. American engineer . at Montreal. (,nKHl:i. was born Aiiril 2, 1884, at Hope, Ind. He attended the publicschools at Shelbyville,Ind., and in 1907 wasgraduated from PurdueUniversity. In 1905 hewas employed for ashort time as a black-smitlis helper on theLake Erie & Western, atLima, Ohio, and in 1906served as car and air-brake repairman for thePennsylvania Lines Westat Dennison, Ohio. Af-ter leaving the universityhe was employed as aspecial apprentice on theLake Shore & MichiganSouthern, serving in thatcapacity until 1908, whenhe was made engine-house foreman of theLake Erie, Alliance &Wheeling
. American engineer . at Montreal. (,nKHl:i. was born Aiiril 2, 1884, at Hope, Ind. He attended the publicschools at Shelbyville,Ind., and in 1907 wasgraduated from PurdueUniversity. In 1905 hewas employed for ashort time as a black-smitlis helper on theLake Erie & Western, atLima, Ohio, and in 1906served as car and air-brake repairman for thePennsylvania Lines Westat Dennison, Ohio. Af-ter leaving the universityhe was employed as aspecial apprentice on theLake Shore & MichiganSouthern, serving in thatcapacity until 1908, whenhe was made engine-house foreman of theLake Erie, Alliance &Wheeling, at .Alliance. Ohio. In 1909 he was made night engine-house foreman of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern atYoungstown, Ohio, and in 1910 was transferred as engine-houseforeman of the same road to Cleveland, Ohio. Later in theyear he was promoted to assistant to the mechanical engineerof the Lake Sliore, which position he held until he was recentlyappointed mechanical engineer of the Canadian W. H. Winterrowd. MASTER MECHANICS AND ROAD FOREMEN OFENGINES James Ashcroft has been assigned to duty as road foremanon the Grand Trunk Pacific, covering the territory from Trans-cona to Melville and the Yorkton Branch. E. J. Brennan has been appointed master mechanic of the DuBois shops of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, with head-quarters at Du Bois, Pa. Newton Cage, assistant road foreman of engines of the Con-nellsville division of the Baltimore & Ohio, has been promotedto road foreman of engines. S. J. Dillon, who has been appointed master mechanic of theWest Jersey & Seashore, and the Camden Terminal division ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad, with headquarters at Camden, N. J.,as announced in our September issue, was born near Hollidays-burg, Pa., on April 15, 1862. He was educated in the Altoonapublic schools, also at Professor Davis Business College, andtook a special course in mechanical drawing. On September 1,1879, he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Rai
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