Whitney, Asa, 1797-1872
Asa Whitney American businessman and transcontinental railroad promoter (1797–1872)
VIAF ID: 40159475 ( Personal )
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Preferred Forms
4xx's: Alternate Name Forms (5)
Works
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Address...before the legislature of Pennsylvania, on his project for a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific. | |
Letter of Mr. Whitney. | |
Map without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego; the central route through South Pass and on to San Francisco and "Puget's Sound," and connecting railroads east of the Mississippi. | |
Memorial of Asa Whitney praying a grant of public land to enable him to construct a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean. | |
National railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific. |