The
Muskogee Company, although a
Philadelphia company, was founded in
Delaware on February 27, 1923. The company officers were brothers C. Jared Ingersoll,
industrialist, as president, and John H. W. Ingersoll, attorney and industrialist, as vice president and treasurer. The Muskogee Company owned large interests in the
coal mining industries of Northeastern
Indian Territory, later
Oklahoma and large interests and later control of several of the region's railroads.
Coal shipments from company owned mines to colder western regions of the United States via the Muskogee Company owned Midland Valley was the original plan for profit.
Oil discoveries in Oklahoma later produced lucrative revenues for the Muskogee Company railroads that were strategically located in high production areas of the state.
The railroads that fell under the control and common management of the Muskogee Company commonly were referred to as the
Muskogee Roads. The Muskogee Roads were made up of the
Midland Valley Railroad,
Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway, and the
Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway. C. Jared Ingersoll was a majority owner of the Midland Valley since its beginning on February 1, 1903. The Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf in receivership was acquired by Ingersoll and then merged with the Midland Valley on May 1, 1926. Finally the Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway was purchased in April 1929. The Muskogee Company assets were sold to the
Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1964.
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