The village of Britton was originally called Balch and was established after the Wabash Railroad built a station there in 1881 and a post office opened on August 13, 1881.
There he served as city attorney, and was an attorney for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Wabash Railroad from 1881 to 1894.
A gas tank by the Wabash Railroad tracks behind Residence Hall explodes injuring around 20 and killing Roberta Steel on August 28, 1951
This community on the highlands east of Keg Creek was first established as Lewis City during construction of the Wabash Railroad.
U.S. 36 parallels the old Wabash Railroad from the Mississippi River at Hannibal, MO east to Decatur, IL.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | Pennsylvania Railroad | Union Pacific Railroad | Underground Railroad | New York Central Railroad | Alaska Railroad | Erie Railroad | Wabash River | Central Pacific Railroad | Illinois Central Railroad | First Transcontinental Railroad | Lehigh Valley Railroad | Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad | Grand Funk Railroad | Wabash College | Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad | Wabash Railroad | Wabash and Erie Canal | Railroad switch | Missouri Pacific Railroad | Boston and Albany Railroad | New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad | Metro-North Railroad | Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | Albany and Susquehanna Railroad | Oregon Pacific Railroad | Great Railroad Strike of 1877 | Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad | Central Railroad of New Jersey |
Pevler oversaw consummation of a complex group of mergers begun under Saunders which brought into the N&W fold the Nickel Plate Road, the Wabash Railroad and portions of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
From 1904 he was president of the International Banking Corporation (subsequently merged into the company now known as Citibank) and was a director of the American Light and Traction Company, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, National Bank of Commerce in New York, Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad Company, Wabash Railroad Company and the Western Union Telegraph Company.