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Records, 1839-1973.

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The surviving records of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey are a series of fragments that had come into the possession of Conrail. The greater part of the company's records were destroyed during the 1967-1979 trusteeship. There are copies of many important CNJ documents in the records of the Reading Company at Hagley and in the records of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company at the Pennsylvania State Archives.

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Gould, Jay, 1836-1892

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Jay Gould (1826-1892) was an American financier and railroad entrepreneur. Jason Gould was born May 27, 1836 in Roxbury, New York to Mary (Moore) and John Burr Gould. As a young man, Gould helped prepare maps of several counties in New York, Ohio and Michigan. In 1856, he wrote History of Delaware County, and Border Wars of New York, a work which explored the local history of the region. Around 1857, Gould opened a tannery in northern Pennsylvania. He soon began speculating in small railways....

Constables Hook Rail Road Company.

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Newark and New York Railroad Company

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New Jersey Terminal Railroad Company.

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Freehold and New York Railway Company.

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Easton and Western Railroad Company.

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Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad Company.

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Newark Warehouse Company.

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Communipaw Central Land Company.

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Perth Amboy and Elizabethport Rail Road Company.

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Ogden Mine Railroad Company.

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Paddy Run Bridge Company.

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High Bridge Railroad Company.

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Penn Haven Realty Company.

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Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad Company

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Toms River Railroad Company.

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Longwood Valley Rail Road Company.

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Water Gap and Schuylkill Railroad Company.

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New York and Long Branch Railroad Company.

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Vineland Branch Railroad Company.

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Carteret and Sewaren Railroad Company.

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New Jersey Southern Railway Company.

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Carteret Extension Railroad Company.

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Green Pond Railroad Company.

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South Branch Railroad Company.

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Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.

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The Central Railroad Company of New Jersey operated a main line between New York and Scranton with numerous branches within the state of New Jersey. It was one of the more important anthracite-carrying railroads, with important commuter and terminal facilities in the New York area. It was an important ally of the Philadelphia & Reading and the Baltimore & Ohio, with which it formed serveral important through routes, particularly between New York and Philadelphia and New York...

Edroyal Corporation.

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American Dock and Improvement Company.

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Elizabethport and New York Ferry Company.

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Consolidated Coal Company

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Freehold and Atlantic Highlands Railroad Company.

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Hanover Water Company.

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Long Branch and Barnegat Bay Railroad Company.

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New Jersey Southern Railroad Company.

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Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877

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Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) was a steamship and railroad promoter and financier. From the description of Cornelius Vanderbilt correspondence, 1873-1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455780 From the guide to the Cornelius Vanderbilt correspondence, 1873-1885, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Vanderbilt was the president of the New York Central Rail Road Company. Hoffman was the governor of New York, 1869-1872. Fr...

Toms River and Barnegat Rail Road Company.

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Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad.

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Whitehall and Communipaw Ferry Company.

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Hunter Run Water Company.

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Port Oram Railroad Company.

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Mount Hope Mineral Rail Road Company.

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West Side Connecting Railroad Company.

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New Jersey Southern Steam Boat Company.

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Central Railroad Company of Pennsylvania

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Sound Shore Railroad Company.

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Vineland Railroad Company.

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Kennedy, John S. (John Stewart), 1830-1909

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West End Railroad Company.

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Cumberland and Maurice River Extension Railroad Company.

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Passaic River Extension Railroad Company.

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New York and Long Branch Extension Railroad Company.

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Lehigh and New England Railway Company.

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Dover and Rockaway Railroad Company

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Buena Vista Railroad Company.

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Elizabeth Extension Railroad Company.

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Harris, Joseph S. (Joseph Smith), 1836-1910

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Joseph S. Harris was a railroad surveyor and topographer, a land surveyor, an astronomer, and a mathematician, during the period 1853 to 1870. He was employed by the North Pennsylvania Railroad, the Kentucky Geological Survey, the U.S. Coast Survey, and the U.S./Canadian Northwest Boundary Survey prior to the Civil War. During the Civil War he advised Admirals Farragut and Porter, and General Butler for the New Orleans campaign. After the war he was a civil and mining engineer for coal mines and...

Dayton Corporation

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Broad Top Mining Company.

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New Egypt and Farmingdale Railroad Company.

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Parrish, Charles, 1826-1896

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Long Branch and Sea Girt Railroad Company.

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Raritan North Shore Railroad Company.

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Wilkes-Barre Coal & Iron Company

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Cumberland and Maurice River Railroad Company.

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Johnston, John Taylor, 1820-1893

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John Taylor Johnston was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was elected its first President in 1870. He held this position until he retired in 1889; the institutions Trustees subsequently voted him Honorary President for Life. From the description of John Taylor Johnston Collection, 1832-1981. (Metropolitan Museum of Art). WorldCat record id: 472155593 First president of the Metropolitan Museum of art; art collector. From the description of Letter, 1...

Newark Bay Corporation.

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Freehold and Keyport Railroad Company.

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