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The Early Business History of Four Massachusetts Railroads—III

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Charles J. Kennedy
Charles J. Kennedy
Affiliation:
The University of Nebraska
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Extract

The early railroads in Massachusetts employed two groups of fulltime officials: the civil engineer and the agent who supervised the construction of the road, and the superintendent and other officials who supervised the operation of the trains and depots. In this section we shall trace the early evolution of the latter group together with the development of the president and the treasurer.

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Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , September 1951 , pp. 188 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1951

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49 Directors' Minutes of the Boston & Worcester Rail Road, March 15, April 12, 1834. The records of the Boston & Lowell, Eastern, and Andover & Wilmington railroads are deposited at the headquarters of the Boston & Maine Rail Road in Boston. The records of the Western and of the Boston & Worcester are deposited in Baker Library, Harvard University.

50 Ibid., May 10, 1834.

51 Ibid., December 2, 1834.

52 Directors' Minutes of Boston & Lowell Rail Road, June 2, October 13, 1835.

53 Directors' Minutes of Eastern Rail Road, July 18, 23, 1838.

54 Directors' Minutes of Western Rail Road, April 4, 1839.

55 Document No. 21, June 21, 1839, in clerk's file of Western Rail Road.

56 Directors' Minutes of Western Rail Road, June 12, 1839.

57 Ibid., September 27, 1839.

58 Directors' Minutes of Boston & Worcester Rail Road, July 12, 1836.

59 Ibid., September 4, 1838.

60 Ibid., August 3, 1840.

61 Directors' Minutes of Boston & Lowell Rail Road, October 12, 1841, April 12, 1845.

62 Directors' Minutes of Eastern Rail Road, July 23, 1838, May 16, 1839.

63 Ibid., March 5, 1841.

64 Ibid., February 5, 18, 1841.

65 Ibid., January 22, March 27, September 16, 1841.

66 Directors' Minutes of Western Rail Road, March 23, 1841. From May, 1840, to March, 1841, it was called the executive committee.

67 Ibid., March 14, 1842; September 29, 1842; March 28, 1844.

68 Directors' Minutes of the Eastern Rail Road, October 12, 1838; June 15, 1840.

69 Directors' Minutes of Boston & Worcester Rail Road, August 7, 1839.

70 Ibid., January 23, September 16, 1839.

71 Directors' Minutes of Eastern Rail Road, February 5, 1841.

72 Ibid., February 18, 1841.

73 Directors' Minutes of the Boston & Worcester Rail Road, December 12, 1836; Directors' Minutes of the Eastern Rail Road, March 27, September 16, 1841; April 4, June 4, 1842.

74 Broadside advertising for bids to remove snow, filed in the railroad tariff collection, Baker Library, Harvard University. The Boston & Worcester directors had its employees construct snowplows in 1835 and 1836. (Directors' Minutes of Boston & Worcester Rail Road, February 13, 1835; January 25, 1836).

75 See Bulletin of The Business Historical Society, vol. xxv, no. 2 (June, 1951), p. 97Google Scholar, for the method used to order iron rails and chairs.

76 Directors' Minutes of Boston & Worcester Rail Road, June 20, 1837.

77 Directors' Minutes of t h e Eastern Rail Road, September 16, 1841.

78 Directors' Minutes of Western Rail Road, March 21, 1843; February 18, 1845; February 10, 17, 24, 1846.

79 Ibid., March 28, 1844.

80 Ibid., February 18, 1845.