FRANK N. HIBBITS, CARBONDALE, PA. Superintendent Jefferson Division.
Frank N. Hibbits was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on February 3, 1866. He secured a good common school education and then took the course at the Rose Polytechnic School at Terre Haute, graduating when he was 20 years of age. In 1886 he entered the employ of the C.,C.,C.&I. R.R. as a machinist in the shops at Indianapolis. After four years he resigned to accept a position with the Erie as Engineer of Tests at Susquehanna. He held this place one year, being then promoted to Mechanical Engineer for a period of two years, and then to Master Mechanic at Rochester, where he remained two years, then going to Port Jervis as Train Master of the New York Division. He held this last position about four years, and then was promoted to his present place, Superintendent of the Jefferson Division, being located at Carbondale.


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