Papers, 1918-1974.

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Papers, 1918-1974.

Clergy and other railroad passes, mostly on the Chicago and North Western Railway; miscellaneous correspondence, mostly with Bradford W. Carlton, assistant to the president of that railway; several Moody Bible Institute items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7605957

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Chicago and North Western Railway Company.

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"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...

Moody Bible Institute

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Founded by Dwight L. Moody in 1886 in Chicago, Illinois. From the description of Records of the Moody Bible Institute, 1913. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152847 ...

Carlton, Bradford W., ca. 1902-fl. 1954.

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Hanson, A. R. (Alfred Royal), ca. 1901-fl.1974.

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Hanson, an Illinois native, worked as a clerk/secretary in the vice president's office of the Chicago and North Western Railway before he became a Baptist minister in 1929, serving in various locations in Illinois. In the 1950s he was the director of Student Placement at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. By 1974 he was living in Jackson, Mississippi. From the description of Papers, 1918-1974. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 493510648 ...