JOSEPH F. ERNST, a forty-seven-year-old Station Mechanic with six years of service at Commonwealth Edison and twelve years of experience, was fatally burned Monday November 25, 1940 along with Joseph A. Farris, when a copper buss short-circuited while they were removing asbestos covering from a 4,000-volt buss at Clifton Substation on the northside of Chicago. Ernst, a U.S. Navy veteran, was survived by his wife Emma, nee Scheeler, and their son Francis and daughter Velma. He was buried at St. Clements Cemetery in Peoria County, Illinois.
IBEW 15 Workers Memorial
IBEW 15 Workers Memorial
JOSEPH F. ERNST, a forty-seven-year-old Station Mechanic with six years of service at Commonwealth Edison and twelve years of experience, was fatally burned Monday November 25, 1940 along with Joseph A. Farris, when a copper buss short-circuited while they were removing asbestos covering from a 4,000-volt buss at Clifton Substation on the northside of Chicago. Ernst, a U.S. Navy veteran, was survived by his wife Emma, nee Scheeler, and their son Francis and daughter Velma. He was buried at St. Clements Cemetery in Peoria County, Illinois.
IBEW 15 Workers Memorial
IBEW 15 Workers Memorial
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ERNST EMMA S. 1900-1985 JOSEPH F. 1893-1940
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