Industrial and Railroad Police Registers (PA) 1889-1912, 1927-1931

About This Collection

Registers of policemen hired to protect private industrial plants and railroad facilities. Information provided is name of company served, name and place of residence of policeman, date commissioned, and occasional remarks. For related materials please visit the PA State Archives for Industrial Police Files, 1976-1977 series 26.62 and Volunteer Police Register, 1941-1946 series 26.87 (this series is also digitized).Records are arranged chronologically by date of entry. Indexed internally, alphabetically by name of company. The Department of State is headed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, whose office was established under the Constitution of 1776.