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JACOB 'JEROME' R. PARMELEE 1864-aft 1940
James Bogart, David Rossiter, James, Phineas, Isaac, John, John
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.
Photo No.: 05-1540, 05-1540a

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