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George Franklin Trainor, station agent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad at Wadesville, Ind., was born March 7, 1868, on a farm in Robb township, Posey county, son of George King and Susan (Schrader) Trainor. George K. Trainor was born about 1813 at Williamsport, Pa., and came to Posey county at the age of twenty years, where he was a farmer until his death, in 1897. He married Miss Susan Schrader, daughter of John and Pamelia (Jaques) Schrader, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Posey county, where she was born in 1826. She died at Poseyville in 1901. They both belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. George K. Trainor had eight children: John Schrader Trainor, now a merchant at Hayti, Mo.; Charles Edward Trainor, grain merchant, Griffin, Ind.; Clara, wife of Joseph W. Stevens, wagon maker and justice of the peace, Poseyville, Ind.; Algernon (deceased), William A., formerly agent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois at Poseyville, who was killed by hold-up men in 1892, and leaving a wife and three children; Carrie, wife of James Kilroy, a lawyer at Poseyville; George F., of this record; Chauncy, graduate of the medical department of Louisville University, now an employe of the patent office at Washington, D. C., and also a magazine writer. George F. Trainor was educated in the public schools of Poseyville, graduating from the high school in the class of 1889. He then took a business course in Lexington, Ky., after which he taught school one year in Bethel township, Posey county. He then began the study of telegraphy in the depot of Illinois Central at Poseyville, and after eight months became operator at Stewartsville, where he remained five years, when he was appointed cashier at Mattoon, Ill., for the same road. After one year at Mattoon he became station agent at Stewartsville, and has since filled that position successively at Hartsburg, Latham, Mt. Zion, Sullivan, Newton, West Liberty, Parkersburg, Grayville, Griffin and New Harmony, all on the Illinois Central. In 1910 he became station agent at Wadesville, his present location. For a town of its size Wadesville is an unusually good shipping point, the freight business averaging about 400 cars per annum, while it does a good local passenger business. Mr. Trainor is a member of the Order of Ben Hur at Parkersburg, Ill., of the Mystic Workers at West Liberty, Ill., and also of the Order of Railway Telegraphers. On March 10, 1897, Mr. Trainor married Miss Lottie Bare, daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Dawson) Bare, of West Salem, Ill., the former a hardware merchant. She was born June 7, 1879, at Belmont, Ill. Her father is a native of Germany and her mother of Illinois. They have four children: Murtel Kenneth, born May 23, 1899; Margaret, born September 8, 1903; Fred, born March 8, 1905, and Katherine, born December 6, 1911. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal church.