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26 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
MR. CHARLES F. HUBER NEW EXECUTIVE
OF LEHIGH AND WILKES-BARRE COAL
COMPANY.
Mr. Charles F. Holier has been elected president
of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., succeeding
the late Mr. George F. Baer, the election taking
place early in the fortnight.
Mr. Huber, at tbe time
of his election was
vice president and
general manager of
the company, a position
he had held since
1910. Mr. Huber entered
the service of the
company in 1S87, as a
chainman in the engineering
corps. He
advanced steadily until
1891 when he was
appointed division
engineer in charge of
the Honey Brook colliery
and held that position
until 1898.
Mr. Charles F. Huber when he succeeded to
the chief engineership
of the company with headquarters in Wilkes-Barre.
Five years later be was made general supeiintendent
of the company's operations and in 1910 was
promoted to the position held at the time of the
present election.
Mr. Huber is a native of Pottsville. Pa., where
he was educated in the public schools. He was
aged but 16 when he first was employed bj the
company he now beads, and his rise has been
steady and an instance of what application will do*.
He is one of the best operating officials in the
anthracite region and the modern equipment of
tbe mines under his charge testify to his ability.
PERSONAL is
At a meeting the directors of the Temple Iron
Co. elected Mr. E. T. Stotesbury, head of the
firm of Drexel & Co., president pro tem to succeed
the late George F. Baer. Robert W. de Forest
was selected to take Mr. Baer's place as a
director.
has been nominated for treasurer of the state by
the Republicans.
Mr. E. R. Tatnall, of the Philadelphia office of
the Keystone Coal & Coke Co., has been made
manager of the New York office of the company
vice Mr. G. K. Mellen, resigned.
vlr. John M. Moore, of the Coal River Co., a
prominent West Virginia operator with headquarters
at. Ottawa, was married to Miss Ruth Hayner
in Chicago on April 29.
NECROLOGICAL
Mr. William H. Cochran, aged 56, a well known
coal and coke operator, died May 3 at the family
residence at Dawson, Pa., following a several
weeks' illness from carbuncles and erysipelas.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Cochran.
The deceased was a part owner in the Washington
Coal & Coke Co., a large independent concern,
and also had coal holdings in West Virginia,
being a promoter of the Cosmopolitan Coal Co.
of Braxton, W. Va. He was well and favorably
known throughout Fayette county, Pa., and had
spent practically all his life in and near Dawson.
He is survived by his widow, Gertrude Cochran,
and the following children: Philip Cochran, Anna
Grace Cochran, William Cochran, Jr., and Regina
June Cochran, and three brothers, Henry T.
Cochran, A. J. Cochran and George Cochran, all
of Dawson. He was a brother of the late P. G.
Cochran, husband of Mrs. Sarah B. Cochran, of
Saint James Park near Dawson.
.All*. Tracey Browne, mining engineer connected
with the Elk Horn Fuel Co., grandson of the
late Jeremiah Wheelwright, of Baltimore, and
nephew of President Jere H. Wheelwright, of the
Consolidation Coal Co.. died April 20 at Lexington,
Ky., from an attack of pneumonia. He was
a son of Paymaster Samuel T. Browne, U. S. N„
and formerly resided in Baltimore. He was educated
in private schools and took an engineer
degree later at a German university. He leaves
a wife and two children. Interment was in
Greenmount cemetery, Baltimore.
Mr. James C. Fawcett, aged 66, formerly owner
of the Fawcett packet line on tbe Monongahela
river, died .May 9, in Cheat Haven. Pa. He was
sole owner of the Cheat Haven Coal & Coke Co.
Mr. J. E. Thropp, Jr.. has resigned the position for 11 years, disposing of that business to the
of general manager for Hon. Joseph E. Thropp, Fancy Hill Coal & Coke Co. Mr. Fawcett was
Everett, Pa., operator ol' blast furnaces at Everett born in Pittsburgh April 26. 1S4S. and resided
and Saxton. and conducting coal and coke opera­ there for many years. These children are left:
tions in Bedford and Huntingdon counties. James. William, Edwin and S. K. Fawcett and
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Shore, all of Pittsburgh, and
Mr. Job Freeman, one of the largest and best
Mrs. Lillian F. Wade and Mrs. Miriam Laughrey
known operators in the Indiana bituminous field, of Cheat Haven.