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Hugh B. Crea
Photograph of Hugh B. Crea (d. 1/31/1918). He was an attorney, and practiced law in Decatur for over 50 years. He was the attorney for the Millikin & Co., Millikin National Bank, Illinois Central Railroad, Illinois Midland Railroad, and Wabash…
Isaiah Green
Photograph of Isaiah Green (d. 2/11/1909), a veteran Wabash Railroad employee. He started in 1881 as a wiper, then as a helper in the storeroom. He was a Civil War Veteran, serving with the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The photo ran in the…
John Zeller
Photograph of John Zeller; (died 4/11/1932). He came to Decatur about 1860 and started driving oxen used by the Wabash in switching cars. Later he took a job in a meat packing plant that was located about where the Catholic Cemetery (Calvary)now is…
Ladies in the Wabash Train Yard
Photograph of Mabel Grubbs and several female friends sitting on a concrete wall in the Wabash train yard.
Looking Out the Wabash Caboose Window
Photograph of Mabel Grubbs and two girls looking out of a Wabash Railroad caboose window at the train yard.
Mabel and Friends at Wabash Train Yard
Photograph of Mabel with her friends at the Wabash Railroad train yard.
Mabel and Friends Sitting on the Tracks at the Wabash Train Yard
Photograph of Mabel Grubbs, Lucille Wisher, Pauline Snyder, Grace Albritz, Mid Nicolson Wilcox and one unknown woman sitting on the train tracks at the Wabash Train Yard.
