Atlantic-Seaboard Merger Case Records, 1960-1969.

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Atlantic-Seaboard Merger Case Records, 1960-1969.

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Hearings and testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission regarding the merger between the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Airline railroads; also briefs before and decisions of United States District and Supreme Courts; and judicial correspondence and other papers of E. H. Burgess, representative of the Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore, a participant in the merger action.

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Washington State University, Holland and Terrell Libraries

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Washington State University, Holland and Terrell Libraries

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Seaboard Airline Railroad

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Seaboard Air Line Railway was established in 1900. The company had lines in the Georgia Piedmont and Coastal Plain, and in 1904 a line from Atlanta to Birmingham, Alabama was added. The company's successor was CSX. From the description of Seaboard Air Line freight received, 1893-1896. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 319072236 ...

Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Company.

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United States. Interstate Commerce Commission

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Clyde Bruce Aitchison (1875-1962) was an attorney and Interstate Commerce Commissioner. He was born in Iowa, educated at Hastings College, Neb., University of Oregon, and American University. He began the practice of law at Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1896, and moved to Portland, Ore., in 1903. He was Commissioner of the Oregon Railroad Commission and its successor the Public Service Commission, 1907-1916, and solicitor for the National Association of Railroad Commissioners, 1916-1917. From 1917 to ...

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company

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The Atlantic Coast Line was based in Wilmington, N.C., and possessed rail that ran through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. The Atlantic Coast Line later formed part of the CSX Transportation System. From the description of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company records, 1900s-1950s [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 31908801 The Central of Georgia Railway, formed from its predecessor, The Central Railroad and Bank...

Burgess, Edwin H. (Edwin Haines), 1888-

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Mr. Edwin Burgess, a lawyer with wide railroad experience, was chosen in 1960 to represent the interests of the Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore in the proposed merger of the Atlantic and the Seaboard. Mercantile held fiduciary control over nearly 35 per cent of the Atlantic Coast Line and thus would gain a controlling interest in the newly merged company. This new railroad would bring together the 5,573 miles of track of the Atlantic with the 4,146...