Records, 1827-1963. (bulk 1856-1949).

New York and Erie Railroad Company

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Chartered April 1832. From the description of Report of A.C. Morton, engineer of the Delaware Division, on the routes proposed for the New York & Erie Rail Road between Goshen and the mouth of Callicoon : manuscript, 1841 June 10. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58758123 ...

George M. Newhall Engineering Company.

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Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation 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...

Reeves, Benjamin, 1779-1844

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Reeves served in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1815, 1816, and 1817, representing Christian County. He then moved to Missouri where he served as state auditor, state senator, and lieutenant governor successively. He resigned the lieutenant governorship. Reeves was named a commissioner to mark the Santa Fe Trail in 1825 and returned to the Missouri Senate in the 1830s. In the late 1830s, Reeves moved back to Kentucky to farm. From the description of Benjamin H. Reeves lette...

Reeves, David, 1852-1923

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Reeves, Abbott & Company.

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Platt, Franklin, 1844-1900

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Bollman, W. 1814-1884.

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Reeves, David, 1793-1871

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Reeves, Samuel J. 1880-1944.

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Central Iron and Steel Company.

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Phoenix Steel Corporation.

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The Phoenix Steel Company began in the late 18th century as a manufacturer of cut nails. It later became a major producer of railroad rails and iron and steel structural members. It remained a specialty producer and did not engage in backward or forward integration around the turn of the century like the larger steel companies. The operation at Phoenixville began in 1790 when Benjamin Longstreth built the first nail factory in the United States at this site. In 1813 he s...

Bonzano, Adolphus, 1830-1913

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Reeves & Whitaker.

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Safe Harbor Iron Company.

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Buck, Robert S. (Robert Shute), 1802-1877

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Clarke, Thomas Curtis, 1827-1901

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Sisto, Joseph A. 1889- .

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Nicholas, Robert C., 1814- .

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Gilbert Elevated Railway Company.

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Phoenix Iron Works (Phoenixville, Pa.).

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Thomson, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1808-1874

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Pennsylvania Railroad official. From the description of J. Edgar Thomson correspondence, 1850 October 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981660 ...

Griffen, John, 1812-1884

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Walters, George, 1810-1885.

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Whitaker, Joseph, 1789-1870.

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Joseph Whitaker was a leading American ironmaster in the mid-19th century. Joseph Whitaker was born in 1789, the third son of Joseph Whitaker (1755-1838), a British soldier who deserted during the Revolutionary War and went to work in the charcoal iron industry of Chester County, Pa., safe behind the American lines. Joseph Whitaker, Jr., and his brother James engaged in the manufacture of cut nails at Philadelphia from 1809 until about 1820, when the two brothers leased ...

Trenton Iron Co.

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Founded in 1847 by Peter Cooper; produced wrought iron structural beams, metal wire, etc. From the description of Letter books, 1864-1868, 1904. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58773460 ...

Baldwin Locomotive Works

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Matthias Baldwin (b. 1795), a former jeweler and tool manufacturer, was commissioned in 1831 by Franklin Peale to fashion a miniature locomotive engine to be displayed at his Philadelphia Museum. Soon the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad asked Baldwin to construct "Old Ironsides," his first full-size engine, in 1832. Subsequently, M.W. Baldwin, incorporated in 1831, became an establishment for the manufacture of locomotive engines at 400 North Broad Street in Philadelphia. The po...

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.

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In 1833, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (P & R) was established to serve the burgeoning anthracite coal industry and its customers throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The railroad also supported iron making, canal and sea-going transportation, and shipbuilding, establishing itself as a transportation industry giant for over a century. During the American Industrial Revolution, the P & R provided trackage to the most densely industrialized parts...

David Reeves & Son.

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Reeves, Buck & Company.

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William Sellers & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Spring Mill Furnace (Conshohocken, Pa.).

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Phoenix Bridge Company

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The Phoenix Bridge Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania on April 2, 1884. For much of its life it ranked among the top five American builders of iron and steel bridges. The enterprise had been founded in 1864 as a spin-off of the Phoenix Iron Company of Phoenixville, Pa., a pioneer in the manufacture of structural iron. The firm was originally known as Kellogg, Clarke & Company, with Thomas Curtis Clarke, a noted bridge builder, as junior partner. The German-born...

Phoenix Iron Company

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Barium Steel Corporation.

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Reeves, Samuel J., 1818-1878

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Phoenix Steel Company.

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Cooper, Hewitt & Company.

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Reeves, William H. (William Handy), 1854-1930

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Whitaker, James, 1781-1875.

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Wilson, William Hasell, 1811-1902

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William Hasell Wilson was a civil engineer with, and president of, various Pennsylvania railroads. From the description of Papers, 1855-1898 (inclusive), 1855, 1889-1896, 1898 (bulk). (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 151375265 William Hasell Wilson was born in Charleston, S.C., on November 5, 1811, the son of Major John Wilson, an eminent civil and military engineer who designed the fortifications of Charleston during the War of 1812. Th...

Phoenix Iron and Steel Company.

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Phoenix-Apollo Steel Company.

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Northern Central Railway Company

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Handled freight and passenger traffic from Baltimore, Md., to York, Pa; also called North Central Railway. From the description of Records, 1838-1839. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974117 ...