scott
1 May 2025
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From Hannibal Daily Messenger, V3, No 63, 27 February 1861
In January of 1886, Sam wrote back to J.W. Atterbury, at this time a member of the state legislature, having to decline an invitation to a celebration in Madison of the founding of the Hannibal to St. Joseph Railroad that Sam’s father helped to initiate in 1846. Atterbury included information about John Marshall Clemens that Sam found “astonishing” — that he’d been a pioneering railroad man. "I knew he interested himself in Salt River navigation, but this railroad matter is entirely new to me."