sentences:  On the latter date he was elected president of the Northern Pacific, and he is also president of various subsidiary companies of the Northern Pacific.On July 25, 1913 he was elected president and director of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, as the selection of the special committee of directors appointed to choose a successor to Charles Sanger Mellen.The election become effective on September 1, but it was announced that at a meeting of the directors of some time in October that it would be proposed to make a change in the by-laws of the company, under which Mr. Elliott was to be elected chairman of the board of the entire New Haven system, and that each of the principal constituents of the system, the New York, New Haven and Hartford, the Boston and Maine, the New England Navigation Company, and the trolley line system, will have individual presidents.