Papers, 1921-1944.

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Papers, 1921-1944.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22582436

Consists of correspondence, press releases, official statements of the Van Sweringens, promotional materials for the Van Sweringen projects, including Shaker Village, Ohio, magazine articles about the Van Sweringens, newspaper clippings, and a manuscript by Doherty concerning the Van Sweringen brothers. The collection contains information relative to the Chesapeake and Ohio, Nickel Plate and Pere Marquette railroads.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7074071

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935

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Pere Marquette Railway

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The company was incorporated in Michigan on March 12, 1917. Merged into The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company on June 6, 1947. From the description of Pere Marquette Railway Company : Corporate records, 1917 March 12-1947 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34953505 The P.M. serviced an area that strectches from Buffalo to Chicago. From the description of Pere Marquette Magazine. 1909-1931 (Grand Rapids Public Library). WorldCat record id: 17599226 ...

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, originally named Louisa Railroad in Louisa County, Virginia, was founded in 1836 and reached the foot of the Appalachian Mountains at what is now Clifton Forge by 1850. For more information, please see the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collections' Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad web page. From the description of George Washington's railroad Chesapeake and Ohio Lines correspondence, 1935. (Western North Carolina Library Network). WorldCat record id: 213416394 ...

Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936

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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...

Doherty, Joseph, 1889-1965.

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Public relations officer for Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, developers of the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, and Cleveland's Terminal Tower and Union Terminal complex. The Van Sweringen brothers established a railroad empire in the 1920s which collapsed during the Depression. Doherty wrote a history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad entitled, Smooth is the road. From the description of Papers, 1921-1944. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22582436 ...

Van Sweringen Company

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Real estate development firm formed by Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, two brothers who, in 1905, began purchasing land in what is now Shaker Heights, Ohio, 8 miles southeast of Cleveland. The land, originally part of Warrensville Twp., was settled in 1822 by the celibate North Union Shaker community, which disbanded in 1889. The Van Sweringen idea was the development of a comprehensively planned "garden city" suburb which included the maintenance of natural topography and lakes, curving ro...