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N. POSTON, railroad agent, McLean. It is generally conceded by the citizens of McLean, that Mr. N. Poston has been the most accommodating and courteous of any man that has been in the employ of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, stationed at McLean, for many years; he is a native of McLean Co.; his people settling in the county as early as 1851; he is of English descent, on his mother’s side, though his great-grandfather was one of the staff of Gen. Washington; he began learning telegraphing with his brother, though not until he had received a liberal education at the Wesleyan College of Bloomington, and at the University of Kentucky, at Lexington; his brother being located at Braidwood, with whom he studied, on the Jacksonville Division of the Chicago & Alton Railroad: he is now both freight and ticket agent and operator at McLean, and is also agent for the U. S. Express Co.. The different branches of his work keep him quite busy, though he is thoroughly capable of attending to them in a proper manner.