According to the CB&Q Documentary History (Volume 2 Lines in Iowa and Missouri.
I'm not going to type the entire entry, but on page 1180 the company was called
St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern RR Company. It ran from Keokuk to St.
Louis(completed March 4, 18940 and from Keokuk to Mt. Pleasant(Ccompleted
January 31, 1881).
After many line additions and name changes, the company was last named
St.Louis, Keokuk & Western RR.
On July 7, 1887, the US Circuit Court for the Southern Dist. of Iowa, entered a
Decree, under which, of date Dec. 22, 1887, P.T. Lomax, Master, sold the road
to Chales E. Perkins, who bought it in for the CB&Q which Company had already
in 1880 secured control of the property by purchase of its securities, and
caused a new compnay to be organized under the laws of Iowa, named StLK&W by
articles dated Dec. 3, 1887.
January 7, 1888, Perkins and wife conveyed the road y deed to the new Company.
I hope this helps. If really, needed I could type the entire entry from the
book, but it would be a few days.
Gary Olszewski
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "gary laakso" <vasa0vasa@...> wrote:
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> You might want to review a contemporary Moody's Railroad to review its
> history of the involved railroads. My 1946 edition does not mention St.LK&W.
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> gary laakso
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Duncan Cameron
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: 3/27/2011 1:45:34 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] corporate history
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> Okay, here I go again.
> I've got Baldwin's corporate history in one hand and Overton in the other.
> Overton, on page 174, mentions the purchase of the St.Louis, Keokuk and
> Western Railway by the Q in 1881.
> Baldwin makes no mention of this but shows Perkins buying it in 1888 and
> conveying it to a newly created Q subsidiary called the St.LK&W Railroad
> Company. Later it is formally leased and then purchased.
> Anyone have any insight to offer on this apparent discrepancy?
> One of the things that makes me suspicious of the 1881 date is the financial
> troubles that allowed the 1888 purchase.
> It surprised me that a Q owned company would find itself in default to its
> creditors. But who am I to doubt Overton?
> Duncan Cameron
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