Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company

Creation Date

1848-02-03

Dissolution Date

1940-09

Entity Type

Organization

Chartered in 1848 by the Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky legislatures. Main line spanning 449 miles from Mobile, Alabama to Columbus, Kentucky completed on April 22, 1861. Presidents: Sidney Smith (1848 to 1856) and Milton Brown (1856-1867).

Dan Lee, The Mobile and Ohio Railroad in the Civil War: The Struggle for Control of the Nation's Longest Railway (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company Publishers, 2022) 5.
James Hutton Lemly, The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio: A Railroad that had to Expand or Expire (Homewood, Ill: R. D. Irwin, 1953), 4.
Forty-Second Annual Report of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Co., 1889-90 (New York: Evening Post Job Printing Office, 1890), 32-4.
_Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company (Mobile: Dade and Thompson Publishers, 1849), 23.

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