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Title |
1863 letter to Ophelia Roddick from Ohio & Mississippi Railroad |
Object Name |
Letter |
Catalog Number |
2020.FIC.0555 |
People |
Roddick, Ophelia H. |
Date |
1863 |
Scope & Content |
July 9, 1863 printed letter to "The Ladies of Washington, Indiana" from the "Office Ohio & Mississippi Railroad" in Cincinnati, Ohio. The letter was addressed to "Miss Ophelia Roddick" of Washington and thanked her and others for their "generous kindness" to the soldiers of the 9th Corps of the U.S. Army as the men were transported by train through Washington during the Civil War. The Ohio and Mississippi (O & M) Railroad Co. was organized in 1854. It operated a railroad between Cincinnati, Ohio and St. Louis, Missouri that was completed in 1857 and passed through Washington, Indiana. The O & M went insolvent in 1867 and was reorganized as the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. In 1893 it merged with the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. |
Search Terms |
Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Co. |