The Book of Days

trkingmomoe — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 06:17:11 +0000

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The Book of Days

AND SO TO BED.....

Richard Day — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:27:53 +0000

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AND SO TO BED.....

The railroads made this country, the first time.

Hell the North won the Civil War because of the railroads; and the telegraph of course.

And the railroads made this country greater than any other country in the world.

This is a fascinating bio, really.

And there were other concerns.....

The only capital this country had at the time was land.

And I think that the rewards of land to these enterprises made this country great.

Here is the land, do your business. hahahahaha

Thank you for this Mr. Smith, in the middle of the night.

A fascinating biol

My great-grandfather, on my

MrSmith1 — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:37:23 +0000

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My great-grandfather, on my father's side, was a man named Olen Rozelle Smith, he was born in 1848 and died in 1925. He lived in Ohio and worked, as did so many people in those days, for the railroad. Here is the only known image I have found of him:

His wife was named Malinda Burgoon. Her brother, Isadore H. Burgoon (1839-1917) was the man who I told you about once before, the one who was a member of the electoral college that elected Rutherford B. Hayes by one vote. Isadore it seems also worked for the railroad, ( Isadore began his lifelong career in railroading in the fall of 1860 as an office boy for the Fremont & Indiana Railroad, later the Lake Erie & Western Railroad. He steadily earned promotions and eventually became the superintendent and then receiver for the railroad, overseeing the sale and reorganization of the company (1874-79). During his career I.H. Burgoon worked for several railroads including the Fremont, Lima & Union Railroad; the Lake Erie & Louisville Railway; the Toledo, Delphos & Burlington Railroad; the Cleveland, Delphos & St. Louis Railroad; the Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railway; the Ohio Southern Railroad; the Bellaire, Zanesville & Cincinnati Railway; the Terra Haute and Peoria Railroad; the Findlay, Ft. Wayne & Western Railroad; the Utah Central Railway; the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad; and the St. Louis, Carruthersville & Memphis Railroad. His positions for these companies ranged from conductor to station agent to superintendent and general manager. ) I'm not sure if Olen worked for that same railroad or a different one, but it just shows how so many people worked for railroads back in the day. and there were so many of them. Railroads were a major employer in America for so many years.

Well, that's my insomniac's report for tonight. Sorry. I'm going to try to go back to sleep now.

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The Book of Days

AND SO TO BED.....

My great-grandfather, on my