My Present Past Site Page

David Thomas Nichols was a worthy descendant of worthy ancestors
and like them in his day and generation lived a useful and honored life.
This account of those who went before him has been collected and transcribed into this book
that his children might have the pleasure of knowing from what good stock they came,
also as a slight token of the compiler's appreciation of past kindness.

To his memory is this record most respectfully dedicated by:

Source: Lewis J Crary
Family Genealogical Book Chicago, Illinois 1905

My Present Past

A genealogical experience

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Miscellaneous Information

Background Image:
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Engine #3005 4x6x4 Hudson
Westbound at Birmingham, Missouri 1948

Organizations

In order to give a more detailed account of the
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, I have included a history of the
company along with the details of my family's involvement with the
railroad. Listed below are the pages to access for the Company's history.

Edward J. Engel's Santa Fe history starts at Emporia, Kansas in 1881.

Clifford L. Nichols Santa Fe history starts at Emporia, Kansas in 1880.

Read about the 1911 safe robbery that started in Olathe, Kansas and
ended at the A. T. & S. F depot in Argentine