Records of Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad Company, 1901-1902.

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Records of Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad Company, 1901-1902.

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This collection consists of a single copybook containing approximately 650 outgoing letters from P. S. & N. President John Byrne. Between September 1901 and February 1902, Byrne wrote to officers of mining and rail companies, and to officials within his own corporation. Byrne corresponded with vice president of the Shawmut Mining Company, F. E. Cartwright, and Frederick D. Underwood, president of the Erie Railroad Company. The volume also included letters to Henry S. Hastings, Byrne's auditor and assistant treasurer. Also present are a series of letters to Congressman James Knox Polk Hall, in which Byrne negotiates the price of bank lands in Elk County, Pennsylvania. The letters are bound in chronological order, and the volume contains an alphabetized, handwritten index of correspondents.

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Cartwright, F. E.

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Smith, Frank Sullivan.

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Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad Company

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The Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad Company, often referred to as the P. S. & N. or the Shawmut Line, ran freight and passenger service between Pennsylvania and New York from 1899 to 1947. The primary business of this line was to transport coal from the Shawmut Mining Company mines in Pennsylvania to Buffalo, Rochester, and New York City. Between 1899 and 1903, the P. S. & N. underwent a costly conversion from narrow to standard gauge track; this project and the decline of the...

Underwood, Frederick D.

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Shawmut Mining Company.

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Hall, James K. P. (James Knox Polk), 1844-1915

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Byrne, John, 1949-

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John Byrne was born circa 1866 on a small farm 25 miles south of Dublin near Asford, Wicklow County, Ireland. In 1906 Byrne moved to Los Angeles, California and became instrumental in helping to fund the Irish nationalist movement. Friends of Irish Freedom (FOIF) emerged in California in 1916, becoming the State's primary Irish American organization. Its main purpose was to gain independence for Ireland. John Byrne was the Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern California chapter of the FOIF and wo...

Erie Railroad Company

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