OBIT: Charles A. YOH, 1899, Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.

  Charles A. Yoh, chief train dispatcher of the Cumberland Valley 
railroad, was found dead in bed by his wife at Chambersburg, Sunday 
morning, when she went to call him for breakfast.  He had died several 
hours before from heart disease.  Mr. Yoh was born in Martinsburg, 
W.Va., forty-two years ago.  When a boy he lost a right leg at the hip 
and left arm at the shoulder by a railroad accident on the Baltimore 
and Ohio railroad.  He learned telegraphy, and became expert at it and 
in penmanship.  He went to Chambersburg twenty-four years ago and was 
made train dispatcher.  Mr. Yoh was president of the local Young Men's 
Christian association, elder in St. John's Reformed church and active 
in its Sunday school, prominent in Christian Endeavor work and a leader 
of the Good Citizenship movement in the republican party there.  He was 
president of Cumberland Valley hose company.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, August 1, 1899