. Souvenir album . nger able towithstand the hardships and exposure incident to their work. In pursuance of this philanthropic idea, he established such a home in his own house,first on Walnut Street, second on Washtenaw Avenue, third at Wilmette, for a shortperiod during the summer of 1891, and lastly at its present location in Highland Park, Illinois. In order to support a home of this kind it was necessary to have financial assistance,and to enable him to carry on the work he appealed to the various divisions and lodgesof the different brotherhoods throughout the country, but with only part
. Souvenir album . nger able towithstand the hardships and exposure incident to their work. In pursuance of this philanthropic idea, he established such a home in his own house,first on Walnut Street, second on Washtenaw Avenue, third at Wilmette, for a shortperiod during the summer of 1891, and lastly at its present location in Highland Park, Illinois. In order to support a home of this kind it was necessary to have financial assistance,and to enable him to carry on the work he appealed to the various divisions and lodgesof the different brotherhoods throughout the country, but with only partial success. Therailroad men were not lacking in charitable instinct but they did not know the conditions. Shortly after the inception of this Home project, the Hon. L. S. Collin, of Iowa, famil-iarly known to the railroad men in the United States, Canada and Mexico as FatherCoffin, was induced to lend his assistance to the Home movement, and was elected President of the Home Society, which position he still Shortly after 1891, there came into the work Mr. Lewis Ziegenfus, a member of Division125 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Although actively employed as anengineer on the Chicago & North Western Railway, he has devoted a great deal of histime and energy to the welfare of the Home. Mr. Ziegenfus name first appears as a mem- ber of the Board of Trustees in April, 1896, which is conclusive evidence that he becameinterested in it at a much earlier date. In January, 1895, Mr. P. H. Morrissey, then Grand Master of the Brotherhood ofRailroad Trainmen, was elected a member of the Home Society, and the Home is indebtedfor much of its prosperity to his indefatigable labor, and more especially for the projectionand completion of this magnificent building. Mr. George Goding, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, , of Chicago, became interested early in the work of the Home, and throughout itsvicissitudes he has been a tower of strength in the
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