Curtiss E. Knickerbocker
Popular Ontario & Western Official Receives Deserved Promotion
Utica Saturday Globe, January 25, 1902
Curtiss E. Knickerbocker, of Norwich
Recently Appointed Engineer of maintenance of Way on the O.&W.R.R.
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: Curtiss E. Knickerbocker was recently appointed engineer of maintenance of way on the New York, Ontario & Western Railway, with headquarters at Middletown. For nine years past he has been assistant engineer in charge of the northern division of the road during which time his home has been in Norwich. He will remove to Middletown with his family February 1. Mr. Knickerbocker is an expert in bridge work, the famous steel trestle, about 1,000 feet long, crossing Lyon brook, between this station and Oxford, at the height of 150 feet, having been rebuilt under his supervision without delaying the passage of a train. he has also been called as an expert in several cases before the State railroad commissioners. he is still a young man, being but 33 years of age. Mr. knickerbocker was born at Morrisville and is a graduate of Cazenovia Seminary and Princeton College. From college he came to Middletown and entered the office of E. Canfield, then engineer of maintenance of way, who has since become general superintendent.
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