About the book
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The original edition of The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
was published by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. in 1953.
This electronic edition was created in August 2004.
The content is substantially identical to the original printed
version. Rights to the
digital version of the book are retained by James H. Lemly.
Permission to copy and quote from this edition is granted as long
as the reproduced material is given attribution as to the author and this
source.
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About the Author
James H. Lemly spent his early years in Jackson Mississippi. He did undergraduate work at Millsaps College in Jackson, and at the University of Mississippi. After service in World War II, he studied Transportation Economics and Business Administration at Indiana University where he received his doctorate in 1952. The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio is the product of his dissertation studies and was published in 1953.
In the fall of 1952 he began teaching at the University of Georgia and later transferred to Georgia State College, (later Georgia State University) where he retired in 1980. After this time he taught at North Carolina State University until 1985. During his university teaching and research years he served in a six-month study of transportation in Pakistan. Beginning in 1966 he spent several years teaching at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Later he was instrumental in a transportation study for the Government of Ghana.
Jim Lemly is retired and lives in Fairfax County, Virginia.
This page was last updated on 09/13/04.