Papers, series II, 1918-1988.

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Papers, series II, 1918-1988.

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Typescript second draft of Blosser's "Untitled biography of the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland," a carbon copy of the same containing additions, comments and corrections by William H. Wenneman, William Barrett and William Wyer (all top officers and aides to the Van Sweringens), miscellaneous correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings pertaining to the biography, and a privately published biography of the Van Sweringens by Louise Davidson Jenks. The collection pertains to the lives of the Van Sweringen brothers, in particular to their business careers and especially in regards to the consolidation of their railroad holdings, with valuable information re: the Nickel Plate Railroad, the Alleghany Corp. and other Van Sweringen-controlled holding companies, as well as the Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on railroads in the 1930s.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Hocking Valley Railway Company.

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Blosser, Raymond F., 1913-

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Staff writer/editor and, eventually, bureau chief for the Associated Press in Cleveland, Ohio from 1935-43. In his spare time beginning in 1938, Blosser conducted interviews and extensive research for a biography of Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, developers of the exclusive suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio and builders of Cleveland's Union Terminal, who amassed huge holdings in railroads during the 1920s. Blosser finished his manuscript in 1946, but it remained unpublished. Blosser was publi...

United States. Interstate Commerce Commission

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

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Toledo, St. Louis, and Western Railroad Company

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Pere Marquette Railway

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Wenneman, William H.

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Cleveland railroad executive who served with the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Pere Marquette, and the Nickel Plate railroads. He was vice-president of the C & O and the Nickel Plate in 1946, but resigned over conflicts with chairman Robert R. Young. In 1950 he became vice-president of finance for the Nickel Plate after it was separated from Robert Young enterprises. He retired in 1959. From the description of My three careers in forty years, 1978. (Rhinelander District Library). Worl...

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Jenks, Louise Davidson.

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New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

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