A Guide to the Letters regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad [manuscript], 1868-1869, 1906
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The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6269-h
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Letters regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad [manuscript], Accession #6269-h, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
The collection was a gift to the Library from Mr. Charles E. Moran, Jr. of Free Union, Virginia on October 7, 1983.
Scope and Content Information
This collection consists of twenty-nine items, 1868-1869, 1906, chiefly letters to Colonel Edmund Fontaine (1801-1869) of Beaverdam, Hanover County, Virginia concerning the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company and the management of his farm, Colly Swamp. The railroad letters discuss county subscriptions, the development of cannel coal property along the railroad right of way, the sale of bonds in England, and Fontaine's struggle to retain control of the company. A speech by B.H. Magruder nominating Fontaine for re-election to the company presidency is included. There are references to Ulysses S. Grant, John A. Schofield, George Stoneman, [Reuben Lindsay?] Walker and John Daniel Imboden, several of whom Fontaine appealed to in his fight to retain the presidency. Five free train passes, 1869, signed by Williams Carter Wickham accompany the letters. Correspondents include Benjamin Johnson Barbour, Benjamin H. Magruder, Thomas Jefferson Michie, and Hugh W. Sheffy.
Other items in the collection include: a 1906 postcard and envelopes addressed to Sarepta A. Moran from her sister while on a European trip, an envelope addressed to Captain and Mrs. I.K. Moran, and two calling cards.