Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907. Diaries, 1851-1905 [microform]. - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Morris Canal and Banking Company

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Chartered 1824 under act of legislature; built and maintained the Morris Canal until 1922 when it was acquired by the state of New Jersey; canal discontinued in 1924; company continued to exist as a legal entity managing its properties with the Board of Conservation and Development, a New Jersey state agency, later succeeded by the Dept. of Environmental Protection. From the description of Maps, field notes, estimates, and appraisals, 1828-1834. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7096346...

Easton and Amboy Railroad Company

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Opened 1875 as the New Jersey division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. From the description of Journals and ledgers, 1871-1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70963080 ...

Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907

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Civil engineer and railroad executive. Robert Heysham Sayre was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on October 13, 1824, and died in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1907. His father, William H. Sayre, brought the family to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania in 1829, where he became weighmaster for the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Like many company officials, he secured for his son an apprenticeship in the company's engineer corps, starting in 1840 when Ro...

Gowen, Franklin B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1836-1889

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Franklin B. Gowen, a lawyer, was president of the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad Company, 1869-1883. From the description of To the miners and laborers of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, 1877 March 17. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 35766271 ...

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.

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In 1833, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (P & R) was established to serve the burgeoning anthracite coal industry and its customers throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The railroad also supported iron making, canal and sea-going transportation, and shipbuilding, establishing itself as a transportation industry giant for over a century. During the American Industrial Revolution, the P & R provided trackage to the most densely industrialized parts...

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...

Union Pacific railroad company

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Served Oklahoma and other Western states. From the description of Union Pacific collection, 1930-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70972329 The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, meaning any development and revenues from such...

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...

North Pennsylvania Railroad Company

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The Philadelphia, Easton and Water-Gap Railroad Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania on April 6, 1852, and renamed the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company on October 3, 1853. The company's object was to link Philadelphia with northeastern Pennsylvania and central and western New York, but it was only able to construct a line as far as Bethlehem (1853-1857) with a branch to Doylestown (1856), relying on connections with the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Bethlehem. As it o...

Fritz, John, 1822-1913

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John Fritz was born in Chester County, Pa. in 1822. He was apprenticed as a blacksmith and became a wheelwright. He later supervised the building of an iron-making furnace and in 1860 became General Superindentent and Chief Engineer of the Bethlehem Iron Works. In 1864 he supervised the building of a Bessemer furnace for the firm. After retiring in 1892, he became a trustee of Lehigh University, and engaged in other civic activities. He died in Bethlehem, Pa. in 1913. From the descri...

Virginia Coal and Iron Company

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The Virginia Coal & Iron Company was incorporated on January 6, 1882, and renamed Penn Virginia Corporation on April 19, 1967. VC&I was a typical large southern Appalachian coal and land company founded by members of the Leisenring, Wentz and Kemmerer families. The Leisenrings were among several Pennsylvania anthracite operators who made the transition to bituminous coal. Their first such venture, and VC&I's direct predecessor, was the Connellsville Coke &amp...

Packer, Robert A. (Robert Asa), 1842-1883

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Robert Asa Packer; b. 19 Nov 1842, Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania; d. 20 Feb 1883, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida; Business Magnate. He was from a wealthy family in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) PA. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. The family was involved in mining, canal building and later railroads. He was the son of Asa Packer. He was also nephew by marriage of Josef Marie Piollet. R.A. Packer was president of the Northern Division of the Lehigh...

Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Rail Road Company

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The Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Rail Road Company was incorporated as the North Branch Canal Company on April 21, 1858. On May 25, 1858, it acquired a line of canal along the Susquehanna River originally constructed and operated by the State of Pennsylvania. The section from the Northumberland to Nanticoke Pool had originally opened in 1831, that from Nanticoke Pool to Old Forge feeder dam in 1834, and the extension from Pittston to New York state line in 1856. T...

Thomas, Samuel, 1827-1906

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Samuel Thomas was born in Wales in 1827, the son of David Thomas (1794-1882), a Welsh ironmaster who pioneered the smelting of iron with anthracite coal using the hot blast. Thomas was induced to emigrate to Pennsylvania in 1838, where he operated the works of the Lehigh Crane Iron Company, a firm organized by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company as a means of increasing the utilization of its coal. David Thomas left the Crane Company in 1854 and founded his own Thomas Iron Comp...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...