Oswego / Potawatomis / Washington / Honesdale / Logansport / St. Louis / Newcastle / Lewistown / Lancaster / Freeport / Liverpool / Norfolk / Blairsville / Chicago / Seeleyville / Chippewa / York / Chambersburg / Buffalo / Louisville / Ottawa / Philadelphia / Pittsburgh / New York City / Terre Haute / Syracuse / Erie / Baltimore / New York / Harrisburg / Lehigh Canals / /
Company
Frenchtown Turnpike & Railroad Company / Bank of Pennsylvania / New Castle & Frenchtown / Ericsson / Codorus Navigation Company / Allegheny / B&O / Canton Company / Robert Stephenson & Co. / Consolidation Coal Company / Delaware & Maryland Steam Navigation Company / Engineers / THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY / Internal Improvement Fund / Maryland Mining Company / Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company / Ohio River Bridge Company / Amboy Railroad & Transportation Company / Conestoga Navigation Company / Maryland & Virginia Steamboat Company / Philadelphia Bank / New Castle Turnpike Company / Public Works / Mechanics Bank of Philadelphia / New Castle Turnpike & Railroad Company / Commercial Bank of Pennsylvania / Delaware & Hudson Canal Company / South Carolina Canal & Railroad Company / Union Line Stage & Steamboat Company / Chesapeake / Foster Rastrick & Co. / Columbian Steam Boat Company / Baltimore & Potomac Steam Packet Company / Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company / Canal Commissioners / Western Shore / Pennsylvania Internal Improvement Fund / Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United Kingdom / Columbia / United States / /
Currency
USD / cent / /
Event
M&A / Company Expansion / Employment Change / Name Change / Person Travel / Man-Made Disaster / Product Issues / Debt Financing / Funding / /
Crum Creek / Schuylkill River / Casselman River / Duncans Island / Conestoga Creek / Allegheny Mountain / Lake Ontario / Conneaut Lake / Delaware / Cape Henlopen / Jones Falls / Delaware River / Susquehanna Valley / Kiskiminetas River / Conemaugh River / Chesapeake Bay / Wills Creek / /
Organization
New Jersey Council / Board of Engineers / North Branch Division / N.J. Assembly / Delaware Division / Canal Commission / Maryland Court of Chancery / Anti-Masonic Party / Board of Public Works / New Jersey Assembly / Pennsylvania Legislature / Board of Canal Commissioners / Congress / N.J. Legislature / /
Person
Shulze / Sylvester Welch / Alonzo Livermore / Jackson / David Leech / George W. Whistler / Asst / James S. Stevenson / John N. Simpson / John O'Donnell / Mason Joseph Ritner / Philip E. Thomas / Ross Winans / Alexander C. Twining / William Patterson / Thomas Gibbons / William Howard / John Forrey / Jonathan Knight / Joseph McIlvaine / Edward A. Stevens / James McAvey / James Clarke / Christopher T. Baer / John Wilson / John U. Rastrick / George Wolf / Peter S.V. Hamot / David Scott / Benjamin W. Richards / George Abbe / William Penn / Caspar W. Wever / Horatio Allen / Henry Roe Campbell / Peter Cooper / John Mitchell / Columbus O'Donnell / John Hutchins / Nathaniel B. Eldred / John B. Jervis / William Gibbons / George Brown / James Stevenson / David Frazier / Benjamin Fish / Benjamin Wright / E.L. Miller / William G. McNeill / Francis Rhawn Shunk / Nathan S. Roberts / Alfred Cruger / Abner Lacock / James D. Harris / Isaac H. Williamson / /
Position
Captain / Assistant Engineer / skilled surveyor / General / Secretary / Superintendent / Official / Bishop / Treasurer / Principal Engineer / Steamboat proprietor / Colonel / Commissioner / Maryland Chancellor / Principal Assistant Engineer / president / future PRR engineer and director / born / Engineer of Juniata Division / Engineer / career politician and future Democratic Governor / Congressman / Chief Engineer / Governor / head of sloop navigation on Schuylkill River / candidate / skilled surveyor and former Congressman / Superintendent of Wood & Stone / /
Product
Lancaster / provisions / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / New Brunswick / Indiana / Allegheny County / New Jersey / Kentucky / Cass County / Illinois / Pennsylvania / Delaware / Virginia / New York / Beaver County / Maryland / /
A GENERAL CHRONOLOGY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY