Architect - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Person | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| President, Owner | Arthur E Stilwell | 1889 | 1900 |
| President | John W Gates | 1899 | |
| Financiers | Drexel and Company | 1894 | |
| Assistant Chief Engineer | Ira G Hedrick | 1898 | 1899 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1889/00/00 | Arthur Stilwell organizes the Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Gulf Railroad. | Established | |||||
| 1894/04/00 | In Philadelphia, Stilwell has trouble drawing a $500,000 draft on the Bank of Amsterdam via Drexel and Co. They laugh. He has to prove to them that in the middle of a depression he has raised $3,000,000 to build a railroad through Arkansas and Louisiana. | Finance | |||||
| 1896/08/19 | Arthur Stilwell, president of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railway, rides the first steam locomotive into Mena, Arkansas. | Owner | Mena Kansas City-Southern Depot | Mena | |||
| 1897/09/11 | The last spike is driven on the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railway (Pee-Gee) line to Port Arthur. | Work | Port Arthur, TX | Texas | |||
| 1900/10/00 | In the fall of 1900, a Wall Street ring headed by John W Gates forces the Pee-Gee into receivership and Stilwell out of a job over an unpaid $40 printing bill through a court order granted by a federal judge in a hearing held at the judge's home at 2 am. | Port Arthur, TX | Texas |
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