Allen Eugene Rich

From The Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock County, Wis., publ, 1889 - page 566-567

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

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