CHARLES J. KEARINS, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania.
A popular young man of Susquehanna, and at the same time one of the Erie's rising young engineers, is Charles J. Kearins, who was born in Boone County, New York, September 10, 1868. After receiving a good common school education he went to work in a stone quarry near his home, where he learned the stone-cutter's trade. In 1885 he became an Erie employe, working for the period of one year as a track hand. In 1886 he struck the calling for which he was evidently fitted when he was engaged as a fireman and detailed to run on the Delaware Division. So rapidly did he advance in his work that he was soon transferred to the Jefferson Division, where, in 1890, he was promoted to engineer and assigned to a freight run between Carbondale and Susquehanna, a position he continues to fill acceptably. Mr. Kearins is a member of G. W. West Division, B. of L; E., of Carbondale, and has a brother who is a conductor on the Erie. He is unmarried and resides at home with his parents and sister.

Excerpted from: "American Locomotive Engineers, Erie Railway Edition," H.R. Romans Editor; Crawford-Adsit Company Publishers, Chicago, IL 1899.

From the October, 1908 issue of the B of LE Locomotive Engineers' Journal:
Engineer C.J. Kearins of Division 137, Susquehanna, died Sept. 2, 1908 of pneumonia at age 39. He joined the Brotherhood on October 5, 1906, and held a $1,500 insurance policy payable to Sarah A. Kearins, sister.