Yavapai-Maricopa County AZ Archives Biographies.....Carrigan, Thomas J. 1859 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 507

  THOMAS J. CARRIGAN is a gentleman who has been steadily growing in popularity
during the four or five years he has been conductor on the Santa Fe, P. & P. R.
R., and his warm friends are to be found on every side. He has a decided liking
and a natural aptitude for this most important calling, a secret, no doubt, of
his popularity in it. Mr. Carrigan is a product of Peoria County, Illinois, born
January 1, 1859, and he there remained until eighteen years old, receiving a
thorough scholastic training in the schools of Elmwood. He began learning the
boiler-making trade with Rohan Brothers of St. Louis, remaining there about
three years. He subsequently went to Jackson, Mich., and there worked at his
trade for some time. Later he began railroading on the T. P. & W. R. R. as
brakeman, being thus employed a short time, then filling the same position on
the C., B. & O. until a short time afterwards, when he was made conductor. From
there he went to the Hannibal & St. Joe, was conductor on that road six years,
then went to the Cotton Belt as passenger conductor, and from there to the
"Monon," all that time with W. R. Woodard. He later became superintendent of the
E. S. & N. R. R. at Evansville, Ind. In 1886 he came to Arizona on account of
his wife's health and was on the Prescott & Arizona Central as conductor and
roadmaster. In July, 1892, he started on the Santa Fe, P. & P. R. R. as first
conductor and took the first train over the road. Mr. Carrigan was first married
in 1882 to Miss Carrie Scott of Brookfield, Mo., and daughter of A. D. Scott.
She died in 1883. May 24, 1885, he wedded Miss M. J. Moloney, daughter of Capt.
Moloney of Memphis, Tenn., and they have two sons— Eugene William, born April
24, 1890, and Thomas Howard, born May 11, 1887. Mr. Carrigan is a member of the
Knights of Pythias, Brookfield, Mo.; A. O. U. W., Prescott; the O. R. C.,
Lafayette, Ind., and also B. P. O. E. of Phoenix. He is now superintendent of
the Congress R. R., running from Congress Station on S. F., P. & P. R. R. to the
Congress mine.


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A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896

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