Muskogee Company records [Part 1] 1808-circa 1939 circa 1910-circa 1930

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Muskogee Company records [Part 1] 1808-circa 1939 circa 1910-circa 1930

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00131/00131-P.html

This collection contains records related to the Muskogee Company, a holding company which directed several small railroads in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Most of the collection concerns the Muskogee Company: company history, finances, correspondence, and the smaller companies under its direction including the Midland Valley Railway, the Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway, the Cherokee Construction Company, and the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad. Records on the Osage Railroad and the papers of Charles Edward Ingersoll-the Philadelphia businessman who helped create and direct the Muskogee Company-are also included.

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DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University

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Muskogee Company – History.

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Ingersoll, Charles Edward.

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Muskogee Company

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The history of the Muskogee Company begins with the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad, built in the 1890s by a group of Philadelphia businessmen headed by Charles Edward Ingersoll. The line ran from Hartford, Arkansas to McAlester, Oklahoma. It was constructed to serve the Arkansas coal fields in which the Philadelphians held extensive interests: the Sebastian County Coal & Mining Co., American Smokeless Coal Co., Mazzrad Coal & Mining Co., and Garland Coal & Mining ...

Osage Railway

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