Timothy was the son of Alexander Putman and Mary Elizabeth King. He married Nellie Jane Medaugh. In 1917 he was an oil pumper for E.A. Luntz in Willshire, OH, and then he was self-employed as a carpenter and did custom work.
"BAD WRECK AVERTED BY AN OHIO CITY BOY
Tim Putman, son of Alick Putman, of near Ohio City, deserves a Carnagie medal and then some. Early Monday morning as Mr. Putman was going to his work on the Almandindinger Oil lease, he discovered a broken rail on the Clover Leaf railroad. The rail was broken completely off at the end 20 inches or more in length. After waiting almost two hours in the bitter cold, the thermometer that morning ranging about 15 degrees below zero, he was able to flag an east bound passenger train. The train was late and was running about 60 miles an hour. Had it hit the broken rail, the train would have been wrecked and probably many lives lost."
(From the "Celina Democrat," Celina, OH, Vol:21, p. 2, Friday, February 23, 1917.)
"BAD WRECK AVERTED BY AN OHIO CITY BOY
Tim Putman, son of Alick Putman, of near Ohio City, deserves a Carnagie medal and then some. Early Monday morning as Mr. Putman was going to his work on the Almandindinger Oil lease, he discovered a broken rail on the Clover Leaf railroad. The rail was broken completely off at the end 20 inches or more in length. After waiting almost two hours in the bitter cold, the thermometer that morning ranging about 15 degrees below zero, he was able to flag an east bound passenger train. The train was late and was running about 60 miles an hour. Had it hit the broken rail, the train would have been wrecked and probably many lives lost."
(From the "Celina Democrat," Celina, OH, Vol:21, p. 2, Friday, February 23, 1917.)
Timothy was the son of Alexander Putman and Mary Elizabeth King. He married Nellie Jane Medaugh. In 1917 he was an oil pumper for E.A. Luntz in Willshire, OH, and then he was self-employed as a carpenter and did custom work.
"BAD WRECK AVERTED BY AN OHIO CITY BOY
Tim Putman, son of Alick Putman, of near Ohio City, deserves a Carnagie medal and then some. Early Monday morning as Mr. Putman was going to his work on the Almandindinger Oil lease, he discovered a broken rail on the Clover Leaf railroad. The rail was broken completely off at the end 20 inches or more in length. After waiting almost two hours in the bitter cold, the thermometer that morning ranging about 15 degrees below zero, he was able to flag an east bound passenger train. The train was late and was running about 60 miles an hour. Had it hit the broken rail, the train would have been wrecked and probably many lives lost."
(From the "Celina Democrat," Celina, OH, Vol:21, p. 2, Friday, February 23, 1917.)
"BAD WRECK AVERTED BY AN OHIO CITY BOY
Tim Putman, son of Alick Putman, of near Ohio City, deserves a Carnagie medal and then some. Early Monday morning as Mr. Putman was going to his work on the Almandindinger Oil lease, he discovered a broken rail on the Clover Leaf railroad. The rail was broken completely off at the end 20 inches or more in length. After waiting almost two hours in the bitter cold, the thermometer that morning ranging about 15 degrees below zero, he was able to flag an east bound passenger train. The train was late and was running about 60 miles an hour. Had it hit the broken rail, the train would have been wrecked and probably many lives lost."
(From the "Celina Democrat," Celina, OH, Vol:21, p. 2, Friday, February 23, 1917.)
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