Fonda, E. R.

FONDA

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Date: 10/11/2006 at 01:01:52

E. R. Fonda

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.22, Council Bluffs)
E. R. Fonda, locomotive engineer, Council Bluffs, was born in Utica, N. Y. in 1844. In 1866, he went to Quincy, Ill., and in 1875 came to Council Bluffs and engaged as a locomotive engineer at the Union Pacific Transfer Yards. He runs transfer switch engine No. 217, one of the most powerful engines that runs into Council Bluffs. In Oberlin, Ohio, in 1873 he married Marian B. Berry, of that place, and they have one child - Lena, aged eight years. Mrs. Fonda was educated in New York. Mr. Fonda was an Alderman of the Fourth Ward in 1881; was a member of the Council when the charter was changed, and when Union avenue work was commenced. He is a Knight Templar, an Odd Fellow, a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and President of Garfield Lodge, No. 126, Iowa Legion of Honor. His parents are residing at Mendota, Ill.

(Henry Fonda was from Nebraska and lived in Omaha. Think they're related?)