David Brower Bogart, Jersey City, NJ
From the February 20, 1906 issue of the Middletown Times-Press:
On Monday, February 19 (1906), an old employee, died at his home in Passaic, NJ. He was born in 1820, at Tappan, Rockland County, and was the frist engineer to run over the mainline of the road with an engine using hard coal. This was in 1860. He was compelled to relinquish his duties three years ago owing to the infirmities of old age.

From the April, 1906 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine (Jersey City News):
Engineer David Brower Bogart, whose death was announced in the March issue of the Magazine, had been ill for three months of kidney troubles. He was a native of Tappan, Rockland County, NY, and came from a family of engineers and mechanics. In 1860, at the age of 40 years, he entered the employ of the Erie just about the time the road began to use hard coal in its engines. He was one of the first engineers to take a locomotive using such fuel from one end of the line to the other. He served continuously until 1899 when he was obliged by infirmities of age to retire from an active life. Speaking of his death, the Passaic Herald said: "It is men like engineer Bogart that make work honorable and raises the conscientious worker in the estimation of the world. Mr. Bogart was an honest, upright man of undoubted integrity, a man who loved right and abhorred wrong. He was always busy. He was ever useful. He did continually that which was good. He was sincere in all his purposes and an aggressive, active force for the right. He performed his tasks faithfully and has gone to his reward."

Note: a small photo (reproduced above from a photocopy) accompanies the story.