This Day in History: 1911-09-21
Robert J. Morgan, while walking home to Ramsey from his job at the American Brake Shoe Plant, was killed by a train. He generally walked the tracks in good weather rather than the road and had arrived at the Mahwah Station when he stepped out of the way of an east-bound express train and directly in front of a west-bound freight train. He died when his head struck the stone abutment of the road overpass. He leaves a wife and three children. He was recently elected Secretary of the Ramsey Republican Club. He and his wife were active in the work of the Presbyterian Church where the funeral was held on the 24th. He was 41 years old. The Brake Shoe Company paid all of his funeral expenses and established a liberal bank account in the name of his daughter Lillian Morgan. (Bristow)