William Hammersley

Retired Freight Agent of P.R.R.; resident of Chester County

William Hammersley, freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who died at his home, Twin Lakes Farm, Chester county, on Saturday will be buried tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock from the home of his son, W. Latta Hammersley, 5818 Morris street, Germantown.

Mr Hammersley, who was 72, entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a messenger boy in the office of the freight station, which formerly occupied the site of the present John Wanamaker store at Thirteenth and Market streets. After eleven years of service he was appointed chief clerk at the Federal street station, a year later being appointed chief clerk to William J. Latta upon the latter’s appointment as general agent. At the time of his retirement to the honor roll on August 1, 1930, Mr. Hammersley was frieght agent of the Walnut street wharf district.

A school director in the first district of Philadelphia for many years, Mr. Hammersley was a member of the committee of management of the PRR YMCA and was active in political and Masonic circles. In addition to his son, his widow, Mrs. Ida McD Hammersley, survives.

Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/23/1932

Notes: Found by Meg Wiederseim. Hammersley was on the board of the Daylesford Water Company.