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With an account of the dedication of the Oakes Ames memorial hall at North Easton, Mass., November 17, 1881.

Excerpt from Oakes Ames: A Memoir; With an Account of the Dedication of the Oakes Ames Memorial Hall, at North Easton, Mass;, November 17, 1881 Thus was the Credit Mobilier given the credit of having built the Union Pacific, though it was its stockholders, and not the organization itself, who achieved the task and reaped the profits of their hazardous investment. SO far as that organization was concerned, it had served its purposes, and would have ceased almost to be remembered ex cept by its stockholders. They had done the work, and done it well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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