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Long time residence (at least 1884-1899) of Alpheus E. Fitzgerald (Edward, Edward, Samuel). The house stands on the corner of East Seneca and 4th Street in Oswego, New York. Photographed by Cheri Wilkinson, October 1996. Oswego Daily Palladium, 8 Jan 1907. “MET DEATH AT THE CROSSING. Alphus {sic] E. Fitzgerald Struck by D. L&W Train. Was For Many Years Connected With Commercial Interest and Had Many Friends all Over the Chain of Lakes -- Survived by Widow and Two Sons. "Alphus [sic] E. Fitzgerald, a flagman for the Lackawanna and Central railroad companies, was struck last night by the Lackawanna passenger train due here at 6:35 o’clock and died at the Hospital shortly before nine. The accident occurred at the corner of West Fourth and Utica streets.
Nobody saw the train strike Mr. Fitzgerald, but shortly after it had passed a young son of John Ford the fireman, who was crossing the tracks, heard groans and notified Tracy Stone, in the drug store. The latter hurriedly investigated and finding Mr. Fitzgerald had him removed to the store. He called Doctors Eddy and O’Brien and notified Freight Agent John Taylor. Mr. Fitzgerald was fully conscious when they arrived to them he told his story. He said he was crossing the track to flag the westbound train from Rochester on the R.W. & O., due at about the same time, when he was struck in the side by the Lackawanna train, which on account of the heavy rain making it difficult to see he had not noticed. He was hurled some distance away and an examination of his injuries disclosed a bad cut on the top of Fitzgerald’s head and several broken ribs. He was also injured internally and the shock proved too much for a man of his age.
Mr. Fitzgerald was the youngest of six brothers, who came here with their father from down near Ogdensburg when a small boy. The latter kept a grocery and had to do with the packetboats that plied the canal. he with other brothers followed th
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