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unusual facts about Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad


Kansas City Journal-Post

The paper was to actively encourage city fathers to invest to get the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad to build the first bridge across the Missouri River at Kansas City.


Charles E. Kearney

Charles Esmond Kearney (March 8, 1820 - January 3, 1898) was the first president of the Kansas City and Cameron Railroad which as a subsidiary of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad and built the Hannibal Bridge establishing Kansas City, Missouri as the dominant city in the region.

Robert Marcellus Stewart

Governor Stewart championed the founding of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad in northern Missouri, which resulted in the creation of the Pony Express and the rise of Kansas City, Missouri as a metropolitan region.


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