No, I think how things were done almost 120 years and 20 US administrations ago does not in any way relate to how the modern organization works, and how the current institutional knowledge is acted on by its employees (from CEO all the way down to the foot workers).
The late 19th century has so much "nothing to do" with today that it's literally irrelevant other than being a good window into how different things were, and as historical setup to then transition into "and then everything changed as a result of the great depression, with the US further burdened in the years following until the repeal of prohibition" which forced literally every government agency to change the way it worked.
