Abstract

Frank J. Miller was a state senator from Albany in the Oregon Legislature, commissioner of the Railroad Commission of Oregon, and chairman of the Public Service Commission of Oregon, 1916-1917. Collection includes membership cards, tickets, ID cards, and other ephemera, 1904-1917; correspondence and documents, 1904-1913, regarding Masonic activities; newspaper clippings, circa 1900-1914, regarding his nomination as railroad commissioner and his Masonic activities.

Abstract Agreements, contracts, and financial records of the 19th-century railroad firms Oregon and California Railroad Company; the Oregon and Transcontinental Company; the Oregon Improvement Company; and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. The collection also includes Oregon Railroad Commission reports, railroad guidebooks, and files of the Southern Pacific Railroad research team. The materials were compiled by Transport Consultants, Inc., whose president, Lynn D. Farrar, had worked for...