GEORGE W. LINEHAN, Cleveland, Ohio. (Deceased.)
George W. Linehan, son of Daniel Linehan, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, February 22, 1864. He attended school until he was 14 years of age, when his father being dead, his mother disposed of the business built up by her husband and moved to a farm in Wisconsin. George took charge of the farm and managed it for five years, when, tiring of the avocation, he returned to Cleveland and secured a position as fireman on the Erie. He was very apt at the business and after firing freight three years and passenger one year he was promoted to engineer in June, 1886. He ran through freight until February, 1892, when he was taken sick with typhoid fever and died in a few weeks. He was a competent and faithful engineer, and in the short time he was on an engine gave promise of developing into one of the finest on the division. He was courteous and kind, and possessed a genial disposition that won him friends wherever he went.

In February, 1887, he was married to Miss Effie Bowden, of Sharon, Pennsylvania, and to them was born one son, Willie, a bright boy now 11 years of age. Mr. Linehan was a brother of Cornelius and William Linehan, both of whom are Erie engineers.


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