reposting from pb:
The L.C. Payseur trust:
Two years later, in 1896, the railroad was sold by court order at an advertised auction for $25,000 to satisfy its debts. Its buyer, Colonel Leroy Springs, renamed the line the Lancaster and Chester Railroad and organized a company to run it.
In addition to Leroy Springs, the incorporators of the new railroad were William Ganson, R. C. McManus, W. T. Gregory, L. C. Payseur, James M. Heath and W. H. Hardin. All of the men were from Lancaster save for Hardin, who was from Chester. The capital stock of the company was $50,000. On June 22, 1896, Hardin, also manager of the Chesterville and Lenoir, was elected manager and auditor of the line.
Springs did not have any personal experience in the railroad business. His interest in purchasing the line may have stemmed in part from the fact that his father, Andrew Baxter Springs, had been one of the contractors and directors for the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, which helped form the towns of Rock Hill and Fort Mill, South Carolina. His grandfather, John Springs III, had been an early investor of the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, the nation's first operating railroad, and had the privilege of having one of its early engines named after him in the days when engines were named instead of numbered. Springs' brother was president of the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad (AT&O) that proceeded from Charlotte to Taylorsville before it ran out of capital. When he would refer to the AT&O in front of fellow businessmen, Springs would claim to be president of the Lancaster, Klondike and Manila Western Railroad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_and_Chester_Railroad
Yes, Payseur is real, and they (daniel payseur) were tasked with returning the lost colonial assets back to the City of London corporation and to the crown.
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In the actual physical archives you can find that the L.C. Payseur trust was audited despite the objection of the family. Indeed they owned a lot, much o it was listed on Colonel Leroy Springs, who was an alleged crown asset.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86514872/leroy-springs
http://www.warefamilyhistory.com/
https://kmaclub.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/montru_report-page-99-frisco.pdf
Pujo Committee Investigation, Payseur Family Trust
<https://kmaclub.wordpress.com/348-2/>
http://books.google.com/books?id=17ABGu3q8xkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Art+of+Passing+the+Buck,+Vol+I;+Secrets+of+Wills+and+Trusts+Revealed+by+Charles+Arthur&hl=en&ei=FTpBTt2xCOeysALJ8rTWCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=payseur%20&f=false
Payseur or more accurately Lewis Cass Payseur.
There supposedly a book titled “Pandora’s Box” by Alex Christoper that was referenced in The Art of Passing the Buck, Vol I; Secrets of Wills and Trusts Revealed by Charles Arthur on page 49- The Arthur book mentioned the Money Trust Investigation AKA THE Pujo Committee: an Investigation of Financial and Monetary Conditions in the United States Under House Resolutions Nos. 429 and 504 <http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/montru/>
A Congressional subcommittee which was formed between May 1912 and January 1913 to investigate the so-called “money trust”, a small group of Wall Street bankers that exerted powerful control over the nation’s finances. After a resolution introduced by congressman Charles Lindbergh Sr. for a probe on Wall St. power, Arsène Pujo of Louisiana obtained congressional authorization to form a subcommittee of the House Committee on Banking and Currency. J. P. Morgan, George F. Baker, and other financiers testified.
more at https://kmaclub.wordpress.com/payseur-peyseur-trust/
A key figure is found when you research L.C. payseur's daughters who married into the Beaty bloodline
Donald Croom Beatty jr