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SYLVESTER C. STOUT, postmaster and station agent on the North Pennsylvania Railroad at Glenside, is a native of that section of Montgomery county. He was born at Camp Hill, in Springfield township, April 11, 1847. He is the son of Charles and Fayetta (Derr) Stout, both natives of that vicinity. The father was the son of Charles Stout, who married a Miss Coar. The family of the maternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch removed to the neighborhood from Lehigh county.

Sylvester C. Stout obtained his primary education in the schools of Cheltenham and Upper Dublin townships. He spent his early life on the homestead. Subsequently he was employed with George D. Heist, who was engaged in the coal and lumber business at Edge Hill station, as a clerk, and later was occupied in the same capacity for a period of four years in the city of Philadelphia. At the end of that time he found employment nearer home as weighmaster for the Edge Hill Iron Company, then engaged in active operations, but long since torn down. On February 22, 1875, Mr. Stout secured a position with the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company as assistant agent, occupying himself in that capacity until April 11, 1876, and since that date he has been station master. He was appointed postmaster of Glenside on October 26, 1893, a position which he has ever since retained. Mr. Stout has been a member and treasurer of the Glenside Fire Company since its organization, in which he was actively interested. Fraternally he is a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 400, Free and Accepted Masons, of Jenkintown. He is also a member of Abington Chapter No. 245, Royal Arch Masons, and of Mary Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar.

Mr. Stout married Mary, born March 12, 1848, daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Derr) Stout. Their children are: C. Francis Stout, station master on the Reading Railway at Centre Valley, in Lehigh county, married Lillian Witmer; Annie H., Emma L. and Candy S., clerk in the post office. Mr. Stout is highly respected in his community, being actively interested in every enterprise that promises improvement.