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JACOB 'JEROME' R. PARMELEE 1864-aft 1940 James Bogart, David Rossiter, James, Phineas, Isaac, John, John |
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Jerome
was a traveling engineer for Philadelphia's Baldwin
Locomotive Works, where he worked for more than three
decades. In 1892, he assisted in the delivery of 20
compound locomotives pulled by a 21st to the Chicago
& South Side Rapid Transit. The train, above, which
had an aggregate weight of 1 million pounds, traveled day
and night, only stopping for coal and water. He applied
for a passport in 1917 to build locomotives in France for
the U.S. government, leaving the Port of New York aboard
the SS Rochambeau on Oct. 20. He did a lot of
travel: Australia, New Zealand, (where he married native
Isabel O'Brien in 1902), Russia and Japan. He was
5-foot-11½, had brown eyes and dark brown hair. |
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Photo No.: 05-1540, 05-1540a |
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