A dispatch was received by Mr. Noah Bross, of Kingston avenue, this village to-day, to the effect that his son, Edward Bross, an engineer for the past two years on the Florida Railroad & Navigation Co.’s road in Florida, had been killed in a serious accident on Sunday afternoon last. The remains of the young man, he is but 26 years of age, will arrive in this village by Wednesday night. Mr. Bross is a brother of Wickham Bross, fireman for engineer Joseph Weed, and Janson [sic] Bross, a bridge carpenter for the Erie, and Mrs. John E. Van Sickle of Kingston avenue, is a sister.
Source: Port Jervis Evening Gazette, April 16, 1888.
Carol Ann Hilton 