Cairo City and Canal Company. Papers, 1838-42 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections

Title: Cairo City and Canal Company. Papers, 1838-42

Collection identifier: 502

Extent: 5.0 items

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This collection contains materials relating to the effort of London entrepreneurs and their agents in Illinois to develop the site of Cairo. It includes a report about the site, sent from William Strickland and Richard C. Taylor in Philadelphia to John Wright in London on Dec. 13, 1838 [in oversize folder]. Also included in the collection are two stock shares for the Cairo City and Canal Company (1839), a printed prospectus of the company (1841), and a receipt issued to assigners of the estate of Wright, for Illinois Improvement Bonds (1842).

These papers were purchased in London in 1918.