Cyrus K. Holliday

American entrepreneur

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In Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Its founder was Cyrus K. Holliday, a Topeka lawyer and business promoter, who sought to build a railroad along the Santa Fe Trail, a 19th-century trading route that ran from Independence, Mo., to Santa Fe, N.M. The railroad’s main line to the Colorado state line was completed in…
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In Topeka
Cyrus K. Holliday helped to found the city, which later became headquarters for the building of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway system, of which he was the first president. Before the American Civil War, Topeka was the scene of several conflicts between the…
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