Notes on investigation into finances of Samuel J. Tilden, [between 1876 and 1880].

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Notes on investigation into finances of Samuel J. Tilden, [between 1876 and 1880].

Includes Tilden's involvement with the Cumberland Coal and Iron Co., the Erie Railway, the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railway and other companies, mostly railroads.

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Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886

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Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was the 25th Governor of New York and the Democratic candidate for president in the disputed election of 1876. Tilden is the only individual to win an outright majority of the popular vote in a United States presidential election but lose the election. Tilden was born into a wealthy family in New Lebanon, New York. Attracted to politics at a young age, he became a protégé of Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States. Af...

Cumberland Coal and Iron Company

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Erie Railway

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Railway chartered in 1832 as the New York and Erie Railroad Company; reorganized in 1861 as the Erie Railway Company; reorganized again in 1878 as the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company. After several additional successive reorganizations, the company became known as the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in 1960. From the description of Erie Railway records, 1836-1837, 1872-1878. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58782042 ...

Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railway.

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