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Size | About 9,200 items (13.5 linear feet). |
Abstract | Spencer, native of Columbus, Ga., was president of six railroads, including the Baltimore and Ohio, 1887-1888, and the Southern, 1894-1906. He was a director of at least ten railroads and of several banks and other companies. Through 1869 the papers consist of personal correspondence while Samuel Spencer was at the Georgia Miliary Academy, serving in the Confederate Army, and at the universities of Georgia and Virginia. Beginning in 1870 there is both personal and business correspondence and a large quantity of business papers, including company reports, surveys, financial statements, bills, receipts, legal papers, lists of stockholders, engineering notes, scrapbooks, and other items pertaining to many of the railroads for which Spencer was engineer, manager, or director, in particular the Baltimore & Ohio, Southern, Savannah & Memphis, and Long Island roads, and to other companies with which he was connected, including the Columbus (Ga.) water works; Pittsburgh & Chicago Gas & Coal Co;, West Virginia Oil Co.; two coke manufacturing firms; the Union Stockyard Company of Chicago; Westinghouse Electric Corporation of Pittsburgh, including correspondence with George Westinghouse; and New York bankers Drexel, Morgan & Company, for whom he was the railroad expert. Other correspondents include many national business and political leaders of the post Civil War period, among them his father-in- law, Henry Lewis Benning (1814-1875), Georgia Supreme Court justice and Confederate brigadier general. Also included are Spencer's detailed letters while traveling in the western United States and Mexico, 1885, and materials, 1915-1919, of his son, Henry B. Spencer, relating to the Tennessee Railway Company. A scrapbook contains clippings, correspondence, and speeches on railroad regulation, 1905-1906. |
Creator | Spencer, Samuel, 1847-1906. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas and Taylor de Klerk, December 2021
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Spencer, native of Columbus, Ga., was president of six railroads, including the Baltimore and Ohio, 1887-1888, and the Southern, 1894-1906. He was a director of at least ten railroads and of several banks and other companies.
Back to TopThrough 1869 the papers consist of personal correspondence while Samuel Spencer was at the Georgia Miliary Academy, serving in the Confederate Army, and at the universities of Georgia and Virginia. Beginning in 1870 there is both personal and business correspondence and a large quantity of business papers, including company reports, surveys, financial statements, bills, receipts, legal papers, lists of stockholders, engineering notes, scrapbooks, and other items pertaining to many of the railroads for which Spencer was engineer, manager, or director, in particular the Baltimore & Ohio, Southern, Savannah & Memphis, and Long Island roads, and to other companies with which he was connected, including the Columbus (Ga.) water works; Pittsburgh & Chicago Gas & Coal Co;, West Virginia Oil Co.; two coke manufacturing firms; the Union Stockyard Company of Chicago; Westinghouse Electric Corporation of Pittsburgh, including correspondence with George Westinghouse; and New York bankers Drexel, Morgan & Company, for whom he was the railroad expert.
Other correspondents include many national business and political leaders of the post Civil War period, among them his father-in- law, Henry Lewis Benning (1814-1875), Georgia Supreme Court justice and Confederate brigadier general. Also included are Spencer's detailed letters while traveling in the western United States and Mexico, 1885, and materials, 1915-1919, of his son, Henry B. Spencer, relating to the Tennessee Railway Company. A scrapbook contains clippings, correspondence, and speeches on railroad regulation, 1905-1906.
Back to TopBox 1 |
1854-July 1857 |
Box 2 |
October 1867-September 1870 |
Box 3 |
October 1870-March 1872 |
Box 4 |
April 1872-May 1874 |
Box 5 |
June 1874-5 February 1877 |
Box 6 |
6 February 1877-April 1878 |
Box 7 |
May 1878-June 1880 |
Box 8 |
July 1880-15 May 1884 |
Box 9 |
16 May 1884-1885 |
Box 10 |
January 1886-17 August 1887 |
Box 11 |
18 August 1887-March 1888 |
Box 12 |
April 1888-6 December 1888 |
Box 13 |
7 December 1888-December 1890 |
Box 14 |
January 1891-June 1892 |
Box 15 |
July 1892-March 1894 |
Box 16 |
April 1894-June 1895 |
Box 17 |
July 1895-June 1896 |
Box 18 |
July 1896-29 May 1897 |
Box 19 |
July 1897-20 September 1898 |
Box 20 |
21 September 1898-March 1901 |
Box 21 |
April 1901-1918, undated personal papers |
Box 22 |
Family and business papers, undated |
Box 23 |
Volumes 1-3 |
Box 24 |
Volumes 4-5 |
Box 25 |
Volumes 6-9 |
Oversize Volume SV-3477/11 |
Oversize volume |
Box 26 |
1915-1917 |
Box 27 |
1917-1918 |
Photographs, 1936-1937 |
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Special Format Image SF-P-3477/1 |
Ambrotype photograph |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-3477/1 |
Maps/plans |