EDWARD L. HUMBERGER, Galion, Ohio.
Edward L. Humberger was born in Massillon, Ohio, May 13, 1849. He attended school until he was 16 years of age, when having secured a good common school education he started in to learn the machinist trade on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. From 1871 to 1873 he was foreman of a machine shop at Fulton, Ohio, and after leaving Fulton went to work for Russell & Company, at Massillon, where he remained until 1877, when he went to work for the Pennsylvania Company at Crestline, Ohio, as machinist and fireman. In 1880 he went to Bucyrus, Ohio, and entered the employ of the Toledo & Ohio Central as a machinist, and he remained there until the spring of 1883 when he moved to Galion and secured a situation as fireman on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio. He fired four years and then was promoted to an engine, and has been in the through freight service ever since, now running on Cincinnati Division, east. He has never had an accident of any kind, and is regarded as a first-class engineer. On one occasion he made a run with thirty-three cars of stock from Huntington to Galion, a distance of 150 miles, with compound engine No. 991, in four hours and thirty minutes including five stops. This record has never been equaled.

He was married in December, 1873, to Miss Mary E. Gleaner of Wooster. They had one child, Edith 0., aged 24, who graduated from the public school at Massillon and is now a bookkeeper and stenographer. Mrs. Humberger died September 2, 1877, and on November 13, 1879, Mr. Humberger was united in marriage to Miss Ethalinda Hassinger. They have two children: Frank L., aged 15, and Gaylord R., 12, who are both attending school. Mr. Humberger owns nice home property in Galion and has a large circle of friends. He is a member of B. of L. E., Division No. 16, and as a delegate attended the last national convention of the Brotherhood at St. Louis.

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

From the January, 1909 issue, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal
E.L. Humberger, member of B of LE Chapter 16, was expelled from the chapter for "violation of obligation." (p. 72)

From the August, 1924 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
The Marion Star recently printed an announcement of the death of E.L. Humbarger, a retired Erie engineer. It stated that he died in a Dayton, OH hospital June 26, 1924, from a paralytic stroke, age 75. He was retired about five years ago from the road service and later ran a yard engine. Per the death certificate available online at FamilySearch.org, he was born 06/13/1849 in Ohio to Jacob Humberger and Rachael Poorman. His spouse was Etha Humberger. Burial took place June 28, 1924.