The fifth of eight children, LeGrande Cannon was born April 16, 1847 in Logansport,Indiana and spent his youth in Indiana and Wisconsin. His railroad career started in 1864 when he was hired as a clerk and operator for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad in Boscobel, Wisconsin. He then worked for several different railroads […]
Born December 25, 1865 in Virginia City, Nevada, Mark Requa followed his father’s footsteps into mining and railroad activities. By 1897, Requa was employed by a struggling Eureka & Palisade Railroad,and his charge was to revitalize the line. Thinking “outside the box”, he reached out beyond the rail line to generate traffic, some of which
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