Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

W. J. BRELL.  The young men are coming to the front in every line of
business, but in no sphere of life is this truer than in the railroad
business. From the superintendent of his division down to the operators
and section men young men are running the Queen and Crescent.  Mr. W. J.
Brell is a Pendleton County boy, and has now the first regular job he
has ever held down as an operator.  He was born at Gardnersville in
Pendleton County, October 30, 1878; attended the common schools and
obtained a fairly good education.  He learned to manipulate the key
board in the office at Bracht Station.  He is a single man, 
accommodating and pleasing to meet, and has been in charge of the 
Sherman office since the 3d of April last.  His future as a railroad 
man is certainly bright.

Brell
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Gardnersville-Pendleton-KY

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