Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Records (MS-6)
Scope and Contents
Series I, Documents, consists of original printed and handwritten items that were previously tucked inside the scrapbook. Materials include business letters, circulars, stockholder notices, and pamphlets, dating from 1849 to 1862, and one report from 1909. The circulars range from the very first information concerning the breaking of ground for the railroad to other stockholder news. Also contained in this series is an original first passage ticket for the railroad dating to 1851.
Series II, Scrapbook, consists of a scrapbook containing mainly newspaper clippings, dating from 1840 to 1877. Most, but not all, of the clippings concern the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad. Many articles concern special events and excitement in the Cincinnati area during the time period.
Series III, American Railroad Journal Clippings, contains photocopies of articles published in the American Railroad Journal, between 1847 and 1855, dealing with other railroads, including the Bellefontaine and Indiana, Columbus, Piqua, Indiana, Cincinnati Dayton, Columbus Xenia, Dayton Michigan, Dayton Western, Greenville, and Springfield Rail companies in the Miami Valley area. This material is to supplement the original source documents of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Records.
Dates
- Creation: 1840-1909
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1849-1877
Creator
- Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Company (Organization)
- L’Hommedieu, Stephen Satterly, 1806-1875 (Person)
Restrictions on Access
There are no restrictions on accessing materials in this collection.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
History of Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Company
The Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad began construction in the Miami Valley in 1846. The railroad was originally constructed to connect Cincinnati and Hamilton, Ohio but was soon stretched onward to Dayton. By the end of the nineteenth-century the company controlled over 640 miles of track. In 1917 the railroad was acquired by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The compiler of the collection, Stephen Satterly L’Hommedieu (1806-1875) was a proprietor of the Cincinnati Gazette newspaper, and after retiring from that industry was elected the second president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad in 1848. L’Hommedieu also was a delegate from the First District of Ohio to the first Whig party convention in 1848.
Extent
.625 linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Contains newspaper clippings, circulars, documents, and business correspondence from the scrapbook of Stephen Satterly L’Hommedieu (1806-1875), an early president of the C.H. and D. Railroad. Another group of materials consists of copies of articles from the American Railroad Journal (1847-1855) pertaining to railroads in the Miami Valley area.
Statement of Arrangement
Arranged into 3 series:
- Series I: Documents, 1849-1862, 1909
- Series II: Scrapbook, circa 1840-1877
- Series III: American Railroad Journal Clippings, undated
Other Finding Aid
A finding aid for this collection is available on the Special Collections and Archives web site at https://wright.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/320.
Acquisition Information
The collection was purchased by Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University Libraries, in 1974 from Renee (L’Hommedieu) Latty, great-granddaughter of Stephen Satterly L’Hommedieu, the second President of the railroad.
Existence and Location of Copies
The collection is available on microfilm in the reading room as MFM-28.
The scrapbook in Series II (box 1, files 6-10) is digitized to preserve content and reduce handling of the original. Printed copies are in box 1, files 11-12.
- Title
- Guide to the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Records (MS-6)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Staff Archivist.
- Date
- 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English
Revision Statements
- 2014 February: Finding aid reformatted.
- 2020 April: Finding aid revised by Lisa Rickey
- 2021 July: Finding aid revised by Lisa Rickey
- 2022 May : Collection rehoused into new folders and boxes by Toni Vanden Bos
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
Wright State University Libraries
Special Collections and Archives
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton OH 45435-0001 USA
937-775-2092
library-archives@wright.edu
