Southern Railroads: Mobile & Ohio Railroad, "The Rebel Route"

Southern Railroads: Louisville & Nashville

Southern Railroads: Norfolk & Western Railway

Southern Railroads: Southern Railway

Pre-Norfolk & Western logo above; Norfolk Southern logo below.

Restored Southern Railway locomotive on video from 1984

Southern Railway Bill of Lading

SO. RY. CO. ???? Agt.

FEB

10

1899

Southern Railway bill of lading for a consignment of tobacco products from Winston, North Carolina, to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 

Winston and Tuscaloosa were both stops on the Southern Railway.

Southern Railroads: A March Tour

Chicago Board of Trade Members: Armour & Company

ARMOUR & CO.

JUL

16

1901

CHICAGO.

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October 5, 1900

July 30, 1898

blue cancel

September 30, 1898

purple cancel

August 28, 1899

green cancel

June 30, 1899

Berger-Crittenden Company

BERGER-CRITTENDEN CO.

MAY

17

1901

Bart Rosenberg scan

The article below came from the Philadelphia Telegraph in 1913:

New York Evening Post, Feb 1895:

Agricultural Implement Makers: The Standard Harrow Company

THE STANDARD HARROW CO.

JUL

6

1899

UTICA.

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Avery & Pendleton, Brooklyn, Insurance Agents

Avery & Pendleton,

APR

24

1899

B'KLYN, N. Y.

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Agents like Avery Pendleton represented and sold insurance policies for firms like Montauk Fire Insurance.  The advertisement below was published in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 7, 1878:

Silsbee, Baker & Geer, Insurance

SILSBEE, BAKER & GEER,

MAR

20

1901

LYNN, MASS.

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From The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, 1915:

Frederick Elisha Baker, the son of Ezra and Jennie (Dexter) Baker was born in Lynn, July 13, 1853, and died in Windham, N. H., July 1, 1915. 

After a course in the public schools of Lynn he entered Wilbraham Academy.  During most of his life he made his home in his native city, though he resided for a time in Somerset, Mass., and in Windham, New Hampshire.

Mr. Baker was widely and most favorably known from his connection with the real estate and insurance business and his sound judgment on all matters pertaining to this business was generally recognized. For many years he was associated with his father as Ezra Baker & Son ; then as Baker, Marshman & Baker; but, upon the death of his father, the firm became merged into the company of Silsbee, Baker & Geer; later as Silsbee, Baker, Geer & Ingalls, which became by far the strongest of its kind in Lynn.

Ely Lumber Company

ELY LUMBER CO.

NOV  17  1899

Holyoke, Mass.

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Waxed Paper: Erie Railroad Bill of Lading

As we head towards the holidy season, candy companies are also entering one of their biggest seasons.  In addition to making the candy, the firms also need to worry about packaging.  Over 110 years ago, Rochester Candy Works ordered a lot of waxed paper from The Hammerschlag Manufacturing Company in Garfield, New Jersey, which shipped the lot by rail via the Erie Railroad to Rochester, N. Y. 

ERIE

APR

RR.     19    CO.

1901

GARFIELD,

N.J.

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The Erie RR cancel above takes the diamond form of the Erie RR logo:

International Pulp Company

INTERNATIONAL PULP. CO.

JUN

14

1899

INTERNATIONAL PULP CO.

FEB

27

1900

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International Pulp was first featured on this site back in June 2012.  International Pulp, like many forest products firms, also engaged in other industries that took advantage of their large land holdings.  In this way Internatinoal Pulp became an asbestos firm. 

International Paper Company

International Paper's +50 year old brand logo designed in the early 1960s by Lester Beall.  Organized in 1898 of of sixty smaller paper firms, the company continues today as the largest paper and pulp company in the world.  The company is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.

SEP

17 & 20

1898

NEW YORK.

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Phoenix Paper Manufacturing Company Promissory Note

PHOENIX PAPER MFG CO

Seven 2c stamps placed "tapeworm" style on a promissory note

Seven 2c documentary stamps for a total of 14 cents were used to pay the taxes on this $620 promissory note. 

Very little shows up in the historical record I have access to regarding the Phoenix Paper Manufacturing Company.

New York Stock Brokers: Jacob Kirkner

J. KIRKNER

JAN

9

1902

NEW YORK.

David Thompson scan & highlight

Jacob Kirkner was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Produce Exchange.

The New York Times, December 15, 1909:

Samuel Simpson & Company

SAMUEL SIMPSON & CO.

1

AUG

1899

PHILADELPHIA.

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There is little history available to me on Mr. Simpson and his company, save for the report of a legal case between owners of the firm Samuel Simpson & Company in the 1901 Pennsylvania State Reports.

Samuel Simpson & Company was reported to be in the business of importing and selling goat skins and other merchandise at 429 North Third Street in Philadelphia. 

Due to legal issues in a firm in which a J. Harry Lyons was involved, he could not become a partner in a new firm.  Samuel Simpson & Company was established when the mother of J. Harry Lyons, Elizabeth J. Lyons, established a firm with Mr. Samuel Simpson in which J. Harry Lyons would be employed with a salary. 

The firm Samuel Simpson & Company would be reasonably successful, but with the end of the partnership in March 1899, Mr. Simpson treated Mr. Lyons as his true partner and refused to open the books of the firm to Elizabeth Lyons.  Hence the court case ensued.

By the date of this cancel in August 1899 it is clear that some aspects of the firms operation were still underway after March 1899. 

F. DeHass Simonson

Front page advertisement

The Newtown Register, May 16, 1911

F. DeHASS SIMONSON

APR

12

1900

ELMHURST, N.Y.

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American Telephone and Telegraph Company

AMERICAN TELEPHONE

DEC

19

1899

& TELEGRAPH CO.

XXX Other ATT scans here?

Corporate structure

July 1, 1898, First Day of the Tax Period

Farm. & Mec. Nat. Bk

JUL     1     1898

Georgetown,  D. C.

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Check of the Farmers & Mechanics National Bank of Georgetown, District of Columbia from Joseph B. Bailey dated July 1, 1898, the first day of the Spanish-American War tax period. 

Completed in 1922 in the heart of Georgetown at the corner of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, this neoclassical building was once the home of the Farmers & Mechanics National Bank.  It became a branch of the Riggs Bank for years, and is now a branch for PNC Bank. 

*****

The user of this check, Joseph B. Bailey, was a dry goods merchant in Washington.  ArlingtonCemetary.net provides a few details about Mr. Bailey:

"Joseph B. Bailey was born in 1848 at Heathsville,Northumberland County,Virginia. He entered service at Richmond on November 23,1864 and served under Captain William Dement, Company D, 1st Maryland, Light Artillery. In the Battle of Dutch Gap and Drewry's Bluff on the James River, he was taken prisoner of war. Paroled at Appomattox on April 9,1865 and Oath of Armesty taken May 29th,1865.  After the war, he was a dry goods merchant in Washington, D.C. and the father of Ralph B.Bailey. Lived at 413 6th Street,Washington, D.C. SW and was a Member of Camp# 171,Confederate Veterans.