The Ohio Railroad connection here is rather thin, but some of you might still find it interesting. My grandfather, Jesse Butterworth, was a B&O ticket agent. Among the stations he worked was Shelby, OH, and that was where he met and married Kathryn Wolfe. His brother, Earl, was a machinist at the B&O shops in Newark. He married a lady named Nancy, but she died during the flu epidemic of 1918,and he never remarried. Other Butterworths (I have lost track of their names) worked on various railroads around in the Newark and Zanesville area including the T&OC and The ng BZ&G. My dad wanted to follow a railroad career but was prevented because of poor eyesight. So in 1929 he hired on as a driver with the newly formed Greyhound Corporation -- which, incidentally, was partly owned by the Great Northern and Southern Pacific Railroads. For several years he drove the Newark-Indianapolis-Chicago routes, then he went to driving trucks. But he never lost his love of trains and would probably be amazed and amused to know that that love has been passed on to his grand-kids and great-grand-kids. kind of a genetic defect, I guess. Here are some pictures of Dad and a friend with his bus -- probably a first generation Greyhound Corp. bus. (The first intercity buses to be dubbed greyhounds appeared in 1921, but the company didnt take that name until around the time my dad went to work for them.) And a picture of him and my brother and sister taken about 20 years later with what I am sure he would rather have been driving (;-)).
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 20:43:32 +0000
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