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Superintendent of transportation, Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Company
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James J. Brennan, a son of Martin and Catherine (McCabe) Brennan, entered the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Harpers Ferry at the age of fourteen and advanced into its train service. He was afterward similarly engaged at Pittsburgh in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and then in electric railway operation at Wheeling, West Virginia, and at Cleveland and Detroit. In 1905 he came to Fort Wayne as superintendent of overhead construction for the Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Company, and he was promoted to superintendent of transportation for the entire system of the company, which controlled and operated about 230 miles of city and interurban traction service in Indiana, with his residence and official headquarters in Fort Wayne. He married Bessie Winston of Wheeling on 21 May 1892.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, vol. II (1917), Brennan sketch, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.