Where Was Strowbridge?
From: "Larry Mullaly" lmullaly@jeffnet.org
I am finding that much of the construction work of the San Joaquin Valley RR and the early Southern Pacific both in the San Joaquin Valley and on the the lines south of Gilroy was subcontracted to the Turton & Knox Company rather than J.H. Strowbridge.
I believe that Strowbridge help build the "Oregon Road" to Red Bluff, but he seems idles for some of the time until summer of 1873 when he replaces Hyde in Southern California to build 50 miles of track.
Can anyone help fill in the picture?
—Larry Mullaly
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 9:31 AM
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My 2nd-great paternal/maternal grandparents Amory Bell and Grace Lock Smith Bell were early passengers on the CP eastbound from Sacramento to Boston, returning with Grace’s younger sister Sara Helen Smith from Scotland. How might I find their dates of passage?
Correction: my great-great-grandmothers name was MARGARET Lock Smith; my great grandmother was Grace Bell, and may well have been on the train as well; my Great-great-grandfather’s full name was Amory Francis Bell, an investor in the CP and quite likely as a leading businessman in early Sacramento to have been known to the Big Four and/or Theodore Judah.
See passenger lists.
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