Letterpress copybook, 1882-1884.

The Mississippi Central Railroad Company was incorporated under the laws of Mississippi on March 10, 1852, and consolidated into the New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad Company in 1874. The company completed a railroad from Canton, Miss., to the Tennessee line on January 31, 1860. On July 1, 1859, the company absorbed the Mississippi Central & Tennessee Railroad Company (1853-59) which extended its line to Jackson, Tenn. With the New Orleans, Jackson & ...

Osborn, William H. (William Henry), 1820-1894

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Memphis, Paducah and Northern Railroad Company.

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Housatonic Railroad Company.

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McComb, Henry S., 1825-1881

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Leather merchant and railroad promoter. Henry S. McComb was born in Wilmington, Del. on July 28, 1825. His father died when he was still a young boy, and Henry was forced to go to work to help support the family. Until age eighteen he was apprenticed to a currier, Wilmington being a center of the leather industry. McComb excelled at business and was able to buy out his employer. By age twenty-five he was one of the leading citizens of Wilmington, and by thirty he was a l...

Hewitt, Abram S. (Abram Stevens), 1822-1903

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Hewitt graduated from Columbia in the class of 1842 and became, in turn, an attorney in New York City, a manufacturer of iron and steel, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1875-1879, 1881-1886, and Mayor of New York, 1887-1888. From the description of Abram S.Hewitt papers, n.d. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 496102421 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Hewitt graduated from Columbia in the class of 1842 and became, in turn, an attorney in New Yo...

Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1828-1898

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American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Wilmington, Del., to [Henry Morrison] Flagler, 1884 Sept. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672065 Epithet: American statesman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x000223 Diplomat and statesman; U.S. senator (1869-1885); U.S. secretary of state (1885-1888); of Wilmington, Del. From the descriptio...

Walthall, Edward C. (Edward Cary), 1831-1898

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Confederate army officer and U.S. senator from Mississippi. From the description of Edward C. Walthall papers, 1816-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983628 Confederate army officer and U.S. senator, of Mississippi. From the description of Papers, 1816-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149559 ...

Chesapeake, Ohio and South Western Railroad Company.

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Day, Henry, 1820-1893

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Southern Railroad Association.

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Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company

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The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company was a railroad that served the southeastern part of the United States. From the description of Employee Pass, 1899 March 4. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49251564 Chartered in 1850 and also known as the L & N Railroad and Old Reliable. It was a small regional railroad until after the Civil War when it underwent expansion into a major Midwestern and Southern area railroad stretching from Louisville, to ...

Hamlin, Theodore O., b. 1844.

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Rogers, Jacob S., 1823?-1901

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Jacob S. Rogers was born about 1823. He was the son of Thomas Rogers (1792-1856), the founder of the business which ultimately became the Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works at Paterson, N.J. He succeeded as head of the business after his father's death in 1856. Around 1882 Rogers became president of the Southern Railroad Association. This was a holding company formed in the late 1860s to invest in and rehabilitate southern railroads. It was originally formed by Henry ...

New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railroad Company.

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Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929

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Author, civil rights leader, and lawyer. From the description of Papers of Moorfield Storey, 1876-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79899439 American lawyer, author, publicist. From the description of Letter to H.O. Houghton & Company, 1882 July 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53807486 Moorfield Storey received his A.B. from Harvard in 1866. From the description of Composition : [for English?] , c. 1865. (Harvard Unive...

Norton, Eckstein, 1831-1893

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Letterpress copybook, 1882-1884.

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