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Item Number |
496 | |||
Name |
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company | |||
Location(s) |
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Country |
USA | |||
Region |
Amerika | |||
Description |
11.07.1919, 4% General Consolidated Mortgage Gold Bond über US-S 1.000, #A1872, lochentwertet, Knickfalten, Vignette mit Zug und Gleisarbeitern, ausgestellt und rückseitig signiert von Mary Haydon Hansen. | |||
Description (English) |
11 July 1919, 4% General Consolidated Mortgage Gold Bond for US-S 1,000, #A1872, hole cancellation, folds, vignette with train and track workers, issued to and signed by Mary Haydon Hansen on reverse. | |||
Condition |
VF | |||
History (German) |
Die Gesellschaft wurde 1847 als Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill & Susquehanna Railroad gegründet und firmierte ab 1853 als Lehigh Valley Railroad. Die Hauptstrecke führte von New York nach Buffalo und war seinerzeit einer der am meisten befahrenen Eisenbahnstrecken der USA. James C. Haydon aus Philadelphia wirkte als Bauingenieur beim Bau der North Penn Railroad von Philadelphia nach Bethlehem mit. Nachdem die Linie an die Lehigh Valley Railroad anschloss, bekam er eine Verbindung zu Asa Packer, dem Gründer der Lehigh Valley Railroad und der Stadt Lehigh. Haydon verbrachte ein Jahr im Vorstand der Lehigh Valley Railroad, bevor er sich dem Minengeschäft zuwand. Nach seinem Tod ehrte seine Tochter, Mary Haydon Hansen, ihren Vater mit der Einrichtung eines Stipendienfonds. | |||
History (English) |
The company was founded in 1847 as Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill & Susquehanna Railroad. In 1853 the name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. The main line let from New York to Buffalo. It was one of the lines with the most railway traffic in the USA. James C. Haydon from Philadelphia worked as a civil engineer on the building of the North Penn Railroad from Philadelphia to Bethlehem. As this line connected with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, he became connected to Asa Packer, founder of the town of Lehigh as well as the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Haydon spent a year as an executive with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, before he went into the mining business. After his death, his daughter, Mary Haydon Hansen, honored her father by setting up a scholarship fund in his memory. | |||
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