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The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mis
January 5, 1889

 

“Will Succeed Mr. Sedgwick =" S|
Mr, John J. Connoly, assistant superin-
tendent of motive power and machinery
on the Fremont, Elkhorn'& Missouri Vel-
ley E. B., at Missourl ‘Valley, Ja., arrived
in the city Weduesday, an
was looking over the South’
with Mr, Edw. V, Sedgwick, whose resig- |
nation takes effect .on the 15th inat.. and |
on that date it is understood that Mr. |
Connoly will be appointed as his succes- |
sor. Mr. Gonnoly is a brother-in-lew of
Mr. N. Barth, and. were be to remain in
bis present position until June would
completa his 22nd year with the Chicago
& Northwestern B'y.” He began his rail- |
road life in Chicago, bat was soon sent to |
Escanaba, where he remained for over,
eighteen years, during fourteen of which |
he was foreman of‘ the roundhouse there,
and had charge of the great ore equip- |
ment of the Peninsular division. A little |
over two years ago he resigned at Esca-
naba to accept a position’ on another
branch of the C. & N.W. system, the F.,
F. & M.V., under Mr. Fitch, the present
general manager of the Duluth, South
Shore & Atlantic. In appearance Mr.
Connoly is a very fine looking man, jin
the prime of life, and is destined ‘to add
many new friends in Marquette to the
scores of old ones who greeted him Wed-
nesdey. !