"THOMAS GEORGE SHAUGHNESSY, 1ST SHAUGHNESSY Baron (18J3 -), Canadian railway president, was born at Milwaukee Oct. 6 18J3, his parents being Irish. He was educated at St. Gall's academy, Wisconsin, and began his railway service at the age of sixteen. In 1882 he joined the staff of the Canadian Pacific as general purchasing agent, and by 1891 had risen to be its vice-president. From 1899 to 1918 he was president and chairman of the board of directors, as well as a director of all the allied lines. He was knighted in 1901, created K.C.V.O. in 1907, and raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Shaughnessy of Montreal and of Ashford, co. Limerick, in 1916. His two sons, William James Shaughnessy (b. 1883) and Alfred Thomas Shaughnessy (b. 1887) served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the World War, and the younger was killed in action in 1916.