EARLY ILLINOIS RAILROADS

  • Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1884
By Ackerman, Wm. K.
Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1884. Original printed yellow wrappers. 174, [2] pp. Untrimmed. Very Good.

Ackerman was President of the Illinois Central Railroad. He presented this as "A Paper Read Before the Chicago Historical Society, Tuesday Evening, February 20, 1883." Notes are by John Wentworth. "Also, An Appendix with the Breese-Douglas Correspondence on the Inception and Origin of the Illinois-Central Railroad, and the Origin of Names of Stations on the Illinois-Central Railroad."
This is No. 23 of the Fergus Historical Series. The front inner wrapper and the rear wrapper print the titles of pamphlets in the Fergus Series Relating to Chicago and Illinois.
OCLC records about ten locations under several accession numbers as of March 2025.

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Title

EARLY ILLINOIS RAILROADS

Author

Ackerman, Wm. K.

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Fergus Printing Co.: Chicago

Date

1884


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