Gates A. Johnson and family papers, 1855-1908.

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Gates A. Johnson and family papers, 1855-1908.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122509310

Papers of a St. Paul (Minn.) civil engineer and surveyor, two of his sons, and of Samuel G. Kent, another surveyor with the St. Paul city engineer's office. The material is principally concerned with the Johnsons' survey work for Ramsey County, for St. Paul real estate promoters and developers, and for several railroad companies. The collection includes personal diaries, surveyor's notebooks, miscellaneous account books, maps of St. Paul subdivisions, and a map showing a portion of a railroad line proposed for southern Minnesota. Most of the surveying projects involved tracts of land in St. Paul and in four then-rural townships in Ramsey County (Minn.). There is information about the construction of railway lines (1870), about a survey (1866) for a line to run from Big Stone Lake to Hastings (Minn.), and about an elevated railroad to run between St. Paul and Minneapolis (ca. 1884).

0.75 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 6741837

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Hastings Minnesota and Red River of the North Railroad Company.

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Kent, Samuel G.

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Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company

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Incorporated in 1861 (as the Nebraska and Lake Superior Railroad Company), the company constructed a main line from St. Paul to Duluth, Minnesota, and also leased three other lines around the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. First deeded in 1877 to the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, it was deeded afterward to NP in 1900. From the description of Corporate records, 1861-1895. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 313866324 ...

Merriam, William Rush, 1849-1931

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Johnson, James P., ca.1863-.

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Le Duc, William Gates, 1823-1917

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William Gates LeDuc (1823-1917) was born in Wilksevill, Gallia County, Ohio. In 1848, he graduated from Kenyon College and was admitted to the bar in 1849. In the early 1850s, he was engaged in the book trade, an occupation that took him to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Minnesota where he decided to settle. He lived first in St. Paul and in 1856 moved to Hastings, Minn. LeDuc promoted immigration to Minnesota, prepared and obtained the first charter for a railroad in the territory, organized the Waba...

Johnson, Gates A., 1826-1918.

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Johnson, Gates A., 1860-.

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Stillwater and St. Paul Railroad Company

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Incorporated in 1867 under the state laws of Minnesota, the company operated a line between Stillwater and White Bear (Minn.). It was deeded to the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company in 1899, then in turn to NP in 1900. Its charter expired in 1917. From the description of Corporate records, 1867-1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 313867231 ...

Dayton, Lyman, 1810-1865.

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McKenty, Henry, 1821-1869.

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