CHARLES E. BROWN, Meadville, PA
Charles E. Brown was born in West Salamanca, NY, February 16, 1862, and attended school at that place until he was 14 years of age. For the next nine years he worked at different avocations, finally deciding to follow the precedent set by his father, Philo F. Brown, who was a railroad engineer. In the summer of 1885, he secured a position as fireman on the Erie at Salamanca, and then followed three years' service on freight and one and a half years on passenger, receiving his promotion to engineer in May, 1890. Since that time he has run continuously in the freight service, and by his efficient work has won a high position in the ranks of the engineers.

At Concord, NY, while firing, a wreck occurred between a double-header and a Mogul engine and while assisting in the removal of the debris, Mr. Brown was so severely cut on the head that he was laid up for three weeks. Since his promotion he has had no accidents of any sort.

On November 5, 1895, he was married to Miss Maybelle Wagner, daughter of John Wagner, a prominent farmer of western New York. They have one child, Darrell V., aged 5 weeks. Mr. Brown is a prominent member of B of LE, Div. 43, and was a delegate to the Firemen's Convention in San Francisco in 1890, while affiliated with the B of LF.

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

From the February, 1922 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
CHARLES E. BROWN:
A notice of the death of Charles E. Brown appeared in the Salamanca Republican Press. It stated that he died in Gowanda, NY at the age of 54 years. He was an engineer and ran between Salamanca and Meadville for twenty years. For several years he had been ill and off duty.