- ALLEN EUGENE RICH, passenger conductor on the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad, is a
- native of New York, born in the town of Pomfret, Chautauqua
County, Nov. 28, 1842. His early life was spent in his native
State, his education being received in an academy at East Randolph,
Cattaraugus County. In the fall of 1861, when but nineteen years
of age, he came to Janesville, arriving here on the 9th day of
October. On the 3rd day of the following December, he began breaking
for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company. In September,
1867, he was promoted to conductor, and in 1872, placed in charge
of a passenger train. For thirteen years his run was between
Janesville and Chicago, but now it is between the former city
and DeKalb, Ill.
- For a time Mr. RICH made his home in Chicago, but since he
has had charge of a passenger train it
- has been in Janesville. In the former city he was married
Aug. 31, 1877, to Miss Margaret SHARP. They have one child, Genevieve
M., born in Chicago. Mr. RICH is a member of the Bower City Division
No. 113, Order Railway Conductors. Politically, he is a Republican.
- In the twenty-eight years that he has been in the employ
of the Railroad Company, he has made a
- record in which he may take a just pride. During all this
time, he has never had a serious accident happen to a train of
which he has had charge. No passenger on any of his trains has
ever been killed or even seriously hurt. With the traveling public
he has even been popular, and as a citizen he is respected by
the entire community in which he has so long resided.
-
- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 566-567.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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