![]() ![]() Because of his father's position with the Milwaukee Road, he grew up under comfortable circumstances. Roy Earling was born in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 29, 1887, the first of two Earling sons. ![]() Symbolically Edna's father was named George Washington Brown. Roy's mother, Edna Brown, descended from an old politically connected American family that was proud of its pre-revolutionary war status. Perhaps Roy Earling's precision engineer side was influenced by these men: men who were proud of their engineering feats and timely schedules, monitored by the round gold watches that all railroaders carried. Roy Earling's father was a vice-president. ![]() In their case, the railroad was the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. The Earlings were railroaders near the heyday of the American Railroad. Earling, was one of a family of fifteen boys who grew up in the Milwaukee area of Wisconsin. Roy Brown Earling's heritage on his father's side was recent German immigrant, and on his mother's it was many generation American. ![]()
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