Document signed James B. Eads: "This is to certify that for value received from Genl. Horace Porter of New York, I have this day assigned to him one fourth interest in my proposition to the United States, now pending in the Senate, for the improvement of the navigation of the mouth of the Mississippi River, and hereby agree that he shall be entitled to one quarter of the net profits which I may receive for improving the said mouth of the Mississippi, either by canal, jetties, or in any other manner, either during the present congress or the next one; the intent being to make the said Porter fully interested in my contemplated enterprise above mentioned, and to the extent above stated." Additional note reads, "Cancelled July 6th 1876, Jas. B. Eads.", 1874 July 1

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8

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Investment agreement between James B. Eads and Horace Porter, July 1, 1874

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates in the Tunnel Railroad of St. Louis and the St. Louis Bridge Company; invitations to the opening of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge; promissory notes; Eads' scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1881) relating to his plan to build a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; and papers relating to the genealogy of the McHenry family.