Hugh F. Coyle

biography

Coyle, Hugh F., train dispatcher on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, Meadville, was born in Angelica, Allegany Co., N. Y., September 21, 1855, and is a son of Bernard and Susan (Kilduff) Coyle, natives of Ireland. His father, who was by occupation a jeweler, was married in Allegany County, N. Y., and had a family of nine children of whom Hugh F. is third. Our subject received his education at Andover, in his native county, and then commenced the study of telegraphy, which he pursued with such zeal and diligence that, at the age of fifteen, he took charge of the telegraph office for the Erie Railway, where he remained until 1874. He then went to St. Joseph, Mo., where for one year he was train dispatcher, when he was made manager of the office at Green River, on the Union Pacific Railway. In 1877 he was married to Elizabeth Sinon, by whom he has one son—Eddie B. He then accepted a position on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway, as assistant train dispatcher but since 1881 he has been train dispatcher. In politics he is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 723.