The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Plant, Morton F.

PLANT, Morton F., American financier: b. New Haven, Conn., 18 Aug. 1852. He was educated at Russell's Military School, New Haven, and began his business career, in 1868, in the service of the Southern Express Company at Memphis, Tenn. From 1884 he was connected with the Plant system of railroads, of which he was vice-president until 1902, when the system was merged in the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Mr. Plant is a director of the Atlantic Coast Line and vice-president of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway and chairman of the board of directors of the Southern Express Company. He is a director of the National Bank of Commerce and trustee of the Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Company.