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Sussex Independent - May 14, 1915 Issue
Veteran Engineer Dead

Joseph Quackenbush, the pioneer engineer of the Sussex Railroad, died Wednesday morning at his home in Newton, in his seventy-eighth year. For forty-seven years he was in the service of the Sussex Railroad, beginning as a water carrier and retiring from service in 1900 as an engineer.

He is survived by the following children: James Quackenbush, of Wheeling, W. Va.; Mrs. Lewis H. Wilson, George Quackenbush and Mrs. William Hendershot, of Newton, and Mrs. Lawrence Eckhart, of Pittsburgh.

The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at the house at 3 o'clock. Interment will be made in the Andover Cemetery, where members of Harmony Lodge, F. & A. M., will conduct the burial service.