Ohio and Mississippi Railway
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The Ohio and Mississippi Railway, abbreviated O&M, was a railroad operating between Cincinnati, Ohio, and East St. Louis, Illinois, from 1857 to 1893.
Share of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company, issued 31 March 1887
The former O&M line in Osgood, Indiana.
Ormsby M. Mitchel
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Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel was an American astronomer, polymath, and major general in the American Civil War.
Ohio and Mississippi Railway
…Louis terminal near the Mississippi River was completed in 1857. It was a founding rail line of the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. General Ormsby M. Mitchel (d. 1862) was a civil engineer on this project. On September 17, 1861, during the American Civil War a train carrying union troops fell through a…
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Ormsby Mitchel