Digital Image: 1858 H. V. Poor Railroad Map of the Eastern United States
AllRailRoads-poor-1858_d
Title
H. V. Poor's new and complete Map of All the Rail Roads in the United States and Canadas in Operation and Progress.
1858 (undated) 37 x 43.5 in (93.98 x 110.49 cm) 1 : 2112000
1858 (undated) 37 x 43.5 in (93.98 x 110.49 cm) 1 : 2112000
Description
FOR THE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP, WITH HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, CLICK HERE.
Digital Map Information
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Cartographer S
Henry Varnum Poor (December 8, 1812 - January 4, 1905) was an American financial analyst who founded H. V. and H. W. Poor Co., a company that eventually evolved into Standard and Poor's, a bellwether of the financial research and analysis industry. Poor was born in Andover, Maine, and was the first in his family to graduate from college, receiving a degree from Bowdoin in 1835. After graduation he joined his uncle's law firm and based the bar in 1838. Henry and his brother John Poor established a law practice a few years later in Bangor, Maine. The Poor brothers made a fortune investing in Maine's timber industry, and John became a minor railway magnate. He was also heavily involved in building the Maine railroad network. John purchased the American Railroad Journal in 1849 and Henry became the editor and manager. To compile comprehensive information about the operational and financial state of railroad companies around the United States, Henry Poor published History of Railroads and Canals in the United States in 1860. After he started the H. V. and H. W. Poor Company with his son Henry William, Poor published annual editions of his book. Poor was appointed a government commissioner to the Union Pacific Railroad in 1862, which caused him to leave his position as editor of the American Railway Journal. He was elected the Union Pacific's first Secretary later in 1862 but left the railroad not long afterward. Henry Poor was also a co-founder of the American Geographical Society. More by this mapmaker...
Lang and Laing (fl. 1861 – August 16, 1862) were New York City based publishers and lithographers active in the middle part of the 19th century. The firm was founded by founded by William Lang and Joseph Laing and maintained offices at 117 Fulton Street, New York City. They specialized in transferring copper and steel plates to lithographic stone for more economical printing. Their most significant cartographic work is the Jacob de Cordova and Robert Creuzbaur map of Texas. The firm was dissolved in August of 1862. Lang went on to partered with Henry Pooley Cooper, and continued to publish under the Lang and Cooper imprint until 1864. Learn More...
References
OCLC 862812633.