Vertical file collection on postal and express services and canals, 1799-1890 (inclusive).

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Vertical file collection on postal and express services and canals, 1799-1890 (inclusive).

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Consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size, including material on the following firms and individuals: Gideon Welles, postmaster, Hartford, Conn., 1836-1840; New York and Boston Express Line, Old Colony Steamship Company, 1855; The Terminal Company, 1890; W. and K. Lodwick, Portsmouth, Ohio, 1826-1831; Theophilus Manning and the Middlesex Canal, 1799-1810; and Caughanawaga Ship Canal, 1874.

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

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A native of Glastonbury, Conn., Gideon Welles began his career as a lawyer but took up journalism as a profession, founding the Hartford Times, which he also edited, in 1826. Active in the Democratic Party in Connecticut, he served in the Connecticut state legislature and in several state offices. He later shifted his allegiance to the Republican Party due to his strong anti-slavery views and founded the Hartford Evening Press, a zealously Republican newspaper. President Abraham Lincoln appointe...

Manning, Theophilus.

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Terminal Company.

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Old Colony Steamship Company.

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Caughanawaga Ship Canal.

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