Letters, 1878.

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Letters, 1878.

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The collection contains two letters written and signed by George Henry Chapman to M.E. Ingalls in Cincinnati, Ohio. The letter of 14 August 1878 concerns a shipment of grain, the second letter of 1 December 1878 has Chapman mending fences about a poor contract between the two men. The two letters are on Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington Railroad stationery and identify Chapman as the Receiver for the railroad.

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Ingalls, Melville E. (Melville Ezra), 1842-1914.

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Melville Ingalls was president and receiver of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Lafayette Railroad Company which was headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. This railroad company was reorganized during the 1870's as the Cincinnati, Lafayette, and Chicago Railway Company. In 1880, this railroad would merge with other small railroads in the midwest to form the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Saint Louis, and Chicago Railway Company. From the description of Papers, 1875-1888. (New York State Libr...

Chapman, George Henry, 1832-1882

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George Henry Chapman (November 22, 1832 – June 16, 1882) was an American sailor, newspaper editor, lawyer, and soldier. He served in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and as a Union Army general during the American Civil War. Later in life he was a judge and a state legislator. Chapman was born in Holland, Massachusetts in 1832. At the age of six, Chapman and his family moved to Indiana. His father and uncle published newspapers in Terre Haute and then in Indianapolis, incl...

Lafayette, Muncie, and Bloomington Railroad

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In July of 1869 Adams Earl, Robert Breckenridge and Henry S. Mayo led the organization, in Tippecanoe and other Indiana counties, for a Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington (Illinois) Railroad Company. In late August 1869 Tippecanoe County voted to buy 373,000 dollars worth of stock to help build the proposed line through Tippecanoe, Clinton, Tipton, and Benton Counties. After many financial problems and legal battles, the Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington Railroad was completed and connected Munci...