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Obsolete American Securities and Corporations

compiled by
R.M. Smythe

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I desire to acknowledge indebtedness to the following publications
and parties for much information and assistance:


 Commercial & Financial Chronicle, published in New York.
 Poor's Manual of Railroads, published in New York.
 Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities, published in New York.
 Poor's Manual of Industrials, published in New York.
 Manual of American Water Works, published in New York up to 1897.
 United States Investor, published in Boston.
 Copper Handbook, published at Houghton, Michigan, by Horace J. Stevens.
 Manual of Statistics, published in New York.
 Corporation Directory, published in New York by Trow Directory Company.
 Stock Exchange Year Book, published annually in London.
 Philadelphia Securities, published in Philadelphia, annually up to 1893.
 Mines of the United States, published in New York, in 1883.
 New York Securities, published in New York in 1893.
 Mining Manual, publshea by W. R. Skinner in London, annually.
 State Engineer's Report of New York State, published annually since 1857.
 Interstate Commerce Commission Report, issued annually.
 Reports issued by the proper Commissions in the majority of the States annually.
 Gazetteer of New York, issued in 1860, and possibly later.
 Burdett's Official Intelligence of British and Foreign Securities, issued in London, annually.
 H. B. Larwill, of Newark, New Jersey, whose sudden death in 1910 was a great loss to the writer and to numerous other friends.
 James R. O'Hara, of Boston, who has supplied information about securities of the Eastern States.
 W. H. Thompson, of Philadelphia, Pa., who was an expert on oil stocks, and who died suddenly in 1908.

 I wish also to thank the Treasurer of the United States as well as
 several State Treasurers, and many banks and bankers, for the assistance
 they have given me in ascertaining the standing of extinct corporations
 in their vicinity.

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