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THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 31
PERSONNEL OF ABLE EXECUTIVE OFFICIALS WHO WILL MANAGE
THE NEW VANDALIA COAL CO.
When the new Vandalia Coal Co., with headquarters
in Indianapolis, effects its permanent organization,
probably within a few days or early
this month, it will start with a personnel of
executive officials of exceptional strength and
ability. Alfred M. Ogle, the president of the
company, has been a leader in the Indiana coal
trade since the early '80s. John McFadyen, the
vice-presklent and general manager, has had long
years of experience as the leading operating official
and head of important interests in Western
Pennsylvania and Indiana. Frank L. Powell.
treasurer, is one of the most successful bankers
of Indianapolis.
Closely capitalized, with most of the original
owners of the 26 mining plants along the Van
dalia road taking securities for the major portion
of their properties and thereby insuring a valuable
co-operation of all concerned, the future of
the company spells only success. After the original
options had been taken on the properties.
Messrs. Ogle and McFadyen spent months to
bring the valuations down to figures which would
insure a conservative capitalization. This done
John H. Jones, president of the Pittsburgh-Buffalo
Company of Pittsburgh personally inspected the
plants and his report which followed was a factor
in securing the immediate consent of Andrew W.
Mellon and Henry C. Frick to finance the com
pany through the Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Alfred M. Ogle was born at Washington
Court House, Ohio, August 31, 1S56, and began
earning his own living at the age of 14. In 1874
he passed the necessarily rigid examination to
secure an appointment as a cadet to West Point
military academy, where he graduated in 1879.
For flve years he was an officer in the regular
army, doing military service at a number of the
western posts. He resigned from the army in
1884, and engaged in the business of mining coal
on the Vincennes division of the Vandalia.
Mr. Ogle and his associates, Mr. Willard W.
Hubbard and the late Col. S. N. Yoeman, were
the pioneers in the Greene county coal field of
Indiana, and it has been through their efforts that
the Linton or the No. 4 vein of coal has become
so widely and favorably known. Mr. Ogle became
president of his company, the Island Coal
Co., in 1890, and has held that position up to
the present time. It is due to his efforts that
the Vandalia Coal Co. has been formed, and he
will assume the presidency of that company as
soon as it is organized for business.
Mr. John McFadyen. who is a Pittsburgher, was
one of tne prime movers in bringing about the
combination. Practically his entire business
career has been devoted to coal operations and
his years of successful experience mean much
in the future of the new company. For many
years Mr. McFadyen had charge of the fuel department
of the Cambria Steel Co. of Johnstown,
Pa., when it was the Cambria Iron Co. Subsequently
he was general manager of the Keystone
Manganese & Iron Co.. with headquarters at New
Orleans; the Hostetter-Connellsville Coke Co. of
Pittsburgh, and of the Puritan Coke Co., also
ALFRED M. OGLE.
He will be President of the Vandalia Coal Co.
operating in Connellsville region; president of the
Ligonier Coal Co. and of the Greenwich Coal Co.
both of Latrobe, Pa.; president of the Indiana &
Chicago Coal Co., Dugger, Ind.; vice-president of
the American Coke Co. and the Juniata Coke Co.,
of the Connellsville region, which are now the
property of the United States Steel Corporation,
having been underlying concerns of the American
Steel & Wire Co. Recently he has been president
of the McFadyen Coal Co., operating in the
No. 8 vein of Ohio, and of the Fort Pitt Coal &
Coke Co. of Pittsburgh.
Mr. McFadyen will shortly move from Pittsburgh
to make his permanent residence in Indianapolis.
Having been closely associated with