Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

JOHN MacLEOD, chief engineer of the Louisville Southern Railroad, was born
in the District of Columbia, July 21, 1838, son of George MacLeod, who was
also a native of the District of Columbia, and was one of the most
prominent civil engineers of his day, and was, during his life-time, for a
few years receiver for the Louisville Short-line, and was chief engineer
for the L & N R.R. and its branches.  His death occurred in 1877, having
been born in 1813.  The mother of the subject of this sketch was America
(Deakins) MacLeod, a native of Maryland.  John MacLeod entered railway
services October 13, 1853, and until March, 1855, was rodman and levelman
in the engineer corps of the Fredericksburg & Gordonsville Railroad. March
1855 to October 1865, was on the location and construction of the
Louisville & Nashville Road, successively leveler, surveyor, resident and
division engineer; October 1865 to April 1869, he was principal assistant
engineer on the Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Road; April 1869 to
January 1872, principal assistant engineer on the Elizabethtown & Paducah
Road; January 1872 to July 1874, chief engineer and superintendent of
maintenance of way, same road; July 1874 to August 1876, was general
superintendent of the Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Road; August 4,
1876 to July 15, 1878, receiver; and July 15, 1878 to January 1880, general
superintendent of the same road, January 1, 1880 to July 1884, general
superintendent of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway; in 1881,
chief engineer of the Kentucky & Indiana Bridge Company; January 1886,
chief engineer of Louisville Southern Road, and since October 1886, has
been president of the New Albany & Eastern Railway Company. Mr. MacLeod
was married to Miss Mary L. Doone, of Nelson County, Ky., and has
four children.

MacLeod Deakins Doone
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Nelson-KY Washington-DC MD

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