal Company, the Dillon-Griswold Wire Company, and president of North Shore Traction Company (which owned the Lynn and Boston Railway and controlling stocks in many others).

He was educated in the "little red school house" at North Ferrisburg and at the Williston and Middlebury Academies.

Three of his ancestor were on the Mayflower: William Latham, Elder Brewster, and Mary Chilton.