Papers concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 1843-1909.

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Papers concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 1843-1909.

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The collection contains correspondence, other records, and printed items pertaining to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and particularly its president in the 1860's, Alfred Spates. There is information on successive and antagonistic company administrations, the canal's role in Maryland politics, financial manipulations, and on its management by Federal military authorities, 1861-1865. Company presidents A.P. Gorman and Lewis Cass Smith are mentioned. The collection also contains some correspondence, and financial and legal papers of the Spates family, particularly Cecil S. Spates of Clarksburg, W. Va.; and dues receipts and other certificates of membership in various lodges.

307 items.

University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7337322

University of Virginia. Library

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Spates family.

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Spates, Cecil S.

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Gorman, Arthur P. (Arthur Pue), 1839-1906

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Arthur P. Gorman was United States senator from Maryland, 1880-1899 and 1903-1906, and president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. From the description of Arthur P. Gorman papers, 1872-1916 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23153531 Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906) was a United States Senator from Maryland. Beginning as a page in the House of Representatives (1852), he was transferred to the Senate through the influence of Illinois senator Stephen A. Dougla...

Spates, Alfred.

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President of the C & O Canal. From the description of Papers concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 1843-1909. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136195 ...

Smith, Lewis Cass.

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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company

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Now a national park, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was once a major transportation artery that ran parallel to the Potomac River from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown in the District of Columbia. The canal operated from the mid-nineteenth century into the 1930s and was used primarily for the transportation of coal and bulk agricultural products. These products, produced in the inland regions of the developing nation, were vital to the continuing prosperity of Tidewater cities and...

Spates, Alfred, fl. 1861-1865,

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