Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1878 — The Chiciago. Rensselaer & Brazil RR. [ARTICLE]

The Chiciago. Rensselaer & Brazil RR.

lifUHseluer Union. Oct. 24th. A meeting was held at the office of R. S. & Z. Dwiggins on Saturday evening, October 19th, for the purpose of organizing a company to construct a line of railroad from Chicago to Brazil, Clay county Indiana. The articles of incorporation are as follows: The undersigned subscribers having met together for the purpose of organizing a company uuder the statutes and laws of Indiana for the purpose of and with the authority to build, construct, equip, own and operate a railroad'from the town of Rensselaer, in the county of Jasper, in the Stale of Indiana, to the town of Brazil, in the county of Clay, in said state of Indiana, do hereby agree to and adopt the following articles of incorporation : 1. The name of said company shall l e the Chicago, Rensselaer and Brazil Railway Company. 2. The capital stock of this company shall be two million dollars; to consist of twenty thousand shares of one hundred dollars each. Said company shall have authority to increase said capital stock at any time by a vote of two-thirds of nil the stockholders. 3. Said railroad shall be constructed from said town of Rensselaer, in ! said county cf Jasper, to said town of Brazil, in said county of Clay, on6u<-h line as said company shall select. The said company shall have the right io build said ntad via the city of Terre Haute, in the county of Vigo, in said state of Indiana; or said company may, at its election, build,.own a: d operate a branch from the maiD line of said road to said city of Terre Haute, leaving the main line at Brazil, or at such other point as said company may select. Said road when built will pass through the comities of Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren, Fountain, Parke, Vigo and Clay, within the said state of Indiana. 4. The length of said road will bo about one hundred miles. 5. The number of directors to manage the affairs of said company shall be nine; and we hereby declare that we have selected the following named persons by ballot from our own number to constitute the first, board of di rector». to-wit ; Alfred Thompson 1 Robert s. Pwiggins Simon P. Thump-

son, Alfred McCoy, Joseph C. Wilson, David Noweis, Nathaniel W. Reeve, Alonzo Cowgill. James M. Graham.— Roberts. Dwiggius was elected president of the board. * Subscribed to bv R. S. Dwiggins, Rensselaer, Ind., 26 shares of stock. Zimri Dwiggins. “ 20 shares. David Noweis, “ 50 ” Simon P.Thompson, “ 25 “ Alfred MeCey, “ 50 “ N.W. R«eve, “ 5 David B. Noweis, “ 5 JarM Benjamin, “ 10 “ J. H Loughridge, “ 5 “ E. P. Hammond, “ 25 Alfred Thompson, “ 50 “ J. M. Graham, Kansas, 111. 10 “ Samuel N. Yeornan, Washington, Ohio, 50 shares. Edward Hurlburt, Atlanta, Ga., 50 shares. Joseph C. Wilson, Monticeilo, Ind., 50 shares. A. W. Reynolds, “ 6 shares. William Spencer, “ 5 “ Alonz. Cowgill, Oxf d, Ind. 10 “ Jasp. N. McConnsll, “ 10 “ Jacob Benedict, “ 5 “ Cyrus Foltz. “ 5 “ Charles M. Scott, “ 5 “ D. A. Messner, “ 5 “ J. W. Earnes, . “ 5 Wm. C. Parker, * 5 “ F. . Yarbroagh, “ 5 * W. M. Scotr, “ 5 C. H. Zeis. “ 5 J. M. Thomas, ” 5 “ A. W. Wells, “ 4 In all capital stock to the amount of $54,500 was subscribed, the date of the date of the subscriptious being October 10th, 1878.