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Fairbanks family. Series III : second generation, sons of Joseph Fairbanks, 1832-1886.

Title: Series III : second generation, sons of Joseph Fairbanks, 1832-1886.

There are three subseries within this series: A. Erastus Fairbanks (1792-1864); B. Thaddeus Fairbanks (1796-1886); C. Joseph P. Fairbanks (1806-1855). Subseries A contains letters written to and from Erastus Fairbanks relating to business (including the chartering of the Connectcut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad) and church matters, dated 1839 and 1845. Subseries B contains several obituaries for Thaddeus Fairbanks (1886) and a deed. Subseries C., the largest portion of this series, contains letters written to and from Joseph P. Fairbanks, dated 1845 to 1855, as well as a series of letters written by Governor Horace Eaton on the subject of education in Vermont during the years 1847 to 1851. There is also a folder of letters from Almira T. Fairbanks to her son William P. Fairbanks while he is attending Dartmouth College in 1858 and 1859.

ArchivalResource: 8 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60448262 View

E. and T. Fairbanks and Company. Fairbanks papers, 1815-1889.

Title: Fairbanks papers, 1815-1889.

The Fairbanks Papers are made up of records of E. and T. Fairbanks and Company, 1832-1876, a stove and scale manufacturer in St. Johnsbury, Vermont; and correspondence of Erastus Fairbanks, 1815-1861, and his brothers Thaddeus and Joseph, 1834-1876, and son Horace, 1848-1873. There are also some papers of the Vermont International Telegraph Co., 1877-1889. The correspondence of Erastus Fairbanks is about the scale business, railroading (especially the Connecticut and Passumpsic Railroad), politics, his interest in the temperance movement and the anti-slavery movement, and the Congregational Church in St. Johnsbury. Correspondents include Justin Morrill (1810-1898), George Marsh (1801-1882), and William Slade (1786-1859).

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (6 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36055758 View

Railroad time book, 1903-1906.

Title: Railroad time book, 1903-1906.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60563181 View

Fuller, Allyn. Allyn Fuller collection, 1836-1979.

Title: Allyn Fuller collection, 1836-1979.

The Allyn Fuller Collection consists of papers and photographs collected by Fuller during his lifetime. The papers include train tickets, train orders, receipts, timetables, etc. The photographs show trains of the various railroads, plus scenes of railroad stations and town in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52926684 View

Vertical file collection on railroads, 1824-1935 (inclusive).

Title: Vertical file collection on railroads, 1824-1935 (inclusive).

Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size concerning numerous railroads and electric railroads in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Great Britain.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3 linear ft. (1.5 file drawers)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269600781 View

Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad Company. Records, 1848-1880.

Title: Records, 1848-1880.

Correspondence and business papers, largely from the office of Emmons Raymond, president of the railroad in the 1870s. Letters relate to the purchase of land, rolling stock, and other supplies, claims for injuries, insurance matters, requests for passes, personnel matters, and relationships with other railroad companies, especially the Massawippi Valley Railway, which extended the line to Lennoxville in the Province of Quebec, Canada, in 1870, and the South Eastern Railroad of Canada, which, with the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad and the Boston, Concord & and Montreal, made up the so-called Montreal and Boston Air Line. Business papers include bills of agreement for use of patents and extension of the road, detailed accounts from superintendents and passenger agents, reports of directors' meetings, engineering surveys and estimates, accounting data, freight agreements, business affairs of the Memphremagog House in Newport, VT., which was owned by the railroad, and other miscellaneous material such as engineers' notebooks, bridge drawings, graphs, lists of abutting land ownes, and lists of stockholders (1845).

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237360019 View