The Keim and allied families in America and Europe . Rebecca Price (Keim) —Reading, Pa., Germantown, Pa.—188-. and his first cousin and chief assistant,William Wirt Robinson, of Virginia,civil engineers (see p. 452, K. and ) and the marriage of the said Wil-liam Wirt Robinson to Rebecca Keim,daughter of George deB. Keim (origi-nal incorporator), 1839, were coinci-dent events. The first directors and officers of thePhiladelphia and Reading RailroadCompany: President, Elihu Chaun-cey; six managers and secretary andtreasurer were elected by the stock-holders at their first meetin
The Keim and allied families in America and Europe . Rebecca Price (Keim) —Reading, Pa., Germantown, Pa.—188-. and his first cousin and chief assistant,William Wirt Robinson, of Virginia,civil engineers (see p. 452, K. and ) and the marriage of the said Wil-liam Wirt Robinson to Rebecca Keim,daughter of George deB. Keim (origi-nal incorporator), 1839, were coinci-dent events. The first directors and officers of thePhiladelphia and Reading RailroadCompany: President, Elihu Chaun-cey; six managers and secretary andtreasurer were elected by the stock-holders at their first meeting, held onNovember 22, 1834. On September 19, 1838, Chief En-. William Wirt Robinson, Civil —Richmond, Va.—1862. gineer Moncure Robinson announcedto the Board that the road betweenReading and Norristown was openedfor the conveyance of passengers onJuly 16, 1838. The road between Phil-adelphia and Reading was on Decem-ber 5, 1839, opened for companys engine, the Gowanand Marx, on that day left Readingwith a train of eighty cars, conveying1,635 barrels of flour, seventy-threeand a quarter tons of blooms, six tonsof coal, two hogsheads of whiskey andother articles, and sixty persons.* It may be pertinently added thatfrom ninetv-four miles of trackage, *Letter of Wm. R. Taylor, Secretary, March 20, 1900. Also see p. —. K. andPhiladelphia and Reading1 Railway, A. F., for engineering characteristics. 532 THE KEIM AND ALLIED FAMILIES. 1839, the Philadelphia and ReadingEailroad had a total of 2, milesin 1S99. On the basis of one mile itcarried (1899) 235,746,932 passengers,1,398,656,331 tons of coal and 687,-21
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