Colton to CPH, Jan. 31, 1878, April 15, 16, 1878, Octopus Speaks, 463, 488, 489, 15, n. 18.
The best account of networks of family and friendship in American business is Pamela Walker Laird, Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006), esp. 2, 15, 22-23.
Crain was a congressman from Texas.
CPH to Crocker, May 17, 1869, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 49.
Testimony of Leland Stanford, Aug. 10, 1887, PRC, 6:3161-200.
William Mahl, Memoir, L.E.M. 3, B-15, Mahl Papers.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 241-42.
For a similar transaction, see CPH to Hopkins, Dec. 30 1871, v. 1 p. 199, Box 20, Hopkins Collection.