Enos Hartford

Enos Hartford is Katy's grandfather, Lucas' father, and the previous president and CEO of the Knoxville & Asheville Railroad Company.

Biography
Enos Hartford was born in the Hartford house on March 17th, 1925 to Sophia and Cornelius Hartford. When he was a child, he started working on the railroad as a showshine boy at Palmer Terminal. In 1943, at the age of 18 (right after his High School graduation), he enlisted in the United States Army and fought in World War 2 in the European theatre. During the war, he was a member of the 792nd Railway Operating Battalion, but also saw combat service. Throughout his military service, Enos saw service in Africa, Italy, France, and Germany. In 1945, he met his future wife, Irina when her group was loaned out to the Battalion to help wipe out the Nazi war machine. At the Battle of Slivice, he got shot in the side by a Nazi bullet and Irina dragged him towards the medics where they patched him up and sent him to a field hospital. By the time he recovered, the war was over.

In early 1946, Enos was due to return to the USA, but before that he helped Irina escape the USSR by smuggling her in the water tank of a USATC S160 steam locomotive. They later married and had 6 children, Anatasha and Sarah (born 1946), Herman (1947), Lucas (1950), Dimitri (1953), and Sally (born 1963). He worked on the K&A as Smokey's engineer while Irina was his fire-woman. In 1969, he became president of the K&A and she became his second in command.

Sometime around the late 1980s - early 1990s, he retired and his son Lucas took over the family business. Now he and his wife reside at the Hartford house.

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