Business Letters, 1864-1871.

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Business Letters, 1864-1871.

Letters discuss stock prices, amount of coal being mined, statistics on coal use, coal prices, railroad coal cars, problems with the railroad, striking miners and the growth and changes in Streator.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7662746

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Plumb, Ralph, 1816-1903

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Congressman from Illinois (1885-1889). From the description of Autograph entry signed : Salem, Ohio, 1868 Feb. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 641269038 ...

Vermilion Coal Company (Streator, Ill.)

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Letters to George W. Morrell of Boston and a member of the Board of Directors of the Vermilion Coal Company in Streator, Ill. re: business of the mine. The majority of the letters are from Ralph Plumb, secretary-treasurer of the company and later mayor of Streator and U.S. Congressman and W.S Streator, a physician and a state senator in Ohio. Streator established the Vermilion Company and was its first President. Streator which had originally been called Unionville, changed its name to honor him...

Streator, W. S.

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Morrell, George Wallace, 1919-

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Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Company.

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