Platt Smith

SMITH

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 9/20/2008 at 10:43:36

Dubuque Weekly Times
November 24, 1859

About a week since a new Railroad organization was effected under the title of the Dubuque, Marion and Western Railroad Company, the object of which is to construct a Road, commencing at Anamosa, and running thence westerly substantially on the line of the Iowa Central Road to the Missouri River. The Directors elected were: Hon. Robert Smyth and J. W. Neeley of Marion; Herman Gelpcke., New York; E. C. Bishop, Bridgeport, Conn.; F. S. Winslow, John Bell, and Edward Stimson, Dubuque. At a subsequent meeting of the Directors, the following named gentlemen were elected officers of the Board, viz: Edward Stimson, President; PLATT SMITH, Attorney; F. S. Winslow, Treasurer.

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