Lacy family papers 1893-1926 1897-1907 Lacy family papers

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Lacy family papers 1893-1926 1897-1907 Lacy family papers

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The Lacy family papers consist primarily of correspondence written by railroad engineer Robert L. Lacy to his parents and sister in Baltimore, Maryland, while he was a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and during the first years of his professional career. Robert discussed his studies, life in Boston and Tennessee, and occasionally gave his opinions on international politics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil Engineering

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Lacy, Robert L.

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Lacy family

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Robert L. Lacy, the son of Benjamin and Emma Lacy of Baltimore, Maryland, was born in November 1876 in Maryland, and studied at Johns Hopkins University in the early 1890s. In 1896, he moved to Boston to pursue coursework in civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied for several years. Following his graduation, he worked for the Southern Railway Company in Marion County, Tennessee, and elsewhere throughout the South before eventually returning to Ba...

Babcock, Maltbie D. (Maltbie Davenport), 1858-1901

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Southern Railway (U.S.)

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Organized in 1894 from the bankrupt Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and several other railroad companies; headquartered in Washington, D.C. From the description of Records, 1891-1972. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28410983 Formed in 1894; combined with Norfolk and Western Railway to become Norfolk Southern Corporation in 1982. From the description of Records, 1899-1950. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 28414535 ...

Lacy, Benjamin, b. 1840

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