Letters received, 1871-1914.

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Letters received, 1871-1914.

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Letters document Ingalls' successful effort to reorganize the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad out of bankruptcy, using Boston capital as the key to this recovery. Besides letters from Joseph Story Fay, T.H. Perkins, Laurence Curtis, Henry Parkman, William H.H. Andrews and others, there are minutes of meetings, financial records and lists of shareholders.

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Boston Athenaeum

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Curtis, Laurence

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Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Lafayette Railroad Company

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Parkman, Henry, 1850-1924.

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Fay, Joseph Story, 1812-1897

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Andrews, William H. H., 1839-1892.

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Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854

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Ingalls, Melville E. (Melville Ezra), 1842-1914.

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Melville Ingalls was president and receiver of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Lafayette Railroad Company which was headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. This railroad company was reorganized during the 1870's as the Cincinnati, Lafayette, and Chicago Railway Company. In 1880, this railroad would merge with other small railroads in the midwest to form the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Saint Louis, and Chicago Railway Company. From the description of Papers, 1875-1888. (New York State Libr...