Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers ledger, 1903-1904.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers ledger, 1903-1904.

Dues ledger recording names and amount paid for members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Cactus Lodge, No. 94, for 1903-1904, kept by Hudson O. Sarrels, engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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Sarrels, Hudson Oran, 1880-1967

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Railroad engineer Hudson O. Sarrels started as a railroad fireman in 1900 in Austin, Texas. He moved to Tucson the following year to work for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a fireman and later as an engineer. From the description of Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers ledger, 1903-1904. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 43208376 ...

Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen (Cactus Lodge, No. 94)

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Southern Pacific railroad company

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...