OBIT: Edward F. DOUGHERTY, 1931, native of Somerset County, PA
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EDWARD F. DOUGHERTY

  Edward F. Dougherty, aged about 68 years, eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward Dougherty, formerly of Sand Patch and Meyersdale, died suddenly at his 
home in Connellsville on Tuesday, having been found dead in bed by his wife who 
went to his room to awaken him.
  For a number of years, Mr. Dougherty had been in the employ of the Baltimore & 
Ohio Railroad Company as a telegrapher, having had charge of offices at many 
points along the line of the Connellsville division, and for the past six or 
eight years he had been one of the train dispatchers on the F. M. & P. and S. & 
C. Sub-Divisions, with headquarters at Connellsville. 
  Mr. Dougherty was born at Sand Patch, where his parents located at the time of 
the construction of the first tunnel through the Alleghany Mountains, which was 
some years before railway communication was established between Connellsville 
and Cumberland.  Like many others of the efficient telegraphers, now in the 
employ of the B. & O., or who have retired, Mr. Dougherty learned the art of 
telegraphy at Sand Patch, and like all of the rest of them, became a finished 
operator, and by careful application to his duties he succeeded in arising from 
the ranks to one of the highest and most responsible positions in the service, 
that of train dispatcher.
  Mr. Dougherty is survived by his wife, two daughters - Frances (married) and 
Catherine (single) - and one son, Edward Dougherty; also by one brother, J. J. 
Dougherty, of Connellsville, who in his younger days was also an operator in the 
employ of the B. & O.  Three sisters, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Courtney and Miss 
Kathryn Dougherty, all well known in Meyersdale, died in recent years.

Meyersdale Republican, May 21, 1931