Paul P. Hastings

Paul Pardee Hastings (October 22, 1872 – September 16, 1947) was a prominent executive of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.

Hastings was born on October 22, 1872, in the family home in Farmington, Atchison County, Kansas and died on September 16, 1947, in Saratoga, California.

His mother's father was Pardee Butler, a Kansas pioneer and preacher, active in the abolition movement before the American Civil War.

[1] Prior to Arizona becoming a state in 1912, he was active in the anti statehood movement as one of the representatives from Yavapai County in the 1905 convention.

He retired 51 years later in 1942 at the end of the month he turned 70 as a vice-president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad living in the San Francisco Bay area.

Paul P. Hastings as a young man. Picture is from An Illustrated Biographical Directory of Officials of The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System , 1908
Hastings in middle age
The Paul P. Hastings tugboat in China Basin, San Francisco in 1982. At this time she was the last of the Santa Fe Railroad tugs still in service. Photo by Steve Lang.