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Verkäufer: strangebeautifulvinylbooks ✉️ (2.406) 98.8%, Artikelstandort: Utica, New York, US, Versand nach: US und viele andere Länder, Artikelnummer: 256475458285 Conquering the Wilderness Building Adirondack Railroad 1932 signiert seltener NY Zug. Conquering the Wilderness: The Building of the Adirondack Railroad by William Seward Webb 1891-92 Burnett, Charles Published by Privately published by the author, 1932 Dark green cloth-backed light green boards, spine & cover titles in gilt; 8vo; 86pp; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; b/w photo portrait of Webb with tissue guard bearing facsimile signature o/w not illustrated; printed at The Plimpton Press, Norwood, MA in an edition of 400 copies. With information on the Adirondack wilderness; planning the campaign; The Nehasane Park Association. William Seward Webb (January 31, 1851 – October 29, 1926)[1] was a businessman, and inspector general of the Vermont militia with the rank of colonel. He was a founder and former president of the Sons of the American Revolution. Early life Webb was born on January 31, 1851, to James Watson Webb and Laura Virginia (née Cram) Webb (1826–1890).[3] Among his many siblings were Alexander Stewart Webb,[4] a noted Civil War general who married Anna Elizabeth Remsen;[5] Henry Walter Webb,[6] also a railway executive who married Amelia Howard Griswold;[7] and George Creighton Webb, a Yale Law School graduate and attorney in New York with Saunders, Webb & Worcester who did not marry. He studied medicine in Vienna, Paris and Berlin. Returning to America, he entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and graduated from there in 1875. In 1881, he married Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt, the daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt. For several years Webb practiced medicine; then forsook the profession for finance at the behest of his wife's family, establishing the Wall Street firm of W. S. Webb & Co.[1] Career In 1883, Webster Wagner, the president of the Wagner Palace Car Company, was crushed between two of his own railroad cars. William Vanderbilt owned a controlling interest in the company, and asked his new son-in-law to take over the firm. William Seward invited his brother H. Walter Webb to join him, which started them both on careers in the railroad business. The Wagner Palace Car Company was subsequently merged with the Pullman Company.[1] Webb later became president of the Fulton Chain Railway Company, the Fulton Navigation Company and the Raquette Lake Transportation Company. He was the builder and President of the Mohawk and Malone Railway. His railroads were instrumental in opening the Adirondacks to the tourism rush of the mid-to-late 19th century and beyond.[1] Public service Webb served as inspector general of rifle practice for the Vermont militia with the rank of colonel. A Republican, he won election to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1896 and 1898.[1] In 1902, he intended to campaign for the Republican nomination for Governor of Vermont, but left the race in favor of Percival Clement. Clement lost the nomination to John G. McCullough, who went on to win the general election.[1] Personal life 680 Fifth Avenue mansion In 1883, he married Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt, daughter of railroad magnate William H. Vanderbilt.[8] They were the parents of:[1] Frederica Webb, who married Ralph Pulitzer.[1] J. Watson Webb II,[9] who married Electra Havemeyer Webb.[10] William Seward Webb, who married Gertrude Emily Gaynor, daughter of William Jay Gaynor; had issue. Vanderbilt Webb, who married Aileen Osborn.[11] He died on October 29, 1926, and was survived by his wife, three sons, and one daughter.[1] Legacy The Webbs lived for thirty years at 680 Fifth Avenue, New York. This house, a wedding gift from William H. Vanderbilt to his daughter, was sold in 1913 to John D. Rockefeller. The Webb property at Shelburne, Vermont, was created from more than thirty separate farms on the shores of Lake Champlain and is known today as Shelburne Farms. The property is a National Historic Landmark, and one of the main concert sites of the Vermont Mozart Festival. The former Webb estate has stunning views and some of the grandest barns of any Gilded Age property. A great horseman, Dr. Webb had a large collection of carriages, many of which are on display today at the Shelburne Museum. The Vanderbilt Webb's other country estate was an Adirondack Great Camp named NeHaSane, a game preserve of some 200,000 acres (800 km2), most of which was later donated to the State of New York to become part of the Adirondack Park. The town of Webb, New York in the park is named after him. The Mohawk and Malone Railway was a railroad that ran from the New York Central Railroad's main line at Herkimer north to Malone, crossing the northern Adirondacks at Tupper Lake Junction, just north of Tupper Lake. The road's founder, Dr. William Seward Webb, was president of the Wagner Palace Car Company and a Vanderbilt in-law. He began by purchasing the 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge Herkimer, Newport and Poland Railway, which ran 16 miles (26 km) from Herkimer to Poland, converting its trackage to 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge, and straightening it to avoid multiple crossings of the West Canada Creek. He then had track built from Tupper Lake to Moira and thence to Malone. A separate company, the St. Lawrence and Adirondack Railway (also controlled by Webb), completed the line to Montreal, Quebec.[1] The Mohawk and Malone opened in 1892 from Malone Junction to Childwold Station with a branch from Lake Clear Junction to Saranac Lake. The line was sometimes erroneously called the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad[2] (even though a separate company with this name also operated in this time). After 1893, it was controlled by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad.[3] In 1913, it merged with the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad as the "Adirondack Division" of the New York Central. Use for regional New York Central passenger train service in the 20th century Through the first half of the 20th century, the New York Central ran day and night trains on the route for service from Utica to Montreal via Lake Clear Junction and Malone. In the post-World War II period, the NYC's North Star train, and later, the Iroquois, provided direct sleeping car service from New York City's Grand Central Terminal to Lake Placid. In 1953, the NYC terminated service north of Malone toward Montreal.[4][5] In mid-1957, the company cut mainline service back from Malone to Lake Clear Junction, with all service terminating on the Lake Placid branch that left the division's main route at Lake Clear Junction.[6][7] On April 24, 1965, the NYC ran its final train on the route.[8][9] In the 1990s, service on the southern segment of the route between Utica and Thendara would return with tourist excursions run by the Adirondack Scenic Railroad. In the mid-2010s, the State of New York attempted to convert most of the Utica-Lake Placid segment to a rail trail. However, the Adirondack Railroad successfully won an effort in court to resist rail removal. The New York State Supreme Court ultimately sided with the railroad on September 26, 2017, annulling the rail trail plan in its entirety.[10][11] In 2020, pro-trail advocates persuaded the New York State Legislature to amend the Adirondack Park Act to allow removal of former NYC tracks from Tupper Lake to Lake Placid (34 miles) and to build a new rail-trail there instead, thus negating the prior Court decisions. Track removal occurred between October, 2020 and November, 2021, with trail completion planned in 2024. New York State has completed renovation of the long-decayed tracks from Big Moose to Tupper Lake, and the Adirondack Railroad plans to expand passenger service from Utica beyond Thendara and Big Moose to Tupper Lake (108 miles) in Spring, 2023. [12] Stations Stations served in final years of passenger service, 1957 to 1965 Lake Placid station Ray Brook Saranac Lake Union Depot Lake Clear Junction Tupper Lake Childwold (service eliminated between 1959 and 1960)[13][14] Sabattis Big Moose Thendara station (noted on NYC timetables as near Old Forge, a resort village, 1.9 miles to the northeast) Remsen station (service eliminated between 1959 and 1960)[15][16] Utica Union Station
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