Louis Kossuth FAHNESTOCK

                   REFN: 8892
Brought up by his maternal grandmother.
Forced to leave school after 3 years due to his health.  On his recovery,
he went to Philadelphia to learn brickmaking.  After a year, he left to
go west with an engineering party,building the Northern Pacific RR.  He
became an assistant engineer.  He hadmany interesting experiences, and
once barely escaped drowning when a wagon overturned in the Red River of
the north.  In Washington, DC, he joined the Richmond and Danville RR,
until they moved their offices to Atlanta.  He then entered the American
Security and Trust Co., where he retired in 1900.  He later went to work
for the Southern RR, until he retired in the 1920's.
1930Census:
Had a servant, Mary Gray.  Value of assets $15,000.