Founders of the CNJ?

I'm trying to find information of the founders of the CNJ. Family history has it that my great (x3) grandfather was a banker, and was a founding board member of the CNJ. If there is a definitive history of the founding of the CNJ out there, please let me know.

Here's an overview of how it came together over the years. Not much detail about board members, though, or any of the people involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_R ... New_Jersey

Here are some people to contact:

http://jcrhs.org/

I don't have the 1849 board, but here's the 1853 board:

John T Johnston (also President)
John C Green
William E Dodge
William S Wetmore
Benjamin Williamson
John O Sterns
George Vail
Fredrick t Frelinghuysen
M D Maxwell

Hope that helps.

The JCRHS has no CNJ records so we won't be of any help.

May I suggest the CNJ group on Yahoo.

This looks like your best source:
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mackdave

mackdave wrote:This looks like your best source:
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mackdave

That is where I got the list in my previous post.

I recently found a piece of information that may be of some help.
The original charter (1831) was the Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad. It went bankrupt in 1846 and was sold to John Stearns ad Coffin Colket for $125,000! They rechartered it as the Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad of 1846. The following year the Somerville and Easton Railroad Company was formed. In 1849 the 2 railroads merged to form the Central Railroad of New Lersey. The president of the new company was 28 year old John T Johnston.He remained president until 1876,

The Internet Archives (archive.org) has scanned many years of the CNJ annual report.