Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — GEORGE M. PULLMAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEORGE M. PULLMAN.

Father of Palaeo Cars aad Founder of a Town. Pullman is a wonderful town, though now a part of Chicago, and the man who built it and built up the great sleeping car manufacture is worthy of study. George Mortimer Pullman was born March 3, 1831, in Chautauqua County, N. Y. At 14 he went into a country store, at 17 he left that place to learn the trade of a cabinet maker, and at 22 he took a contract for removing such houses

as was necessary for the widening of the Erie canal.’ In 1859 Mr. Pullman located in Chicago. Soon after ne conceived the idea of making Bleeping cars comfortable, and in 1863 he turned out the first one of the kind which has since made him very rich and famous.

GEORGE M. PULLMAN.