Claude Thomas Stoner Photographs and Papers 1870s-1977

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was founded in 1827, and operated from the Great Lakes, Ohio, through the mid-Atlantic. The B&O's successor, CSX Corporation, was created in 1987 from interim holding companies. From the description of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company personnel records, circa 1940-1979. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 760082029 ...

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company

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Incorporated in 1864 under the laws of the state of Illinois, the company operated a line between western Chicago and Burlington, Iowa. From the description of Corporate records, 1901-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 313865953 Incorporated in 1864 under the laws of the state of Illinois, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company operated a line between western Chicago and Burlington, Iowa. From the guide to the Corporate records., 1882, 1901-1968....

D.N. McLeod Lumber Company.

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Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad.

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J.E. Potts Salt & Lumber Company.

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Weidman Lumber Company.

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Bath & Hammondsport Railroad

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East Jordan & Southern Railroad Company.

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Ohio and Michigan Sand and Gravel Company.

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Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Electric Railway Company.

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Horning & Hart.

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Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company

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The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company was formed in 1891 with the merger of the Cleveland Iron Mining Co. and the Iron Cliffs Co. The Michigan office of the new company was established in Ishpeming. By the turn of the century, the company comprised a combination of constituent, allied and associated companies. Some were mining concerns, but others were established or aquired to provide transportation, to deal in land and lumber, or to manufacture products from iron or lumber. The Land and Lumbering ...

Ludington and Northern Railway Company.

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Thayer Lumber Company.

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Moore, Park & Sharp.

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Detroit Edison Company

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In 1955, an association of twenty regional power and industrial companies led by the Detroit Edison Company created a non-profit research-and-development company, the Atomic Power Development Association (APDA), to develop the initial proposal for a fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Michigan. Later in 1955, the APDA chartered the Power Reactor Development Company (PRDC) to design, construct, and operate the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant, Unit I after federal approval of the APDA's proposal. Plan...

Manistee & Grand Rapids Railroad Company.

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South Haven and Eastern Railroad Company.

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The company was incorporated in Michigan May 23, 1894. May 6, 1903 sold to Pere Marquette Railroad Company. May 23, 1894 authorized to build a railroad from South Haven, MI, via the villages of Hartford, Lawrence and Paw Paw, MI, to the village of Lawton, MI. Purchased narrow gauge property of Toledo and South Have Railroad Company. From the description of South Haven and Eastern Railroad Company : Corporate records, 1894 May 23-1903 May. 6. (Unknown). WorldC...

Mineral Range Railroad Company

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Louis Sands Salt and Lumber Company (Manistee, Mich.)

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The Sands Salt and Lumber Company was one of the largest lumbering concerns in Manistee, Michigan. The firm was founded by Louis Sands, a Swede who was born on July 2, 1826,and who immigrated to the United States as a young man. After spending time in Boston and Chicago, Sands came to Manistee around 1853. Between 1853 and 1856, Sands worked as a lumberjack. In 1856, he engaged in his first entrepreneurial venture, signing a contract to log another man's property. By 186...

Houghton, Chassell & Southwestern Railroad Company.

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Detroit and Lima Northern Railway Company.

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C.W. Jones Lumber Company.

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Wilson, Luther & Wilson.

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Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company

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Central Pacific Railway Company

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Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western Railroad Company.

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The company was incorporated in Michigan to own and operate the property of the former Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad Company on December 4, 1896. December 5, 1896 received property of Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad Company and the Saginaw and Western Railroad Company. December 10, 1896 received property of Saginaw Valley and St. Louis Railroad Company. December 15, 1896 purchased Saginaw and Grand Rapids Railroad Company. From the description...

Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company

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The Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, which traces its founding to 1864, was the most successful corporation to have mined native copper on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through nearly a century of mining activity, the company produced in excess of 4.5 billion pounds of refined copper and issued over $200 million in shareholder dividends. Unlike many of its competitors along the Keweenaw Peninsula, Calumet and Hecla successfully expanded its operations over several separate mineral bo...

Empire & South Eastern Railroad.

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Detroit, Lansing and Northern Rail Road Company.

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Hobart and Manistee River Rail Road Company.

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Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Company.

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Mount Washington Railway Company.

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Wm. Crippen & Son.

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Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway Company.

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East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company.

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Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway

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Crawford and Manistee River Railway Company.

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Wabash Railroad

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Au Sable & Northwestern Railway Company.

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Soo Line Railroad Company

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The Soo Line Railroad Company is the principal subsidiary of Soo Line Corp., a holding company involved in transportation and related real estate. Canadian Pacific Limited, a transportation, resource development, and manufacturing company with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, in 1990 owned virtually 100% of the common stock of Soo Line Corp. Canadian Pacific interests have controlled the Soo Line and its predecessors since 1888. The M.St.P.&S.S.M. was popularly known as the "So...

Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company

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American railroad company. From the description of Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company station records, 1922-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122367852 From the guide to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company station records, 1922-1923, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Paris & Pere Marquette River Railroad Company.

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Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Company

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Incorporated in 1874 under the laws of the state of Minnesota, the company operated a line from Duluth to Vermilion Lake via Two Harbors, Minn. This series of 18 drawings depicts the company's tug "Edna G." From the description of Tug drawings, 1896-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 313866102 ...

Boyne City, Gaylord and Alpena Railroad Company.

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Manistee & Luther Railroad Company.

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North Park Railway Company.

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American Rolling Mill Company

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Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway Company

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Detroit and Mackinac Railway Company

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Jennings & Northeastern Railway.

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Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad Company.

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The Company was incorporated on May 25, 1872, effective Aug. 22, 1872 for $2,400,000. It consolidated, leased, and amended its holdings until it was sold on July 17, 1890 to Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company. (Information from Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies by Meints.). From the description of Stock certificates, 1880-1889. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 43466972 ...

Western and Atlantic Railroad Company

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In 1836, the Georgia State Legislature approved bonds to finance the creation of a rail line to open Georgia to the trade of the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. Initially called the State Road, the line began in an area of north Georgia that would become Atlanta, and ran 137 miles to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Competed in 1851, it was the first publicly financed railroad in the United States. It was operated by the State of Georgia until 1870, when the Georgia legislature leased the railroad to Western...

Green Bay and Western Railroad Co.

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Lobdell-Bailey Manufacturing Company.

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Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company

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Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron Railroad Company.

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Cummer Sons Cypress Company.

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Solvay Process Company

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Chicago and North Western Railway Company

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Hersey Gravel Company.

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Arcadia & Betsey River Railway Company.

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Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad

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Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw Railroad Company

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Pere Marquette Line Steamers.

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Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway

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Railway system formed in 1869 by the merger of four railroads, the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, the Cleveland and Toledo, the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula, and the Buffalo and Erie. In 1914 it was merged into the New York Central system. From the description of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company records, 1849-1909 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 48861827 From the description of Records 1849-1909. (Rhinelander ...

Grand Rapids Railway Company.

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Canadian National

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Erie & Michigan Railway & Navigation Company.

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Day, D. H. (David Henry), b. 1854

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Seaman & Webster.

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Norfolk and Western Railway Company

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Reorganized in 1896 from Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1896-1969. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28420979 The Norfolk and Western Railroad was created and organized in 1881 when Clarence H. Clark and his associates purchased property and franchises belonging to the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company. As a result of the purchase, the combined track length owned by Clark and associates was just over 400 miles. By 1900...

Stoner, Claude Thomas, 1899-1977

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Dexter, Michigan, collector of materials relating to the history of railroading in Michigan. From the description of Claude Thomas Stoner photographs and papers, 1870s-1977. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419419 Claude Thomas Stoner was born May 12, 1899 in a log house near Ashley, Michigan. His childhood interest in railroads led him, after a few years of farming, to work for the Ann Arbor Railroad, first in Ashley in the 1920s, then in Alma, M...

Fenton & Long Lake Railroad.

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Antrim Iron Company.

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Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad Company.

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Toledo and Western Railway Company

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Formed in 1924; ran from Toledo to Williams County, Ohio; dissolved in 1937. From the description of Records, 1924-1937. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28411327 ...

Cadillac and Northeastern Railroad Company.

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Detroit & River St. Clair Railway Company.

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Southern Pacific railroad company

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...

Rio Grande Southern Railroad

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Hecla and Torch Lake Railroad Company.

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Pontiac, Oxford and Northern Railroad Company.

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General motors corporation

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Manistique, Marquette and Northern Railroad Company.

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Chippewa Lumber Company.

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Michigan Railway Company

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West Michigan Lumber Company.

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E. Shay and Son (Harbor Springs, Mich.)

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Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad Company.

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Cummer Lumber Company.

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St. Clair Tunnel Company.

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Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railway Company

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Foster, Blackman & Company.

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Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company.

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Lake George and Muskegon River Railroad Company.

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Union Pacific railroad company

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Served Oklahoma and other Western states. From the description of Union Pacific collection, 1930-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70972329 The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, meaning any development and revenues from such...

New York Central Railroad Company

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, but it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s-1890s, the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland. In the early twentieth century it built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that were key to New York Central's repair, maintenance, and stora...

Nahma & Northern Railroad.

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Northern Michigan Traction Company.

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Saginaw Valley and St. Louis Railroad Company.

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Blaney and Southern Railway Company.

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Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad Company.

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Michigan Central Railroad Company

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On March 20, 1837, legislation providing for work to proceed on three railroads and two canals in Michigan became law. One of the railroads -- the central -- was to connect Detroit and St. Joseph through the second tier of counties. Based upon preliminary work already done by the Detroit and St. Joseph Railroad Company (whose rights and properties were purchased by the state), the railroad was able to begin operation (at least as far as Dearborn) by the end of 1837. In 1846, the central railroad...

Ann Arbor Street Railway Company.

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Cincinnati, Saginaw and Mackinaw Railroad Company.

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Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway

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Detroit Zoological Park (Mich.)

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Grand Rapids, Newaygo and Lake Shore Railroad Company.

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Detroit (Mich.). Dept. of Street Railways.

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, originally named Louisa Railroad in Louisa County, Virginia, was founded in 1836 and reached the foot of the Appalachian Mountains at what is now Clifton Forge by 1850. For more information, please see the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collections' Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad web page. From the description of George Washington's railroad Chesapeake and Ohio Lines correspondence, 1935. (Western North Carolina Library Network). WorldCat record id: 213416394 ...

Port Huron and North Western Railway Company.

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Goldrush-Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg & Western Railroad.

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Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railway Company.

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Shay, Ephraim, 1839-1916

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Born in Huron Co. Oh. July 17, 1839, reared by grandfather in N.J. Worked as bricklayer, cooper, teacher. May 10, 1861 enlisted in Third Michigan Regiment, then 8th Reg. of Missouri for 3 yrs. In 1864 purchased farm in Ionia Co., Mich. In 1871 went to Cadillac and ran lumber mill for 11 years. He built the first logging locomotive, later manufactured by the Lima Locomotive works, and built the Harbor Springs RR. He put the first water works at Harbor Springs in 1900 and sold it to the City in 19...

Cass Scenic Railroad

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Henry Stephens & Company.

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Cummer-Diggins Company.

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Mackinac Transportation Company.

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Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company.

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The Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company of Hermansville, Michigan was originally founded as a subsidiary firm of Charles J. L. Meyer, a successful Chicago and Wisconsin businessman. Meyer, following the Chicago fire of 1871, made a fortune by expanding his door and sash manufacturing plant located in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. As one of the few such facilities in the upper Great Lakes region, Meyer profited handsomely from the rebuilding of Chicago. By the mid-1870s, lumber s...

Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway Company.

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Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway Company

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The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway Company was incorporated under the laws of Indiana and Michigan on July 11, 1896, as a reorganization of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company. The company operated a railroad between Fort Wayne, Ind., and Mackinaw City, Mich., that was built by predecessor companies between 1867 and 1886. The company was operated by its own organization, although a de facto element of the PRR's Lines West, until January 1, 1921, when it was leased by the Pennsylvania...

Sykes, W. L.

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United States. Army. Military Railway Service

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Pere Marquette Railway

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The company was incorporated in Michigan on March 12, 1917. Merged into The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company on June 6, 1947. From the description of Pere Marquette Railway Company : Corporate records, 1917 March 12-1947 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34953505 The P.M. serviced an area that strectches from Buffalo to Chicago. From the description of Pere Marquette Magazine. 1909-1931 (Grand Rapids Public Library). WorldCat record id: 17599226 ...

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company

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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company or the "Milwaukee Road" opened in Montana in August, 1908. The company felt that to be competitive it had to expand its services to the Pacific Coast. Despite the fact that it had to buy most of its right away and avoid established areas, they were able to build 2,300 miles of track in three years. Along with building track from Glenham, South Dakota to Seattle, they absorbed local railways such as the famous Jawbone of Central Montana a...

Michigan Electric Railway Company.

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Mitchell Bros. Company

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Detroit Terminal Railroad Company

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Detroit Terminal Railroad Company was located originally in Highland Park, on Woodward Avenue, with a freight office on Kercheval in Detroit. It opened around 1914 as the Detroit Terminal Railway Company, and remained in business for over sixty years. By the 1970's it was located on Mound Rd. From the description of Detroit Terminal Railroad Company records, 1926-1978 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 539047349 ...

Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company

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The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad was founded in 1871 and it was originally designed to span the distance from the Ohio River through the coal fields of southeastern Ohio to the ports on Lake Erie. By 1877, only 13.5 miles of track had been laid, and the railroad tycoon was jokingly called the "Wailing and Leg Weary." After several early financial embarrassments, including a complete shut down in 1879, Jay Gould began buying large amounts of Wheeling's stock the following year. Wi...

East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company

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Worden, J. H.

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Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

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Mason and Oceana Railroad Company.

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Hermansville and Western Railway Company.

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Grand Rapids, Kalkaska & Southeastern Railroad Company.

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Klise Lumber Company.

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Cedar Point & Lake Erie Railroad.

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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company

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U.S. railroad, primarily in the Midwest and West; headquarters: Chicago, Ill. Name changed from Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway after bankruptcy reorganization in 1895. From the description of Santa Fé train robberies, 1890-1895. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 228418621 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (AT&SF) was founded by Cyrus K. Holiday in Kansas in 1859. By 1888 the railroad s...

Bear Lake and Eastern Rail Road Company.

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Southern Railway (U.S.)

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Organized in 1894 from the bankrupt Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and several other railroad companies; headquartered in Washington, D.C. From the description of Records, 1891-1972. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28410983 Formed in 1894; combined with Norfolk and Western Railway to become Norfolk Southern Corporation in 1982. From the description of Records, 1899-1950. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 28414535 ...

Saldern Logging Company.

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Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway Company.

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New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company

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Born 1 Feb. 1885 in Johnstown, Pa. Moved with family to Buffalo shortly after the Johnstown flood of 1889. When his parents died, he became the ward of his brother-in-law, C. George Hyde, who apprenticed him to the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad in 1902. From the description of Apprenticeship papers of John P. Loewer, 1902 May 5. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 44271315 Railroad company formed from a consolidation of the New York Central Railroad ...

Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company

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Cobbs & Mitchell.

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Hopkins Manufacturing Company.

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Toledo, Ann Arbor and Jackson Railroad Company.

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Hovey & McCracken.

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Masten, C. C.

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Boyne City and Southeastern Railroad Company.

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Buckley & Douglas Lumber Company.

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Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad Company.

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Toledo and South Haven Railroad Company.

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Beaver Island Lumber Company.

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Cadillac & Lake City Railway Company.

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Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad Company

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Munising Railway Company

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Marquette and Southeastern Railway Company

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Toledo, Ann Arbor, and North Michigan Railway Company

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Thousand Islands Railway.

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Boyne City Railroad Company.

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Ann Arbor Railroad Company

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The Ann Arbor Railroad began in 1878. The line began in Toledo, Ohio and ran northwest through Ann Arbor to Frankfort and Elberta, Michigan. It was officially incorporated on September 21, 1895. The railroad ran a Great Lakes car ferry service from 1892 to 1982. In 1976, the Michigan Department of Transportation bought the northern part of the railroad (the railroad had declared bankruptcy in 1973). In order to keep the entire line operating, the state bought the southern part in 1980. By 1988-1...

Hart Cedar & Lumber Company.

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Detroit River Tunnel Company

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Keweenaw Central Railroad

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Lake County Railroad.

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Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railway Company.

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Chicago and West Michigan Railway Company.

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Manistee and Northeastern Railroad.

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Illinois Central Railroad Company

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Cutler & Savidge Lumber Company.

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Dealers in white pine lumber, headquartered in Spring Lake, Mich. From the description of Cutler & Savidge Lumber Company price book, [188-]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 84327799 ...

Big Rapids and Western Railroad Company.

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Peerless Portland Cement Company.

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Cincinnati, Northern Railroad Company

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Traverse City, Leelanau and Manistique Railway Company.

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Frankfort and Southeastern Railroad Company.

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Loud Bros.

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J. Alley & Company.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Detroit, Jackson & Chicago Railway.

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Staples & Covell.

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