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Reading Company (41)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n30rm (corporateBody)

The Reading Company, chartered in 1871 as the Excelsior Enterprise Company, became the holding company for the system of railroads, canals and coal mines assembled by the predecessor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company between 1833 and 1896. As a result of anti-trust proceedings, the Reading Company divested itself of its mining subsidiary in 1923 and became an operating company for its rail properties. After bankruptcy in the early 1970s, viable portions of the rail network were conv...

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Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. (52)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g48khb (corporateBody)

In 1833, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (P & R) was established to serve the burgeoning anthracite coal industry and its customers throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The railroad also supported iron making, canal and sea-going transportation, and shipbuilding, establishing itself as a transportation industry giant for over a century. During the American Industrial Revolution, the P & R provided trackage to the most densely industrialized pa...

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Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (21)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65n02vz (corporateBody)

The Atlantic City Railroad Company was incorporated in March 1899 and was renamed Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines on July 15, 1933. Prior to 1933, both the Reading Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad maintained parallel and competing lines between Philadelphia/Camden and the New Jersey shore resorts between Atlantic City and Cape May. This had originally been a large and lucrative business, but with the coming of auto and bus competition and the opening of the D...

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Hammer, Carolyn Reading (10)

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Reading, Pierson Barton (10)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6862wkh (person)

Pierson Barton Reading was born in 1816 in New Jersey. In 1830 he moved to Vicksburg, Miss. to become a cotton broker. He joined the Peter H. Burnett party going to Calif. and Ore. in 1843 and split in Fort Hall with the Joseph B. Chiles' party. Reading settled in Shasta County, Calif.

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Reading, Burnet (7)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j209tz (person)

Epithet: of Add MS 38728

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Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company (13)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63c0t0g (corporateBody)

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Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of, 1860-1935 (31)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q26x0g (person)

March-October 1910 solicitor-general; March 1910 Knighted; October 1910-1913 attorney-general; 1910 KCVO; 1913-1921 lord chief justice; 1915 GCB; 1917 High Commissioner to the United States of America and Canada; 1917 financial advisor, war cabinet; 1918 ambassador-extraordinary and high commissioner to Washington; 1920 freedom of Reading; 1921 GCSI and GCIE; 1922 GCVO; 1921-1926 Viceroy of India; 1926 freedom of London; 1926 captaincy of Deal castle;1931 foreign secretary; 1934...

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Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (23)

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The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, a subsidiary of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road, was founded in 1871 to allow its parent corporation to control the transportation of anthracite coal mined in eastern Pennsylvania. The coal company operated mines and coal processing plants, and the finished product was shipped via the railroad's lines. The Philadelphia and Reading Iron and Coal Company became a separate corporation in 1923 after the U.S. government initiated an anti-t...

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University of Reading. (7)

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