Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-26

| General Manager Simon Cameron
/ Long, of the Pennsylvania Railroad
died suddenly yesterday morning. He
was on train enroute to his home at
| Merton. Death was due to heart fall
ure, following an attack of acute in
| digestion.
! Mr.. Long, who was so years of age,
was in company with James f.
Fahnestock. treasurer of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, and
! George w. Creighton, general super
/ intendent of the company at Altoona,
when he was stricken. He was re-
moved from the train at Fifty second
street, where physicians had been sum-
moned, but they found death had been
almost instantaneous.
Announcement of Mr.. Longs death
occasioned quite a stir in railroad cir
cles in this city and vicinity. General
Manager Long, with General Superin-
tendent George w. Creighton and
Superintendent William b. McCaleb,
spent the best part of last week in
the vicinity of Harrisburg, inspecting
prospective sites for Improvements
and looking over Mt. Gretna camp site.
/ He returned to Philadelphia Thurs
day night and it is said had planned
further inspection trips over the Phil.
adelphia Division and branches this
week.
Born in Dauphin County
Simon Cameron Long. general man
ager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
born at Fisherville, Dauphin county,
about 81 years ago. His father was
George Renoehl Long, and his mother,
Clarinda Christ, daughter of the late
John Christ. The parents of Mr. Long
were welded by a Methodist minister
at New Castle, Delaware.
George Reinoehl Long. father of Cen
eral Manager Long, was engaged in the
store business at Fisherville, and from
that place was appointed or elected to
the office of Recorder of Deeds and
Register of Wills of Dauphin county.
Shortly thereafter the Long family re-
moved to Harrisburg where Mr.. Long
assumed the duties of Office. The cam
paign of that time, having been a very
warm one, it is recalled that one night
before Mr.. Long removed to Harrisburg
that his little store, the village gather
ing spot, was burned to the ground and
was believed to have been the work of
political enemies, considerable feeling
having been engendered by reason of
Mr. Long who was a Whig and active
in the campaign at that time.
Employed at Harrisburg
Mr.. Long served about two years
when he died and his remains were
taken to Pinegrove and inferred in the
Evangelical cemetery and afterwards
reinterred in the family lot of yelling
ton Christ, Pinegrove merchant and
uncle to s. c. Long, in the Lutheran
cemetery. The elder Long was a great
admirer of the late Simon Cameron
and named his boy after him. While
employed at Harrisburg Mr.. Cameron
and the elder Long became we'll ac-
quainted. When Mr.. Long died and the
boy was about 2R years of age, the |
mother removed from Harrisburg to
Pinegrove, to the home of John Christ !
grandfather of Mr.. Long, and nephew
to merchant Wellington Christ of Pine !
grove, the latter for many years a |
Reading Railway dispatcher at Pine
grove. Mrs Long, the mother of S. c. I
Long, died in 1860, and young Long
grew up and spent his boyhood days
with his grandparents and uncle, in the |
same house occupied by the latter to |
this day, the home being opposite the |
ID. r. Miller home on the main street |
Pinegrove. Mr.. Long attended the pub |
lie school of Pinegrove and graduated
under Prof. George w. Channel now
living at PIT Carbon. He has no broth |
ers or sisters living and Mr. Christ is |
the only surviving uncle.
After graduating at the Pinegrove
High school he was sent to Lafayette |
College, where he graduated about 1877. |
Coming back to his home after gradu- |
alton, he was appointed to a clerkship |
at the p. & r. depot and chalked coal |
cars from tickets sent to the Office by |
the colliery clerks and afterwards be- |
came billing clerk in the same office |
at a salary of $40 per month. There |
is a story to the effect that the late |
Colonel James J.. Nutting, of Pinegrove, |
had met Mr.. Cameron and remarked |
there is a youngster at Pinegrove you |
ought TO do something for, and Mr. |
Cameron inquired, "Who is he?" Mr. |
Nutting said IS. c. Long, and he is
named after you.
"Oh yes remarked Mr.. Cameron, 81 |
knew his father" and an appointment |
on an engineering corps at Paoli near |
Philadelphia, was the result This was |
about 1877 or 1878. Later he was an |
pointed to a supervisorship on thel
Pennsylvania Railroad at CoatesvilIe, |