WILLIAM H. STEVENS.
FRANK THOMSON.
JOHN BABCOCK.
Hon. Thomas Struthers, of Warren, who died in 1892 at the age of eighty-nine, donated the town a public-library building that cost ninety-thousand dollars. He aided in constructing the Pennsylvania Railroad, built sections of the Philadelphia & Erie and Oil-Creek Railroads and the first railroad in California. He was the first manager of the Oil-Creek road. Frank Thomson, the capable president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was also superintendent of the Oil-Creek. C. J. Hepburn, now residing in Harrisburg and permanently disabled as the result of an accident, held the same position for years. He was a thorough railroader, esteemed alike by the employés and the public for his efficient performance of duty. The old-time Oil-Creek conductors were lock-switch, steel-track and rock-ballast clear through. Gleason, postmaster at Corry a term or two, runs the Mansion House at Titusville. “Bill” Miller is on the Pacific coast. Mack Dobbins died at St. Louis and “By” Taylor has made his last trip. Barber lives at Buffalo. “Mike” Silk, who yanked oil-trains from Cherry Run, is a wealthy citizen of Warren. Selden Stone and “Pap” Richards are still on deck, the last of a coterie of as white railroad-men as ever punched pasteboard “in the presence of the passenjare.”
“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.”
