Found this info. while searching around the web, not sure where to post it but I thought it was worth keeping.

It is from the "Jeweler's Circular" May 31, 1899

Full List of Watch Inspectors of N.Y., N. H. & H. R. R.

New Haven, Conn., May 26.—The following is the complete list of appointments of watch inspectors made by the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., some names of which list were published in The Circular last week:

The George H. Ford Company, New Haven, Conn.; Samuel H. Kirby, New Haven, Conn.; Henry Kohn & Sons, Hartford, Conn.; Parker & Davis Co., Bridgeport, Conn.; Rider, Bryant & Co., Dan- bury, Conn.; Lake & Strobel, Waterbury, Conn.; F. E. Ladd, Springfield, Mass.

Here is a more comprehensive list I am compiling...

"Rail Road Watch Inspectors" in the IHC185 Technical Library.

Tom