Ephraim Shay papers, 1861-1914.

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Ephraim Shay papers, 1861-1914.

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Correspondence concerning business affairs and locomotive construction, miscellaneous deeds, contracts, mortgages, and tax materials; also biographical notes on Shay and his invention, including paper by Lucille K. Boyden relating to a railroad museum in North Carolina where use of the Shay locomotive is illustrated, and photographs.

.4 linear ft. and 1 outsize folder.

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Boyden, Lucille K.

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Shay, Ephraim, 1839-1916

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Born in Huron Co. Oh. July 17, 1839, reared by grandfather in N.J. Worked as bricklayer, cooper, teacher. May 10, 1861 enlisted in Third Michigan Regiment, then 8th Reg. of Missouri for 3 yrs. In 1864 purchased farm in Ionia Co., Mich. In 1871 went to Cadillac and ran lumber mill for 11 years. He built the first logging locomotive, later manufactured by the Lima Locomotive works, and built the Harbor Springs RR. He put the first water works at Harbor Springs in 1900 and sold it to the City in 19...

Cary, Austin, 1865-1936

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Austin Cary was born in 1865 in East Machias, Maine. He received an A.B. degree from Bowdoin College in 1887, an A.M. degree in 1890, and an honorary Sc.D. in 1922. He also studied biology at Johns Hopkins and Princeton. He was an instructor in the Department of Geology and Biology at Bowdoin in 1887 and 1888, taught at the Yale Forest School in 1904 and 1905, and was an assistant professor of forestry at Harvard from 1905 to 1909. Cary was one of the first people to enter the new profession of ...

United States. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)

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E. Shay and Son (Harbor Springs, Mich.)

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Melton, Ray

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Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

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Elihu Root, born in Clinton, NY, attended Hamilton College (A.B., 1864, A.M. in course, 1867) and University Law School of New York. He served as member Alaskan Boundary Tribunal; United States District Attorney, Southern New York, 1883 - 85; Secretary of War, 1899 - 1904; Secretary of State, 1905 - 09; U.S. Senator from New York, 1909 - 15; Senior Counsel for the U.S., North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration, The Hague, 1910; Ambassador at Head of Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia, 1...