OBIT: William C. RICHEY, 1900, Blairsville, Indiana County, PA

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WILLIAM C. RICHEY

  At 11.40 o'clock Tuesday night, William C. Richey, trainmaster of the 
West Penn division of the Pennsylvania railroad, and a man well known 
in this city, died at his home in Blairsville.  His death was due to 
heart trouble, superinduced by neuralgia.  He was 69 years old, and had 
been employed by the Pennsylvania railroad for forty-three years.  
Andrew Carnegie gave him his first position with the road, which was 
that of brakeman.  In 1861 he was made dispatcher, and in 1866 was sent 
to Blairsville as chief dispatcher and general executive man of the 
road at that point.  Had he lived until next December he would have 
been retired under the new pension system of the Pennsylvania road.  
Mr. Richey was a brother-in-law of Edward Pitcairn, of the Pittsburg 
division of the West Penn railroad, and of Artemus Pitcairn, of the 
Pittsburg Plate Glass company.  He was a cousin of Robert Pitcairn.  He 
leaves a wife, two sons and one daughter, Alexander, of Oil City, and 
William, of Ohio, and Jeanette, at home.  Superintendent D. M. Watt, of 
the West Penn road, is an old friend of Mr. Richey, and esteemed him 
very highly.

Morning Tribune (Altoona), Thursday, February 15, 1900