1860 Census Edward J Engel
Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
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Edward John Engel
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    Born:  November 29th,1854 in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York
    Died:  May 27th, 1938 in Liberty, Clay County, Missouri
    Father: John B Engel   born: November 9th, 1821 in Lorraine, France died: February 22nd, 1890
    Mother: Jacobine Hauter born: September 4th, 1828  died: January 31st, 1906 in Okawville, Illinois

    Married: Sarah Ellyn Nichols born: December 15th, 1854 in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
    died:  November 13th, 1928 in Argentine, Wyandotte County, Kansas
    Date of marriage: August 17th, 1876     Place of marriage:  Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois

    Children:  
    1) David John      born: June 26th, 1883 in Argentine, Wyandotte County, Kansas
                           died: June 26th, 1883 in Argentine, Wyandotte County, Kansas

    2) George David  born: June 27th, 1890 in Argentine, Wyandotte County, Kansas  
                       died: March 31st, 1972 in Liberty, Clay County, Missouri

    Married: Dorothy Lee Lange    born: March 1st, 1892 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
                                                         died: October 30th, 1991 in Liberty, Clay County, Missouri
    Date of marriage: February 22nd, 1914    Place of marriage: Argentine, Wyandotte County, Kansas
1880 Census E J Engel
Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois
1867 Edward J Engel
13 years old
Edward J Engel
1875
Edward J Engel & Sadie E Nichols
Original marriage license
Edward J Engel was hired in 1872 by the
Chicago Burlington & Quincy railroad as a switch  
tender - brakeman in Wyanet, Illinois. He also
worked at the following Illinois locations: Mendota
and Buda.

He went to the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific in 1875,
where he worked at the following Illinois locations:
Marseilles, Ottawa, La Salle, Tiskilwa and Genesco.

In 1878  he was the joint agent of the
C B & Q - C R I & P Junction at Wyanet, sharing
duties with his friend, Samuel Crossett.

Edward left the Junction in 1881 to take a position
with the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe railroad in
Emporia, Kansas, then Halstead, Kansas in 1882 and
finally Argentine, Kansas, in 1883.

Edward John Engel retired from Santa Fe in 1928

Source:
A T & S F Railroad News
January 1920
Picture taken summer of 1883
Edward J Engel
1885 Kansas Census Edward J Engel, Sadie Engel,
Henry Lee Crawford and W. B. Blaine. Henry Crawford was the son
of James and Clarissa (Nichols) Crawford.
W. B. Blaine was the son of John and Anna Blaine.
W. B. Blaine's  younger sister, Jennie, would later marry
Thomas Penman and they would have a daughter, Lea Penman.
Lea would later become a famous Broadway and film actress
Background:
E J Engel sitting left
and co-workers
1879