Bio of Ferris, F. Wabasha Co., MN
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Ferris, F., train dispatcher, and A. A. S. for Chippewa Valley and Wabasha
divisions of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company's lines.
Mr. Ferris is a native of Elmira, New York, and commenced his work as a
railway telegraph operator and agent on the line of the Northern Central,
between Baltimore and Elmira, in 1867. He came west in 1870, and was on
the line of the North Missouri, now known as the Wabash road. In 1882 he
came into Wisconsin, for the purpose of farming on lands owned by him a
short distance from the city of Eau Claire, but finding his health
insufficient for such work he accepted a situation as assistant in the
office of W. R. Sill, of Eau Claire, chief engineer of the Chippewah
Valley branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, then in
process of construction. Upon the completion of the road Mr. Ferris came
to this city, November, 1882, to accept the position now occupied in the
general office of this division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway. Mr. Ferris was married September 15, 1876, to Miss Van Buskirk,
of Chicago. They have one child, William Emil Ferris, born in this city
July 28, 1883.