Z 1430.000 Tippitt (William H.) Collection

Roll 1 (MF Roll # 36193) contains a history of the steamboats called "the Anchor Line." This line of steamboats operated on the Mississippi River from 1857 until 1896. It was organized in 1859 as the Memphis and St. Louis Packet Company with Captain Daniel Able being the first president. The Memphis line was finally merged into the St. Louis and Vicksburg line and as the railroads extended their lines south, the Packet Company gradually withdrew from the Memphis trade and extended their lines to New Orleans.

In the year of 1879 the charter of the Memphis and St. Louis Packet Company expired and the corporation was reorganized as the St. Louis and New Orleans Anchor Line. In April, 1895, the Anchor Line was sold to the Interstate Transportation Company. The officers of this new line which continued under the old name were: George S. Edgell, president; C. V. Maissonnier, vice-president; T. C. Zeigler, secretary and treasurer; and C. M. Berkley, general passenger agent. On May 27, 1896, at St. Louis, the great cyclone wrecked so many of their boats that the line was thrown into receivership.

Roll 2 (MF Roll # 36194) contains a steamboat history of the Lee Line. 1832–1930, with a genealogy of the Lee Family. In 1800, Captain James Lee established the Lee Line streamers, plying the waters of the Mississippi River. Originally the line ran from Memphis to Friar's Point, but later the route was extended to Cairo, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. Also included are the following books: The Great Steamboat Race, between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee, and A History of the Eagle Packet Company both by Roy L. Barkhau.

None of this material should be published without prior permission of William H. Tippitt, Hernando, Mississippi.