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W. M. ENGINEER IS ON RETIRED LISTrhirty Seven Years of Active Service. Not One Day of Enforced Vacation.Jacob S Kerch nor, aged 70 years, Hanover's veteran railroad engineer, after thirty-seven years of active service with the Western Marylandrailroad company, has retired and willbe placed on the pension roll of the company, April 1st. Mr. Kerchner bears the proud distinction of not only being the oldest railroad man in Hanover, but stands first in years ofservice throughout the entii*e EasternDivision of the Western Maryland. He retires with an income of $104,08 per i month. Of this amount, $54.08 will ! be paid by the company and $50 by 1 the Relief Department.5 The venerable railroader xvas born1 at Brodbeeks, Manheim township, March 2nd, 1848. He entered the ser-1 vice of what was then the Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad, December 1, 1879, and, although the road has frequently chang-j cd hands and name, he has remained I steadily employed o-n these lines for 37 years. Mr. Kerchner started his career as a fireman and ten months later, October J, 1880, was promoted I to engine-man. It is also worthy of note that he was in the service of the company less than a year, when he was transferred from the freight to the passenger service. During all 1 these years he never was suspended one day. His train never killed a human being while he was at the throttle.
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Adams County News
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Mar 31, 1917
Page 5
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