Scope and Contents note From the Series: Minutes of meetings of the board of directors, 1879-1972 (lacking 1852-part of 1879, and 1894-1900); and of Executive Committee, 1852-1972. 45 volumes of minutes, with 23 additional volumes of indexes (see scope note below for more information). There are multiple copies of the minutes from the 1950s-1970s. Meetings of directors were held in New York, with a few in Chicago and Centralia, Illinois. Stockholder meeting minutes, originally intended to be in this series, are lacking altogether....