Mills Bee Lane I papers, 1857-1970.

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Mills Bee Lane I papers, 1857-1970.

This collection consists of 3 cubic feet of papers and three oversized folders arranged in nine series. The transportation series is divided into four subseries: Seaboard Air Line Railway Company; Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. and Bondholders' Protective Committee; Savannah and Atlanta Railway Company, correspondence and distributed materials; and miscellaneous. The politics series is divided into two subseries: general and domestic politics and foreign debts. The agriculture series is divided into two subseries: general and Satsuma oranges. The family and local history series is divided into two series: family and business history and local history. The folders containing photographs are noted as "VM" (visual materials) in the collection inventory.

6 boxes, 6 folders, 3 oversize folders (3.45 cubic feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7567452

Georgia Historical Society

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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 ...

Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, inc.

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Under Title II of the Securities Act of 1933, a provision was made for the creation of a Corporation of Foreign Security Holders, to be effective when the President of the United States "finds that its taking effect is in the public interest, and by proclamation so declares." It was contemplated that the activities of the new corporation would be similar to those of the British Corporation of Foreign Bondholders which has an official status in negotiating with foreign issuers. President Franklin...

Lane family.

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Savannah (Steamship)

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Owens-Thomas House (Savannah, Ga.)

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Central of Georgia Railway

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The Central Rail Road and Canal Company was organized in 1833 by a group of Savannah businessmen. In 1835, its name changed to Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia. The company was sold and reorganized as the Central of Georgia Railway in 1895. IN 1971, the name changed to Central of Georgia Railroad. From the description of Central of Georgia Railway stock certificate, 1839. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 46736168 The Central of Georgia Railwa...

Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah

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The Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah, which was generally known as the Savannah Line, was founded in 1872 to operate passenger and cargo steamships between Savannah, Georgia, and New York, New York. This company was a subsidiary of the Central of Georgia Railway and was integral in moving cotton from Georgia and Alabama to New York and Boston, Massachusetts over the next seventy years. In 1951, the company was liquidated due to the establishment of an effective national highway network. ...

Lane, Mills Bee, 1860-1945.

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Mills Bee Lane I (21 Nov. 1860-6 Aug. 1945) was the son of Remer Y. Lane (born 18 Nov. 1826) and Henrietta Brinson. Mills Lane attended Vanderbilt University until 1881 when he began working for R. Y. Lane Company, a private bank in Valdosta owned by his father where he worked his way up from errand boy to cashier. In 1888, Mills Lane and his father established the Merchant's Bank of Valdosta. Lane's intentions then turned towards Savannah. In 1890, he became vice-president at the Citizens Bank ...

Lane, Mills B. (Mills Bee), 1912-1989

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Mills B. Lane, Jr. was born in Savannah, Georgia on 12 January 1912 to Mary Comer and Mills B. Lane, Sr. He was married to Anne Waring and the couple had two children, Mills B. Lane, IV and Anita. He graduated from Yale University in 1934 and then took a job in Valdosta, Georgia as a clerk at Citizens and Southern National Bank, an institution that his father founded. Following the death of his father in 1946, Lane assumed the position of president of the bank and led the bank for nearly thirty ...

Citizens and Southern National Bank

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Atlanta Railway Company (Ga.)

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Savannah and Atlanta Railway (Ga.)

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