Dec. 1931 Altoona Mirror: Samuel Ellsworth Wicker of 2331 Twelfth avenue will retire from the Altoona machine shops as a machinist. His service record is the second longest of any of the veterans who will conclude their careers as shopmen with the passing out of the old year of 1931. He has been forty-five years and eight months on the company's rolls. Mr. Wicker was born on Aug. 20, 1866, and has spent practically all his life in Altoona.He was but 15 years old when he began his railroad career.He entered the service as an engine cleaner in old roundhouse No. 3, later he became a lamp filler and then a tableman, operating the turntable at the enginehouse. On Nov. 16, 1891, he was transferred to roundhouse No. 1 as a shop hand and on May 9, 1892, he was transferred back into roundhouse No. 3 as a machinist. He was made a gang foreman on Oct. 20, 1919, a position he held until March 2, 1927, when he returned to his trade in the machine shops.
Dec. 1931 Altoona Mirror: Samuel Ellsworth Wicker of 2331 Twelfth avenue will retire from the Altoona machine shops as a machinist. His service record is the second longest of any of the veterans who will conclude their careers as shopmen with the passing out of the old year of 1931. He has been forty-five years and eight months on the company's rolls. Mr. Wicker was born on Aug. 20, 1866, and has spent practically all his life in Altoona.He was but 15 years old when he began his railroad career.He entered the service as an engine cleaner in old roundhouse No. 3, later he became a lamp filler and then a tableman, operating the turntable at the enginehouse. On Nov. 16, 1891, he was transferred to roundhouse No. 1 as a shop hand and on May 9, 1892, he was transferred back into roundhouse No. 3 as a machinist. He was made a gang foreman on Oct. 20, 1919, a position he held until March 2, 1927, when he returned to his trade in the machine shops.
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