Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Co. signed by Thomas A. Scott For Sale

Stock signed by Thomas A. Scott as president. Extremely Rare! Attractive! Thomas Alexander Scott (1823-1881), President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Union Army Transportation Officer in the Civil War. He proposed a plan for President-elect Lincoln's surreptitious entry into Washington, D.C. in 1861 and was assistant U. S. Secretary of War in charge of government railways and transport, 1861-62. Supervised removal of General Hooker's force from Virginia to Chattanooga, 1863. Strengthened the Pennsylvania system from 1874-80. The Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad (JM&I) was formed in 1866 as a merger between the Indianapolis and Madison Railroad and the Jeffersonville Railroad. The JM&I predecessors were as follows: Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Indianapolis and Madison Railroad 1866 Madison and Indianapolis Railroad 1862 Madison, Indianapolis & Lafayette Railroad 1843 Jeffersonville Railroad 1866 Ohio and Indianapolis Railway 1849 Knightstown & Shelbyville Railroad 1852 (abandoned 1868) Shelbyville Lateral Railroad 1851 (abandoned 1867) Shelby and Rush Railroad 1882 Rushville and Shelbyville Railroad 1859 Columbus and Shelby Railroad 1881 Lake Erie and Louisville Railroad 1890 Lake Erie and Pacific Railroad 1865 Fremont, Lima & Union Railroad 1865 The Fremont and Indiana Railroad 1861 The Ohio and Indianapolis Railroad was chartered February 3, 1832, to build a line from Indianapolis south to the Ohio River at Jeffersonville, Indiana. The company was not organized until March 17, 1848, and on February 3, 1849, it was renamed the Jeffersonville Railroad. The first section, from Jeffersonville to just north of Memphis, Indiana, opened in 1850. The next year it leased the Knightstown and Shelbyville Railroad, starting to operate it in 1852. The line opened north to Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.