Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Financial Dept. Records of Vice President A. J. County, 1902-1938 (bulk 1925-1938). - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

Chicago Union Station Company

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The new building known as Union Station (Chicago, Ill.) opened in 1925 at 210 South Canal Street. Its predecessor building, known as the Union Passenger Station (Chicago, Ill.), was at the northeast corner of S. Canal and W. Adams Streets (1881-1923), a site later occupied by the 120 Riverside Plaza building. From the description of Chicago Union Station Company records, 1915-1945. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 709914849 ...

Lee, Ivy L. (Ivy Ledbetter), 1877-1934

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A member of the Princeton Class of 1898, Lee first worked as a journalist in New York and held a press job with the Democratic National Committee. Post-1904, he was an adviser on public relations to leading industrialists, such as John D. Rockefeller and the Guggenheims. In 1916, he opened Ivy Lee and Associates, a public relations firm that took on many prominent clients, including various investment houses, industrial organizations, and philanthropic institutions. Lee was the author of a numbe...

United States. Interstate Commerce Commission

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Clyde Bruce Aitchison (1875-1962) was an attorney and Interstate Commerce Commissioner. He was born in Iowa, educated at Hastings College, Neb., University of Oregon, and American University. He began the practice of law at Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1896, and moved to Portland, Ore., in 1903. He was Commissioner of the Oregon Railroad Commission and its successor the Public Service Commission, 1907-1916, and solicitor for the National Association of Railroad Commissioners, 1916-1917. From 1917 to ...

New York Central Railroad Company

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, but it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s-1890s, the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland. In the early twentieth century it built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that were key to New York Central's repair, maintenance, and stora...

New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company

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The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the railroad predominant railroad in the region from 1872, when it was established through the merger of the New York and New Haven Railroad and the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, to 1969, when it was absorbed into Penn Central. From the description of New York , New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecess...

Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

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The surge of investment that filled the Anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s did not reach the Lehigh Valley until 1791 when coal was found near Summit Hill, west of Mauch Chunk, leading to the formation of the Lehigh Coal Mines Company. Coal was floated downriver on wooden rafts known as arks, which were dismantled and sold as lumber upon arrival. Flooding, shallow water and swift currents created financial problems for the company until Josiah White, familiar with ca...

Cincinnati Union Terminal Company

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The Cincinnati Union Terminal Company was created to build a united terminal for Cincinnati to replace the many stations scattered throughout the city. This would be shared by seven railroad companies, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Norfolk and Western Railway, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Southern Railway Company. The site selected for this termin...

Norfolk and Western Railway Company

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Reorganized in 1896 from Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1896-1969. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28420979 The Norfolk and Western Railroad was created and organized in 1881 when Clarence H. Clark and his associates purchased property and franchises belonging to the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company. As a result of the purchase, the combined track length owned by Clark and associates was just over 400 miles. By 1900...

Reading Company

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The Reading Company, chartered in 1871 as the Excelsior Enterprise Company, became the holding company for the system of railroads, canals and coal mines assembled by the predecessor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company between 1833 and 1896. As a result of anti-trust proceedings, the Reading Company divested itself of its mining subsidiary in 1923 and became an operating company for its rail properties. After bankruptcy in the early 1970s, viable portions of the rail network were conveye...

Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

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The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company on April 21, 1846, the name being changed on Jan. 7, 1853. It was one of the major anthracite railroads and formed a secondary trunk line between Jersey City, N.J., and Buffalo, N.Y. The railroad's original function was to serve as an outlet from the Lehigh Anthracite Region to tidewater by building along the Lehigh River from Mauch Chu...

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Financial Dept.

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The office of Vice President-Treasury, Accounting & Corporate Work was created on July 1, 1925, upon the retirement of Vice President-Finance Henry Tatnall. The duties of Vice President-Finance and Vice President-Accounting & Corporate Work were combined in the new office. In 1929 the Accounting Dept. was placed under a separate vice president, and the office was titled Vice President-Finance & Corporate Relations. The Vice President-Treasury, Accounting &amp...

Ripley, William Zebina, 1867-1941

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Ripley taught economics and political economy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Z. Ripley, 1895-1940 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973162 ...

Railway Express Agency

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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...

Atterbury, William Wallace, 1866-1935

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William Wallace Atterbury was president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was a brigadier general in the United States (U.S.) Army in World War I (WWI) and was assigned to direct transportation activities in France. From the description of The W.W. Atterbury papers, 1917-1920. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 50632886 ...

Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway Company

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The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway Company was incorporated under the laws of Indiana and Michigan on July 11, 1896, as a reorganization of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company. The company operated a railroad between Fort Wayne, Ind., and Mackinaw City, Mich., that was built by predecessor companies between 1867 and 1886. The company was operated by its own organization, although a de facto element of the PRR's Lines West, until January 1, 1921, when it was leased by the Pennsylvania...

Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975

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Burton Kendall Wheeler was born in Hudson, Mass., on 27 Feb. 1882 and moved to Montana shortly after his graduation from law school in 1905. He began his law career in Butte, serving as U.S. Attorney for Montana from 1913 to 1918 prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. In 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for vice-president on the Progressive Party presidential ticket. Wheeler is remembered as one of the most powerful senators in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s. Chairman of the Interstate Comm...

Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

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The Atlantic City Railroad Company was incorporated in March 1899 and was renamed Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines on July 15, 1933. Prior to 1933, both the Reading Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad maintained parallel and competing lines between Philadelphia/Camden and the New Jersey shore resorts between Atlantic City and Cape May. This had originally been a large and lucrative business, but with the coming of auto and bus competition and the opening of the Dela...