Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Engelman, Asa 1931
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 26 Aug 1931

Was Pioneer in Railroad Circle Here

Asa Engleman for Many Years Was Engineer on Pere Marquette and Its Predecessors.

After weeks of suffering Asa Engelman died at his home 111 ½ North Depot 
street, Tuesday afternoon, his death taking from trainmen’s circles one of the 
pioneers of railroad service here.

He was born in Marshall in 1856, and came to Ionia in 1876 to enter the 
railroad shops then belonging to the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railway 
company.  After working for several months in the shops he was given a 
fireman’s run, and was soon promoted to engineer service.  He continued in the 
capacity as engineer for the railroad, now the Pere Marquette, until his 
retirement in 1925, when he was given an extended leave of absence.  Several 
years he was the engineer on the fast train running between Grand Rapids and 
Detroit.

Several weeks ago he was operated on in Grand Rapids, but his surgery brought 
but little improvement, and for several weeks he has been slowly failing.

The widow, to whom he was married in Ionia in 1880, survives.  He had lived in 
Ionia, Stanton, and Detroit, making runs out of these places, returning to 
Ionia after his retirement in 1925, having resided here since.

He also leaves four brothers, Abraham Engelman, of Ionia; Henry Engelman, of 
Chicago, and Mark and Joseph Engelman, of Grand Rapids.

He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.

Funeral services will be conducted from the Bradley funeral home Friday 
afternoon at 2:30 by Rev. Fr. Edwin G. White.  Interment will be in the 
Highland Park cemetery.


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