Biography of James E. Cantleberry, page 976.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

James E. Cantleberry, railway conductor, was born in Wauseon, Fulton Co., 
Ohio, Aug. 12, 1851, son of David Cantleberry, a retired farmer of Wauseon.  
James E. was reared to farm-life and received a limited education in the 
public schools of Wauseon.  At the age of sixteen years, in 1867, he began 
working for the Lake Shore Railway Company as brakeman, and was in the 
employ of that company twelve years and seven months, and during that time 
was conductor almost six years.  He then dealt in agricultural implements in 
Wauseon over three years, after which he went to Delphas and ran an engine 
on the Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis Narrow-Gauge Railway for nine months.  
In the spring of 1882 he came to Butler and entered the employ of the Wabash 
Railway.  He acted as brakeman for twenty-one days since which he has held 
the position of conductor.  He was married Nov. 28, 1878, to Alice Oberlin, 
daughter of Benjamin Oberlin, of Butler.  To them have been born two 
children---Freddie and Norie.

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