David F. Myrick (1918–2011)

[excerpt from Online Archive of California website]
From 1940 to 1944, Mr. Myrick worked for Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, San Diego. In 1944, he became a general clerk in the Southern Pacific President's Office in San Francisco and was Assistant to the Vice President of the Treasury Department by the time he retired in 1977. Mr. Myrick generally received assignments related to financial matters, bond refinancing, stockholders' relations, special studies concerning a variety of phases of the Company's activities and mergers or acquisitions. He served as corporate director of several affiliates such as Southern Pacific Communications Company (Sprint). Myrick wrote many books about the history of railroads in Nevada, California, Arizona and New Mexico. Additionally there have been about 140 published articles, book reviews, and pamplets relating to railroad history.