A3S5.4 UDNOIS HISTORICAL SUSYET Illinois Central Railroad Company a centennial bibliography 1851—1951 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS BUREAU OF RAILWAY ECONOMICS LIBRARY SURVEY WSTOWCAI. \ttVHO\S Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/illinoiscentralrOOasso ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY A CENTENNIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 1851 — 1951 COMPILED BY HELEN R. RICHARDSON Reference Librarian LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NO. A50-9036 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS BUREAU OF RAILWAY ECONOMICS LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D. C, 1950 — BUHDIS HISTORICAL SKRVFY in ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD - 1951 \> MINNESOTA •X ' SldUX FALLS QALBERT LEA \ W I q o BIRMINGHAM s^ULjFP ORT_D- ' ' 3 A ZW-x -T^t? FOREWORD The Illinois Central Railroad Company will reach its one hundredth anniversary on February 10, 1951, but some parts of this transportation system had their beginnings in the early dawn of the railway era in America, its oldest lines dating from 1831 when there were fewer than one hundred miles of railroad in the New World. Because of its pioneering role in the settlement and indus- trialization of its territory, now embracing the economic heart of the North American Continent, the Illinois Central has long engaged the interest of students of transportation, coloniza- tion and economic development. To facilitate the work of researchers, students and writers seeking information relating to the railroad's history, the Bureau of Railway Economics of the Association of American Railroads has compiled this centennial bibliography of reports, documents, and other records, including significant articles scattered through railway and engineering journals, maga- zines and proceedings, dealing with the Illinois Central Rail- road Company itself and more than two hundred railway companies which were merged to form the system. The bibli- ography includes the extensive collections in the Bureau's library in Washington and the Newberry Library in Chicago, as well as many smaller collections in other libraries in the United States. The Illinois Central Railroad Company, by whom this volume is published and distributed, wishes to acknowledge its indebtedness to Dr. Julius H. Parmelee, director of the Bureau of Railway Economics and vice-president of the Asso- ciation of American Railroads, and to Miss Elizabeth 0. Cullen, librarian of the Bureau, for their wholehearted co- operation in authorizing and encouraging the undertaking. Especially is the Illinois Central indebted to Miss Helen R. Richardson, reference librarian of the Bureau, who personally canvassed the American libraries and performed the actual work of compiling the bibliography, item by item, and seeing it through to the printed form. WAYNE A. JOHNSTON, President Illinois Central Railroad Company. Vll PREFACE Reports and other publications of the Illinois Central Railroad which are issued at regular intervals, and entries for which no definite date of publication can be assigned, are listed first in Part I. Other material is listed chronologically with the titles arranged alphabetically under the year of publication. The locations of material in this list have been ascertained to some extent, and the key letters following the entries indi- cate the library or libraries in which the literature may be consulted. A list of libraries and their key letters and index are included. No attempt has been made to include transcripts of testi- mony, briefs, exhibits, decisions and other documents involved in United States and State Court cases and in cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission and State Commissions. This material is available for consultation in law libraries and general libraries having full sets of State and Federal decisions. Material on predecessor railroads is listed in Part II. Part III, is a list of the records deposited in the Newberry Library, Chicago, by the Illinois Central Railroad Company. For the location of periodicals see, Union list of serials, edited by Winifred Gregory. H.R.R. IX ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD A CENTENNIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Historical Note In 1835, plans were made for the establishment of a city to be located in Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. From this city of Cairo, Illinois, it was proposed to build a railroad to Galena. In 1836 a charter was granted for a railroad but very little was accomplished. With the enactment of the Internal Improvement Bill of 1837, interest in the railroad was revived and it was proposed to build a railroad thru central Illinois, financed by the State. Construction was started and rapidly pushed on the "Central Railroad" until the collapse of the State's internal improve- ment program, when all work on the road ceased. A charter was granted by the State of Illinois for the "Great Western Railway Company" in 1843. All lands, rights-of-way, etc., of the "Central Railroad" were to be turned over to the new company. It is these three companies, "The Illinois Central Railroad Company", "The Central Rail- road", and the "Great Western Railway Company", to which the references in this bibliography for 1836-1848 relate, al- though these companies have no corporate relations to the present Illinois Central Railroad Company, which was incor- porated February 10, 1851, under the laws of Illinois. The main line of the Illinois Central Railroad Company of 1851 extended from Cairo to the western terminus of the Illinois-Michigan Canal at LaSalle, Illinois. Branches ex- tended from LaSalle to Dunleith (now East Dubuque) and from Branch Junction to Chicago, a total of 705.5 miles. The last of these lines opened for operation in September 1856. Since that time many properties have been acquired, extending the system into 14 states of the Middle West and South and into many important industrial centers. The Illi- nois Central now directly operates 6,543 miles of railroad. LIST OF LIBRARIES CSt-HT Stanford University, Hopkins Transportation Library, Stanford, Calif. CtY Yale University, New Haven, Conn. CU University of California, Berkeley, Calif. DBRE Association of American Railroads, Bureau of Railway Economics Library, Washington, D. C. DICC U. S. Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C. DLC Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. IAr Illinois State Archives, Springfield, 111. IaHi Iowa State Historical Society, Iowa City, la. IaU State University of Iowa, Iowa City, la. ICHi Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, 111. ICJ John Crerar Library, Chicago, 111. ICN Newberry Library, Chicago, 111. ICU University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. IEN Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. IU University of Illinois Library, Urbana, 111. K Kentucky State Library, Frankfort, Kentucky. KHi Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort, Ky. L Louisiana State Library, Baton Rouge, La. LU University of Louisiana Library, Baton Rouge, La. MB Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass. MH-BA Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Admin- istration, Baker Library, Boston, Mass. MCM Massachusetts Inst, of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. MiU-T University of Michigan, Transportation Library, Ann Arbor, Mich. MoHi State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. MoS St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Mo. MsAH Mississippi, Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi. N New York State Library, Albany, N. Y. NjP Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. PU-W University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Philadelphia, Pa. T Tennessee State Library, Nashville, Tenn. TMC Cossitt Library, Memphis, Tenn. TMG Goodman Institute Library, Memphis, Tenn. TUj Joint University Libraries. WU University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Xlll TABLE OF CONTENTS Page TITLE PAGE i MAP OF SYSTEM iii FOREWORD v PREFACE vii HISTORICAL NOTE ix LIST OF LIBRARIES xi TABLE OF CONTENTS xiii PART I Illinois Central Railroad Company 1-175 Reports and serials, material with no date of publication, chronological list of material on the Illinois Central Railroad Company. PART II Predecessor Railroads, listed by 177-207 names of railroads. PART III List of the records deposited in the 209-227 Newberry Library, Chicago, 111. by the Illinois Central Railroad Company. INDEX TO PART I 229-239 : . : ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD A CENTENNIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY PART I The Illinois Central Railroad Company The following manuscripts relate to the Illinois Central Railroad Ackerman manuscripts. Chicago Historical Society Library and the Newberry Library, Chi- cago, 111. Baring manuscripts. Valuable for financial history. Canada. Dominion archives, Ottawa. Bray man papers [Most important collection except the company files]. Chicago Historical Society Library. Davis diary. Diary of a journey to Illinois in 1843 and 1844 ... by John Davis. Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administra- tion. Baker Library. Fairchild manuscript. Wisconsin Historical Society. General Land Office, Washington, D. C. Transcripts of material in the Office of Chief Accountant. Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration. Baker Library. Gillespie manuscripts. Chicago Historical Society Library. Haven manuscripts. Mostly financial. Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration. Baker Library. Illinois. Manuscript returns of the state census of 1855 and 1865. Not offi- cially published. Illinois State Library. Lyman Trumbull manuscripts. U. S. Library of Congress. McClellan papers. U. S. Library of Congress. Neal-Rantoul manuscripts on early development and