Item 20: A Legal Contract by Stock Owners of the Delaware, Lehigh, and Wyoming Railroad Company, 1853 April 12
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Dates
- Created: 1853 April 12
Creator
- Hollenback, George Matson, 1791-1866 (Person)
Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Contract
Condition Note:
Excellent
Measurements:
9 11/16 in. x 7 13/16 in.
Description:
The following item depicts a contract being signed by the stock owners and commissioners of the Delaware, Lehigh, and Wyoming Valley Railroad Company, signed April 12, 1853. In the document, the stockholders are signing an agreement forbidding the sale of any stocks of the undersigned names without a unanimous consent of the entire party.
The majority of the names listed are prominent figures within Wilkes Barre, many being lawyers or military men. The names include Geroge Matson Hollenack, Jonathan J. Slocum, William Moneypenny, William Sterling Ross, Oliver Burr Hillard; Hendrick Bradley Wright, Stiles Williams, George P. Collings, Andrew Todd McClintock, Charles Denison, Anthony H. Emley, Volney L. Maxwell, Augustus C. Laning, Lazarus D. Shoemaker, Elisha B. Harvey, Walter G. Sterling, Warren J. Woodward, Alexander Gray, and Gould P. Parrish.
The Delaware, Lehigh, and Wyoming Valley Railroad Company was a railroad built in the nineteenth century with the express purpose of hauling anthracite coal from the lucrative regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania. These regions were very rural compared to the major consumer markets, namely Philadelphia and New York, thus the company proposed a track that would run from Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, now Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, to Easton, Pennsylvania. The name was later changed to the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1853.
The majority of the names have been identified with lists in secondary sources, including the Laws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by the state, digitized on Google Books.
The location of the document has been estimated as Wilkes Barre due to the residence of the commissioners of the Delaware, Lehigh, and Wyoming Valley Railroad Company.
Location:
[Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania]
Transcription:
12 : Ap[ril]. 1853.
It is agreed that no transfer shall be made by either of
the undersigned of any of the stock ^to be subscribed in our names of The Delaware,
Lehigh and Wyoming Valley Railroad Company, except upon the common
consent of each of the undersigned.
Geo[rge] M Hollenback Jno [Jonathan] J Slocum Wm [William] Moneypenny W[illia]m S Ross. O.B Hillard Hendrick B. Wright Hmnsm Negle(?) Stiles Williams Geo[rge]. P. Steele Sam[ue]l P. Collings And[re]w. T. McClintock Charles Denison A[nthony] H. Emley V[olney]. L. Maxwell A[ugustus] C. Laning L[azarus]. D. Shoemaker E[lisha].B. Harvey W[alter]. G. Sterling W[arren] .J. Woodward. Alex[ande]r Gray G. P Parrish
Geo[rge] M Hollenback Jno [Jonathan] J Slocum Wm [William] Moneypenny W[illia]m S Ross. O.B Hillard Hendrick B. Wright Hmnsm Negle(?) Stiles Williams Geo[rge]. P. Steele Sam[ue]l P. Collings And[re]w. T. McClintock Charles Denison A[nthony] H. Emley V[olney]. L. Maxwell A[ugustus] C. Laning L[azarus]. D. Shoemaker E[lisha].B. Harvey W[alter]. G. Sterling W[arren] .J. Woodward. Alex[ande]r Gray G. P Parrish
- Collings, Samuel P.
- Delaware Railroad.
- Denison, Charles, 1818-1867
- Emley, Anthony H., 1813-1868
- Gray, Alexander, [Pos. Gray, Alexander, 1805-1873]
- Harvey, Elisha Boanerges, 1819-1872
- Hillard, Oliver Burr, 1803-1861
- Laning, Augustus Coryell, 1808-1875
- Legal.
- Lehigh Railroad.
- Maxwell, Volney Lee, 1805-1873
- McClintock, Andrew Todd, 1810-1892
- Moneypenny, William B, 1802-1884
- Parrish, G. P., [Pos. Parrish, Gould Phinney, d. 1879]
- Railroad Companies.
- Ross, William S., [Pos. Ross, William Sterling, 1802-1868]
- Shoemaker, Lazarus Denison, 1819-1893
- Steele, George Palmer, 1801-1870
- Sterling, Walter Green, 1821-1889
- Stocks.
- Williams, Stiles, 1802-1875
- Woodward, Warren J., 1819-1879
- Wright, Hendrick B. (Hendrick Bradley), 1808-1881
- Wyoming Railroad.
Creator
- Hollenback, George Matson, 1791-1866 (Person)
- Slocum, Jonathan J. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu