Ingalls, Melville E. (Melville Ezra), 1842-1914.

Melville Ingalls was president and receiver of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Lafayette Railroad Company which was headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. This railroad company was reorganized during the 1870's as the Cincinnati, Lafayette, and Chicago Railway Company. In 1880, this railroad would merge with other small railroads in the midwest to form the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Saint Louis, and Chicago Railway Company.

From the description of Papers, 1875-1888. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 50059191

Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and president of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad.

From the description of Letters received, 1871-1914. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 550534137

Melville Ingalls (1842-1914) graduated from Harvard Law School in 1863 and practiced in Boston. He married Abbie M. Stimson of Gray, Maine, in 1867. He moved to Cincinnati in 1870 and became president of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Lafayette Railroad. Ingalls rescued the railway from bankruptcy in the late 1870s and formed a new company, the Cincinnati, St. Louis & Chicago Railway. This railway merged with the Vanderbilt-owned Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway in 1889 to become the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (Big Four). Ingalls was also head of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and was instrumental in developing the coal mining industry in Kentucky.

From the description of Papers, 1870-1907. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 47832328