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Miscellaneous info, Queries, and Nuggets from recent letters (by States, alphabetical order) |
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Illinois: 1845, Edgar County, Illinois |
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“1845 May 21 Joseph McAninch and Elizabeth Jane Quiett”, Edgar County, Marriage Record A, June 1823 – Sept. 1857, pg. 78, line 1; found by Rosalie Eben Schack CGRS, Owatonna, Minnesota |
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Indiana: 1852, the Railroad comes through Coatesville, Hendricks County -- |
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First, the “Terre Haute and Richmond” (1852), then the “Terre Haute and Indianapolis” (1865) -- |
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“Chartered in 1847, this company completed a 73-mile line between Terre Haute and Indianapolis in 1852 [through Coatesville], and on April 26, 1870, completed a short extension from Terre Haute to the Illinois state line to connect with the newly constructed St. Louis, Vandalia and Terre Haute [the original ‘Vandalia’ line]. … After 1865 the road became the Terre Haute and Indianapolis, a name it retained until the 1905 merger into the Vandalia. With its connecting road east of Indianapolis, the line formed a major segment on the Pennsylvania's St. Louis-Pittsburgh-New York route.” |
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Then, the “Vandalia Railroad” (1905), and finally the “Pennsylvania Railroad” (1917) -- |
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“… the Vandalia Railroad Company, was formed in 1905 by a merger of the St. Louis, Vandalia and Terre Haute Railroad with the Terre Haute and Logansport Railway, the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad [the railroad line that ran through Coatesville], the Logansport and Toledo Railway, and the Indianapolis and Vincennes Railroad. The consolidated Vandalia Railroad connected Indianapolis and St. Louis … In 1917 the Vandalia was merged [into] the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, which was then formally leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1921.” |
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Quotations from the book Railroads Of Indiana, by Richard S. Simons and Francis H. Parker, 1997, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, ISBN 0‑253‑33351‑2, pgs. 117-118; their footnote 139 cites The Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Corporate, Financial, and Construction History of Lines Owned, Operated and Controlled to December 31, 1945 (4 vol.), by Coverdale and Colpitts, consulting engineers; vol. 3, pg.371. |
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Map “Vandalia Railroad at Time of Consolidation in 1905” was published in Centennial History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, by G. H. Burgess and M. C. Kennedy, 1976, pub. Ayer Company (out‑of‑print); ISBN 0‑405‑08067‑0, pg. 510; found online at “Maps from the Centennial History of the PRR” site, Map 14, at http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/Maps/Centhist/map_centhist14.gif |
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[Note: the line through Coatesville was only named the ‘Vandalia Railroad’ between 1905 and 1917] |
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Indiana: McAninchs in Coatesville, Hendricks County, Indiana, in the late 1800’s -- |
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(1) [Chiseltown] “Coatesville has a nickname that was given it many years ago. There was a time when every [railroad] bridge carpenter between Indianapolis and Terre Haute was a Coatesville citizen [including Daniel A. McAninch, 1850-1930]. These men boarded the accomodation trains to go to their work and return home on Saturday afternoons. It was necessary that these laborers carry tool boxes filled with wood chizzles [sic, chisels] used in the framing of the heavy bridge timbers. The story goes that on a Saturday afternoon as the train bearing these men and their tools came down the grade into town, the brakeman would open the door of the “smoker” and yell “All out for Chizzletown”. And so, the sobriquet was started and stuck.” (Brief History of Coatesville, pg .2) |
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McAninch Family History NL, v.XI.n.1 January 2003 Copyright Frank McAninch page 2003-02 |
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