. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. Thomas H. Canfield of \ermont in charge of therailroads about Washington, and to his management was in a large measure duethe successful prosecution of the war. Canfield was one of the incorporators ofthe Union Pacific Railroad, but from the beginning had been a consistent andpersistent advocate of the northern route and became one of its the incorporators were M. K. Armstrong, J. B. S. Todd and J. ShawGregory of Dakota, and Cyrus Aldrich, H. M. Rice, John McKusic, H. C. Waiteand Stephen ^liller of Minnesota.
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. Thomas H. Canfield of \ermont in charge of therailroads about Washington, and to his management was in a large measure duethe successful prosecution of the war. Canfield was one of the incorporators ofthe Union Pacific Railroad, but from the beginning had been a consistent andpersistent advocate of the northern route and became one of its the incorporators were M. K. Armstrong, J. B. S. Todd and J. ShawGregory of Dakota, and Cyrus Aldrich, H. M. Rice, John McKusic, H. C. Waiteand Stephen ^liller of Minnesota. Josiah Perham of Maine had been the leading character in securing thecharter for the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Congress havingdenied a subsidy in money to aid in the construction, the charter was likely to fail,when the active services of Mr. Canfield were enlisted, and through his efforts asyndicate was formed consisting of J. Gregory Smith of St. Albans, Vt., presi-dent of the Vermont Central Railroad; Richard D. Rice of Augusta, Maine,. MAX BASSGreat Northern immigration agent. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 327 president of the Maine Central Railroad; Thomas H. Canfield of BurUngton,Vt.; W. B. Ogden of Chicago, 111., president of the Chicago & NorthwesternRailroad; Robert H. Berdell of New York, president of the Erie Railroad; Dan-forth N. Barney of New York, president of the Wells, Fargo & Co. ExpressCompany; Ashel H. Barney of New York, president of the United StatesExpress Company; Benjamin P. Cheney of Boston, president of the UnitedStates & Canada Express Company; Wm. G. Fargo of Buffalo, N. Y., vicepresident of the New York Central Railroad and president of the AmericanExpress Company; George W. Cass of Pittsburgh, Pa., president of the Pitts-burgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company; J. Edgar Thompson of Phila-delphia, Pa., president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and EdwardReiley of Lancaster, Pa., for the purpose of securing the construction
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