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(erielack) More Rockland County, NY Erie History

This is an excerpt of an article in today's Journal News in part concerning
Glode Requa, who became an engineer on the Erie in 1855 at the remarkable
age of 17, just a few years after "Day One' for the Erie.  Rockland, even
railroad-wise, was a competently different place.  The NJ&NY wouldn't cross
the border into Pearl River for almost 20 years.  The Main Line going "east"
from Suffern to Jersey City was about the same amount of years away. (What
became) the NY Central had yet to bring its West Shore line up through
Haverstraw, Congers and other points en route to Albany. If any of you Erie
historians come across anything on Glode Requa, I'd be interested to hear,
especially how long he eventually served with Erie, which likely was a far
different railroad when he retired.

"One of James Requas' eight children, Glode, born in 1838 in Tappan, was the
first of the Rockland clan to break with the family's farming tradition. At
the age of 17, Glode Requa became one of the youngest engineers working for
the New York and Erie Railroad.

Glode Requa's work on the trains brought him to Monsey, where there was once
a railroad station. He met and eventually married Sarah Elizabeth Sherwood,
whose father, Levi Sherwood, owned a successful lumber and coal business in
the community.

After retiring from his railroad work, Glode Requa went into business with
his father-in-law.

He soon took over the business, and renamed it the Glode Requa Coal and
Lumber Co. of Monsey, which provided wood for numerous homes in the county.
The company continued to grow under Requa, and he also acquired a large
amount of real estate in the Monsey area."
 http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061210/NEWS03/61
2100362/1019/NEWS03



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