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Detroit Free Press
Monday, 28 December, 1903

         [Victim of Dec. 26, 1903 Pere Marquette head-on train wreck]
         
         Engineer STODDARD Had Been 21 Years With P. M.
         
         Engineer CHARLES A. STODDARD, of the eastbound train, who
       was killed in the wreck, lived in Detroit at 779 Trumbull
       avenue. He was about 57 years of age, a native of New York
       and had been in the employ of the Pere Marquette road for
       twenty-one years, working up through the various grades.
       For several years, as a fireman and freight engineer, he
       made his home in Ionia. Between three and four years ago he
       received his last promotion, and was placed on the Detroit-
       Grand Rapids run. Since then he has been a resident of this
       city.
       
         The news of his violent death came as a great shock to
       the family, which consists of a widow and one son, ALFRED
       STODDARD, agent for a Nebraska mining company and, at pre-
       sent, on a visit to Detroit.
       
         Engineer STODDARD was considered a good man in his pro-
       fession and was much trusted by his superiors. The funeral
       will be held at 2;30 p.m. Wednesday from the family resi-
       dence and burial will be in Woodmere.
       
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