- ALBERT R. SELLECK, a popular engineer of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad resides in
- Janesville, was born in the town of Locke, Cayuga County,
N.Y., on the 22nd day of December, 1837, and is the son of Thomas
and Mary A. (CORY) SELLECK. The father was born in Connecticut
and the mother in Herkimer County, N.Y. The death of Thomas SELLECK
occurred on the 4th day of November, 1881, while his wife still
survives him and is residing with her son in Barrington, Ill.
- On the 22nd day of February, 1863, our subject was married
in Brodhead, Wis., Miss Georgie
- FOSS, a daughter of Alpheus FOSS, and native of Boston, Mass.,
becoming his wife. One child graces the union of this worthy
couple - Frank, who was born in August, 1865, in Janesville,
and is now cashier for the American Express Company at Dearborn
Station in Chicago.
- Albert SELLECK has spent his whole business career in the
employ of what is now the Chicago &
- Northwestern Railroad. He began with the Rock River Valley
Road, then so called, in the month of April, 1859, serving as
fireman, but after running in that capacity for a year was promoted,
in May, 1860, to the position of engineer, remaining with the
road in that capacity continuously since. Since becoming an engineer,
not a single month has passed that he has not been on the pay
roll. For twenty-five years he has now had charge of a passenger
engine having been the greater part of the time on the Chicago
division, and he now draws the Janesville accommodation and the
Fort Howard mail. He is an efficient workman, is a trusted employe
of the company, and is a worthy citizen of the community in which
he resides.
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- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 288.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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