| LC control no. | n 81029002 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Kansas Pacific Railway Company |
| Variant(s) | Leavenworth, Fort Riley, and Western Railroad Company Kansas Pacific Railroad |
| See also | Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company Union Pacific Railway Company Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division |
| Beginning date | 1869 |
| Ending date | 1880? |
| Special note | The following headings for earlier names are valid AACR 2 headings: Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company; Leavenworth, Fort Riley, and Western Railroad Company; In 1863 the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Divison changed its name to Kansas Pacific Railway Company. |
| Found in | Its The charters ... 1862. Moody's transportation manual, 1983 (the Union Pacific Railroad Co. (chartered as Civil War necessity in 1862) merged on Jan. 24, 1880 with Kansas Pacific Railway Co. and Denver Pacific Railway & Telegraph Co. to form Union Pacific Railway Company; on July 1, 1897 the Union Pacific Railway Company was reorganized as Union Pacific Railroad Company) NUCMC data from Colo. Hist. Soc. Lib. for Its Records, 1866-1885 (Kansas Pacific Railway Company) LC manual cat., under Kansas Pacific Railway Company, printed history card (Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company [no publications in LC data base] chartered 1855, changed name in 1861 to Leavenworth, Fort Riley, and Western Railroad Company [no publications in LC data base] and in 1863 to Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, which in 1869 changed its name to Kansas Pacific Railway Company) Poor's Man. of railroads 1869-1870 (Kansas Pacific; heretofore Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division; name changed by joint resolution of Congress, 3/9/1869); Manual for 1890, in list of merged lines (Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company; no road built by this company; merged into Union Pacific 1880 [both names before 1863 seem to be paper companies]) NUCMC data from Nebraska State Hist. Soc. for Usher, J.P. Papers, 1840-1889 (Kansas Pacific Railroad) |
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