{{Short description|American businessman}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Allen Manvel | image = Allen Manvel (1837–1893).png | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1837|9|26}} | birth_place = Alexander, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1893|2|24|1837|9|26}} | death_place = Coronado, California, U.S. | burial_place = Mount Hope Cemetery | education = | occupation = Railroad executive | spouse = | parents = | children = | signature = Signature of Allen Manvel (1837–1893).png }} '''Allen Manvel''' (September 26, 1837 – February 24, 1893) was the eleventh president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
== Biography == Manvel was born in Alexander, New York. In 1859, he began employment with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad as a clerk in the purchasing agent's office. He worked his way up through the ranks to become the general superintendent. His employment shifted to the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway (SPM&M) in 1881, where he started as assistant general manager. He was promoted through a series of management positions there to become the general manager himself.
In 1889 he left the SPM&M to succeed William Barstow Strong as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, a position he held until 1893. Manvel was succeeded by Joseph Reinhart.
He died at the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego on February 24, 1893.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/kansas-city-daily-gazette-mr-manvel-dea/145394352/ |title=Mr. Manvel Dead |newspaper=The Kansas City Gazette |place=San Diego, California |page=1 |date=1893-02-25 |access-date=2024-04-14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-body-of-allen-manvel-lai/145394734/ |title=Body of Allen Manvel Laid at Rest |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |place=San Diego, California |page=3 |date=1893-02-25 |publication-date=1893-02-26 |access-date=2024-04-14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
== Legacy == Like other Santa Fe presidents, Manvel's name was adopted as the name for a town in the American West. The town of Manvel, Texas, was named in his honor.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.texasexplorer.net/ManvelHistory.htm |title=History of Manvel, Texas |website=Texas Explorer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050830232302/http://www.texasexplorer.net/ManvelHistory.htm |archive-date=2005-08-30 |url-status=dead |access-date=2024-04-14}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}} * {{cite book|author=Waters, Lawrence Leslie| year=1950| title=Steel Trails to Santa Fe| publisher=University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas| page=196 }}
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{{s-bef| before=William Barstow Strong }} {{s-ttl| title=President of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway| years=1889 – 1893 }} {{s-aft| after=Joseph Reinhart }}
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