Scrapbooks, 1840-1936, bulk 1877-1936.

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Scrapbooks, 1840-1936, bulk 1877-1936.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17645187

Newspaper clippings, railroad passes, correspondence, photographs, miscellany regarding railroad companies and employees, black people and other miscellaneous subjects, an autograph by James A. Garfield, and correspondence with Caldwell and other railroad magnates.

0.83 linear ft.

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6931143

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Callaway, Samuel R.

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Wright, Walter B., 1852-1939.

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Black porter who advanced to the positions of chief clerk in the purchasing dept. and secretary to Daniel W. Caldwell, Samuel R. Callaway and W.H. Caniff, presidents of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroads. From the description of Scrapbooks, 1840-1936, bulk 1877-1936. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17645187 ...

Caldwell, Daniel W.

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Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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James Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. After embarking on an academic career, he joined the Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and in 1863 was appointed Major General in the same regiment. He served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, when he was elected President. His inauguration took place on March 4, 1881, but his term of office was unfortunately brought to an abrupt end with his assassination by C...

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company.

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The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway System was formed in 1869 through the merger of four railroads: the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana; the Cleveland and Toledo; the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula; and the Buffalo and Erie. These companies provided an unbroken rail route between Chicago, Illinois, and Buffalo, New York. The Lake Shore's predecessor roads had, in turn, been formed through mergers of a variety of smaller lines, some of which were amo...

Caniff, W. H.

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New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

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Railroad founded in 1881 to connect Buffalo and Chicago via Cleveland. It was nicknamed the Nickel Plate Road. After it failed it was taken over by the newly organized New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad in 1887. It merged into the Norfolk and Western Railroad in 1964. From the description of Records 1846-1961. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17725622 Nickel Plate Road on Oct. 16, 1964 was absorbed via merger by the N & W, or Norfolk and Western...