Fred Copeland letter : National City, Calif., to Bull : ALS, 1871 May 19.

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Fred Copeland letter : National City, Calif., to Bull : ALS, 1871 May 19.

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Regards the passage of the Southern Pacific Railroad bill and the hopes that it will extend to National City. Letter is to a fraternity(?) brother at Harvard Lodge.

4 p.

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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...

Copeland, Fred.

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