| Show r Hornung Horning Subject of Sketch In Rail Road Magazine Magazin I I I I The following sketch w lS s printed I in iu the rite D. D R. R G. G railroad magazine an and speaks so well of oury ourt fellow townsmen J. J II IL Hornung that weare wo we are aro glad to pass it on to Ms iris friends here hore who know him him so oIl Editor Editor b by C. C A. A Storrs Agent Ut Ute t The subject of this thiu st sketch etch was horn in Philadelphia Dex Dl Decem December em- em her ber 1861 11 He Ile v entered the railroad railroad railroad- service company's 8 office at atI I Nephi Utah under sunder Manager W. W A A. O. O Byron on March larch 1 I 1882 1582 1882 was appointed station telegrapher agent I at Desert now Oasis Utah for tho Ut Utah Central Railway Hailway May Mar 1 1882 1 joint agent for the Valle and Utah Central Railways nys ys at I Nephi Utah 1 I 1810 appointed I agent of Valley at Manti lanti Decem December ber 3rd made general l agent September September Sep Sop ember 1 i. i Upon the tho acquirement of or they th lh i San Tote Polo Va Valley Valluy llo road by the tho Rio Uio Grande Grando Western September 1 1907 J Mr lr Hornung was retained in saute position reporting to General 1 lan L agor Chas II n. Slacks and has been beon in III continuous employment p to in lit our ourI lines over since serving as 15 division d agent durin during the Wl war l' l and amI onel 1 agent abent department wall Vr quarters at Manti Utah since j On March 1st t n ne tent he ho wili wiVi Jj 1111 1 0 I rounded out four forty cars yeara r of coil coil- l railroad service M Mr Hornung is ia well weB and fa aby ab- ab ly h y known kuon throughout the t tato tto of or Utah not nol alone alono in rail ad and social circles but hut in tho the d r F hi fraternal field haY having I served as aB secretary of the MantH Mantl Club for Cor nearly twenty Years boon president for one or t o po tE terms and now holds a life lICo h honor no r ra y rj-y y ship card in that li Hj o o organization of central Utah Ito I h has s also 1180 geed been very cry very active vc in Mason s h tl n Odd OeM Fellow Fellow Fel- Fel low lov circles and Is pu ww Grand R Rep ep p- p j of the I I. I O. O O. O F. F for the state stalo served seven seyon terms as grand I treasurer for the order and as brandmaster grand brand grandmaster grandmaster master visited during his bency every pa part rt of his sta state ta For Forten Forton ton tOil years cars prior to entering the railroad railroad rails rail rail- road game tame Mr lr Horni Hornung s nog no g was W was 5 a cowboy cow cow- boy bor coming to Utah lu is 1572 with his father who contra t d pneumonia nia na in Bingham Canyon tho the same year oar and loft left tho ho little Quaker City boy hoy an orphan in a typical western wild and wooly wool mining camp A Ar full graduate from Crom the th University r allI all lie he has absorbed i of knocks hard I his wide knowledge of life a and aid d. d the tho world from rom the tho austere school of ot experience ex ox- reminiscences remiti- remiti and no other His spent in inthe inthe of those ten years deserts of Utah the mountains and lu In o period and Nevada and the long early and late r diuS would make Interesting reading Ile He Is and aDd studious in his hi very merino methodical local a dairy dalT for tift fifty habits ha having kept of multitudes past and nd has years ears books well filled with duns observations of the philosophy philos u notes and ophy of life lite and aud of or going on around him him- We e hope ho will pet per persuade suade h himself himself and and we e thing thinh it is his duty to tho the rest of hl his follow to employees and aDd publish these memories before tho the General Man Man- Manager 13 n.- n. illon in ill inon inon ager of the tho Universe calls culls him on the last trip Very few fow citizens aro ro so an well ac acquainted acquainted acquainted ac- ac with local conditions and know their state and their country in the whole as General Agent Hornung does doos and on every vacation vacation vacation vaca vaca- tion ho lie can get ho he adds to his alcad already al al- of knowledge stock r ready cad y immense of men amid their ways in this great ing busy active world orld of hl big throbbing b Brother Hornung be with ours May 1 more years jean is the then n us nR many many man hearty r and sincere wish Ish th that l echoes up tip and down the district he servos i |
