Colonel William Crooks Signed Personal Copy of The Road Master’s Assistant 1884

The Road-Master's Assistant and Section-Master's Guide

by William S. Huntington

Eleventh Edition

1884

Signed in fountain pen on the inside of the front cover:

Col. Wm. Crooks

1891

Colonel William Crooks was a Colonel during the American Civil War, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and a veteran railroader. He built the first rail line in the State of Minnesota, the St. Paul & Pacific, commencing operation in 1861 and naming the first locomotive the William Crooks 4-4-0. The William Crooks would become the first locomotive of Hill's Great Northern Railroad.

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