Inventory of the Illinois Central Railroad Company Archives, 1831-1984, bulk 1851-1970


The Newberry Library
Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections
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Descriptive Summary

Creator

Illinois Central Railroad Company

Title

Illinois Central Railroad Company Archives,

Dates

1831-1984 (bulk 1851-1970)

Extent

ca. 1,065 cubic feet

Abstract

The Archives of the Illinois Central Railroad Company document the activities of the Company and its subsidiary lines and companies from before its charter on Feb. 10, 1851, through and a bit beyond 1972, when the line merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad to become Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. The collection includes correspondence of administrators and staff, minutes, reports and legal documents, financial records, stock information, historical material, maps, blueprints, and photographs.

Repository

Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.

Collection number

IC

Stack Location

4a 28-32

Administrative Information

Cite As

Illinois Central Railroad Company Archives, The Newberry Library, Chicago.

Provenance

The bulk of the collection (ca. 1851-1906) was placed at the Newberry Library on deposit by the Illinois Central Railroad Company in July, 1943. Additions were made to the collection around 1990 and 1997 (specifically Papers Accompanying Board Minutes, papers relating to the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio RR and its subsidiary companies, and other miscellaneous material). The whole of the collection was formally gifted to the Newberry Library on March 20, 1995.

Processed by

Alison Hinderliter, Megan Vandehey, and Brian Reis, 2002.

Access

The Illinois Central Railroad Company Archives are open for research; they are available a box at a time in the Special Collections Reading Room (Priority III).

Ownership and Copyright

The Illinois Central Railroad Company Archives are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.


Biographical Note

With origins dating from an 1830s Illinois-sponsored program of internal improvements, the Illinois Central Railroad (IC), based in Chicago, was chartered in 1851 to take advantage of the Federal Land Grant Act of 1850 and build a north-south line in Illinois from Chicago to Cairo. In advertising and selling lands along its route, the IC was a catalyst for growth in the central and southern regions of Illinois, attracting thousands of settlers and laying the foundations for agricultural, industrial, and urban development. The company had a significant impact on the growth of Chicago and the development of its lakeshore. Expanding west to Iowa and into the southern states, the IC became the primary passenger and freight link between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.


Scope and Content Note

The collection documents the company's history with correspondence, minutes, reports, log books, financial information, stock documents, maps, blueprints, sketches, ephemeral material, and photographs. Development of the railroad in downstate Illinois and in Mississippi (and some other Southern states, specifically Louisiana) is especially well-documented, although there is also significant material relating to Chicago and Iowa.

Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.



Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.

Names

Subjects

Guide to Railroad Abbreviations

AT&SF Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
B&O Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
BCR&N Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway
CA&N The Canton, Aberdeen & Nashville Railroad; Canton, Aberdeen & Nashville Railroad Company in Alabama
CF&M Cedar Falls & Minnesota Railroad
CenMiss Central Mississippi Railroad
C&Dak Cherokee and Dakota Railroad
CO&SW Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad
C&A Chicago and Alton Railroad
C&Ia The Chicago and Iowa Railroad
C&NW Chicago and Northwestern Railway
C&S Chicago & Springfield Railroad
CB&N Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad
CB&Q Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
CC&D Chicago, Clinton and Dubuque Railroad
CD&M Chicago, Dubuque & Minnesota Railroad
CM&N Chicago, Madison & Northern Railroad
CM&StP Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
CRI&P Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
CStL&NO Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
CStPM&O Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway
CCC&StL Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
D&P Dubuque & Pacific Railroad
D&SC Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad
GC&S The Gilman, Clinton & Springfield Railroad
H&StJ Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
IC Illinois Central Railroad
IndS The Indianapolis Southern Railway
IaF&SC Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad
K&SW Kankakee & South Western Coal Branch Railroad; The Kankakee & South Western Railroad; Kankakee & South Western Railroad
L&N Louisville & Nashville Railroad
LNO&T Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Company of Arkansas; Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway
MC Michigan Central Railroad
Miss&Tenn Mississippi & Tennessee Railroad
MissCen&Tenn The Mississippi Central & Tennessee Railroad
MissCen The Mississippi Central Railroad; Mississippi Central Railroad
MissVal The Mississippi Valley Company
MKT Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
MoPac Missouri Pacific Railway
NOBRV&M The New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg & Memphis Railroad
NOJ&GN New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad
NOJ&N New Orleans, Jackson and Northern Railroad
NOStL&C New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad
NYCentral New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
NYC&StL New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
NPac Northern PacificRailroad
PennRR Pennsylvania Railroad
StLA&TH St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad
TP&War Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railway
TP&Wes Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
TWab&Wes Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway
UP Union Pacific Railway
WStL&P Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway
Y&MV The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad

Description of Record Groups/Container List

Record Group 1: Letters by Officials, 1851-1906
- Call Number: IC 1

Correspondence to and from Illinois Central Incorporators, Directors, Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Solicitors, Counsel, Roadmasters, Chief Engineers, Auditors, and others, regarding the construction and governance of the company.
Arranged alphabetically by Official.
 

Series 1: Ackerman, William K., letters, 1854-1883
- Call Number: IC 1 A2

William K. Ackerman began his Illinois Central career as an assistant secretary and transfer clerk (1852-1855), then worked his way up to be secretary (1855-1860), local treasurer, Chicago division (1860-1871), assistant secretary (1864-1871), treasurer (1871-1875), general auditor (1875-1876), vice president (1876-1877), and then President from 1877-1883. He was also a trustee, incorporator, and/or director of various other rail lines, including the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans, Kankakee & Western, Kankakee & South Western Coal Branch, Chicago & Springfield, and Mound City Railroads.
Ackerman's letters are arranged into the following five subseries: Out-letters, Apr. 1877-Dec. 1883; Out-letters, May 1854-Sept. 1862; Telegrams, Jan. 1878-Jan. 1880; In-letters, Mar. 1877-Nov. 1883; and Out-letters, Apr. 1880-Jul. 1882. For more Ackerman correspondence, see also J.M. Douglas, Out-letters, Mar. 1860-Apr. 1877 (Call Number: IC 1 D7.1).
 
Sub-Series 1- Out-letters, Apr. 1877-Dec. 1883
- Call Number: IC 1 A2.1
About 8300 letters in 11 letterpress copybooks from Chicago to New York officials, assistants, and others including many to legislators concerning Southern lines, Iowa roads, contracts, passes, legislation and sundry matters, with telegrams and many copies of statements. Some signed by John Dunn and W.J.Mauriac, and a few after Sept.1883 by J.C. Clarke. Written by Mr. Ackerman as vice-president to Oct.1877, as president to Sept.1883 and after that as vice-president; a few by him as trustee of Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans RR mortgage.

Box Folder
1 1-3 Apr. 12, 1877-Mar. 28, 1879
2 4-6 Mar. 28, 1879-Jan. 20, 1881
3 7-9 Jan. 21, 1881-Jan. 23, 1883
4 10-11 Jan. 23, 1883-Dec. 31, 1883
 
Sub-Series 2- Out-letters, May 1854-Sept. 1862
- Call Number: IC 1 A2.2
Eleven letters to W.P.Burrall, W.H. Osborn, and other New York officials, including arrival and examination of land accounts in Chicago, Apr.28,1855.

Box Folder
4 12 May, Sept. 1854
4 13 Apr., Jun.1855
4 14 Jan. 1858
4 15 Jan., Sept. 1862
 
Sub-Series 3- Telegrams, Jan.1878-Jan.1880
- Call Number: IC 1 A2.3
One letterpress copy book of about 1000 telegrams, mostly to W.K.Ackerman, with some to B.F.Ayer, J.C.Clarke, and W.H.Osborn from other officials.

Box Folder
4 16 Telegrams, Jan.1878-Jan.1880
 
Sub-Series 4- In-letters, Mar.1877-Nov.1883
- Call Number: IC 1 A2.4
About 6900 letters in 28 bound volumes from other officials, assistants, legislators and governors (including many from W.B.Allison and S.M. Cullom) and others, with detailed report-letters about CStL&NO from J.C.Clarke. Enclosures of letters to other officials, advertisements, statements, circulars, etc. included. Some overlapping of dates in volumes. No letters for July-Dec. 1877, July- Oct. 1878, Jan. -Apr. 1879, Feb. -Apr. 1880 and Oct. 1882.

Box Folder
5 17-19 Mar. 1877-Jan. 1878
6 20-22 Feb.-Dec. 1878
7 23-25 May-Dec. 1879
8 26-28 Dec. 1879-Sept. 1880
9 29-30 Sept. 1880-Jan. 1881
10 31-32 Jan.-Apr. 1881
11 33-34 Apr.-Nov. 1881
12 35-36 Nov. 1881-Apr. 1882
13 37-38 Apr.-Sept. 1882
14 39-40 Nov. 1882-Mar. 1883
15 41-42 Mar.-Aug. 1883
16 43-44 Aug.-Nov. 1883
 
Sub-Series 5- Out-letters, Apr.1880-Jul. 1882
- Call Number: IC 1 A2.5
About 150 letters in one bound volume, mostly to W.H.Osborn with a few to R.S. Charles and L.V.F.Randolph, with many estimates of earnings, etc. A few letters are by B.F.Ayer.

Box Folder
17 45 Apr.1880-Jul. 1882
 

Series 2: Banks, Nathaniel P., Out-letters, Jan.-May 1861
- Call Number: IC 1 B2.1

Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was Illinois Central's resident (Chicago) director from 1860-1861.
About 40 letters, mostly to W.H.Osborn, reporting on Chicago affairs, land sales, immigration, legislation, passes, river boats, cotton shipments, currency and political affairs.

Box Folder
17 46 Jan. 1861
17 47 Feb. 1861
17 48 Mar. 1861
17 49 Apr. 1861
17 50 May 1861
 

Series 3: Beck, C.A., Out-letters, June-Nov.1890
- Call Number: IC 1 B4.1

C. A. Beck had a long career with the Illinois Central RR, starting as an agent in Dunleith, ca. 1864-1872, then progressing on to superintendant, Chicago Division (1872-1880); and working afterwards as an assistant and general superintendant (1881-1889); general manager (1890-1891); general purchasing agent (1898-1901); and finally, as chairman of the Board of Pensions (1901-1906).
About 3500 letters in 5 letterpress copy books to division superintendents and others concerning routine matters, contracts, local affairs, Southern lines, etc.
For earlier records of Beck, see Addenda - Letters, C.A. Beck, Letters, 1864-1886 ( - Call Number: IC: A 1 B1).

Box Folder
18 51-53 Jun.-Sept. 1890
19 54-55 Sept.-Nov. 1890
 

Series 4: Brayman, Mason. Out-letters, Sept.1851-Sept.1855
- Call Number: IC 1 B7.1

General Mason Brayman was an Illinois politician and attorney who worked as a solicitor for the Illinois Central RR from 1851-1855. He assisted the company in its incorporation, and worked with attorney Abraham Lincoln in the "McClean County Tax Case" lawsuit which was settled in 1856.
About 150 letters in 17 folders, mostly to Robert Schuyler, W.P.Burrall, J.F.Bunce, R.B. Mason, and D.A.Nea1, concerning legal matters, right of way in Chicago, Galena and Cairo, Dunleith & Dubuque Bridge Co. (D&D Bridge), land sales and prices, town lots, laborers, etc. Mostly letters are during 1853 and concerning pending cases, with a few in 1854 about deeds and bonds to J.N.Perkins and M.B.Edgar, and to W.K.Ackerman in 1855. Also includes notice by Robert Schuyler suspending operations of company because of delay in Washington Land Office [n.d.]; Power of attorney to Mr. Brayman, May 11,1853; Complaint of local citizen about destruction of timber lands, Oct.5,1852; R.B. Mason's certificate of completion of first fifty miles; Introduction of L.J.Germain and his invention of car ventilator, Sept.8,1853; List of Land Dept. employees, Jan.3,1854; Announcement of opening of road from Cairo to Sandoval, Nav,20,1854; Accounts of rents and taxes, Oct.1852-May 1854; a letter to President J. N. Perkins concerning salary, 1855, and resignation, Mar.22,1855.

Box Folder
19 56 Sept., Nov.-Dec. 1851
19 57 Mar. 1852
19 58 Sept. 1852
19 59 Oct. 1852
19 60 Jan. 1853
19 61 Feb. 1853
19 62 Mar. 1853
19 63 Apr. 1853
19 64 May 1853
19 65 Jun. 1853
19 66 Jul. 1853
19 67 Aug. 1853
19 68 Sept. 1853
19 69 Oct. - Nov. 1853
19 70 Dec. 1853
19 71 Jan.-Jun. 1854
19 72 Jul.-Dec. 1854
19 73 1855
 

Series 5: Bruen, W.G. Out-letters, May 1902-Nov.1906
- Call Number: IC 1 B8.1

William G. Bruen was an Illinois Central messenger, clerk, and assistant secretary from 1878-1913, while also being the assistant secretary of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RR Co. from 1900-1913. He was also an incorporator, director, and/or secretary of many subsidiary lines from 1889 to 1901.
About 1000 letters in 2 letterpress copy books concerning passes, especially suburban tickets, mostly to employees. Dates overlap the 136- volume series of the New York Office - Assistant Secretary's Office, which concern passes mostly to foreign roads (IC 11 N1.1).

Box Folder
20 74 1902-1904
20 75 1904-1906
 

Series 6: Burrall, W.P. Out-letters, Jan.1853-Sept.1856 (bulk 1854)
- Call Number: IC 1 B9.1

William Porter Burrall was Illinois Central RR's treasurer (1852-1853); president and director (1853-1854); and counsel (1854-1857).
About 100 letters and telegrams in 12 folders, mostly reporting development of road, land sales, and property in Chicago, Galena and Dubuque, freight tariffs, legislation, etc. to Executive Committee while on visits to Illinois, Jan.27,1853-Oct.12,1854, and a few in 1855 and 1856. Burrall's letter of resignation is dated Dec. 5, 1854. Includes correspondence to Robert Schuyler, Theo Thayer, M.B. Edgar, Supreme Court Justice John Dean Caton (1853); Jonathan Sturges, J. M. Forbes, John Wentworth, J.F. Bunce, J.N. Perkins, W.H. Osborn, and W.K. Ackerman. See also IC 11 N1.5 for more Burrall correspondence of this nature.

Box Folder
21 76 [n.d.]
21 77 Jan.-Sept. 1853
21 78 Oct.-Nov. 1853
21 79 Feb.-Mar. 1854
21 80 Apr. 1854
21 81 May 1854
21 82 Jun. 1854
21 83 Jul.-Aug. 1854
21 84 Sept. 1854
21 85 Oct., Dec. 1854
21 86 1855
21 87 1856
 

Series 7: Clarke, J.C., letters, 1856-1891
- Call Number: IC 1 C5

James C. Clarke was one of the early presidents of the Illinois Central RR who was a railroader instead of a businessman or attorney. In his early years he had been a trackman, brakeman, fireman, and engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio RR. He began his career at the Illinois Central as a superintendent of the Northern division at Amboy, from 1855-1856. He was promoted to general superintendent and master of transportation (1856-1858), and after service on the Erie RR line he came back to the Illinois Central to become general manager (1874-1878), and later 2nd vice president (1876-1877), vice president and general manager (1877-1883) and director (1877-1887), and finally president (1883-1887). He also presided over many subsidiary Southern lines, in addition to being involved in the management of the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans RR and being the president of the Mobile & Ohio RR in 1890.
Clarke's letters are arranged into the following five subseries: Out-letters, Nov.1856-Feb.1859; Out-letters: President's office, Nov.1874-Oct.1891; Out-letters, 1856 and1858; In-letters, Sept.-Oct.1856; and In-letters: President's Office, Jan. 1885- June 1887.
 
Sub-Series 1- Out-letters, Nov.1856-Feb.1859
- Call Number: IC 1 C5.1
About 1700 letters in 4 letterpress copy books from Chicago to New York officials, division superintendents, and others concerning local matters, legal cases, claims, coal, mails, etc. Some signed by Silas Bent. Some overlapping of dates in volumes.

Box Folder
22 88-91 Nov.1856-Feb.1859
 
Sub-Series 2- Out-letters: President's office, Nov.1874-Oct.1891
- Call Number: IC 1 C5.2
About 10,000 letters in 12 letterpress copy books from Chicago to New York officials and others concerning many routine matters, with some considerations of Southern lines; a few in earlier volumes signed as president of Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans RR. Some signed by John Dunn, L.T.Brien and T.E.King; after Apr.1887 mostly signed by John Dunn with a few by Stuyvesant Fish and W.G.Bruen. Volumes overlap: v.1, Nov.1874-Dec.1875; v.2, Jan.1876-Sept. 1882; v.3, Feb.-Dec.1878; v.4, Dec.1881-Dec.1883.

Box Folder
23 92-94 Nov.1874-Sept.1882
24 95-97 Dec. 1881-Aug. 1884
25 98-99 Aug. 1884-Oct. 1885
26 100-101 Oct. 1885-Jan. 1887
27 102-103 Jan. 1887 - Oct. 1891
 
Sub-Series 3- Out-letters, 1856, 1856
- Call Number: IC 1 C5.3
12 letters in 4 folders to W.H.Osborn about routine matters, state fair, Galena and Chicago Union, competition, etc.

Box Folder
28 104 Aug.-Sept. 1856
28 105 Dec. 1856
28 106 Jan. 1858
28 107 Mar.-Apr. 1858
 
Sub-Series 4- In-letters, Sept.-Oct.1856
- Call Number: IC 1 C5.4
About 150 letters in 1 volume sent to Amboy concerning local matters, coal, freight, etc., from officials, local citizens and shippers.

Box Folder
28 108 Sept.-Oct.1856
 
Sub-Series 5- In-letters: President's Office, Jan. 1885- June 1887
- Call Number: IC 1 C5.5
About 3500 letters in 10 volumes from officials, assistants, and other roads including many from Southern lines. Many pamphlets, statements and advertisements included as well as enclosures of letters to other officials. After Apr.1887 to Stuyvesant Fish.

Box Folder
29 109-111 Jan.-Jun. 1885
30 112-113 Aug. 1885-Apr. 1886
31 114-115 May-Sept. 1886
32 116-117 Oct. 1886-Apr. 1887
33 118 Apr.-Jun. 1887
 

Series 8: Crane, W.W. Out-letters, Jan.-May 1899
- Call Number: IC 1 C7.1

W.W. Crane was an Illinois Central freight agent in Jackson, Tennessee in 1899.
About 400 letters in 4 letterpress copy books from Jackson, Tennessee freight office, mostly to other freight agents, on routine matters concerning shipments, earnings, etc.

Box Folder
34 119 Jan. 20, 1899 - Feb. 9, 1899
34 120 Feb. 9, 1899- Mar. 10, 1899
34 121 Mar. 29, 1899 - Apr. 16, 1899
34 122 Apr. 16, 1899 - May 10, 1899
 

Series 9: Done, J.H. (John H.) Out-letters, Oct.1855-May 1856
- Call Number: IC 1 D5.1

John H. Done was the Illinois Central RR's master of transportation in 1855, and a general superintendent from 1855-1856.
About 25 letters in 3 folders, mostly to W.H.Osborn and J.N.Perkins, accepting superintendency, Oct. 1855, and reporting on Chicago activities including condition of stationary equipment (engine houses, grain houses, car shops, etc.), fencing, locomotives, and on Galena and Chicago Union contract, instructions to division superintendents, fire, pay rolls, etc.

Box Folder
34 123 1855 (October only)
34 124 Jan. 1856
34 125 Mar.-May 1856
 

Series 10: Doty, F.R. Letters and miscellaneous papers, Jan.1887-Feb.1894
- Call Number: IC 1 D6.1

F. R. Doty was the Illinois Central RR's roadmaster for the Amboy division from 1887-1894.
About 500 letters, predominantly incoming, in 17 folders, from division superintendents, local citizens, and others concerning instructions, equipment, legal cases, laborers, accidents, complaints, etc. Includes also a few letters to Illinois Central RR foreman A.B.Minton, Aug.1888-0ct.1889. Letters of interest include a complaint from a homeowner about wall construction (Oct. 5, 1887), a request from the people of Wapella, IL to build a baseball field near the rail line (Jun. 26, 1889), a report dated Aug. 4, 1890 on the bad condition of the Railroad's water closets, and correspondence from March, 1893 relating to discharging workmen for intoxication and a workman's strike at Clinton. There is significant correspondence from October 1889 regarding the opening of the Cairo Bridge. Files also include sample forms and accident reports, lists of materials used, and miscelaneous statements, including statements of broken rails.

Box Folder
34 126 1887
34 127 Jan.-Feb. 1888
34 128 Mar.-Dec. 1888
34 129 Jan.-May 1889
34 130 Jun.-Dec. 1889
34 131 May-Jul. 1890
34 132 Aug.-Dec. 1890
35 133 Jan-Mar. 1891
35 134 Oct.-Nov. 1891
35 135 Dec. 1891
35 136 Aug.-Sept. 1892
35 137 Oct.-Dec. 1892
35 138 Jan. 1893
35 139 Feb.-Mar. 1893
35 140 Apr. 1893
35 141 Jan. 1894
35 142 Feb. 1894
 

Series 11: Douglas, J.M. (John M.), letters, 1860-1870
- Call Number: IC 1 D7

John M. Douglas worked as a solicitor for the Illinois Central RR (1856-1858; 1865-1876), director (1861-1872), vice president (1864-1865), and as president for two terms, from 1865 to 1871, and then again from 1875 to 1876. For one year in 1857 he was a trustee to the Illinois Central RR's mortgage.
Douglas's letters are arranged in four subseries: Out-letters, Mar.1860-Apr.1877; Telegrams, Feb. 1875 -Mar. 1876; In-letters, Apr.-Dec.1875; and In-letters, from W.H.Osborn, Feb.1866-Dec.1870.
 
Sub-Series 1- Out-letters, Mar.1860-Apr.1877
- Call Number: IC 1 D7.1
About 4700 letters in 9 letterpress copy books from Chicago to officials, especially New York Executive Committee, and others including legislators. Let- ters from 1860-64 mostly legal, especially about lands; many during 1864-66 concern military claims. Some signed by John Dunn. After July 1876 letters are from W.K.Ackerman. No letters from Feb.1871-Nov.1873.

Box Folder
36 143-146 Mar. 1860-Jun. 1868
37 147-150 Jul. 1868-Jul. 1876
38 151 Ackerman, Jun-Jul. 1876; Jul. 1876-Apr. 1877
 
Sub-Series 2- Telegrams, Feb. 1875 -Mar. 1876
- Call Number: IC 1 D7.2
About 500 telegrams in 1 letterpress copy book, mostly to J.C.Clarke and J.M.Douglas, from J.F.Tucker, W.H.Osborn, S. J.Hayes, and other officials.

Box Folder
39 152 Feb. 1875 -Mar. 1876
 
Sub-Series 3- In-letters, Apr.-Dec.1875
- Call Number: IC 1 D7.3
About 400 letters in 2 bound volumes from officials, attorneys, and local citizens about lands, legal and local matters, personnel, passes, Southern lines, etc.

Box Folder
39 153-154 Apr.-Dec.1875
 
Sub-Series 4- In-letters, from W.H.Osborn, . Feb.1866-Dec.1870
- Call Number: IC 1 D7.4
About 200 letters in 1 bound volume from New York and London.

Box Folder
40 155 Feb.1866-Dec.1870
 

Series 12: Fish, Stuyvesant, letters, 1883-1906
- Call Number: IC 1 F2

Stuyvesant Fish was the Illinois Central RR's president from 1887-1906. He was first hired by the IC in 1871, at the age of twenty, as a clerk. Two years later he moved from New York to Chicago to become the secretary to then-IC President John Newell. After leaving the IC after 1872 for a brief career in banking, he returned in 1877 after being elected to the board of directors. Between 1883 and 1887 he served as second vice-president, treasurer, and first vice-president. As president, Fish worked to expand the IC southwards through the purchase of major Southern Lines: the Mississippi and Tennessee RR, the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas RR (LNO&T), and the Chesapeake, Ohio, and Southwestern RR (CO&SW). Due to a power struggle between Fish and powerful IC director Edward H. Harriman, Fish was asked to resign in 1906.
Fish's letters are arranged into the following five subseries: Out-letters: President's Office, May 1887-Nov. 1906; Out-letters: President's Office, Mar.1895-Mar.1896; In-letters: President's office, Jan. 1883-Nov. 1906; Index to In-letters: President's Office, 1895-1903; and In-letters: President's Office, Chicago, June-Sept.1887 and Sept.1889-June 1892.
 
Sub-Series 1- Out-letters: President's Office, May 1887-Nov. 1906
- Call Number: IC 1 F2.1
About 80,000 letters in 80 letterpress copy books (i.e., in 40 boxes) from New York to officials, brokers, bankers, and other roads. No letters for Mar.-May 1888, Dec.1890-0ct.1891 and Sept. 1906. Volumes 3, 8, 78 and 83 are missing.
Various letters from this series are available on microfilm.

Box Folder
41 156-157 Volumes 1-2, May 1887-Feb. 1888
42 158-159 Volumes 4-5, Jun. 1888-Apr. 1889
43 160-161 Volumes 6-7, Apr. 1889-Nov. 1890
44 162-163 Volumes 9-10, Nov. 1891-Nov. 1892
45 164-165 Volumes 11-12, Nov. 1892-Jun. 1893
46 166-167 Volumes 13-14, Jun. 1893-Feb. 1894
47 168-169 Volumes 15-16, Feb.-Jun. 1894
48 170-171 Volumes 17-18, Jun.-Dec. 1894
49 172-173 Volumes 19-20, Dec. 1894-May 1895
50 174-175 Volumes 21-22, May-Oct. 1895
51 176-177 Volumes 23-24, Oct. 1895-Mar. 1896
52 178-179 Volumes 25-26, Mar.-Nov. 1896
53 180-181 Volumes 27-28, Nov. 1896-Mar. 1897
54 182-183 Volumes 29-30, Mar.-Jul. 1897
55 184-185 Volumes 31-32, Jul.-Nov. 1897
56 186-187 Volumes 33-34, Nov. 1897-Mar. 1898
57 188-189 Volumes 35-36, Mar.-Aug. 1898
58 190-191 Volumes 37-38, Aug.-Sept. 1898
59 192-193 Volumes 39-40, Dec. 1898-Apr. 1899
60 194-195 Volumes 41-42, May-Oct. 1899
61 196-197 Volumes 43-44, Oct. 1899-Feb. 1900
62 198-199 Volumes 45-46, Feb.-May 1900
63 200-201 Volumes 47-48, May-Oct. 1900
64 202-203 Volumes 49-50, Oct. 1900- Feb. 1901
65 204-205 Volumes 51-52, Feb.-Jul. 1901
66 206-207 Volumes 53-54, Jul.-Nov. 1901
67 208-209 Volumes 55-56, Nov. 1901-Mar. 1902
68 210-211 Volumes 57-58, Mar.-Aug. 1902
69 212-213 Volumes 59-60, Aug. 1902-Jan. 1903
70 214-215 Volumes 61-62, Jan.-Jun. 1903
71 216-217 Volumes 63-64, Jul.-Dec. 1903
72 218-219 Volumes 65-66, Dec. 1903-Mar. 1904
73 220-221 Volumes 67-68, Mar.-Aug. 1904
74 222-223 Volumes 69-70, Aug.-Nov. 1904
75 224-225 Volumes 71-72, Nov. 1904-Feb. 1905
76 226-227 Volumes 73-74, Feb.-Jun. 1905
77 228-229 Volumes 75-76, Jun.-Oct. 1905
78 230-231 Volumes 77 and 79, Oct. 1905-Mar. 1906
79 232-233 Volumes 80-81, Mar-Jun. 1906
80 234-235 Volumes 82 and 84, Jun.-Nov. 1906
 
Sub-Series 2- Out-letters: President's Office, Mar. 1895-Mar. 1896
- Call Number: IC 1 F2.11
About 4000 letters in 4 volumes from New York, labelled "Carbons of New York Letters." These carbons duplicate previous subseries of president's letters, May 1887-Nov.1906. (IC 1 F2.1)

Box Folder
81 236-237 Mar.-Dec. 1895
82 238-239 Dec. 1895-Mar. 1896
 
Sub-Series 3- In-letters: President's office, Jan. 1883-Nov. 1906
- Call Number: IC 1 F2.2
About 65,000 letters in 435 volumes (numbered 1-426), mostly to New York but some to Chicago after May 1887; to Mr. Fish as vice-president before May 1887; earlier volumes mostly from Chicago and New Orleans, consisting of report-letters and many financial matters. Many enclosures of letters, pamphlets, blueprints, clippings, maps, reports, government documents, legal cases, etc., including World's Fair, 1891-93. A few volumes are about special subjects: v. 156, St. Louis, Belleville & Southern; v.246, Memphis depot; v.251, New Orleans matters; v.410 and 410A-F (7 volumes total), Tennessee Central; v.411 and 411A-F (7 volumes total), Indianapolis Southern Railway; v.412, The Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend; v.413, Birmingham line. No letters for Mar.1888. Volumes 46, 126, and 155 missing.
Some of these volumes have been disbound and are foldered and in boxes. The box is labeled with the original volume number. Some items were separated from these volumes; namely, correspondence from important and famous people, and oversize items. Loose letters are stored in box 87a (after the Index to the In-Letters), and oversize items are stored in box 87j (in the oversize aisles)
Various records from this subseries are available on microfilm.

Volume
1-426 Jan. 1883-Nov. 1906
 
Sub-Series 4- Index to In-letters: President's Office, 1895-1903
- Call Number: IC 1 F2.2 Index
Indexes the series IC 1 F2.2 incoming letters alphabetically by writers and subjects. Some subjects include Italians (Hiring of), Lynchings, Poetry, Quarantine (see Yellow Fever), Racetrack, and Strikes. Lacking the following alphabetic runs: Bo-Bz, G, He-Hz, Ni-Ny, O, Sa-St, and Ta-To.
A copy of this index is available on microfilm.

Box Folder
83 240 "Letters Received, Subject Index, to 168"
83 241-246 A - Col
84 247-251 Com - H
85 252-257 I - Me
86 258-263 Mi - P
87 264-274 Q - Z
 
Sub-Series 5- In-letters: President's Office, Chicago, and Jun.-Sept.1887 Sept.1889-Jun. 1892
- Call Number: IC 1 F2.3
About 10,000 letters in 32 volumes, many to John Dunn, and earlier dates to E.H.Harriman

Volume
1 Jun.-Sept.1887
2-32 Sept.1889-Jun. 1892
 

Series 13: Forbes, J.M. (John Murray), Out-letters, (bulk May 1851-May 1856 1854)
- Call Number: IC 1 F3.1

John Murray Forbes was the president of the Michigan Central RR from 1851-1856.
About 35 letters and telegrams in 6 folders, mostly to IC administrators Robert Schuyler, W. P. Burrall, John Sturges, W. H. Osborn, and J. N. Perkins, concerning the Michigan Central contract, connections with St. Louis and Indiana, and the Joliet Branch. There is also a few letters about securities, the Chicago passenger station, loan of steel rail, and the IC directory. There are no letters from 1852 or 1853.

Box Folder
88 275 1851 (May 30 only)
88 276 Jan.-Apr. 1854
88 277 May-Aug. 1854
88 278 Sept.-Dec. 1854
88 279 1855 (Oct.-Nov. only)
88 280 1856 (May 14 only)
 

Series 14: Griswold, J.N.A. (John N. A.), Out-letters, (bulk Dec.1854-Sept.1856 1855)
- Call Number: IC 1 G7.1

John N. A. Griswold was a director of the Illinois Central RR from 1854-1856, and served as its President in 1855. He was the son of one of the original Illinois Central incorporators, George Griswold.
About 60 letters in 8 folders, mostly from Chicago reporting on state of road, lands, mails, legislation and currency, with recommendations for foreign agents in Great Britain to sell land, letter cancelling local land offices in Illinois, letter accepting presidency, 1855, and letter of resignation from board of directors, Sept. 22, 1856.

Box Folder
88 281 1854 (Dec.)
88 282 Jan. 1855
88 283 Feb.-Mar. 1855
88 284 May-Jun. 1855
88 285 Jul.-Aug. 1855
88 286 Sept.-Oct. 1855
88 287 Nov.-Dec. 1855
88 288 Letter of resignation as director, Sept. 22, 1856
 

Series 15: Harriman, E.H. (Edward Henry), In-letters, Jan.-Oct.1888
- Call Number: IC 1 H2.1

E.H. Harriman was a director of the Illinois Central RR from 1883 to 1909, and served as its vice president from 1887-1890. Although he was never president of the Illinois Central, he did serve as president and director of many subsidiary lines, as well as other railroad companies. He served as a trustee of the mortgage of the Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans RR from 1897-1898.
About 150 letters in 1 volume, mostly from Stuyvesant Fish and some from other officials, about contracts, securities, legal matters, Southern lines, etc.

Box Folder
88 289 Jan.-Oct.1888
 

Series 16: Jacobs, J.C. (John C.), In-letters, Oct.1856-Apr.1857
- Call Number: IC 1 J2.1

John C. Jacobs was an Illinois Central superintendent, of the Northern division (Amboy), from 1856-1892.
About 125 letters in 1 volume [some letters loose] from ticket and station agents and other officials, mostly about routine matters. A few addressed to J.C. Clarke, Oct. 1856.

Box Folder
88 290 Oct.1856-Apr.1857
 

Series 17: Jeffery, E.T. (Edward Turner), Out-letters, Feb.1888-Jul. 1889
- Call Number: IC 1 J4.1

Edward Turner Jeffery started as a young boy in the Illinois Central RR Company (1856) and took jobs as office boy, apprentice, mechanical draughtsman, and secretary, and eventually worked his way up to general manager (1885-1889). He was also an incorporator, director, and general manager of many subsidiary roads from 1880-1887.
About 5000 letters in 7 letterpress copy books, concerning routine matters, passes, contracts, etc., mostly to division superintendents and agents. Some signed by John Dunn and L.T.Moore. No letters from Apr.-July and Oct.-Dec.1888.

Box Folder
89 291-293 Feb.-Sept. 1888
90 294-296 Jan.-Jun. 1889
91 297 Jun.-Jul. 1889
 

Series 18: Johnson, B.F. (Benjamin F.), outgoing letters, 1853-1856
- Call Number: IC 1 J6

Benjamin F. Johnson was the local assistant to the Illinois Central president, posted in Chicago from 1855-1856. Previous to 1855 he was in downstate Illinois with Chief Engineer R.B. Mason, reporting back to the administrators (Burrall, Sturges, Ackerman, Perkins, and Osborn) on the progress of laying down the tracks.
The out-letters are divided into two subseries, since the first subseries is a bound letterpress copy book, and the second subseries is a collection of loose manuscript letters. They are in the following arrangement: Out-letters, May l9-Dec.24,1855; and Out-letters, Dec.1853-Dec.1856.
 
Sub-Series 1- Out-letters, May l9-Dec.24,1855
- Call Number: IC 1 J6.1
About 400 letters in 1 letterpress copy book, from Chicago, mostly to New York officials, reporting on local activities.

Box Folder
92 298 May l9-Dec.24,1855
 
Sub-Series 2- Out-letters, Dec.1853-Dec.1856
- Call Number: IC 1 J6.2
About 400 letters in 19 folders to presidents and various New York officials reporting on conditions in Chicago, including land matters, crops, the quality of produce, the Illinois State Fair, prices, coal, locomotives, weather, accidents, reportings of cholera, currency, immigration, and local politics. In one particular letter he reports that "Lincoln, a distinguished lawyer of Springfield, is looked upon as likely to succeed Gen'l. Shields in the U.S. Senate." (Nov. 16, 1854)

Box Folder
92 299 1853 (Dec. only)
92 300 Feb.-Aug. 1854
92 301 Oct.-Dec. 1854
92 302 Jun.-Jul. 1855
92 303 Aug. 1855
92 304 Sept. 1855
92 305 Oct. 1855
92 306 Nov. 1855
92 307 Dec. 1855
93 308 Jan. 1856
93 309 Mar. 1856
93 310 Apr. 1856
93 311 May 1856
93 312 Jun. 1856
93 313 Aug. 1856
93 314 Sept. 1856
93 315 Oct. 1856
93 316 Nov. 1856
93 317 Dec. 1856
 

Series 19: Joy, J.F. (James Frederick), Out-letters, (bulk Aug.1851-Feb.1875 1853-1855)
- Call Number: IC 1 J7.1

James Frederick Joy was a counsel for both the Illinois Central and the Michigan Central RR (1852-1853), as well as Illinois Central RR director (1855-1857) and Michigan Central RR president (1867-1871).
About 85 letters in 12 folders, mostly to W.P.Burrall and W.H.Osborn about negotiations for Chicago lands, Nov.1853-Dec.1855 and Apr.1856, with a few concerning MC contract, legal cases, coal lands, river boats, etc. Some letters to Morris Ketchum, George Griswold, and J.N. Perkins. Also one to J.M.Forbes about Illinois legislation, Aug.23, 1851; one to Postmaster General bidding for mail contract from Cairo to New Orleans, Mar.23,1855; a few to J.W.Brooks and W.H. Osborn about the legal case following Chicago land purchases of 1851-1852, Aug.-Dec.l860; and a letter to Sidney Bartlett about River Roads, Feb.22,1875. Also includes about 15 letters from J.W.Brooks, 1852-62, concerning his securities and relations with the MC and CB&Q. There are no letters from 1859, 1861, or 1863-1874.

Box Folder
93 318 1851 (Aug. 23 only)
93 319 1852
93 320 1853
93 321 Jan.-May 1854
93 322 Jun.-Dec. 1854
93 323 1855
93 324 1856
93 325 1857
93 326 1858 (April only)
93 327 1860
93 328 1862 (April only)
93 329 1875 (Feb. 22 only)
 

Series 20: Kirkland, Joseph. Out-letters, May 1856-Feb.1858
- Call Number: IC 1 K3.1

Joseph Kirkland was an auditor for the Illinois Central RR from 1856-1858.
About 20 letters and telegrams in 3 folders to W.H.Osborn and J.N.Perkins concerning Chicago activities, earnings, accounts, Cairo line, CB&Q use of depot, accidents, etc.; a few to W.K.Ackerman are personal, including comments on Know-Nothing party elections and yearnings to find a wife in Chicago (October 26, 1856).

Box Folder
93 330 1856 (May, Oct.-Nov. only)
93 331 1857 (Aug. only)
93 332 1858 (Jan.-Feb. only)
 

Series 21: Lane, Ebenezer. Out-letters, (bulk ) 1855-58 1856
- Call Number: IC 1 L2.1

Ebenezer Lane was a director of the Illinois Central RR from 1855 to 1859.
About 60 letters and telegrams in 5 folders to W.H.Osborn and J.N.Perkins reporting on local Chicago affairs, including a fire, finances and conditions of banks, and legal matters such as the Dunleith contract, the St. Charles Air Line, Associates Lands, etc. Also considerations of the custody of notes, land contracts, statements of land notes, and competition with the Galena and Chicago Union. Judge Lane's acceptance and terms of employment with IC included, Apr.16,1856.

Box Folder
94 333 [n.d.]
94 334 1855
94 335 1856
94 336 1857
94 337 1858
 

Series 22: McClellan, G.B. (George Brinton), letters, 1857-1876
- Call Number: IC 1 M2

In 1856 George Brinton McClellan was a captain in the U.S. Army and a veteran of the Mexican War. Illinois Central RR's president William H. Osborn offered him a position as vice president and chief engineer, positions in which he served from 1857 to 1860. He was also a trustee of the Illinois Central mortgage in 1857, and working for the Illinois Central's Land Commission in 1858. After his tenure with the Illinois Central in 1860, he became president of the Ohio and Mississippi RR, but when the Civil War broke out, McClellan was appointed a major general of the Ohio volunteers.
The McClellan letters are arranged in two subseries, since the first subseries is in 10 bound letterpress copy books, and the second subseries is a collection of loose manuscript letters. They are in the following arrangement: Out-letters, Feb.1857- July 1860; and Out-letters, Aug.1857-Mar.1876 (bulk Jan.-Apr. 1858)
 
Sub-Series 1- Out-letters, Feb.1857- July 1860
- Call Number: IC 1 M2.1
About 5000 letters in 10 letterpress copy books from Chicago to New York officials, division superintendents, and others concerning construction and engineering problems, tracks, bridges, rolling stock, etc. Some signed by W.F.Biddle, George Power, and G.W.Phillips. There is some overlapping of volumes: v.4 and v.10 are evidently car-letters, written on line, containing reports to W.H.Osborn primarily.

Box Folder
95 346-348 Volumes 1-3: Feb. 1857-Mar. 1858
96 349-352 Volumes 4-7: Feb. 1858-Mar. 1859
97 353-355 Volumes 8-10: Mar. 1859-Jul. 1860
 
Sub-Series 2- Out-letters, (bulk Aug.1857-Mar.1876 Jan.-Apr. 1858)
- Call Number: IC 1 M2.2
About 85 letters in 8 folders, mostly from Chicago, reporting on earnings and expenses and local matters to W.H.Osborn and J.N.Perkins, Aug.1857 and Jan.-Apr.1858, including a long letter to the Board of Directors regarding the steamboat line from New Orleans to St. Louis (Feb. 9, 1858). The bulk of the letters are from the 1850's and concern river steamers, Peoria and Oquawka bonds, CB&Q affairs, currency, state taxes, the New York and Erie ticket dispute, the MC, Kankakee affairs, and buildings at Galena. The letters from the 1870's include a few personal letters to William Tracy, one concerning the "Cairo matter" (Dec. 22, 1871). The letters to W.H.Osborn, Mar.1876 are also personal letters, discussing family matters and vacation plans.
Note: due to their size and type of media, these letters are boxed in Box 94, before the boxes holding IC 1 M2.1.

Box Folder
94 338 1857 (Aug. only)
94 339 Jan. 1858
94 340 Feb. 1858
94 341 Mar. 1858
94 342 Apr. 1858
94 343 1871 (Dec. 21 only)
94 344 1872 (Dec. 26 only)
94 345 1876 (Mar. only)
 

Series 23: Mason, Roswell B., Colonel. Out-letters and telegrams, Sept. 1851-Nov. 1856
- Call Number: IC 1 M3.1

Colonel Roswell B. Mason worked in the engineering department of the Erie Canal before becoming Illinois Central RR's engineer in chief in charge of construction (1851-1856) and general superintendent of the Transportation Department (1853-1856). He oversaw the complete building of the original 705-mile IC railway through Illinois from 1851 to 1856, spending as much time out in the field as he could while also administering the construction from in the Chicago office. After the construction, he became the IC's Land Department comptroller (1861-1867). He was mayor of the City of Chicago from 1869 to 1871, during the time of the Great Chicago Fire.
About 200 letters and telegrams in 32 folders reporting Chicago activities to presidents Schuyler and Burrall in New York, and financial needs to treasurer M.B. Edgar. Topics include progress of construction, lands, steel, currency problems, labor scarcity, coal, accidents, rolling stock, etc. He announces the completion of the track in a telegram dated Dec. 29, 1854. Also of interest is his Sept. 1, 1856 letter of resignation, and a letter enclosed from Father Chiniquy about French-Canadian immigration to Bourbonnais, and request for money for school, Jan.9, 1853.
For more letters from Col. Mason, see IC 11 N1.5, New York Office, In-Letters.

Box Folder
98 356 [n.d.]
98 357 1851 (Sept.-Oct. only)
98 358 Mar. 1852
98 359 Apr.-May, Jul. 1852
98 360 Sept.-Nov. 1852
98 361 Jan. 1853
98 362 Feb. 1853
98 363 Mar. 1853
98 364 Apr. 1853
98 365 May 1853
98 366 Jun. 1853
98 367 Jul. 1853
98 368 Aug. 1853
98 369 Sept. 1853
98 370 Oct. 1853
98 371 Nov. 1853
98 372 Dec. 1853
98 373 Jan. 1854
98 374 Feb. 1854
98 375 Mar. 1854
98 376 Apr. 1854
98 377 May 1854
98 378 Jun. 1854
98 379 Jul. 1854
98 380 Aug. 1854
98 381 Sept. 1854
98 382 Oct. 1854
98 383 Nov. 1854
98 384 Dec. 1854
98 385 1855
98 386 Jan.-Mar. 1856
98 387 Apr.-Nov. 1856
 

Series 24: Neal, David A. (David Augustus), Out-letters, Aug.1851-June 1858
- Call Number: IC 1 N4.1

David A. Neal was an original incorporator of the Illinois Central RR, as well as a director, from 1851-1856, and a vice president, from 1851-1855. Neal was in charge of administering the sale of land grant lands in Illinois.
About 160 letters and telegrams in 28 folders, mostly to officials and directors Ketchum, Schuyler, Bowne, Sturges, Burrall, John L. Wilson, Ackerman, Brayman, Bunce, Perkins, Osborn, and Joy,concerning London loan, land sales, swamp lands, right of way (especially Galena and Chicago), deeds, Associates Lands, etc., Sept.1852-Mar.1856. Also a few letters in 1852 include details of construction, locomotives, etc., and some in 1853 concern London bond sales; a few in Feb. and June 1858 concern claims for commissions. Also includes letters announcing opening of LaSalle and Bloomington road, May 22,1853; declining presidency, July 28,1853; and resignation from vice-presidency, Apr.2,1855.

Box Folder
99 388 1851 (Aug. only)
99 389 Apr.-May 1852
99 390 Sept. 1852
99 391 Oct. 1852
99 392 Nov. 1852
99 393 Jan.-Feb. 1853
99 394 Mar. 1853
99 395 Apr. 1853
99 396 May 1853
99 397 Jun.-Jul. 1853
99 398 Aug. 1853
99 399 Sept. 1853
99 400 Oct.-Nov. 1853
99 401 Dec. 1853
99 402 Jan. 1854
99 403 Feb., Apr. 1854
99 404 May 1854
99 405 Jun.-Jul. 1854
99 406 Aug. 1854
99 407 Sept. 1854
99 408 Oct.-Dec. 1854
99 409 Jan. 1855
99 410 Apr.-May 1855
99 411 Jun. 1855
99 412 Jul.-Aug. 1855
99 413 Oct.-Nov. 1855
99 414 1856 (Mar., Jun. only)
99 415 1858 (Feb., Jun. only)
 

Series 25: Newell, John, letters, 1859-1875
- Call Number: IC 1 N6

John Newell first worked for the Illinois Central RR as an engineer under Col. Roswell B. Mason, and in the Iowa division (1856-1863). He then became vice president (1869-1871) and from there was promoted to president and director, 1871-1874 and 1871-1875, respectively. As his tenure corresponded with the date of the Great Chicago Fire, he was in charge of facilitating relief to the city in free transport of provisions, and also in rebuilding the damaged rail lines and property as quickly as possible.
Newell's letters are arranged in the following three subseries: Out-letters, Feb.1859-Dec.1873; Out-letters for trustees of Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railway (TP&War), Feb.1874-Feb.1875; and In-letters, Dec.1870-Jan.1875.
 
Sub-Series 1- Out-letters, Feb.1859-Dec.1873
- Call Number: IC 1 N6.1
About 4500 letters in 9 letterpress copy books, from Amboy to 1862 and from Chicago, 1869-73; no letters from Nov.1862-Jan.1869. Letters to officials, other roads, local citizens. etc. about bridges, construction, new lines, passes, etc. Some signed by Lucien Tilton. Volume 6, Mar.1871-Dec.1872, overlaps dates of Volumes 5 and 7, and comprises car-letters written en route.

Box Folder
100 416-419 Feb. 1859-Oct. 1862; Feb. 1869-Mar. 1871
101 420-423 Mar. 1871-Dec. 1872
102 424 Dec. 1872-Dec. 1873
 
Sub-Series 2- Out-letters for trustees of Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railway (TP&War), Feb.1874-Feb.1875
- Call Number: IC 1 N6.2
About 500 letters in 1 letterpress copy book to other trustees and TP&War officials concerning receipts, expenses, relations with other roads, etc. Letters written by J.C.Clarke and W.H.Cruger after Sept.1874.

Box Folder
102 425 Feb.1874-Feb.1875
 
Sub-Series 3- In-letters, Dec.1870-Jan.1875
- Call Number: IC 1 N6.3
About 1300 letters in 9 bound volumes concerning other roads, lands, Southern lines, Iowa roads, passes, and sundry matters from IC officials and others. Many enclosures of letters, pamphlets, circulars, advertisements, etc. are included. Letters for Dec.1870 are to J.M.Douglas, and a few Jan.1873- Jan.1875 letters are to J.C.Clarke (mostly from IC officials in New York). Some overlapping of dates in volumes.

Box Folder
103 426-427 Dec. 1870-Nov. 1871
104 428-429 Nov. 1871-Jan. 1872
105 430-432 Apr.-Aug. 1872
106 433-434 Oct. 1872-Jan. 1875
 

Series 26: Osborn, William H. (William Henry), letters, 1854-1871
- Call Number: IC 1 O6

William Henry Osborn was a director of the Illinois Central RR from 1854 to 1877. He served as vice president in 1855, and president from 1855-1865. Among other posts, he served as a president and director of the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans and other Southern Lines from 1877-1883. Under his tenure as president, he made sure main lines of the IC were completed and that the company's finances were stable. He also administered the lines during the Civil War and expanded the traffic on the rails during that time.
The Osborn letters are arranged in two subseries, since the first subseries is in 6 bound letterpress copy books, and the second subseries is a collection of loose manuscript letters. They are in the following arrangement: Out-letters, Dec.1855 -Jul. 1871; and Out-letters, Aug.1854-May 1864 (bulk 1855-1856).
For a series of personal letters from Osborn to his wife, Virginia Osborn, [n.d.] and 1855-1857, see IC: Addenda, Letters - Osborn, W.H. (IC:A 1 O1)
 
Sub-Series 1- Out-letters, Dec.1855 -Jul. 1871
- Call Number: IC 1 O6.1
About 3000 letters in 6 letterpress copy books from Chicago to New York officials (mostly to T.E.Walker, 1860-65), legislators, brokers including Robert Benson & Co., London, shareholders including Richard Cobden, and others. A few are reports to Mr. Osborn in New York from Chicago officials: Ebenezer Lane, Jan.-July 1856; W.M.Phillips, Mar. 1859; N.P.Banks, Mar.-May 1861; and J.F.Tucker, Jun.-Jul. 1861. Letters from Mr. Osborn as president, 1855-65, including his acceptance of presidency, Dec.10,1855. and as chairman of Executive Committee, 1868-71; after Apr.1871 from William Tracy as chairman. No letters for Oct.1856-Nov.1858; May 1859-Aug.1860; Aug. 1862-Jan.1863; Apr.1865-Nov.1868.

Box Folder
107 435-438 Dec. 1855-Jul. 1862
108 439-440 Feb. 1863-Mar. 1865; Dec. 1868-Jul. 1871
 
Sub-Series 2- Out-letters, (bulk Aug.1854-May 1864 1855-1865)
- Call Number: IC 1 O6.2
About 400 letters in 23 folders from Chicago to treasurers M.B. Edgar, J.N. Perkins, and Thomas Walker, and Executive Committee (Burrall, Sturges, Griswold, Sanford, Ketchum, Ackerman) about local activities, progress of road, mail, iron, securities, lands, etc. Only a few letters from 1861-62 and 1864. Some earlier letters are from Boston, and a few from Pittsburgh, New York, Washington and Liverpool (1857) and London (1858). Correspondence of note is his letter of acceptance to the presidency dated Dec. 1, 1855; a letter about the IC line to Hyde Park (Jun. 22, 1856); and a copy of a letter to the U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, (Sept. 10, 1856) Enclosed in a Nov. 25, 1856 letter is a list of downstate Illinois rail stations and whether they have access to water or not.

Box Folder
109 441 [n.d.]
109 442 Aug. 1854
109 443 Sept. 1854
109 444 Oct., Dec. 1854
109 445 Jan. 1855
109 446 May-Jun. 1855
109 447 Jul.-Aug. 1855
109 448 Sept. 1855
109 449 Oct. 1855
109 450 Dec. 1855
109 451 Jan. 1856
109 452 Mar. 1856
109 453 Apr.-May 1856
109 454 Jun. 1856
109 455 Sept. 1856
109 456 Oct. 1856
109 457 Nov. 1856
109 458 Dec. 1856
109 459 1857 (Aug., Oct. only)
109 460 1858 (Feb. only)
109 461 1861 (Jan., Oct. only)
109 462 1862 (scattered)
109 463 1864 (May 24 only)
 

Series 27: Parker, D.W. Out-letters, May-Oct.1878
- Call Number: IC 1 P2.1

D.W. Parker was the Illinois Central RR superintendent of Iowa lines from 1877-1883.
About 500 letters in 1 letterpress copy book from Dubuque cashier concerning taxes, vouchers, earnings, expenses and sundry other matters.

Box Folder
110 464 May-Oct.1878
 

Series 28: Perkins, J.N. (J. Newton), Out-letters, Dec.1855-Apr.1856
- Call Number: IC 1 P4.1

J. Newton Perkins was in Illinois Central director from 1854 - 1855, and again from 1857-62. In addition, he served as president (1854-1855), treasurer (1855-1860), and a trustee of the IC mortgages (1857, 1858).
About 500 letters in 1 letterpress copy book, mostly routine, about drafts, dividends, etc., with a few detailed letters about bonds, compensation for government troops, earnings, etc. A few are signed by W.K.Ackerman.

Box Folder
110 465 Dec.1855-Apr.1856
 

Series 29: Place, T.W. Out-letters, Jun. 1895- Jan.1902
- Call Number: IC 1 P6.1

T.W. Place was a master mechanic for the Illinois Central RR, based in Waterloo, Iowa.
About 900 letters in 2 bound volumes from Waterloo, Iowa Mechanical Dept. concerning local matters, personnel, accidents, etc.

Box Folder
110 466-467 Jun. 1895-Jan. 1902
 

Series 30: Randolph, L.V.F. (Lewis V.F.) In-letters: Treasurer's Office, Mar.1884-Mar. 1885
- Call Number: IC 1 R2.1

Lewis V.F. Randolph was an Illinois Central RR director from 1872-1884. He also help the job of assistant treasurer (1869) and treasurer (1875-1885). In addition, he was a trustee of the mortgages of many other lines and companies affiliated with the Illinois Central.
Consists of about 450 letters in 2 bound volumes about routine business.

Box Folder
111 468-469 Mar.1884-Mar. 1885
 

Series 31: Schuyler, Robert. Out-letters, Oct.1852- June 1854
- Call Number: IC 1 S2.1

Robert Schuyler was an Illinois Central RR incorporator, and served as president from 1851 to 1853, and as a director from 1851-1854.
About 10 letters in 4 folders to W.P.Burrall, M.B.Edgar and Jonathan Sturges concerning bonds, legal matters and mail contracts, Dec. 1853-June 1854. Also letter to W.W.Gilbert about London loan July 19,1852; resignation submitted to Executive Committee, Oct.11, 1852; and letter (copy) with financial statement sent to Illinois Gov. A.C. French, Dec.8,1852.

Box Folder
112 470 1852 (Jul., Oct., Dec. only)
112 471 1853 (Dec. only)
112 472 Power of attorney document, May 11, 1853
112 473 1854 (Jan., May-Jun. only)
 

Series 32: Skene, E.P. (Edward P.) In-telegrams, Sept.-Nov. l897
- Call Number: IC 1 S5.1

Edward P. Skene held several jobs with the Illinois Central RR, beginning with New York Office clerk (1872-1887), then Land Commisioner (1891-1905) and Right of Way agent (1905-1906). He worked as secretary, director, and/or land commissioner on many affiliated railroads as well.
Consists of about 1000 telegrams, in 1 bound volume, from local agents at Southern stations reporting on the yellow fever epidemic and quarantines restricting train business. Labelled "Overflow reports."

Box Folder
112 474 Sept.-Nov.l897
 

Series 33: Sturges, Jonathan. Out-letters, (bulk Oct.1852-Aug.1857 May-Jun. 1854)
- Call Number: IC 1 S8.1

Jonathan Sturges was an Illinois Central RR incorporator. In addition he served as a director from 1851-1862, and from 1868-1874.
About 50 letters in 10 folders, mostly about purchase of Chicago lands for resale, with a few answering W.P.Burrall's report-letters from Chicago for the Executive Committee, considering problems of Chicago lands, legislation, construction expenses, iron, etc. Also a few letters to J.M.Forbes and J.F.Joy about Michigan Central contract. Other correspondents include Schuyler, Edgar, Wentworth, Osborn, and Ackerman.

Box Folder
112 475 [n.d.]
112 476 1852 (Oct. 21 only)
112 477 1853 (Dec. only)
112 478 Feb. 1854
112 479 Apr. 1854
112 480 May 1854
112 481 Jun. 1854
112 482 1855
112 483 1856 (Mar. only)
112 484 1857 (Aug. only)
 

Series 34: Walker, T.E. (Thomas E.), Out-letters, Jan.1863-Feb.1865
- Call Number: IC 1 W2.1

Thomas E. Walker was a director for the Illinois Central from 1855-1871. In addition, he was treasurer from 1861-1871, and a trustee of the Dubuque & Pacific RR (D&P) mortgage in 1857.
About 900 letters in 1 letterpress copy book, mostly to officials about routine matters and to brokers and bankers (especially Robert Benson & Co., London) about bonds.

Box Folder
112 485 Jan.1863-Feb.1865
 

Series 35: Welling, J.C. (John C.), letters, 1892-1910
- Call Number: IC 1 W3

John C. Welling held many positions in his tenure at the Illinois Central RR. He began as an acting secretary in 1874 then became assistant treasurer for the Chicago office (1874-1876). He was auditor and comptroller between 1876-1905, and also vice president from 1890-1906. In addition to being on the board of directors from 1887-1888 and again from 1892-1906, he was also incorporator, director and vice president of many of the Illinois Central's subsidiary lines.
Welling's letters are arranged into the following six subseries: Out-letters, Aug.-Sept.1893 and Dec.1901-0ct.1906; Index to Out-letters, 1893-98; Telegrams, Nov.1892- July 1896; In-letters, Jan.1889-Apr.1898 and Aug.1898-June 1910; Index to In-letters, 1893-98; and In-telegrams, July 1893-Oct.1897.
 
Sub-Series 1- Out-letters, and Aug.-Sept.1893 Dec.1901-0ct.1906
- Call Number: IC 1 W3.1
About 25,000 letters in 26 letterpress copy books, primarily concerning financial matters, securities, etc., including Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RR (Y&MV). No letters for June 1902, Apr.-Sept.1903, Mar.-Apr.l904, Mar. and Nov.1905 and Feb.-Mar.l906.

Box Folder
113 486-488 Aug.-Sept.1893; Dec. 1901-Mar. 1902
114 489-491 Mar.-Sept. 1902
115 492-494 Sept. 1902-Feb. 1903
116 495-497 Feb. 1903-Feb. 1904
117 498-500 May-Nov. 1904
118 501-503 Nov. 1904-Feb. 1905
119 504-506 Apr.-Sept. 1905
120 507-509 Sept. 1905-Jun. 1906
121 510-511 Jun.-Oct. 1906
 
Sub-Series 2- Index to Out-letters, 1893-1898
- Call Number: IC 1 W3.1 Index
Indexes letters C-F, H, N-W only (12 folders). Note that there are no letters in the Newberry Library's collection between Sept. 1893 and Dec. 1901.

Box Folder
122 512-523 C-F, H, N-W, 1893-1898
 
Sub-Series 3- Telegrams, Nov.1892- July 1896
- Call Number: IC 1 W3.2
About 2000 telegrams in 2 letterpress copy books, mostly to officials.

Box Folder
123 524-525 Nov.1892- July 1896
 
Sub-Series 4- In-letters, , and Jan.1889-Apr.1898 Aug.1898-June 1910
- Call Number: IC 1 W3.3
About 30,000 letters in 55 boxes, Jan. 1889-Apr.1898, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Mostly from officials to Chicago about financial matters, including Southern lines. Other types of correspondence include requests for employment and letters of reference, United States Census information requests, matters pertaining to the traffic at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, requests for train passes from employees for their spouses or for VIPs, insurance matters, and personnel issues. For World's Columbian Exposition letters, check under the following names in the alphabetic run: Ackerman, Burnham, Edmonds, Higinbotham, Jaycox, Meredith, and "R" (For "Railway Day", Sept. 16, 1893; letter sent Sept. 9).
Many files are missing; and there is some overlapping of dates and names. The letters from Aug.1898-June 1910 are chronological and are filed after the index to the 1889-1898 grouping. Some files from officials for varying dates are kept separately, including Isaac Anderson (IC Auditor of Disbursements), C.A. Beck (assistant 2nd Vice President), R.S.Charles (Treasurer of several Southern Lines), J.M.Edwards (3rd Vice President), Franklin Fairman (Auditor of Freight Receipts), James Fentress (general solicitor), Stuyvesant Fish (President), E .T.H .Gibson (Treasurer), A.G.Hackstaff (Secretary), J.T .Harahan (2nd Vice President), T. J.Hudson (Traffic Manager), A.D. Joslin (bookeeper and auditor), L.P.Morehouse (Custodian of Deeds) and E.P. Skene (Land Commission), W.S. Pinney (Chief Travelling Auditor), W. Renshaw (Superintendent of Machinery), M.D. Royer (Chief Travelling Auditor), Henry Schlacks (Superintendent of Machinery), A.W. Sullivan (General superintendent), Thompson & Slater (Railroad Agents, Washington, D.C.) , and J.F.Titus (clerk, treasurer, incorporator of subsidiary lines). There are also separate files for letters and acceptances of the Guarantee Company of North America, signed by J.T.Pruyn, mostly concerning bonding of employees, July 1893-Apr.1898 [see also "P" alphabetic run, as well as IC 3.94], for Insurance, mostly of proofs of fire losses, Dec.1890-Feb.1894 (also included in letters of A.W.Sullivan), and for Superintendents and Engineers (filed by year but not strictly chronological). Letters from some of these officials are also scattered through alphabetical file; for example, letters from Isaac Anderson before July 1895 are filed with A's.
Note: Some of E.P.Skene's letters filed with L.P.Morehouse, July 1893-Oct.1896 and Jan.-Apr.1898; W. Renshaw with Henry Schlacks, Jan.1889-June 1893, and with A.W.Sullivan, Jan.1891- Feb.1898; C.A. Beck with A.W.Sullivan. Jan.1891-Feb.1898; and M.D. Royer with J. F .Titus, Jan. 1894 -Apr. 1898.
Note: if alphabetic sequences are in multiple folders, sometimes they are ordered chronologically, and sometimes they are ordered alphabetically.

Box Folder
124 526 A, 1891
124 527 A, Jan.-Jun. 1892
124 528 A, Aug.-Dec. 1893
124 529 A, 1894
124 530 A, 1895
124 531 A, Jan.-Jun. 1896
124 532 A, 1897
124 533 Anderson, Isaac, Jul.-Dec. 1895
124 534-536 Anderson, Isaac, 1896
124 537 Anderson, Isaac, 1897
124 538 Anderson, Isaac, Jan.-Apr. 1898
125 539 B, 1891
125 540 B, Jan.-Jun. 1892
125 541 B, Aug.-Dec. 1893
125 542-543 B, 1894
126 544-545 B, 1895
126 546-547 B, Jan.-Jun. 1896
126 548 Beck, C.A., 1891
127 549-551 C, Nov. 1890-Dec. 1891
127 552 C, Jan.-Jun. 1892
127 553 C, Aug.-Dec. 1893
128 554-555 C, 1894
128 556 C, 1895
128 557 C, 1896
128 558 Charles, R.S., 1879; Jul.-Dec. 1893
128 559 Charles, R.S., Jan.-Jun. 1894
128 560 Charles, R.S., 1895
129 561-562 Charles, R.S., 1896
129 563 Charles, R.S., 1897
129 564 Charles, R.S., Jan.-Apr. 1898
129 565 D, Dec. 1890-Dec. 1891
129 566 D, Jan.-Jun. 1892
129 567-568 D, Jan.-Jun. 1893
130 569-570 D, 1896
130 571 E, Dec. 1890-Dec. 1891
130 572 E, Jan.-Jun. 1892
130 573 E, Jan.-Jun. 1893
130 574 E, 1896
130 575 Edwards, J.M., Jul.-1893-Jan. 1894; Aug. 1894
131 576 F, Dec. 1890-Dec. 1891
131 577 F, Jan.-Jun. 1892
131 578 F, Jan.-Jun. 1893
131 579 F, 1897
131 580 Fairman, F., Jul.-Dec. 1893
131 581-582 Fairman, F., 1894
131 583 Fairman, F., 1895
132 584 Fairman, F., 1896
132 585-586 Fairman, F., 1897
132 587 Fairman, F., Jan.-May 1898
132 588 Fentress, James, Aug.-Dec. 1893
132 589 Fentress, James, 1894
133 590-591 Fentress, James, 1895
133 592-593 Fentress, James, 1896
133 594-595 Fentress, James, 1897
133 596 Fentress, James, Jan.-Apr. 1898
134 597 Fish, Stuyvesant, 1889
134 598-599 Fish, Stuyvesant, 1890
134 600-601 Fish, Stuyvesant, 1891
134 602-603 Fish, Stuyvesant, Jan.-Aug. 1892
135 604 Fish, Stuyvesant, Oct.-Dec. 1892
135 605-606 Fish, Stuyvesant, 1893
135 607 Fish, Stuyvesant, Jan.-Jun. 1894
135 608 Fish, Stuyvesant, Jan.-Apr. 1895
136 609-611 Fish, Stuyvesant, May-Dec. 1895
136 612-614 Fish, Stuyvesant, Jan.-Nov. 1896
137 615 Fish, Stuyvesant, Dec. 1896
137 616-621 Fish, Stuyvesant, Jan.-Nov. 1897
138 622-623 G, Nov. 1890-Dec. 1891
138 624 G, Jan.-Jun. 1892
138 625 G, Jan.-Jun. 1893
138 626 G, 1894
138 627 G, 1895
138 628-629 G, 1897
139 630 Gibson, E.T.H., Sept.-Oct. 1890
139 631-632 Gibson, E.T.H., 1891
139 633-634 Gibson, E.T.H., 1892
139 635 Gibson, E.T.H., Jan.-Jun. 1893
140 636 Gibson, E.T.H., Jun.-Dec. 1894
140 637-638 Gibson, E.T.H., Jan.-Jun. 1895
140 639-640 Gibson, E.T.H., Apr.-Dec. 1897
140 641 Gibson, E.T.H., Jan.-Apr. 1898
141 642-645 Guarantee Company of North America, Jul.-Dec. 1893
141 646-647 Guarantee Company of North America, Jan.-Jun. 1894
142 648-650 Guarantee Company of North America, Jul.-Dec. 1894
142 651-653 Guarantee Company of North America, 1895
143 654-659 Guarantee Company of North America, 1896
144 660-666 Guarantee Company of North America, Jan.-Oct. 1897
145 667-668 Guarantee Company of North America, Nov.-Dec. 1897
145 669-672 Guarantee Company of North America, Jan.-Apr. 1898
146 673-674 H, Nov. 1890-Dec. 1891
146 675-676 H, Jun.-Dec. 1892
146 677 H, Jan.-Jun. 1893
146 678-679 H, Jul.-Dec. 1893
147 680-681 H, 1894
147 682-683 H, 1895
148 684-685 H, 1896
148 686-687 H, 1897
149 688-689 Hackstaff, A.G., 1894
149 690 Hackstaff, A.G., Sept. 1897-Apr. 1898
149 691 Harahan, J.T., Nov.-Dec. 1890
149 692-694 Harahan, J.T., 1891
150 695-697 Harahan, J.T., 1892
150 698-699 Harahan, J.T., 1893
150 700-702 Harahan, J.T., 1894
151 703-705 Harahan, J.T., 1895
151 706-710 Harahan, J.T., Jan.-May 1896
152 711-717 Harahan, J.T., Jun.-Dec. 1896
153 718-724 Harahan, J.T., Jan.-Aug. 1897
154 725-728 Harahan, J.T., Sept.-Dec. 1897
154 729 Hudson, J.T. 1889
154 730 Hudson, J.T. 1890
154 731 Hudson, J.T. 1891
154 732 Hudson, J.T. 1892
155 733 Hudson, J.T. 1893
155 734 Hudson, J.T. 1894
155 735 Hudson, J.T. 1895
155 736 Hudson, J.T. 1896
155 737-738 Hudson, J.T. Jan.-Aug. 1897
155 739 I, 1891
155 740 I, Jun.-Dec. 1892
155 741 I, Jan.-Jun. 1893
155 742 I, 1894
156 743-744 Insurance matters, C.A. Beck, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 745 Insurance matters, Frank & DuBois, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 746 Insurance matters, E.T.H. Gibson, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 747 Insurance matters, H, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 748 Insurance matters, John C. Jacobs, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 749 Insurance matters, J.B. Kemp, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 750 Insurance matters, L.T. Moore, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 751 Insurance matters, Q, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 752 Insurance matters, Ely Russell, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 753 Insurance matters, H. Schlacks, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 754 Insurance matters, T, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 755 Insurance matters, N.B. Wiggins, Dec. 1890-Jun. 1891
156 756 Insurance matters, B, Jul. 1891-Apr. 1892
157 757 Insurance matters, Frank & DuBois, Jul. 1891-Apr. 1892
157 758 Insurance matters, E.T.H. Gibson, Jul. 1891-Apr. 1892
157 759 Insurance matters, H, Jul. 1891-Apr. 1892
157 760 Insurance matters, John C. Jacobs, Jul. 1891-Apr. 1892
157 761 Insurance matters, LT. Moore, Jul. 1891-Apr. 1892
157 762 Insurance matters, F.W. Quimby, Jul. 1891-Apr. 1892
157 763 Insurance matters, S, Jul. 1891-Apr. 1892
157 764 Insurance matters, T, Jul. 1891-Apr. 1892
157 765 Insurance matters, W, Jul. 1891-Apr. 1892
157 766 Insurance matters, B, Apr. 1892-Feb. 1894
157 767 Insurance matters, Casey, 1892-1893
157 768 Insurance matters, D, Apr. 1892-Feb. 1894
157 769 Insurance matters, E, Apr. 1892-Mar. 1894
157 770 Insurance matters, Frank & DuBois, Apr. 1892-May 1894
157 771 Insurance matters, G, Apr. 1892-Mar. 1894
157 772 Insurance matters, E.T.H. Gibson, 1892-1894
157 773 Insurance matters, H, Apr. 1892-Dec. 1893
157 774 Insurance matters, K, Apr. 1892-Nov. 1893
157 775 Insurance matters, M, Apr. 1892-Nov. 1893
157 776 Insurance matters, F.W. Quimby, Apr.-May 1892
157 777 Insurance matters, R, Apr. 1892-Jan. 1894
158 778 Insurance matters, S, 1892
158 779-780 Insurance matters, S, Jan.-Oct. 1893
158 781 Insurance matters, T, 1892
158 782-784 Insurance matters, W, 1892-1894
159 785 J, 1891
159 786 J, Jun.-Dec. 1892
159 787 J, 1893
159 788 J, 1894
159 789 Joslin, A.D., Jul-Dec. 1893
159 790-791 Joslin, A.D., 1894
160 792 Joslin, A.D., 1895
160 793 Joslin, A.D., 1896
160 794 Joslin, A.D., 1897
160 795 Joslin, A.D., Jan.-Apr. 1898
160 796 K, 1891
160 797 K, Jun.-Dec. 1892
160 798-799 K, 1893
160 800 K, Jan. 1894-Jan. 1895
161 801-802 K, 1897
161 803 L, 1891
161 804 L, Jul.-Dec. 1892
161 805-806 L, 1893
161 807 L, Jan. 1894-Jan. 1895
161 808 L, 1896
161 809-810 M, Nov. 1890-Dec. 1891
162 811-812 M, 1892
162 813-814 M, 1893
162 815 M, Jan. 1894-Jan. 1895
163 816-817 M, 1896
163 818 Morehouse, L.P., 1893
163 819 Morehouse, L.P., 1894
163 820 Morehouse, L.P., 1895
163 821-822 Morehouse & Skene, 1896
164 823 Morehouse & Skene, Jan.-Apr. 1898
164 824 N, Nov. 1890-Dec. 1891
164 825-826 N, 1892
164 827 N, 1893
164 828 N, 1894
164 829 N, 1895
164 830 O, Nov. 1890-Dec. 1891
164 831-832 O, 1892
164 833 O, 1893
164 834 O, 1894
164 835 O, 1895
164 836 P, Oct. 1890-Dec. 1891
164 837 P, Jan.-Jun. 1892
165 838 P, Jul.-Dec. 1892
165 839-841 P, 1893
165 842 P, 1894
165 843 P, 1895
165 844 Pinney, W.S., Feb.-Apr. 1898
166 845 Q, Oct. 1890-Dec. 1891
166 846-847 Q, 1892
166 848 Q, 1893
166 849 Q, 1894
166 850 R, Oct. 1890-Dec. 1891
166 851-852 R, 1892
166 853 R, 1893
166 854 R, 1894
166 855 R, 1895
167 856 Renshaw, W., Feb.-Jun. 1893
167 857-859 Royer, M.D., 1897
167 860 Royer, M.D., Jan.-Feb. 1898
168 861 S, Oct. 1890-Dec. 1891
168 862-863 S, 1892
168 864-865 S, 1893
169 866-867 S, Jan. 1894-Jan. 1895
169 868 S, Jul.-Dec. 1895
169 869-870 Schlacks, H., 1889
169 871 Schlacks, H., 1890
170 872 Schlacks, H., 1891
170 873 Schlacks, H., Jan. 1892-Jan. 1893
170 874 Skene, E.P., Jul.-Dec. 1893
170 875 Skene, E.P., 1894
170 876-877 Skene, E.P., 1895
171 878 Sullivan, A.W., 1891
171 879-880 Sullivan, A.W., 1892
171 881-883 Sullivan, A.W., Jan.-Aug. 1893
172 884-885 Sullivan, A.W., Sept.-Dec. 1893
172 886-887 Sullivan, A.W., 1894
172 888 Sullivan, A.W., Jul.-Dec. 1895
173 889 Sullivan, A.W., 1896
173 890 Sullivan, A.W., 1897
173 891 Sullivan, A.W., Jan.-Feb. 1898
173 892 Superintendents and Engineers, 1893
173 893 Superintendents and Engineers, 1894
173 894 Superintendents and Engineers, 1895
173 895 Superintendents and Engineers, 1896
173 896 Superintendents and Engineers, 1897
174 897-898 T, 1892
174 899 T, 1893
174 900 T, Jan.-1894-Jan. 1895
174 901 T, Jul.-Dec. 1895
174 902 Thompson & Slater, Jul.-Dec. 1893
174 903 Thompson & Slater, 1894
174 904 Thompson & Slater, 1895
174 905 Thompson & Slater, 1896
174 906 Thompson & Slater, 1897
174 907 Thompson & Slater, Jan.-Apr. 1898
175 908-911 Titus, J.F., Jan.-Jun. 1894
175 912 Titus, J.F., Nov. 1894
175 913-914 Titus, J.F., 1895
176 915-917 Titus, J.F., 1896
176 918-919 Titus, J.F., Jan.-Apr. 1897
177 920-921 Titus, J.F., May-Dec. 1897
177 922 Titus, J.F., Jan.-Apr. 1898
177 923 U, 1892
177 924 U, 1893
177 925 V, 1892
177 926 V, Jan.1894-Jan. 1895
177 927 V, Jul.-Dec. 1895
177 928 W, 1891
177 929-930 W, 1892
178 931-932 W, 1893
178 933 W, 1895
178 934 Y, 1892
178 935 Y, 1893
178 936 Y, 1895
179 944 Aug. 1898-Dec. 1901
179 945 Apr. 1902-Jun. 1910
 
Sub-Series 5- Index to In-letters, 1893-98
- Call Number: IC 1 W3.3 Index
Indexes letters E-F, H-L and Sp-Sz only.

Box Folder
179 937 E, 1893-1898
179 938 F, 1893-1898
179 939 H, 1893-1898
179 940 I - J, 1893-1898
179 941 K, 1893-1898
179 942 L, 1893-1898
179 943 Sp - Sz, 1893-1898
 
Sub-Series 6- In-telegrams, Jul. 1893-Oct.1897
- Call Number: IC 1 W3.4
About 1000 telegrams in 11 folders to Chicago, mostly about financial matters, from New York, New Orleans and other stations on Southern lines, Iowa, etc.

Box Folder
180 946-951 Jul. 1893-Nov. 1895
181 952-956 Dec. 1895-Oct. 1897
 

Series 36: Wentworth, John. Out-letters, Dec.1851-Oct.1855
- Call Number: IC 1 W4.1

John Wentworth was a Chicago newspaperman (The Chicago Democrat was his paper, 1836-1888), in addition to being mayor of Chicago from 1857-1858 and 1860-1861, and a United States Congressman from 1843-1851, 1853-1855, and 1865-1867. He worked hard to push the Illinois Land Grant Bill through Congress, and was a long-time supporter of the Illinois Central RR.
16 letters in 1 folder to Illinois Central presidents (Griswold, Burrall, Osborn, Perkins, Schuyler, Sturges) regarding land grant lobby in Washington, entrance into Chicago, and local affairs. Includes two letters from W.B.Ogden to W.H. Osborn, Jan. 1855, about Chicago affairs.

Box Folder
181 957 1851-1855
 

Series 37: Miscellaneous unidentified indexes, [n.d.]
- Call Number: IC + 1 X1.1

Indexes to letters, stock ledgers, and accounting volumes, and one volume index to map case. In one oversized box and thirteen volumes.

Box
+182 Miscellaneous Indexes, [n.d.]

Volume
+1 [n.d.] Index to Stock Ledgers-Domestic Shareholders-Long Accounts, A-Z
+2-4 Index to Stock Ledgers-Domestic Shareholders, A-Z [n.d.]
+5-13 Miscellaneous Indexes, contracts from subsidiary lines, [n.d.]

Record Group 2: Letters by Office, 1851-1914
- Call Number: IC 11

Correspondence, primarily stored in letterpress copy books, of routine matters pertaining to Illinois Central RR business. Many of these files overlap files in Record Group 1, Letters by Officials.
Arranged alphabetically by Office name: Chicago Office, Machinery Department Office, New York Office, and Post Office Department.
 

Series 1: Chicago Office. Out-letters (daily) to New York, Jan.1866-July 1897
- Call Number: IC 11 C1.1

Series consists of 39 letterpress copy books; copies of correspondence written out of the Chicago office. Earlier volumes are president's reports to chairman of Executive Committee, later from vice-president in Chicago to treasurer and president. Reports consider weather, business, cars loaded and received, local treasurer's report, land sales, etc.; after 1877 more detailed reports on forms, including cumulated reports at end of month and year, A few letters are included in some volumes. No reports for Nov.1881-Apr.1882, July 1889-Mar.1890, Feb.- Dec.1899 and Oct.1895-June 1896.

Box Folder
1 1-4 Jan. 1866-Jan. 1871
2 5-7 Sept. 1871-Oct. 1875
3 8-10 Nov. 1875-Dec. 1877
4 11-13 Dec. 1877-Jan. 1880
5 14-16 Jan. 1880-Oct. 1881
6 17-19 May 1882-Jan. 1884
7 20-21 Jan. 1884-May 1885
8 22-23 May 1885-Nov. 1886
9 24-25 Nov. 1886-Apr. 1888
10 26-27 Apr. 1888-Jun. 1889
11 28-29 Apr.-Nov. 1890
12 30-31 Nov. 1890-Sept. 1891
13 32-33 Sept. 1891-Jul. 1892
14 34-36 Jul. 1892-Aug. 1894
15 37-39 Aug. 1894-Jul. 1897
 

Series 2: Machinery Department records, 1867-1914
- Call Number: IC 11 M2

The Machinery Department was located in Chicago, and was in charge of keeping track of engines and other equipment for the company.
Machinery Department's records are arranged in two subseries: In-letters and Inventories, 1867-1903; and In-letters concerning personnel rules, Dec.1893-Mar. 1914.
 
Sub-Series 1- In-letters and Inventories, 1867-1903
- Call Number: IC 11 M2.1
18 folders, mostly consisting of lists of equipment for Illinois Central and its subsidiary lines, with letters accompanying them.

Box Folder
16 40 Cedar Falls & Minnesota (CF&M) rolling stock, 1867-1887
16 41 Chicago & Havana (C&H) division engineers, firemen and freight cars, [n.d.]
16 42 Chicago, Madison & Northern (CM&N) machinery and tools inventory, 1888
16 43 Dubuque & Sioux City (D&SC), Equipment Lists, 1887, 1891
16 44 Gilman, Clinton, & Springfield (GC&S) equipment, 1877
16 45 Havana, Rantoul & Eastern equipment inventory, 1887-1889
16 46 Dubuque & Sioux City (D&SC) inventory and description of personal property transferred to IC, Oct.1,1867
16 47 IC cars which were formerly D&SC cars, Nov. 2, 1883
16 48 IC miscellaneous equipment inventories, [n.d.] and 1884-1889
16 49 IC narrow gauge, 3 ft. Rolling Stock, stored at Rantoul IL, 1888-1889
16 50 IC Engine numbers, Sept. 24, 1896
16 51 IC: old Yazoo & Mississippi Valley (Y&MV) box cars renumbered with new IC numbers, 1901-1902
16 52 IC: Cars equipped, and remaining to be equipped with automatic couplers, Jun. 30,1898
16 53 IC: Cook journal cooler estimates and valuations, 1902-1903
16 54 IC: Rolling stock acquired with Mississippi & Tennessee (Miss&Tenn), 1888
16 55 St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute (StLA&TH) original equipment, with valuations (draft), Oct.1,1895
16 56 St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute (StLA&TH) equipment and property inventory, Oct. 1, 1895
16 57 Yazoo Delta equipment lists, 1899-1902
 
Sub-Series 2- In-letters concerning personnel rules, Dec.1893-Apr.1916
- Call Number: IC 11 M2.2
About 156 letters in 10 folders between officials about drafting and disseminating shop regulations, Sunday work, pensions, etc. Also included are posters from 1878, 1901, 1902, and 1911 that list the rules of the shop (oversize).

Box Folder
16 58 1878
16 59 1893-1894
16 60 1896-1897
16 61 1898-1899
16 62 1900-1901
16 63 1902-1903
16 64 1905
16 65 1911
16 66 1912-1913
16 67 1914
 

Series 3: New York Office records, 1851-1911
- Call Number: IC 11 N1

The New York office of the Illinois Central was mainly in charge of administering the financial matters of the company. It is where the monthly meetings of the board of directors was held.
New York Office records are arranged into the following six series: Out-letters: Assistant Secretary's Office, Dec. 1882- Jan. 1911; Out-letters: Secretary and treasurer, Jan.1895-Jan.1907; In-letters : Secretary and treasurer, Jan. 1884-Dec. 1906; In-telegrams, 1878- 1907; In-letters, 1851-1887; and Petty Cash Receipts, 1864-1869, 1871.
 
Sub-Series 1 - Out-letters: Assistant Secretary's Office, Dec. 1882- Jan. 1911
- Call Number: IC 11 N1.1
About 135,000 letters in 136 letterpress copy books, mostly routine. Earlier volumes from President's Office to Nov.1897; after that date from secretary and assistant secretary, mostly about passes. Some volumes are of forms only, labelled "Advice Books,'' about passes or half-fare permits enclosed. Leased lines included. Volumes are numbered 19-158. Volumes 21 (Nov.1887-Jan.1888) and 30 (Aug.1891) are missing. Volume 20, Aug.1886-1887, contains a few letters from J.C.Clarke about annual meeting and election of Stuyvesant Fish. There is some overlapping of dates in volumes.

Box Folder
17 68-70 Vols. 19, 20, and 22, Dec. 1882-Mar. 1890
18 71-72 Vols. 23-24, Mar.-Aug. 1890
19 73-74 Vols. 25-26, Aug. 1890-Jan. 1891
20 75-76 Vols. 27-28, Jan.-May 1891
21 77-78 Vols. 29, 31, May-Nov. 1891
22 79-80 Vols. 32-33, Nov. 1891-Feb. 1892
23 81-82 Vols. 34-35, Feb.-May 1892
24 83-84 Vols. 36-37, May-Oct. 1892
25 85 Vol. 38, Oct. 1892-Jan. 1893
26 86-87 Vols. 39-40, Jan.-Apr. 1893
27 88-89 Vols. 41-42, Apr.-Aug. 1893
28 90-91 Vols. 43-44, Aug. 1893-Jan. 1894
29 92 Vol. 45, Jan.-Feb. 1894
30 93 Vol. 46, Feb.-Apr. 1894
31 94 Vol. 47, Apr.-Jul. 1894
32 95 Vol. 48, Jul.-Sept. 1894
33 96 Vol. 49, Sept.-Dec. 1894
34 97 Vol. 50, Dec. 1894-Feb. 1895
35 98 Vol. 51, Feb.-Apr. 1895
36 99-100 Vols. 52-53, Apr.-Jul. 1895
37 101-102 Vols. 54-55, Jul.-Dec. 1895
38 103-104 Vols. 56-57, Dec. 1895-Apr. 1896
39 105-106 Vols. 58-59, Apr.-Sept. 1896
40 107-108 Vols. 60-61, Sept. 1896-Jan. 1897
41 109-110 Vols. 62-63, Jan.-Apr. 1897
42 111-112 Vols. 64-65, Apr.-Aug. 1897
43 113-114 Vols. 66-67, Aug.-Dec. 1897
44 115-116 Vols. 68-69, Dec. 1897-Mar. 1898
45 117-118 Vols. 70-71, Mar.-Sept. 1898
46 119-120 Vols. 72-73, Sept. 1898-Jan. 1899
47 121-122 Vols. 74-75, Jan.-Mar. 1899
48 123-124 Vols. 76-77, Mar.-Jul. 1899
49 125-126 Vols. 78-79, Jul.-Oct. 1899
50 127-128 Vols. 80-81, Oct. 1899-Jan. 1900
51 129-130 Vols. 82-83, Jan.-Apr. 1900
52 131-132 Vols. 84-85, Apr.-Jul. 1900
53 133-134 Vols. 86-87, Jul.-Oct. 1900
54 135-136 Vols. 88-89, Oct. 1900-Jan. 1901
55 137-138 Vols. 90-91, Dec. 1900-Mar. 1901
56 139-140 Vols. 92-93, Jan.-May 1901
57 141-142 Vols. 94-95, Apr.-Aug. 1901
58 143-144 Vols. 96-97, Jul.-Oct. 1901
59 145-146 Vols. 98-99, Oct. 1901-Feb. 1902
60 147-148 Vols. 100-101, Jan.-Jun. 1902
61 149-150 Vols. 102-103, Feb.-Jul. 1902
62 151-152 Vols. 104-105, Jun.-Sept. 1902
63 153-154 Vols. 106-107, Aug.-Dec. 1902
64 155-156 Vols. 108-109, Dec. 1902-Jan. 1903
65 157-158 Vols. 110-111, Dec. 1902-Mar. 1903
66 159-160 Vols. 112-113, Feb.-Apr. 1903
67 161-162 Vols. 114-115, Mar-Jun. 1903
68 163-164 Vols. 116-117, Jun.-Sept. 1903
69 165-166 Vols. 118-119, Sept.-Nov. 1903
70 167-168 Vols. 120-121, Oct.-Dec. 1903
71 169-170 Vols. 122-123, Dec. 1903-Jan. 1904
72 171-172 Vols. 124-125, Jan.-May 1904
73 173-174 Vols. 126-127, Mar.-Sept. 1904
74 175-176 Vols. 128-129, May-Oct. 1904
75 177-178 Vols. 130-131, Sept.-Dec. 1904
76 179-180 Vols. 132-133, Oct. 1904-Feb. 1905
77 181-182 Vols. 134-135, Dec. 1904-Apr. 1905
78 183-184 Vols. 136-137, Feb.-Jun. 1905
79 185-186 Vols. 138-139, Apr.-Sept. 1905
80 187-188 Vols. 140-141, Jul.-Nov. 1905
81 189-190 Vols. 142-143, Oct-Dec. 1905
82 191-192 Vols. 144-145, Dec. 1905-Feb. 1906
83 193-194 Vols. 146-147, Feb.-Jun. 1906
84 195-196 Vols. 148-149, May-Sept. 1906
85 197-198 Vols. 150-151, Jul.-Nov. 1906
86 199-200 Vols. 152-153, Oct. 1906-Sept. 1907
87 201-202 Vols. 154-155, Sept. 1907-Sept. 1910
88 203 Vol. 156, Sept. 1910-Jan. 1911
 
Sub-Series 2- Out-letters: Secretary and treasurer, Jan.1895-Jan.1907
- Call Number: IC 11 N1.2
About 23,000 letters in 23 letterpress copy books from the secretary, treasurer, assistant treasurer, and third vice-president, mostly routine.

Box Folder
89 204-205 Vols. 1-2, Jan. 1895-Mar. 1896
90 206-207 Vols. 3-4, Feb. 1896-Jun. 1897
91 208-209 Vols. 5-6, Jun. 1897-Jul. 1898
92 210-211 Vols. 7-8, Jul. 1898-Sept. 1899
93 212-213 Vols. 9-10, Oct. 1899-Dec. 1900
94 214-215 Vols. 11-12, Dec. 1900-Sept. 1901
95 216-217 Vols. 13-14, Sept. 1901-Jul. 1902
96 218-219 Vols. 15-16, Jul. 1902-May 1903
97 220-221 Vols. 17-18, May 1903-Aug. 1904
98 222-223 Vols. 19-20, Aug. 1904-Jul. 1905
99 224-225 Vols. 21-22, Jul. 1905-Aug. 1906
100 226 Vol. 23, Aug. 1906- Jan. 1907
 
Sub-Series 3- In-letters : Secretary and treasurer, Jan. 1884-Dec. 1906
- Call Number: IC 11 N1.3
About 20,000 letters in 185 bound volumes, many from Chicago officials and Southern lines. Later letters also to the third vice-president. Volumes 6-8, 11 - 13, 16 - 17, 19, 44, and 88-115 are missing; no letters for Jun-Dec. 1886, Aug.-Oct,1887, Mar.-Apr., Aug.-Sept. and Nov.- Dec.1888, Jan.-Feb. 1891, or Feb. 1895-Apr. 1897.

Box Folder
101 227-228 Vols. 1-2, Jan. 1884-May 1886
102 229-230 Vols. 3-4, Jan.-Jul. 1887
103 231-233 Vols. 5, 9, 10, Jul.-Oct. 1887l; Nov. 1887-Feb. 1888
104 234-236 Vols. 14, 15, 18, ; May-Jul. 1888 Oct.-Nov. 1888
105 237-238 Vols. 20-21, Dec. 1888-Feb. 1889
106 239-240 Vols. 22-23, Feb.-Apr. 1889
107 241-242 Vols. 24-25, Apr.-Jun. 1889
108 243-244 Vols. 26-27, Jun.-Aug. 1889
109 245-246 Vols. 28-29, Sept.-Nov. 1889
110 247-248 Vols. 30-31, Nov. 1889-Jan. 1890
111 249-250 Vols. 32-33, Jan.-Mar. 1890
112 251-252 Vols. 34-35, Mar.-May 1890
113 253-254 Vols. 36-37, May-Jul. 1890
114 255-256 Vols. 38-39, Jul.-Sept. 1890
115 257-258 Vols. 40-41, Sept.-Nov. 1890
116 259-260 Vols. 42-43, Nov. 1890-Jan. 1891
117 261-262 Vols. 45-46, Feb.-Apr. 1891
118 263-264 Vols. 47-48, Apr.-Jun. 1891
119 265-267 Vols. 49-51, Jun.-Sept. 1891
120 268-269 Vols. 52-53, Sept.-Nov. 1891
121 270-271 Vols. 54-55, Nov. 1891-Jan. 1892
122 272-273 Vols. 56-57, Jan.-Mar. 1892
123 274-276 Vols. 58-60, Mar.-Jun. 1892
124 277-278 Vols. 61-62, Jun.-Sept. 1892
125 279-280 Vols. 63-64, Sept.-Dec. 1892
126 281-282 Vols. 65-66, Dec. 1892-Feb. 1893
127 283-284 Vols. 67-68, Feb.-May 1893
128 285-286 Vols. 69-70, May-Aug. 1893
129 287-288 Vols. 71-72, Aug.-Oct. 1893
130 289-290 Vols. 73-74, Oct.-Dec. 1893
131 291-292 Vols. 75-76, Dec. 1893-Feb. 1894
132 293-294 Vols. 77-78, Feb.-Apr. 1894
133 295-296 Vols. 79-80, Apr.-Jun. 1894
134 297-298 Vols. 81-82, Jul.-Aug. 1894
135 299-300 Vols. 83-84, Sept.-Oct. 1894
136 301-303 Vols. 85-87, Nov. 1894-Jan. 1895
137 304-305 Vols. 116-117, May-Jun. 1897
138 306-307 Vols. 118-119, Jul.-Aug. 1897
139 308-309 Vols. 120-121, Sept.-Oct. 1897
140 310-311 Vols. 122-123, Nov.-Dec. 1897
141 312-313 Vols. 124-125, Jan.-Feb. 1898
142 314-315 Vols. 126-127, Feb.-Mar. 1898
143 316-317 Vols. 128-129, Mar.-May 1898
144 318-319 Vols. 130-131, Jun.-Jul. 1898
145 320-321 Vols. 132-133, Jul.-Sept. 1898
146 322-323 Vols. 134-135, Sept.-Oct. 1898
147 324-325 Vols. 136-137, Nov.-Dec. 1898
148 326-327 Vols. 138-139, Jan.-Feb. 1899
149 328-329 Vols. 140-141, Mar.-Apr. 1899
150 330-331 Vols. 142-143, May-Jun. 1899
151 332-333 Vols. 144-145, Jul.-Aug. 1899
152 334-335 Vols. 146-147, Sept.-Oct. 1899
153 336-337 Vols. 148-149, Nov.-Dec. 1899
154 338-339 Vols. 150-151, Jan.-Feb. 1900
155 340-341 Vols. 152-153, Mar.-Apr. 1900
156 342-343 Vols. 154-155, May-Jun. 1900
157 344-345 Vols. 156-157, Jul.-Aug. 1900
158 346-347 Vols. 158-159, Sept.-Oct. 1900
159 348-349 Vols. 160-161, Nov.-Dec. 1900
160 350 Vol. 162, Jan. 1901
161 351 Vol. 163, Feb. 1901
162 352 Vol. 164, Mar. 1901
163 353-354 Vols. 165-166, Apr.-May 1901
164 355-356 Vols. 167-168, Jun.-Jul. 1901
165 357-358 Vols. 169-170, Aug.-Sept. 1901
166 359 Vol. 171, Oct. 1901
167 360 Vol. 172, Nov. 1901
168 361 Vol. 173, Dec. 1901
169 362 Vol. 174, Jan. 1902
170 363-364 Vols. 175-176, Feb.-Mar. 1902
171 365-366 Vols. 177-178, Apr.-May 1902
172 367-368 Vols. 179-180, Jun.-Jul. 1902
173 369-370 Vols. 181-182, Aug.-Sept. 1902
174 371-372 Vols. 183-184, Oct.-Nov. 1902
175 373-374 Vols. 185-186, Dec. 1902-Jan. 1903
176 375-376 Vols. 187-188, Feb.-Mar. 1903
177 377-378 Vols. 189-190, Apr.-May 1903
178 379-380 Vols. 191-192, Jun.-Jul. 1903
179 381-382 Vols. 193-194, Aug.-Sept. 1903
180 383-384 Vols. 195-196, Oct.-Nov. 1903
181 385-386 Vols. 197-198, Dec. 1903-Jan. 1904
182 387-388 Vols. 199-200, Feb.-Mar. 1904
183 389-390 Vols. 201-202, Apr.-May 1904
184 391-392 Vols. 203-204, Jun.-Jul. 1904
185 393-394 Vols. 205-206, Aug.-Sept. 1904
186 395-396 Vols. 207-208, Oct.-Nov. 1904
187 397-398 Vols. 209-210, Dec. 1904-Jan. 1905
188 399-400 Vols. 211-212, Feb.-Mar. 1905
189 401-402 Vols. 213-214, Apr.-May 1905
190 403-404 Vols. 215-216, Jun.-Jul. 1905
191 405-406 Vols. 217-218, Aug.-Sept. 1905
192 407-408 Vols. 219-220, Oct.-Nov. 1905
193 409-410 Vols. 221-222, Dec. 1905-Jan. 1906
194 411-412 Vols. 223-224, Feb.-Mar. 1906
195 413-414 Vols. 225-226, Apr.-May 1906
196 415-416 Vols. 227-228, Jun.-Jul. 1906
197 417-418 Vols. 229-230, Aug.-Sept. 1906
198 419-420 Vols. 231-232, Oct.-Nov. 1906
199 421 Vol. 233, Dec. 1906
 
Sub-Series 4- In-telegrams, 1878-1907
- Call Number: IC 11 N1.4
About 10,000 telegrams in 68 bound volumes to officials in New York, mostly from New Orleans about Southern lines, but some, especially in later volumes, from Chicago and Iowa lines. None received during Jan.1906. Some overlapping of dates in the early volumes.

Volume
1 Nov. 23, 1876-Sept. 30, 1877
2 Jan. 1877-Aug. 1878
3 1878
4 1879
5 1880-1882
6 1880
7 1881
8 1882
9 1883
10 1884
11 1885
12 1886
13-14 1887
15-16 1888
17-18 1889
19-20 1890
21 1891
22-23 1892
24-25 1893
26-27 1894
28-29 1895
30-31 1896
32-35 1897
36-39 1898
40-43 1899
44-47 1900
48-51 1901
52-55 1902
56-59 1903
60-63 1904
64-67 1905
68 Feb. 1906-Dec. 1907
 
Sub-Series 5- In-letters, 1851-1887
- Call Number: IC 11 N1.5
About 1000 letters in 3 boxes, many concerning securities, London loan, earnings and expenses, construction, job applications, mail delivery, the Lake Front Case, the Civil War, Cairo affairs, correspondence between officials, Robert Benson & Co., bankers, and others. Mostly written during 1851-56 and 1862. Correspondents include R.B. Mason, W.P. Burrall, R. Schuyler, M. Ketchum, M.B. Edgar, Franklin Haven, J.S. Morgan, J.N. Perkins, W.H. Osborn, and W.K. Ackerman. Some highlights in the correspondence include the following:
1851: David Emmert on Springfield affairs; Alfred Dutch concerning Chicago Commercial Advertiser support; John Tillson on the London Emigration and Colonization Co., with circular [printed]; J.N.Alvord about the Ohio & Mississippi Telegraph Co.; Sidney Breese concerning right of way; James Grant on Chicago and Rock Island affairs; Telegram from Thomas Dyer announcing passage of Chicago ordinance allowing road to enter city, with reports of committee, copies of ordinance [printed] and letters from Mason Brayman and Mayor Gurney; also from Illinois Gov. A.C.French (May 14, 1851), Bronson Murray, Henry Grinnell, H.C.Long, A.S.White, Cyrus Edwards, S.D. Lockwood, Franklin Haven, Hiram Ketchum, John Moore, Robert Rantoul Jr. and others.
1852: T.B.Blackstone on land purchase; W.B.Archer on Illinois right of way; Telegram from Chicago mayor and many letters about entrance into city, employment of J.F. Joy, etc., with ordinances and meetings of City Council; G.B.Upton on Michigan Central (MC) loan; S.W.Hotchkiss on Northwestern Telegraph Co.; Petition of Galena citizens requesting termination at Galena and letters considering changing line (Apr. 16, 1852); Charles Gregoire on Dubuque lands; W.H. Bissell reporting General Land Office decisions; Stephen A. Douglas account; Memo on duties of officers.
1853: Advertisement of railroad frog [printed] with many letters on construction and equipment, including description of American Car Co. passenger cars and telegram about coal engine; John Campbell requesting land for college; Proposal to improve the Cairo property (Nov. 9, 1853); J.C.Caton on telegraph (Oct. 19, 1853) and Morse telegraph line along the railroad (Dec. 2, 1853); Telegram from T.B.Blackstone about strike; Telegrams, letters, and ordinances concerning Chicago sea wall (Sept. 17, 1853); Mail on Chicago Branch (Sept. 20, 1853); Letter concerning death of foreman Mr. Story killed by riotous construction crew (Dec. 16, 1853), written to R.B. Mason from J.B. Wyman; Circular of U.S. Treasury concerning foreign holdings of American securities [printed] (Sept. 21, 1853), with letter from the Secretary of the Treasury (Dec. 27, 1853).
1854: Letters from Thomas Sherlock, G.W. Jones, Alfred Guthrie and others concerning steamship connections between Cairo and New Orleans; from G.B.Upton on Michigan Central; R.B.Mason request for currency; Henry Tanner on brakes, with memo on legal claims; Telegram announcing first tram over LaSalle bridge; The Terre Haute and Alton connection; Shipments of engines; C.M.Dupuy on land; To editors of Chicago papers by "Nimrod" considering benefits to Illinois of I C, and Abraham Lincoln's candidacy for Senate; A petition from "Know-Nothing" concerning a station in Ashley, Illinois (Nov. 15, 1854); R.B.Mason on construction to date, (Nov.25, 1854); Letter from Wendell Phillips about stock.
1855: Alexander Hamilton Jr. and other attorneys considering litigation; Many letters on steamships, mail to New Orleans, steel, locomotives, consumption of coal, iron car, and visit of London stockholders. Printed proposal of US Mail on the Mississippi River (Oct. 20, 1855).
1856: E.B.Washburne and others on steamships, with report of Postmaster-General, Feb.9, and letter from William Thaw to J.P.Benjamin, Mar.31, titled "Exposition of the present condition and prospects of the Great Mississippi River Mail" [printed]; Manuscript chart of Arrival and Departures of Southern Mail by boat from Cairo (Feb. 6, 1856); John Reynolds on mail; C.P.Buckingham concerning Chicago warehouse; M.K.Jesup concerning locomotives; C.M. Dupuy reporting on lands ; Telegrams about floods; Letters and telegrams to W.H. Osborn from David Stuart in Washington DC, regarding Senate bill; Ordinance with the City of Chicago, concerning Breawater (Sept. 15, 1856).
1858: List of shareholders and bondholders on London books; Chicago depot questions; Land Dept. sales, from Silas Bent and others; R.P.Neely concerning the MissCen&Tenn; Receipt from C.V.S.Roosevelt: Coal rates.
1859: Letter from Richard Cobden reporting to London stock- holders (May 11, 1859); Telegrams about New Orleans flood.
1860: Coal engines on the Midland Railway, England; London and Basel brokers, including Robert Benson & Co., George Peabody & Co., and G.Courvoisier & Co.(Letters arriving on the ship "Arabia"); Report on New Orleans business by A.E.Burnside.
1861: Paul Cornel1 to W.H. Osborn on Hyde Park suburban service (Jan. 1861); Charges for carrying U.S. troops, and movements of men and supplies (Apr. 1861); letter from Charles Latimer, reporting the Illinois Central-owned ship the "Cheney" seized by "The Pirate of the Mississippi" (Sept. 1861).
1862: MC litigation; H.A.Peirce proposition on the sale of corn; Sturges, Buckingham & Co. elevators, Chicago; Statement of Freight and Passenger Earnings, detailing Army use (Jan. 25, 1862); Cotton and sugar beet seed distribution in northern states. Most of 1862 correspondence relates to stocks.
1864: Report on freight by Robert Forsyth. (Nov. 4, 1864)
1865: Letter about personal dividends from Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. (Jan. 25, 1865); Report from Asheville, NC; no mail, no scrip, etc.
1866: Requests of IC Relief Club.
1867: Letter from Sir Edward Cunard concerning freight.
1871: Internal revenue tax decision, with letter from Treasury Dept.
1872: Cairo litigation, by Sen.Lyman Trumbull; GC&S affairs; Income tax.
1876: Legal Dept. employees, and employment of B.F.Ayer; GC&S affairs.
1879: CStL&NO securities.
1881: Memo regarding construction of a second transfer steamer.
1882: CStL&NO insurance.
1886: Storm Lake, Ia. resort for excursions.

Box Folder
200 422 [n.d.]
200 423-425 Feb.-Dec. 1851
200 426 Jan.-May 1852
200 427 City of Chicago Ordinance; Lakefront building by Illinois Central, (2 copies) Jun. 14, 1852
200 428-429 Jun.-Dec. 1852
200 430-433 1853
200 434-437 1854
201 438-441 1855
201 442-446 1856
201 447 Mar.-Apr. 1857
201 448-452 Jan.-Oct. 1858
201 453 Apr.-May 1859
201 454 Feb.-Dec. 1860
201 455 Jan.-Sept. 1861
202 456-464 1862
202 465 Aug., Sept., Nov., 1863
202 466 Feb., Nov. 1864
202 467 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jan. 24, 1865
202 468 May, Jul-Sept. 1865
202 469 Apr. 1866
202 470 Oct. 1867
202 471 Jan. 1869
202 472 Jan. 1870
202 473 Feb., Oct.-Nov. 1871
202 474 Jan., May-Jun. 1872
202 475 Dec. 1873
202 476 Jan., Dec. 1874
202 477 Jul.-Sept. 1875
202 478 Jul.-Dec. 1876
202 479 Oct. 1879
202 480 Sept. 1881
202 481 Aug. 1882
202 482 Dec. 1885
202 483 1886-1887
 
Sub-Series 6- Petty Cash Receipts, , 1864-1869 1871
- Call Number: IC 11 N1.6
Receipts in 7 folders for small operational expenses incurred at the New York Office: newspaper subscriptions, post office box rental, groceries, and crackers and jam.
This subseries is an addendum to the original collection acquired by the Newberry Library in 1951, and is not listed or indexed in the 1951 printed guide by Mohr.

Box Folder
202 484 1864
202 485 1865
202 486 1866
202 487 1867
202 488 1868
202 489 1869
202 490 1871
 

Series 4: Post Office Dept. In-letters, Sept.1876-Aug.1886
- Call Number: IC 11 P5.1

Mostly form letters in 1 volume (disbound and foldered) concerning notice of deduction in compensation for carrying mails due to failures and decreased appropriations, with a few copies of letters of protest from IC officials.

Box Folder
203 491-496 Sept.1876-Aug.1886

Record Group 3: Reports, Legal, 1852-1969
- Call Number: IC 2

The Legal Reports record group is a very diverse amalgam, including not only legal reports but also Annual Reports of the company, statements and miscellaneous reports, contracts with vendors and other rail lines, tax papers, and documents on various subjects (Civil War settlements, Cairo, Illinois, the Chicago Lake Front, and the Tripartite Agreement with New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern RR and the Mississippi Central and Southern Railroad Association). This record group also includes published material that may have been out of scope in any other record group: printed circulars, newspaper clippings, and papers used in preparing historical summaries of the Illinois Central RR.
Of note in this record group is a collection of scrapbooks kept by former administrator and President William K. Ackerman. These scrapbooks detail his family history and the history of early Chicago and Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Arranged by type of document and/or subject matter: Reports, Corporate Documents, Contracts, Military Accounts, Taxes, Legal Opinions and Litigation, Cario Affairs, Chicago Lake Front Affairs, and Circulars, Scrapbooks, and Histories.
 

Series 1: Annual reports to stockholders, unbound, 1853-1969; bulk 1900-1969; and bound volumes, 1852-1960
- Call Number: IC 2.1 and IC +2.1 [oversized]

Bound and unbound copies of the annual report issued to the stockholders by the directors of the Illinois Central RR. Mostly used as a yearly recap of the financial health of the company, in later years it also included publicity material such as human interest stories and photographs (from 1946 on; also, in 1953, they started publishing photographs in color).
Report years vary: 1852 dated Nov.20; 1853, Mar., Nov.10; 1854, Dec.9; 1856, Mar.19, Sept.3; 1857, Mar.l; 1858, Mar.17; 1859, Mar.16; 1860, May 16; year ending Dec.31, 1860-88; year ending June 30,1888-1916; year ending Dec.31, 1916-1969. Also included in the bound volumes: Communication to the shareholders by W.K. Ackerman concerning reports on the CStL&NO, Jan.18,1883, with reports by James Fentress and J.C.Clarke with 1883 report; Report of Committee on Rates, Revenues and Expenditures with 1890 report; Report of the delegates selected by the joint committee of British shareholders with 1877 report.
Boxes 1 and 2 are loose annual reports. Box +3 contain reports, 1852-1876, filed in oversized materials before the volumes of bound reports. After the bound volumes is a duplicate set of bound volumes, 1871-1950.
Annual reports from 1852-1910 are also available on microfilm.

Box Folder
1 1 Annual report, Mar. 16, 1853
1 2 Report to Board of directors by a Committee of the Board [2 copies], Nov. 10, 1853
1 3 Report,and statement of financial conditions (including map of Railway Guide for Illinois, Jan.1.1855), Mar. 15, 1854
1 4 Annual report, 50th, year ended Jun. 30, 1900
1 5 Annual report, 52nd, year ended Jun. 30, 1902
1 6 Annual report, 53rd, year ended Jun. 30, 1903
1 7 Annual report, 54th, year ended Jun. 30, 1904
1 8 Annual report, 55th, year ended Jun. 30, 1905
1 9 Report submitted by the president, [56th], year ended May 16, 1906
1 10 Annual report, 57th, year ended Jun. 30, 1907
1 11 Annual report, 80th, year ended Dec. 31, 1929
1 12 Annual report, 81st, year ended Dec. 31, 1930
1 13 Annual report, 82nd, year ended Dec. 31, 1931
1 14 Annual report, 83rd, year ended Dec. 31, 1932
1 15 Annual report, 84th, year ended Dec. 31, 1933
1 16 Annual report, 85th, year ended ; and Summary and Statistical Section, Revised Dec. 31, 1934 Jun. 1, 1934
1 17 Annual report, 86th, year ended Dec. 31, 1935
2 18 Annual report, 87th, year ended Dec. 31, 1936
2 19 Annual report, 88th, year ended Dec. 31, 1937
2 20 Annual report, 89th, year ended Dec. 31, 1938
2 21 Annual report, 90th, year ended Dec. 31, 1939
2 22 Annual report, 91st, year ended Dec. 31, 1940
2 23 Annual report, 92nd, year ended Dec. 31, 1941
2 24 Annual report, 93rd, year ended Dec. 31, 1942
2 25 Annual report, 94th, year ended Dec. 31, 1943
2 26 Annual report, 95th, year ended Dec. 31, 1944
2 27 Annual report, 96th, year ended Dec. 31, 1945
2 28 Annual report, 97th, year ended Dec. 31, 1946
2 29 Annual report, 98th, year ended Dec. 31, 1947
2 30 Annual report, 99th, year ended Dec. 31, 1948
2 31 Annual report, year ended [1st proof] Dec. 31, 1949
2 32 Annual report, year ended Dec. 31, 1950
2 33 Annual report, year ended [2 copies] Dec. 31, 1953
2 34 Annual report, year ended Dec. 31, 1954
2 35 Annual report, year ended Dec. 31, 1957
2 36 Annual meeting report, [3 copies] May 1968
2 37 Annual report, ICRR and IC Industries, 1969
+3 38 Condensed statement of financial affairs, 1852
+3 39 Report,and statement of financial conditions (including map of Railway Guide for Illinois, Jan.1.1855), 1854
+3 40 1855
+3 41 Report and accompanying documents 1856
+3 42 1857
+3 43 1858
+3 44 1859
+3 45 1860
+3 46 1861
+3 47 1862-1863
+3 48 1864
+3 49 1865
+3 50 1866
+3 51 1867
+3 52 1868
+3 53 1869
+3 54 1870
+3 55 1876
+3 56 Duplicates, 1860-1861; 1863-1868
 

Series 2: Annual reports to stockholders, bound volumes, 1852-1960
- Call Number: IC +2.1


Volume
+1 1852-1870
+2 Facsimile, copy 1 1852-1870,
+3 Facsimile, copy 2 1852-1870,
+4 1871-1897
+5 1898-1903
+6 1904-1910
+7 1908-1928
+8 1921-1930
+9 1931-1940
+10 1941-1950
+11 1951-1960
+12 Special 10-year report by President Stuyvesant Fish, copy 1 1897,
+13 Special 10-year report by President Stuyvesant Fish, copy 2 1897,
+14 Annual and Special Reports, 1900-1904
+15 Annual and Special Reports, 1905-1909
 

Series 3: Report to shareholders by Joseph Fisher, Jun. 1858
- Call Number: IC 2.11

Reports on securities, right of way, property, construction, land sales, foreign agencies, foreign securities, contracts, etc.

Box Folder
4 57 Final version, published, (2 copies) Jun. 1858
4 58 Second draft, Jun. 1858
 

Series 4: Reports and statements, 1850-1859
- Call Number: IC 2.12

Papers in 19 folders used in preparing annual reports, with reports and many statements of receipts and expenditures, ways and means, Land Dept. interest fund, accounts, balance sheets, ledger pages, etc. Also includes statistics of towns along Illinois Central Route, 1850-1856 (population, number of churches and stores, etc.), table exhibiting diversities of surface and levels on line, with detailed topographical descriptions, Mar.1,1854 [oversized]; copy of act of Illinois legislature on the sale of IC lands, Feb.28,1854; London and New York transfer agency expenses; and a letter from Ebenezer Lane on London Committee recommendations, Feb.1,1859 [printed].

Box Folder
4 59 Report on the Preliminary survey of the road, Sept. 9, 1851
4 60 Annual Report, manuscript copy, Mar. 1852
4 61 Report on the progress of the road by Robert Schuyler, Oct. 1852
4 62-63 Papers used to prepare Annual Report, (2 folders) Nov. 1852
4 64 Papers used to prepare Annual Report, Mar. 15, 1853
4 65 Draft, Report to the Directors, Aug. 1853
4 66 Papers used to prepare Annual Report, Nov. 10, 1853
4 67 Reports of R.B. Mason on progress of work to Mar. l, 1854
4 68 Papers used to prepare Annual Report, Mar. l, 1854
4 69 Expenditures to March 1, 1854, as compiled from books of the IC treasurer, Mar. l, 1854
4 70 Statistics of towns along the IC route, 1855-1856
4 71 Papers used to prepare Annual Report, Jan. l, 1855
4 72 Reports from the General Superintendant of Transportation Dept. and from R.B. Mason on progress of work, Jan. 1, 1856
4 73 Papers used to prepare Annual Report, including reports of R.B.Mason on progress of work, Mar. 4, 1856
4 74 Engineers report on the operation of the road, 1st quarter of 1858, May 8, 1858
4 75 Auditor's semi-annual statement, Jun. 30, 1858
4 76 Auditor's quarterly statement, Jun. 30, 1858
4 77 Papers used to prepare Annual Reports, Dec. 1858 and 1859
 

Series 5: Miscellaneous reports, 1882-1905
- Call Number: IC 2.13

Printed pamphlets of reports, in 12 folders.

Box Folder
5 78 CStL&NO by W.H.Osborn, Dec.30,1882
5 79 CStL&NO by W.K.Ackerman, Jan.18,1883
5 80 Ill. House of Representatives Committee on Finance regarding payment by IC of 7% tax, 1883
5 81 Bonded debt, by Stuyvesant Fish, Sept.16, 1885
5 82 President's agreement, by Stuyvesant Fish, Feb.18, 1889
5 83 Reorganization, by Sidney Webster, S.V.R.Cruger, and Walther Luttgen, May 13,1889
5 84 Condition of road, by general manager, Jan.15,1890
5 85 Street crossings in Chicago, [3 copies] Feb.17, 1891
5 86 Financial condition, by Stuyvesant Fish, Jan.2,1896
5 87-88 Equipment, condition of road, terminal facilities, etc., by E.L.Corthell, [2 folders] Dec.1,1896
5 89 Synopsis of proceedings of 55th annual meeting of stockholders, Oct.18,1905
 

Series 6: Miscellaneous reports, 1864-1905
- Call Number: IC 2.14

Various reports, printed and manuscript, in 17 folders.

Box Folder
5 90 Examination of accounts, Cairo office, by W.K. Ackerman, Nov. 19, 1864
5 91 Ia. Division earnings and expenses, 1867-74
5 92 Statements of Stuyvesant Fish to C.A.Peabody concerning accounts, 1875-1905
5 93 Long engine runs, by E. T. Jeffery, comparing NY Central, Penn RR and Philadelphia and Reading, Sept. 8,1876
5 94 Iowa division grain, operating expenses, etc., by C.A.Beck, 1876
5 95 Papers concerning fire insurance losses, policies, etc., 1879-1889
5 96 Letters from W.H.Osborn concerning financing of Southern lines, Mar.1880
5 97 Letters from W.H.Osborn concerning list of CStL&NO assets, 1883
5 98 Relations with D&SC, by A.R.Van Nest and Stuyvesant Fish, Apr. 1883
5 99 Letters from W.K. Ackerman concerning B&O agreement for Chicago tracks, May 1883
5 100 Letters from Drexel, Morgan & Co. concerning income account, stock, etc., 1884-1887
5 101 Papers concerning mail claims of NOStL&C and CStL&NO, , mostly between attorneys dated June 1884 and May 1890 1875-1882
5 102 New York Stock Exchange circular, 1884
5 103 Illinois Central bond of indemnity, list of lost certificates, etc., ca. 1885
5 104 Memo on bonds owned by IC, 1885
5 105 List of D&SC stock transfers, Dec.1886
5 106 Western Electric Co. memo regarding electrical equipment for World's Fair and suburban traffic, 1892, with letter from J.F.Wallace, pamphlets on Value of services of consulting electrical engineer and Testimonials and references regarding past works of H.Ward Leonard & Co., with letter, Jan.1892, and reports with blueprints by Henry Schlacks and J.F.Wallace, Statements of suburban business, . 1884-1891
 

Series 7: Annual reports to state railroad commissions, 1876-1906
- Call Number: IC 2.15

24 folders of printed reports to state railroad commissions, by primarily non - IC lines.
Arranged alphabetically by agency to whom the report was presented, then by Railroad line, and then chronologically.

Box Folder
6 107 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Cedar Falls & Minnesota Railroad Company [CF&M], 1884
6 108 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Cedar Falls & Minnesota Railroad Company, 1885
6 109 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Cedar Falls & Minnesota Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1886
6 110 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Dubuque & Dakota Railroad Company [D&D], 1884
6 111 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Dubuque & Dakota Railroad Company, 1885
6 112 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Company [D&SC], 1884
6 113 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Company, 1885
6 114 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1886
6 115 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of Iowa, Illinois Central Railroad Company, Lessee of the Dubuque & Sioux City, Iowa Falls & Sioux City, and Cedar Falls & Minnesota Railroad Companies, 1879
6 116 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of Iowa, Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad Company [IaF&SC], 1878
6 117 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of Iowa, Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad Company, 1879
6 118 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad Company, 1880
6 119 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad Company, 1881
6 120 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad Company, 1882
6 121 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad Company, 1883
6 122 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1884
6 123 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1885
6 124 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1886
6 125 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Iowa Improvement Company, operating the Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska Railroad Company, 1885
6 126 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad Company, 1886
6 127 Annual Report to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska Railroad Company, 1886
7 128 Annual Report to the Commissioners of Railroads and Warehouses of the State of Illinois, Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1876
7 129 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Cedar Falls & Minnesota Railroad Company [CF&M], 1894
7 130 Annual Report to the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of Illinois, Dunleith & Dubuque Bridge Company, 1898
 

Series 8: Reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission 1947-1961
- Call Number: IC 2.151

More printed reports, in 17 folders, from Illinois Central RR and some of its subsidiary companies to the national railroad regulating board. There are no reports between 1952-1959. This series is an addendum to the original collection acquired by the Newberry Library in 1951, and is not listed or indexed in the 1951 printed guide by Mohr.

Box Folder
7 131 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Chicago Produce Terminal Company, 1949
7 132 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1947
7 133 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1948
7 133a Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1949
8 134 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1950
8 135 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1951
8 136 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1960
8 137 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1961
8 138 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1962
8 139 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1963
9 140 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1964
9 141 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1965
9 142 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, (2 copies) 1966
9 143 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1967
9 144 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1968
9 145 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Lessors of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1949
9 146 Annual Report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Mississippi Valley Corporation, 1968
 

Series 9: Laws and documents, 1840-1930
- Call Number: IC 2.2

Printed legal documents in 40 volumes plus two volumes of indexes, concerning the Illinois Central and its subsidiary companies. Dates in volumes overlap to some extent where legislation, contracts, agreements, etc. previous to IC's interest in road are shown. Volumes 1 and 2 are bound together. A few volumes cover special subjects. Indexes are in volumes 2, 8, 9, 25-30 and 32-40 for each volume, and cumulatively in volumes 4-7 and 12; at beginning of the series are two separate indexes for volumes 1-21, and 22-30. Volume 31 is located on Open Shelf 26 (Railroads) in the Special Collections Reading Room.
Volume 18 is also available on microfilm.

Volume
-- Volumes 1-21 Index
-- Volumes 22-30 Index
1-2 NOStL&C, ; CStL&NO, 1840-1876 1876-1882
3 1850-1885
4 1885-1887
5 , and Index, volumes 1-5 1887-1889
6 , and Index, volumes 1-6 1885-1890
7 , and Index, volumes 1-7 1889-1892
8 1892-1894
9 1894-1896
10 CO&SW, 1880-1898
11 1893-1898
12 StLA&TH, 1849-1898
13 1898-1900
14 1900-1901
15 St.Louis & Peoria and Decatur lines, 1882-1901
16 1901-1903
17 1902-1904
18 History of St. Charles Air Line, Apr.28,1902
19 1904-1906
20 1904-1906
21 1906-1907
22 1907-1909
23 1908-1909
24 1900-1910
25 1882-1911
26 1911-1912
27 1898-1912
28 1900-1913
29 1906-1913
30 1903-1915
31 Corporate Histories of the IC to , and of the Y&MV, Chicago, Memphis & Gulf and D&D Bridge Company, and also the Brownson thesis, History of the IC to 1870, University of Illinois (PhD., Jun. 30,1915 1915)
32 1915-1916
33 1916-1918
34 1918-1920
35 1920-1923
36 1922-1923
37 1923-1925
38 1924-1927
39 1925-1928
40 1926-1930
 

Series 10: Documents concerning incorporation, 1851-1855
- Call Number: IC +2.21

1 folder in an oversize box, containing manuscript Act of incorporation, Feb.10, 1851, with acceptance by the company, receipt of the treasurer of Ill. for $200,000, Mar.22, acceptance by the corporators, Mar.24, Letter from Gov. Augustus C. French acknowledging receipt of acceptance, Apr.4, and written amendment repealing the act forbidding the company to lay out towns, Feb. 17, 1855. Also includes certified copies of original act made in 1852.

Box Folder
+10 147 Documents concerning incorporation, 1851
 

Series 11: Documents concerning organization, 1851-1938
- Call Number: IC 2.22

Reports in 21 folders including declarations, agreements, and codes of rules governing the Illinois Central RR and some related companies. For more codes of rules, see also IC series 3.93, Personnel rules.

Box Folder
11 148 Act to incorporate, and Supplement, Feb.1851
11 149 Documents relating to the organization, 3d ed., New York, 1855
11 150 Contracts and documents concerning Iowa leased lines, 1875, 1885
11 151 Charter of the IC and other documents, 1878
11 152 Articles of incorporation and by-laws of the Mutual Benefit Assoc., (2 copies) 1878
11 153 Agreement and deeds relating to Cairo property, 1880
11 154 Code of rules, amended, Dec.16,1889
11 155 Code of rules, Dec.16,1889, amended Dec. 21, 1892
11 156 Code of rules, Dec.16,1889, amended (2 copies) Oct. 18, 1893
11 157 Code of rules, Dec.16,1889, amended Jan. 29, 1898
11 158 Code of rules, Dec.16,1889, amended (2 copies) Nov. 20, 1901
11 159 Code of rules, Dec.16,1889, amended (2 copies) May 21, 1902
11 160 Code of rules, Dec.16,1889, amended Oct. 15, 1902
11 161 Code of rules, Dec.16,1889, amended Mar. 18, 1903
11 162 Code of rules, Dec.16,1889, amended May 18, 1904
11 163 Code of rules, Dec.16,1889, amended (2 copies) Aug. 16, 1905
11 164 Code of rules, Dec.16,1889, amended (2 copies) Aug. 25, 1908
11 165 Pension Dept. rules and regulations, July 1,1901
11 166 The Illinois Central case, opinion of the Supreme Court, Oct. 28,1910, together with a history of the litigation and synopsis of the opinion prepared by W.H.Stead, 1910
11 167 Materials regarding the report, "Land Grants, Contributions, Loans, and Other Aids to Railroads", 1935
11 168 IC: Facts concerning its incorporation, land grant, construc- tion and resulting development, charter taxes... Issued by Law Dept., [1938?]
 

Series 12: Contracts, 1875-1882
- Call Number: IC +2.3

1 oversize volume: Leases of land from railroad for corn cribs, grain houses, coal houses, elevators, lumber yards, eating houses, etc., on printed forms in one bound volume, with index laid in.

Volume
+1 Contracts, 1875-1882
 

Series 13: Contracts, Jul. 1878-Jan.1886; and Jan.1905-Jan.1908
- Call Number: IC 2.31

2 volumes in 2 folders, listing by date of contracts with bridge companies and other railroads, mostly concerning track agreements. Vol.1 also includes statements of fire losses, insurance, ticket commission drafts, road taxes, and a few copies of agreements.

Box Folder
12 169 Contracts, Jul. 1878-Jan.1886
12 170 Contracts, Jan.1905-Jan.1908
 

Series 14: Contracts, 1851-1886
- Call Number: IC 2.32

Handwritten contracts in 87 folders. A few contracts for osage orange hedges, locust trees, grain houses, axles, steel rails, box cars, eating houses, hotels, etc., 1853-56 and 1870's-1880's. Most loose contracts are also entered in the Contract volumes, +2.36. If the listing of the contract was found in the indexes to the volumes, the volume number and page number is indicated on the folder. The files from 1862-1864 are not contracts; rather, they are vouchers for government shipments during the Civil War. Some items of note: Oct. 10, 1853, (Mineral Point contract) contains illustrated bond sheets for the Mineral Point Railroad; Mar. 29, 1854, (Billings contract) contains a sketch of the hollow axles ordered; Nov. 25, 1854 (Sun Mutual Insurance Co.) includes a letter from R.B. Mason; Nov. 1, 1855 (Hanford contract) includes a printed "Rules and Regulations relating to Private Side Tracks."
See also: IC 5.91, Construction Contracts, 1851-1855.

Box Folder
12 171 Draft of Transportation agreement with Mobile & Ohio RR, [185?]
12 172 Traffic agreement between Aurora Branch Railroad and Galena and Chicago Union, Dec.13,1851
12 173 Town of Galena, for right of way, [ms. and prtd.] Mar. 11, 1853
12 174 C.B. Rushmore, for Locust Trees near Wenona and Panola, and Apr. 28, 1853 Jan. 31, 1854
12 175 Stevens [Brothers], for lease of land in Chicago Illinois, May 19, 1853
12 176 C.B. Rushmore, for Osage Orange Hedge near Kappa and Wenona, and Apr. 28, 1853 Jan. 31, 1854
12 177 Boody & Tims, for "Tims Box" [patented car box], Jun. 1, 1853
12 178 Story, Talmadge, and Conklin, for grading and masonry, Jul. 14, 1853
12 179 Traffic agreement with Mineral Point for connection, Oct. 10, 1853
12 180 Cairo trustees, for deed of lands to IC, Oct. 15, 1853
12 181 Illinois & Mississippi Telegraph Co, for patent rights, etc., Oct. 19, 1853
12 182 Traffic agreement with Chicago & Mississippi Rail Road, (not executed) Oct. 21, 1853
12 183 Traffic agreement with Mississippi & Atlantic RR Co., 1854
12 184 James Sumpter & Co., for hedge fence, Osage Orange, Mar. 11, 1854
12 185 George W. Billings, for Car Axles [drawing included], Mar. 29, 1854
12 186 Charles Gregoise, for land in JoDavies County, Mar. 23, 1854
12 187 Canfield & Robbins, for 600 car axles, Apr. 20, 1854
12 188 Davenport & Bridges, for patent to 'ease the lateral movement' of train carriages, Apr. 25, 1854
12 189 Canfield & Robbins, for 500 car axles, Aug. 22, 1854
12 190 Potsdam and Watertown Rail Road, for bonds, Aug. 26, 1854
12 191 Sun Mutual Insurance Co., Illinois Central as debtors, Nov. 25, 1854
12 192 Illinois Central Telegraph Co. (including articles of association) Dec. 1854
12 193 Pinkerton & Co., for detective service, Feb. l, 1855
12 194 Canfield & Robbins, for car axles, May 10, 1855
12 195 Buffalo Car Company, for 100 coal cars, May 10, 1855
12 196 Dunleith, Proprietors of the Town, for right of way, May 28, 1855
12 197 John B. Wyman, for Hotel in Amboy [Ill.] station, Jun. 1, 1855
12 198 Thomas D. Simpson, for patent for a device used to remove wheels, Jun. 11, 1855
12 199 Sturges & Burlingame, for grain elevator, Chicago, Jun. 14, 1855
12 200 Galena, Dunleith & Minnesota Packet Co., for through-tickets, Jun. 18, 1855
12 201 Traffic agreement, Chicago, Alton & St. Louis, for traffic via Mattoon & Joliet, Jun. 28, 1855
12 202 American Express, for express service, Jul. 1, 1855
12 203 Meech & Leonard, for eating house in Freeport [Ill.], Jul. 13, 1855
12 204 Richardson Barnum & Co., for car wheels, and May 10, 1855 Sept. 3, 1855
12 205 Canfield & Robbins, for 244 freight car axles, Sept. 18, 1855
12 206 Amers Iron Co., for 244 axles, Sept. 24, 1855
12 207 Stone & Boomer, for American Car Company plant, Chicago, Oct. 27, 1855
12 208 S & J Hanford, for grain house lease at Manteno, Nov. 1, 1855
13 209 Jesup & Stimson, for lease at Dunleith, Nov. 9, 1855
13 210 Great Western RR Co., for loan of iron to Great Western, 1855-1856
13 211 John C. Smith, for filling Cache [Ill.] flats, Jan. 1, 1856
13 212 Great Western RR Co., for running trains, Jan. 4, 1856
13 213 Fisk, Aetill [Atwill?] & Co, for dock construction, Chicago, Jan. 19, 1856
13 214 Henry Bacon, for water supply in Del Rey [Ill.], Jan. 24, 1856
13 215 Campbell & Fowler, for eating house in Urbana, Feb. 26, 1856
13 216 Crosby, Gossin & Co., for 26,530 iron chairs, Mar. 18, 1856
13 217 William F. Meech, for eating house at Pana, Apr. 17, 1856
13 218 DuPuy & Goodwillie, for hotel at Ashkum, Apr. 23, 1856
13 219 Newell A. White, for eating house at Mattoon, Apr. 23, 1856
13 220 Col. J. D. Graham, for filling Illinois Central basin, Apr. 28, 1856
13 221 Union Transportation Co., May 6, 1856
13 222 Fisk & Atwill, for wharf/dock construction, May 6, 1856
13 223 Clark & Jesup, commissions on buying for the IC, May 17, 1856
13 224 F. N. Martin, for 75,000 cedar wood posts, Chicago, May 20, 1856
13 225 Michigan Southern RR Co., for crossing, Jun. 16, 1856
13 226 William Smith, for eating house, Centralia, Jun. 18, 1856
13 227 CB&Q for depot/transfer facilities in Chicago, Jun. 24, 1856
13 228 Eads & Nelson, and other insurance cos. for salvage and ship/cargo wrecks, Aug. 1, 1856
13 229 Richardson Barnum & Co., for 2400 car wheels, Aug. 17, 1856
13 230 Cooper & Hewitt, for 1000 tons of iron, Oct. 23, 1856
13 231 Dunleith Properties (Jonathan Sturges et al.), for Dunleith lands, Nov. 21, 1856
13 232 Stone & Boomer, for sale of American Car Company plant, Chicago, Dec. 11, 1856
13 233 George Peabody & Co., for construction bonds, Sept. 29, 1857
13 234 George Peabody & Co., for free land bonds, Sept. 29, 1857
13 235 St. Louis, Cairo & New Orleans RR line of steam packets, Jan. 29, 1858
13 236 Bank of Commerce in New York, for Bank of Commerce building rooms, 2nd story, Oct. 30, 1858
13 237 CB&Q for depot and station service, Chicago, Dec. 22, 1858
13 238 Liverpool and London Insurance Co., for wooden bridges and oilworks, Oct. 20, 1859
13 239 Vouchers, Grosvenor & Forsyth (?), shipments of wheat and grain, 1862-1864
13 240 Vouchers, C.H. Pendleton, goverment shipments of grains via Cairo, 1863
13 241 Vouchers, freight bills, various, 1863-1864
13 242 Vouchers, J.W. Musson, freight overcharge on cotton shipments, 1863-1864
13 243 J. Warrack, shipments of cotton, 1864
13 244 Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co., Mar. 17, 1871
13 245 Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw [Western?] RR Co., for sale of bonds, Apr. 5, 1871
13 246 IaF&SC, D&SC, and C&NW for purchase of Dakota Southern RR bonds, Jul.1872
13 247 Southern RR Assoc., for car service, tripartate supplemental, Jun. 23, 1873
13 248 H.P. Miller, for Milan [Tenn.] hotel, May 23, 1878
13 249 Cleveland Rolling Mills Co., for 6,000 tons of steel rails, Nov. 6, 1880
13 250 Missouri Car & Foundry Co., for 200 cars, Nov. 27, 1880
13 251 Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co., Dec.1880
13 252 Central Bridge Co., for Chicago viaduct at Randolph St., Dec. 14, 1880
13 253 Western Union, for telegraph facilities, 1882
13 254 StLA&TH, T&StL RR Companies, for traffic at Birds Point, Mo., Mar. 29, 1882
13 255 Continental Insurance Co., for fire & lightning policy, May 13, 1886
13 256 Continental Insurance Co., for tornado policy, May 24, 1886
13 257 [empty envelopes], 1854-1856
 

Series 15: Tripartite agreement, Apr.11,1872
- Call Number: IC 2.33

The tripartite agreement was an agreement reached between the Illinois Central RR, the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern RR, and the Mississippi Central RR, in the spring of 1872. The goal of the agreement was for the IC to help fund the repair and extension of the two other lines so that the three lines could eventually connect and the lines could depend less on river ferries to travel back and forth from Chicago to New Orleans. By 1877, the IC had bought up the two other lines, which were having financial difficulties, and had managed to complete a through line to the South.
Documents in 5 folders, showing the agreements for completing the lines from Chicago and St. Louis to New Orleans, 1872, including mortgages, trust agreements and other material.

Box Folder
14 258 Published agreement, [Note: book is brittle] Apr. 11, 1872,
14 259 Memorandum of agreement, manuscript Apr. 11, 1872,
14 260 Agreement between NOJ&GN, MissCen (Southern Railroad Association), and IC, May 2, 1872
14 261 Resolutions of agreement, 1873
14 262 Opinions of attorneys and miscellaneous material, 1872-1873; 1875
 

Series 16: Contracts and agreements, about 1898-1901
- Call Number: IC 2.34

One bound volume in 1 folder: Alphabetical list of contracts for Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RR (Y&MV)

Box Folder
14 263 Contracts and agreements, ca.1898-1901
 

Series 17: Record of special switching agreements, 1904
- Call Number: IC +2.35

1 bound volume in an oversize box, consisting of an alphabetical list of switching claims, etc., 1904

Volume
+1 Record of special switching agreements, 1904
 

Series 18: Contracts, 1851-1902 (ca.)
- Call Number: IC +2.36

Thousands of contracts and agreements, mortgages and miscellaneous historical items in 17 oversize volumes Numerical run vols. 1-10 are roughly chronological, with some overlap between volumes. Alphabetic run vols. A-G are combined contracts of IC and some of their subsidiary lines (Chicago, St. Louis, & New Orleans; Peoria, Decatur & Evansville, etc.). Numbering of individual contracts is sporadic.

Volume
+1 1851-1858; 1874; 1878; nos. 1-203
+2 Nov. 1857-Oct. 1869
+3 Oct. 29, 1869-Mar. 31, 1877
+4 Jan. 1878-Jun. 1886
+5 Jun. 4, 1886-Jun. 18, 1891
+6 Jun. 1891-Sept. 1893
+7 1885; 1892-1896
+8 Nov. 8, 1896-Jan. 4, 1898; nos. 2041-2781
+9 Jan. 4, 1898-Nov. 1, 1894; nos. 2782-5989
+10 Jun. 10, 1891-May 1, 1902; nos. 5990-6338; 6352 [scattered]
+A Chicago, St. Louis, & New Orleans, contracts with other companies, 1877-1883; nos. 1-155
+B Illinois Central agreements, Feb. 18, 1857-ca. 1878
+C Illinois Central agreements (primarily), Jan. 7, 1879-Apr. 30, 1884
+D Illinois Central agreements, Apr. 8, 1889-Sept. 17, 1891
+E Illinois Central agreements with various lines and companies, (e.g. Adler & Sullivan station building in Oakland), Sept. 2, 1884-Mar 30, 1889
+F Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Rwy Co. Contracts, [see also IC 8 P 5.2] 1887
+G Illinois Central agreements with various lines and companies, (e.g. American Express, Pinkerton Detective Agency), Jun. 28, 1855-Jan. 1, 1882
 

Series 19: Contract indexes, ca. 1852-1920
- Call Number: IC +2.36 Index

7 oversize volumes of indexes to contracts by subject, party to contract, and place. Reference notes will refer either to volume and page number of contract (e.g. G-151, 2-89), or by contract number (e.g. 16159). See also IC +1 X1.1, Miscellaneous unidentified indexes, for miscellaneous contract indexes.

Volume
+1 Alphabetical by parties (contractees), ca. 1852-1896
+2 Alphabetical by subject of contract, ca. 1852-1896
+3 Alphabetical by location of job, ca. 1852-1896
+4 Consolidated index of parties, subjects, and locations, A-F only, ca. 1851-1903
+5 Consolidated index of parties, subjects, and locations, 1903-1906
+6 Consolidated index of parties, subjects, and locations, 1907
+7 Consolidated index of parties, subjects, and locations, ca. 1907-1920
 

Series 20: Contracts With Other Rail Lines, 1881-1929
- Call Number: IC 2.37

Printed contracts and agreements in 77 folders, designated on the front cover (handwritten) with "46" [file number?]. Some of the printed agreements have printed on the front cover, "I.C.R.R. Co. Archives File No. [XXXXX]".
Arranged chronologically.
This series is an addendum to the original collection acquired by the Newberry Library in 1951, and is not listed or indexed in the 1951 printed guide by Mohr. For more agreements and contracts of this nature, see also IC 2.6, Miscellaneous legal papers.

Box Folder
14 264 Peoria & Pekin Union Rwy. Co., et al., re: proprietary lines, (2 copies) Feb. 1, 1881
14 265 Illinois Central Railroad and Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Rwy. Co., traffic agreement, (2 copies) Jun. 24, 1886
14 266 Illinois Central Railroad and Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Rwy Co., re: joint use of Dunleith and Dubuque Bridge, Jan. 25, 1888
14 267 Illinois Central Railroad and Wabash, Chester & Western RR Co., re: crossing and use of facilities at Tamaroa, Ill., May 2, 1892
14 268 Illinois Central Railroad and Warwick Hough and Samuel J. Beals, receivers of the Sioux City and Northern RR Co., and Warwick Hough, receiver of the Sioux City Terminal RR and Warehouse co., re: use of passenger station and facilities in Sioux City, Ia., Nov. 1, 1893
14 269 Illinois Central Railroad and Michigan Central RR Co., various agreements, most relating to Chicago depots and stations, 1894-1930
14 270 Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham RR Co. and Illinois Central Railroad, re: use of Depot, tracks, and other facilities at Holly Springs, Miss., Jun. 9, 1894
14 271 St. Louis, Alton, & Terre Haute RR Co. and Terminal Railroad Ass'n. Of St. Louis, re: Use of depot facilities, St. Louis, (2 copies) Sept. 1, 1894
14 272 Illinois Central Railroad and Terre Haute & Peoria RR Co., re: use of track and facilities between Illinois Midland junction and Maroa, Ill., (2 copies) Nov. 14, 1894
14 273 Illinois Central Railroad and Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Rwy. Co., re: joint use of tracks between Pana and East St. Louis, Ill., Jun. 30, 1896
14 274 St. Louis, Peoria & Northern Rwy. Co., and Terminal RR Ass'n of St. Louis, re: use of Union Station, St. Louis, May 1, 1898
14 275 Illinois Central Railroad and Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham RR Co., re: joint track agreement, Aug. 29, 1898
14 276 Union Pacific RR Co. and Chicago & Northwestern Rwy. Co., et al., re: use of Passenger station at Omaha, Neb., Sept. 1, 1898
14 277 Illinois Central Railroad and Mobile & Ohio Railroad, re: joint use of the Cairo Bridge, Cairo, IL, . Note: three maps, folded, inside back cover Jan. 2, 1899
14 278 Illinois Central Railroad and Wisconsin Central Rwy. Co., re: tracks, Minneapolis through Ashland (Wis.) to Chicago, Dec. 9, 1899
14 279 Illinois Central Railroad and Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Rwy. Co., re: joint use of Depot Facilities, Paducah, Ky., Apr. 25, 1900
14 280 Illinois Central Railroad and Mobile & Ohio Railroad, re: joint use of tracks between Fort Jefferson and East Cairo, Jun. 1, 1900
14 281 Illinois Central Railroad and Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Rwy. Co., re: use of passenger station facilities, Springfield, Ill., Jun. 1, 1900
14 282 Albert Lea & Southern RR Co., and Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Rwy. Co., re: use of tracks between Glenville and Albert Lea, Minn., Sept. 19, 1900
14 283 Minneapolis & St. Louis, and Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Rwy. Co., and Albert Lea & Southern RR Co., re: use of terminal, Albert Lea, Minn., Dec. 3, 1900
15 284 Louisville & Nashville and Illinois Central Railroad and Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis Rwy. Co., re: construction and joint use of station building and facilities at Henderson, Ky., Mar. 1, 1901
15 285 Illinois Central Railroad and Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham RR Co. and Kansas City, Fort Scott, & Memphis RR Co., re: use of Calhoun Street Station, Memphis, Tenn., Apr. 1, 1901
15 286 Illinois Central Railroad and Louisville & Nashville, et al., re: Joint passenger Station in East St. Louis, Ill., ca. Apr. 30, 1901
15 287 Illinois Central Railroad and Choctaw Oklahoma & Gulf RR Co., re: use of Calhoun Street Station, Memphis, Tenn., May 3, 1901
15 288 Illinois Central Railroad and Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Rwy. Co., re: joint use of depot, tracks, and other facilities, Eldorado, Ill., Oct. 30, 1901
15 289 Illinois Central Railroad and Minneapolis & St. Louis RR Co., re: use of passenger facilities at Fort Dodge, Ia., Nov. 10, 1901
15 290 Illinois Central Railroad and Chicago & Eastern Illinois RR Co., re: use of tracks between Gale, Thebes and Olive Branch, Ill., and letter to J.T. Harahan re: Rentals, Mar. 27, 1902
15 291 Illinois Central Railroad and Chicago, Rock Island & Pac. Rwy Co., re: use of track between Tara and Ft. Dodge, Sept. 1, 1902 Illinois Central Railroad and Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville, re: use of Illinois and Indiana Railroad Company, Switz City, Ind., Sept. 30, 1902
15 292 Terminal RR Assoc. of St. Louis, and Railroad Companies, re: admission agreement of new companies, Dec. 16, 1902
15 293 Illinois Central Railroad, Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RR Co., and Morgan's Louisiana & Texas RR & SS Co., re: use of depot and track facilities, New Orleans, La., Dec. 18, 1902
15 294 Missouri Pacific Rwy Co., and others, Proprietary Companies, et al., and Terminal RR Assoc. of St. Louis, Supplemental agreement, Jan. 16, 1903
15 295 The St. Louis Transfer Co. and its Relation to the Railroads, by George J. Tansey: read before the St. Louis Railway Club, at their meeting, Mar. 13, 1903
15 296 Illinois Central Railroad and Rochelle and Southern Rwy. Co., re: joint use of facilities, Mendota, Ill., (2 copies) Mar. 23, 1903
15 297 Illinois Central Railroad and Louisville & Nashville RR Co., re: joint use of Henderson Bridge, and depot and track facilities, Evansville, Ind., and Henderson, Ky., May 1, 1904
15 298 Illinois Central Railroad and Illinois Southern Rwy. Co., re: construction of interlocking plant at crossing, Coulterville, Ill., Jun. 13, 1904
15 299 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Rwy. Co. and Illinois Central Railroad, Decision of questions in dispute, [missing first 2 pages] Sept. 26, 1904
15 300 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Rwy. Co. and Illinois Central Railroad, Per Diem agreements, ca. [missing first 4 pages] 1904
15 301 Illinois Central Railroad and American Express Co., transportation contract, Apr. 1, 1905
15 302 Illinois Central Railroad and The Pullman Co., re: use of sleeping cars, [Expires Jun. 1, 1923] (2 copies) Nov. 1, 1905
15 303 Illinois Central Railroad, et al., and Southern R'way Co., et al., re: trackage agreement, Jackson, Corinth, Haleyville, and Jasper, (2 copies) Jan. 16, 1906
15 304 Illinois Central Railroad and Gulf & Ship Island RR Co., re: supplemental agreement, use of facilities at Jackson, Miss., (original agreement dated Mar. 22, 1900, also included) Mar. 1, 1906.
15 305 Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis Rwy. Co. and Illinois Central Railroad and Louisville & Nashville RR Co, re: joint use of passenger station and facilities at Owensboro, Ky., Sept. 1, 1906
15 306 Illinois Central Railroad and Minneapolis and St. Louis, re: joint use of facilities in Albert Lea, Minn., Dec. 22, 1906
15 307 Birmingham Terminal Co. with Southern Rwy. Ass'n., Illinois Central Railroad, et al., and The Equitable Trust Co. of New York, re: joint use and operation of Passenger Terminals at Birmingham, Ala., (2 copies) Mar. 1, 1907
15 308 Illinois Central Railroad and American Express Co., express transportation contract, (expires Mar. 31, 1912) Apr. 1, 1907
15 309 Report before the Interstate Commerce Commission, Hope Cotton Oil Co., v. Texas & Pacific R'way Co. and St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern R'way Co., decided Jul. 8, 1907
15 310 Illinois Central Railroad, Kensington & Eastern RR Co., and Indiana & Kensington RR Co., and Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Rwy. Co., re: extending time for the completion of the railways, (Supplements , agreement, included) Sept. 10, 1907 Oct. 18, 1904
15 311 Illinois Central Railroad and Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern RR Co., re: Passenger station facilities, Springfield, Ill., Mar. 1, 1908
15 312 Illinois Central Railroad and Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville RR Co., re: use of tracks between Riverdale, Ill., Kensington, Fordham and 43rd St., Chicago, Oct. 2, 1908
15 313 Illinois Centr