Mr. Pease became a director in the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad Company.

The evidence

• “At its organization he was elected vicepresident of the company, serving in that capacity for ten years, and was also a member of the board of directors. In the month of October, 1855, he became a director in the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Eailroad Company, and for twelve years was an active working member of that board, filling the position after the above mentioned road had become a part of the property of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 242 / book p. 744

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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