I		     THE SEVEN BREITENBUCHER BROTHERS
			       AND THE FATHER

	The Rock Island Magazine, one of the worthiest publications
	of its class in the United States, published in Chicago as the
	organ of the Rock Island Lines, carries in its July issue por-
	traits and a sketch of the Breitenbucher family of Alexandria,
	Mo.  The occasion for such favorable publicity being the
	fact that the father and his seven sons are all railroad men.

	George Breitenbucher, the head of the family, was a loco-
	motive engineer forty years ago, but is now a farmer. His 
	seven fine boys, all now employed on the Rock Island road,
	are in the order of their ages-Lewis and Henry, engineers; 
	George, Jr., William F., Bert and Voiles, firemen; and Darwin,
	brakeman.  All are in the service on the Trenton division.

	There are other matters of interest associated with the 
	Breitenbucher family which the above named magazine does
	not give.  The grandfather of these fine boys-the old original
	George -was a railroad builder, having assisted in the con-
	struction of the M.I.&N. railroad over fifty years ago. His son
	Frank was an engineer on the same road for many years.
	A daughter married William Powell, an engineer; another 
	daughter married Al.Fox, an engineer.  They all constitute a
	very worthy family, and we are glad to read in the Rock 
	Island magazine of the success that is being gained by the
	third generation of the Breitenbuchers.  May they live long
	and prosper.

	( Article appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch) early 1920's)