John Hooker Mooers scrapbook, 1955.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

John Hooker Mooers scrapbook, 1955.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77010630

Leather-bound looseleaf scrapbook of testimonial letters to John Hooker Mooers, received when he retired from the Railway Express Agency in 1955.

1 volume.

Cornell University Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8185161

Cornell University Library

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Mooers, John Hooker, 1885-1970.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w16xq3 (person)

John Hooker Mooers was born in Plattsburgh, New York in 1885. While attending Cornell (Class of 1907), he was a member of Sigma Phi. He retired in 1955 after 44 years with the Railway Express Agency, where he served as vice president and general counsel in his final years with the company. Cornell University Class of 1907. From the description of John Hooker Mooers scrapbook, 1955. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 77010630 ...

Railway Express Agency

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k40g25 (corporateBody)

The Railway Express Agency had its origins in the overland stagecoach and pony express services that linked the eastern and western U.S. prior to the building of the transcontinental railroad. In the railroad era, express companies worked with the railroads in handling door-to-door freight shipping. By 1914 there were seven major express companies, and these were consolidated by the Federal Government during World War I into the American Railway Express Agency. In the late 1920s a g...

Sigma Phi

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh8jd3 (corporateBody)