Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1912 — Faithful in All Positions Held During Many Years. [ARTICLE]

Faithful in All Positions Held During Many Years.

Few men alive have more excellent recommendations than John L. Hagins, a veteran of the civil war and a retired Pullman car conductor who has made his home In Rensselaer for four years. .Mr. Hagins served during the civil war in the Bth Indiana cavalry and was a sergeant at the age of sixteen years. After the war he went to Chicago, where he conducted a private police business from 1868 to 1876, and from prominent business men and manufacturers whose businesses his subordinates watched under his direction, he received testimonials of the highest character. For the next five years he was a street failway conductor in Chicago and he resigned that job to seek a position with a railroad company. From his employers and from prominent men who rode on the cars where he served as conductor he has testimonials of the highest order, telling of his Integrity, punctuality, watchfulness for the welfare of passengers, etc. His next position was that of a Pullman car conductor with the Northwestern railroad, which position he held from 1880 until November, 1908, when he was retired from active service with a pension of S3O per month, the reward of • his faithful service. The endorsement given him by both employers and associates shows him to have always •een a man with the highest regard, •or the position he filled. The endorsements are naturally a source of much pride to him and it is probable that few men in the United States have so many letters of endorsement, all of which reflect the high esteem in which he was held. Pt: Mr. Hagins came to Rensselaer to reside after his retirement and his army pension and his railroad pension give him a good income and himself and wife are thus enabled to enjoy life without performing any hard labor during their declining years..