Charles Henry Ewing (May 28, 1866 – December 8, 1935) was an American engineer and businessman who was president of the
Reading Company from 1932–1935.
Ewing was born in
Warwick, Pennsylvania Warwick is an unincorporated community in northwestern Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in Warwick Township just west of its municipal building. Routes 23 and 345 meet in the village, which serves as a gateway to French ...
to James S. Ewing and Maria Potts.
[''Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1966 for Chas Henry Ewing''] He was employed as a civil engineer.
In 1921, Ewing was still Vice President of the line when disastrous head-on collision near
Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Bryn Athyn is a home rule municipality in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was formerly a borough, and its official name remains "Borough of Bryn Athyn". The population was 1,375 at the 2010 census. It was formed for religious reasons fro ...
, on the Newtown branch of the railroad, on December 5, caused the deaths of 27 people, including passengers, crew, and rescuers. Although an investigation had just begun (which would find error in company policies as well as operational errors on that day), Ewing issued a statement the following day placing blame on the crew of the northbound train, which had ignored an order to take a siding to allow another train to pass. Ewing declared, "We are wholly at a loss to account for this gross violation of the order and the rules, except that it was an unexplained failure of the human agency."
Ewing died of
esophageal cancer in
Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, aged 69.
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1866 births
1935 deaths
American civil engineers
20th-century American railroad executives
Reading Company people
Deaths from esophageal cancer in the United States