1886 Keith Furniture Billhead & Voucher Kansas City Missouri Antique Document
$ 4.75
Description
GRAPHIC 1886 BILLHEAD AND UNION DEPOT VOUCHER KANSAS CITY MISSOURI , ROBERT KEITH FURNITURE & CARPET CO. 2 PCS ORIGINAL. JOBBER AND RETAILERS IN FURNITURE, CARPETS, OILCLOTHS AND CURTAINS ADDRESS: 811, 813, MAIN ST. PRESIDENT: ROBERT KEITH VOUCHER SIGNED BY RAILROAD MOGUL, GEORGE NETTLETON SOLD TO: UNION DEPOT TRAIN STATION (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE MORE MODERN UNION STATION). SEE MY STORE: VINTAGE HARDWARE STORE COLLECTIBLES George H. Nettleton Railroad Baron 1831-1896 by Daniel Coleman At the peak of his career, George Nettleton lived in a West Bluffs mansion overlooking the Kansas City Stock Yards and Union Depot, both of which he managed in addition to the 800 miles of railroad track and 2,000 employees under his command. Nettleton was as close to a railroad baron as Kansas City could boast in the late 1800s, with the exception that he was not an owner of the various lines he controlled. George H. Nettleton was born November 13, 1831, in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, located just northwest of Springfield. The 1850s saw Nettleton’s career as an engineer advancing steadily along with the miles of track laid by the various railroads for which he worked. . He served for a time as an assistant, then general superintendent of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. The Hannibal Bridge opened under Nettleton’s watch in 1869. Nettleton was also instrumental in the laying of one of the earliest rail lines in the Kansas City area when he oversaw completion of the Cameron to Kansas City road. In 1872, Nettleton became the general superintendent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and from his headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, supervised the line’s extension as far as the state’s western border. He moved to Kansas City in 1874 and turned his attention toward developing the growing transportation center his railroad endeavors had helped to create. He organized and managed the Kansas City Stockyards, and, at the helm of the Union Depot Company, administered the city’s first major railroad station and yards in the West Bottoms. Nettleton was an important link to eastern capitalists who backed Kansas City business ventures. He helped incorporate the First National Bank of Kansas City and served as president of the Fort Scott & Memphis Railway. In the early 1890s, they built a 12-room, brick mansion on the West Bluffs at 7th Street overlooking Nettleton’s industrial domain, but he died only a few years later at age 64, on March 26, 1896. In 1900, Julia Nettleton donated the structure to be used as a home for elderly women, and although these occupants moved to new quarters in 1917. ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE.
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