Company records, 1872-1909.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Company records, 1872-1909.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313842280

Contracts, ledgers, journals, financial statements, and other business records of this colonization company organized in Ireland in 1880 by John Sweetman to help Irishmen better their conditions by emigrating to the United States. Included are a number of deeds, homestead and mortgage certificates, and other land title documents for land in Murray County (Minn.), the constitution of a cooperative store, and several documents signed by Archbishop John Ireland.

3.5 cu. ft. (5 boxes, incl. 12 v.).

Minnesota Historical Society Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7315195

Minnesota Historical Society Library

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

Chicago and North Western Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6941k1v (corporateBody)

"The Chicago & North Western Railway, created during the late 1850s by the merger of several small railroads in Illinois and Wisconsin, was led during its early years by William B. Ogden, Chicago's first mayor. In 1864, the Chicago & North Western absorbed the Galena & Chicago Union, which in 1848 had been the city's first railroad. Between 1872 and 1910, under the leadership of Marvin Hughitt, the length of track in the road's rail network grew from about 1,400 miles to nearly 10,00...

Irish-American Colonization Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64j6gjt (corporateBody)

Ireland, John, 1838-1918

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nv9m06 (person)

Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nd22gq (corporateBody)

Sweetman, John.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nw0bd6 (person)

O'Brien, John Dillon, 1851-1913.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dz36tk (person)