Hugh C. Bloom, the eldest of Forester Bloom’s family attended the Curry School in Pike Township. After the death of his mother he made his home with his uncle Jared for three years, attending the Turkey Hill schools in Knox Township. At seventeen years of age he went into lumbering with his father and Joseph Erhard for a number of years, later engaging with the Clearfield Lumber Company on the Belseno Mills, and at Kerrmore, Pa. On December 10, 1890, he went to Jersey Shore and was hired by the N.Y.C.R.R. as locomotive fireman and assigned to the Jersey Shore-Gazzam coal train. He was fireman on the construction train while they were building the Friendship and Hoyt Tunnels near Kerrmore. He had the honor of firing the first train from Kerrmore to Mahaffey, through these tunnels. In 1893 he became locomotive fireman on the B. R. & P. running from Bradford, Pa., to Dubois, Clearfield and Punxsutawney. On November 1900 he was promoted to engineer and has since been running locomotives on the B. R. & P., having been retired on the pension roll Januray 1, 1931 at sixty-five years of age.4804