John Cluen (1930)
CLUEN
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 5/9/2015 at 23:06:40
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 12, 1930
Page 1, Column 6SERVICES HELD FOR FORMER ENGINEER
Funeral services for John Cluen were held Tuesday morning at the Ramsey-Richards funeral home conducted by the Rev. A. P. Keast. He was past eighty and his death occurred June 4 at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Frances Jacobson in Chicago.
Mr. Cluen was the first engineer on the first passenger train between Winterset and Des Moines. He was in the ice business here and later sold the business to W. H. Bellows. In the early nineties both John Shuey, conductor on the passenger, and Mr. Cluen were assigned to one of the best trains on the Rock Island and stationed at Rock Island, Illinois. When a president or some noted personage made a trip over the Rock Island lines Cluen was always chosen to take the train through. He was the engineer who pulled the first train over the bridge at Omaha when that bridge was opened for transportation! He had been retired the past fifteen years.
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