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Miscellaneous info, Queries, and Nuggets from recent letters (by States, alphabetical order) |
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Illinois: 1845, Edgar County, Illinois |
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“1845 May 21 Joseph McAninch and Elizabeth Jane Quiett”, Edgar County, Marriage Record A, |
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June 1823 – Sept. 1857, pg. 78, line 1; found by Rosalie Eben Schack CGRS, Owatonna, Minn. |
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Indiana: 1852, the Railroad comes through Coatesville, Hendricks County -- |
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First, the “Terre Haute and Richmond” (1852), then the “Terre Haute and Indianapolis” (1865) -- |
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“Chartered in 1847, . . .completed a 73-mile line between Terre Haute and Indianapolis in 1852 |
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[through Coatesville], and on April 26, 1870, completed a short extension from Terre Haute to the |
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Illinois state line to connect with the newly constructed St. Louis, Vandalia and Terre Haute [the |
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original ‘Vandalia’ line]. . . . After 1865 the road became the Terre Haute and Indianapolis, a name |
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it retained until the 1905 merger into the Vandalia. With its connecting road east of Indianapolis, |
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the line formed a major segment on the Pennsylvania's St. Louis-Pittsburgh-New York route.” |
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Then, the “Vandalia Railroad” (1905), and finally the “Pennsylvania Railroad” (1917/1921) -- |
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“. . . the Vandalia Railroad Company, was formed in 1905 by a merger of the |
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St. Louis, Vandalia and Terre Haute Railroad with the Terre Haute and Logansport Railway, |
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the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad [the railroad line that ran through Coatesville], |
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the Logansport and Toledo Railway, and the Indianapolis and Vincennes Railroad. |
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The consolidated Vandalia Railroad connected Indianapolis and St. Louis . . . In 1917, |
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the Vandalia was merged [into] the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, |
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which was then formally leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1921.” |
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Quotations from the book Railroads Of Indiana, by Richard S. Simons and Francis H. Parker, |
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1997, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, ISBN 0‑253‑33351‑2, pgs.117-118; |
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their footnote 139 cites The Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Corporate, Financial, and |
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Construction History of Lines Owned, Operated and Controlled to December 31, 1945 (4 vol.), |
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by Coverdale and Colpitts, consulting engineers; vol. 3, pg.371. |
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Map “Vandalia Railroad at Time of Consolidation in 1905” was published in Centennial History |
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of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, by G. H. Burgess and M. C. Kennedy, 1976, pub. Ayer Co. (out‑of‑print); ISBN 0‑405‑08067‑0, pg. 510; found online, “Maps from the Centennial History of |
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the PRR” site, Map 14, http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/Maps/Centhist/map_centhist14.gif |
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Note: the line through Coatesville was only named the ‘Vandalia Railroad’ between 1905 and 1917 |
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Indiana: McAninchs in Coatesville, Hendricks County, Indiana, in the late 1800’s -- |
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(1) [Chiseltown] “Coatesville has a nickname that was given it many years ago. There was a time |
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when every [railroad] bridge carpenter between Indianapolis and Terre Haute was a Coatesville |
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citizen [including Daniel A. McAninch, 1850-1930]. These men boarded the accommodation trains |
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to go to their work and return home on Saturday afternoons. It was necessary that these laborers |
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carry tool boxes filled with wood chizzles [sic] used in the framing of the heavy bridge timbers. |
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The story goes that on a Saturday afternoon as the train bearing these men and their tools came |
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down the grade into town, the brakeman would open the door of the ‘smoker’ and yell ‘All out |
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for Chizzletown’. And so, the sobriquet was started and stuck.” (Brief History of Coatesville, pg 2) |
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McAninch Family History NL, v.XI.n.1 January 2003 Copyright Frank McAninch page 2003-02 |