. Railway age gazette . began railway work in 1868 with the Wabash,in whose employ he remained for some time. From 1885 to 1887lie was in the purchasing department of the Missouri Pacific,and then became private secretary to the general manager ofthe Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville. He was made generalpurchasing agent of the Grand Trunk in 1896, retiring on Janu-ary 1, 1912, under the pension rules of the company. Edw .\rd Bourne Gibbs, formerly connected with the LhiionPacific at North Platte, Neb., died on March 5 at St. Louis,Mo., aged 80 years. Mr. Gibbs was manager of power androlling
. Railway age gazette . began railway work in 1868 with the Wabash,in whose employ he remained for some time. From 1885 to 1887lie was in the purchasing department of the Missouri Pacific,and then became private secretary to the general manager ofthe Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville. He was made generalpurchasing agent of the Grand Trunk in 1896, retiring on Janu-ary 1, 1912, under the pension rules of the company. Edw .\rd Bourne Gibbs, formerly connected with the LhiionPacific at North Platte, Neb., died on March 5 at St. Louis,Mo., aged 80 years. Mr. Gibbs was manager of power androlling stock of the old Platte County Railroad in 1863, wasmaster of machinery and motive power of the St. Louis &Iron Mountain in 1868, and in 1880 became connected withthe Union Pacific at North Platte, Neb. Later he was incharge of the Oregon division of that road at Portland, Ore.,and subsequently returned to North Platte, retiring from activeservice in IS04. AiRii, lJ14 RAILWAY AGE GAZETTE, MECHANICAL EDITION 217. D. E. Fitzgerald Daniel Edward Fitzgerald, until recently assistant general su-perintendent of motive power of the St. Louis & San Francisco,lost his life in the lire which destroyed the Missouri Athletic Club building in , Mc, on March Fitzgerald was bornat Cairo, 111., April 20,1869. When he wasabout 9 years of age hemoved with his parentsto a farm near SaintMarys, Kan. He attendedthe country schools thereand later entered SaintMarys College, where hegraduated at the age of20. Immediately aftergraduating he went toHorton, Kan., with theRock Island as clerk inthe store department, andlater became chief clerkto the master a few years in thisposition he accepted aposition with the Atchi-son. Topeka & Santa Fe, at Topeka, Kan., in the motive powerdepartment, and was finally made chief motive power June 1. 190-1, he left the Santa Fe and accepted the positionof chief nioti\e iiower clerk of the St. Louis & San Francisco inthe offi
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