Business papers of Oliver Ames, 1872-1901.

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Business papers of Oliver Ames, 1872-1901.

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Miscellaneous business correspondence and papers of Oliver Ames. The letters, chiefly addressed to Ames, deal with sale of stock, railroad mergers, etc. Included are items relating to Union Pacific Railroad, the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railway Company, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company, Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company, and a brokerage firm of Pickering & Mosely. Also included are correspondence and documents relating to the estate of Oliver Ames and his father Oakes Ames. Also included is correspondence of Samuel Carr.

147 pieces.2 boxes.

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Ames, Oliver, 1831-1895

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Oliver Ames, 1831- 1895, Governor of Massachusetts in 1887-1890. He was son of Oakes Ames, (1804-1873) and nephew of Oliver Ames (1807-1877), the President of Union Pacific Railroad Co. In 1873 he was named as one of the executors of his father' estate. He was on the Board of the Union Pacific in 1874-1877, and served as a board member and director of several industrial companies, banks, and railroads, including the New Orleans, Mobile, & Texas, and Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railro...

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...

Union Pacific railroad company

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Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad Company

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Documents pertain to allotment of Kickapoo lands in Kansas and the Union Pacific building a railroad on these lands. From the description of Kickapoo lands and Union Pacific Railroad Company documents, 1862-1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122382857 ...

New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railroad Company

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Carr, Samuel, 1848-1922

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Union Pacific Railway Company

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Pickering and Mosely (Firm)

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Ames, Oakes, 1804-1873

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Oakes Ames was an American manufacturer, capitalist, and member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts who was asked by President Abraham Lincoln to build the Union Pacific portion of the transcontinental railroad. From the description of Oakes Ames letter to E. D. Braford, 1868 January 14. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 773429638 ...