Sanger, Camp & Company

City: Saint Louis

State: Missouri

Organized in 1850 to build railroads and other public works, the construction firm of Sanger, Camp & Company was composed of Lorenzo P. Sanger, Irvin Camp, William Truesdail, Wilson King, William Kelley, Hart L. Stewart, James Y. Sanger, William D. Sanger, William M. Gallagher, and John A. Hendricks. The partners in Sanger, Camp & Co. were drawn from St. Louis and Erie, Pennsylvania. The firm’s earliest contracts were for work on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad between Vincennes, Indiana and St. Louis, and on the smaller Belleville & Alton Railroad. During the Panic of 1857, the company and its partners suffered financially.

American Railroad Journal (NY), 7 August 1852, 508:3; Howard Louis Conard, “Chicago Prior to 1840. A Sturdy Youth— Not a Baby,” Magazine of Western History 13 (April 1891), 709-10; Bill of Complaint, Document ID: 94171, Clark & Morrison v. Page et al., Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=135851.