Biographical Sketch of Frank H. Lovejoy, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Frank H. Lovejoy, yardmaster of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad,
is a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and was born January 14, 1851.  At
an early age he removed to Wisconsin with his parents, his father Harry,
locating with his family at Madison, where Frank was raised and educat-
ed.  In 1869, he commenced railroading at Sterling, Illinois, on the
R.R.I. & St. L., in the capacity of brakeman, remaining two and one
half years, after which time he filled the same position on the B.C.R.
& N., in Iowa.  Was next with the P. & R. I. for three years and for 
four years was in the yard at Peoria, for the Peoria & Springfield Co.
Thence on the Hannibal & St. Joseph, and from their yard at Kansas
City, took his present position June 11, 1881.  He was married in 1873,
to Miss Mattie E. Martin.  By this union they have two children: Alice
and an infant.

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