A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . oration, called the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne andChicago Railroad Company, went into operation AugustI, 1856, and Mr. Edgerton was elected 1857 and 1858, years of great depression of railroadcredit, he was financial agent of the company in thecity of New York. In 1859 he had charge of the com-panys legal department. In December of the sameyear he was appointed receiver of the company by theUnited States Circuit Court, for the
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . oration, called the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne andChicago Railroad Company, went into operation AugustI, 1856, and Mr. Edgerton was elected 1857 and 1858, years of great depression of railroadcredit, he was financial agent of the company in thecity of New York. In 1859 he had charge of the com-panys legal department. In December of the sameyear he was appointed receiver of the company by theUnited States Circuit Court, for the northern districl;of Ohio, with the concurrence of tlie leading bond-holders and a large interest of stockholders. This ap-pointment was opposed by the Pennsylvania RailroadConi])any, which then aiming to obtain, as it didsubsequently, the full control of the road, and to com-promise differences and prevent litigation, Mr. Edgertonresigned in favor of W. B. Ogden, of Chicago. In i860Mr. Edgerton, who had previously been a Whig in pol-itics, by his conviction of the constitutionality and pat-riotism of Stephen .A. Douglass position on the great.
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