ELLIOTT, HOWARD (186o-1928), American railway manager, was born in New York city, Dec. 6, 1860. After grad uating from the Lawrence scientific school, Harvard, in 1881, he was for several years a clerk in various offices of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Later he was appointed general freight agent and then general manager of several lines belonging to the Burlington system. In 1902 he became second vice presi dent of the company and the following year president of the Northern Pacific Railway. In 1913 he was made president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and at the same time chairman of its board of directors. In 1917 he resigned and was made chairman of the committee on inter-corporate rela tions of the New Haven system, a position he retained until 1922. In 1917 he was nominated by the American Railway Association one of the six members of the railroads war board. In the same year he also became chairman of the executive committee of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, was president 191 q-2o and then chairman of the board of directors. He took an active part in obtaining legislation from Congress for the protection of the railroads, urged higher freight rates and suggested the creation of a department of transportation, with a secretary in the cabinet. He was three times elected an overseer of Harvard college, and in 1927 served his fourth year as president of the board of over seers of Harvard. He died at Dennis, Mass., on July 8, 1928.