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Address Of John W Garrett To The Board Of Directors Of The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad Company
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Book Synopsis Address of John W. Garrett to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company by : John Work Garrett
Download or read book Address of John W. Garrett to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company written by John Work Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Addresses to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company by : John Work Garrett
Download or read book Addresses to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company written by John Work Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Address of John W. Garrett, President by : John Work Garrett
Download or read book Address of John W. Garrett, President written by John Work Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by : Kathleen Waters Sander
Download or read book John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad written by Kathleen Waters Sander and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How John W. Garrett and the B&O Railroad he headed for twenty-six years helped to transform America by linking the nation. Chartered in 1827 as the country’s first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation’s great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O’s beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its time. The B&O’s success ignited “railroad fever” and helped to catapult railroading to America’s most influential industry in the nineteenth century. Taking the B&O helm during the railroads’ expansive growth in the 1850s, Garrett soon turned his attention to the demands of the Civil War. Sander explains how, despite suspected Southern sympathies, Garrett became one of President Abraham Lincoln's most trusted confidantes and strategists, making the B&O available for transporting Northern troops and equipment to critical battles. The Confederates attacked the B&O 143 times, but could not put “Mr. Lincoln’s Road” out of business. After the war, Garrett became one of the first of the famed Gilded Age tycoons, rising to unimagined power and wealth. Sander explores how—when he was not fighting fierce railroad wars with competitors—Garrett steered the B&O into highly successful entrepreneurial endeavors, quadrupling track mileage to reach important commercial markets, jumpstarting Baltimore’s moribund postwar economy, and constructing lavish hotels in Western Maryland to open tourism in the region. Sander brings to life the brazen risk-taking, clashing of oversized egos, and opulent lifestyles of the Gilded Age tycoons in this richly illustrated portrait of one man’s undaunted efforts to improve the B&O and advance its technology. Chronicling the epic technological transformations of the nineteenth century, from rudimentary commercial trade and primitive transportation westward to the railroads’ indelible impact on the country and the economy, John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett’s twenty-six-year reign.
Book Synopsis Reports of the Majority and Minority of the Special Committee by : Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Download or read book Reports of the Majority and Minority of the Special Committee written by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. consists of papers, reports and correspondence relating to the B&O Railroad Co.
Book Synopsis The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 ... First Edition by : William Prescott SMITH
Download or read book The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 ... First Edition written by William Prescott SMITH and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam City written by David Schley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy. ?Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.
Book Synopsis Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870 by :
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Book Synopsis The Northern Railroads In The Civil War, 1861-1865 by : Thomas Weber
Download or read book The Northern Railroads In The Civil War, 1861-1865 written by Thomas Weber and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Time has been very good to Thomas Weber’s Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865. First published by Columbia University Press in 1952, it has been out of print since the 1970s, but never out of demand. It has emerged as the premier account of the impact of the railroads on the American Civil War and vice versa. Not only did the railroads materially help the north to victory through movement of troops and materiel, but the war materially changed the way railroads were built, run, financed, and organized in the crucial years following the war.”-Print ed. “...eminently worthy of study by those interested in either railroads or the Civil War.” - Robert Selph Henry, New York Times Book Review “Thomas Weber’s study of northern railroads during the Civil War remains the obvious treatment of an important topic. His analysis rests on solid research and leaves no doubt that the North’s excellent use of railroads contributed significantly to Union victory.”—Gary W. Gallagher “Thomas Weber’s... analysis rests on solid research and leaves no doubt that the North’s excellent use of railroads contributed significantly to Union victory.”—Gary W. Gallagher
Book Synopsis Seceding from Secession by : Eric J. Wittenberg
Download or read book Seceding from Secession written by Eric J. Wittenberg and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening” account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war (Civil War News). “West Virginia was the child of the storm.” —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union’s 35th state. Seceding from Secession chronicles those events in an unprecedented study of the social, legal, military, and political factors that converged to bring about the birth of West Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln, an astute lawyer in his own right, played a critical role in birthing the new state. The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president, and he polled every member of his cabinet before signing the bill. Seceding from Secession includes a detailed discussion of the 1871 U.S. Supreme Court decision Virginia v. West Virginia, in which former Lincoln cabinet member Salmon Chase presided as chief justice over the court that decided the constitutionality of the momentous event. Grounded in a wide variety of sources and including a foreword by Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and Chairman Emeritus of the Lincoln Forum, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in American history.
Download or read book American Rail-road Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine by :
Download or read book Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library Publisher :Washington ISBN 13 : Total Pages :790 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and Its Subsidiaries by : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
Download or read book The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and Its Subsidiaries written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library and published by Washington. This book was released on 1927 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index by :
Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and District of Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Railway World written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
