Clarence Marshall Wooster letter to George Cosgrave : San Francisco : ALS, 1928 Oct. 18.

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Clarence Marshall Wooster letter to George Cosgrave : San Francisco : ALS, 1928 Oct. 18.

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Re Southern Pacific Railroad's part in naming Modesto and Fresno. With typed transcript, and copy of Mr. Cosgrave's letter requesting the information.

[5] leaves ; 28 cm.

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Wooster, Clarence Marshall, b. 1858.

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Cosgrave, George, 1870-1945

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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...