Henry A. du Pont correspondence with David Heber Plank
Scope and Content Note
Consists of the late 19th-century business correspondence regarding the Wilmington & Northern Railroad between company president Henry A. du Pont and David Heber Plank.
The nine letters exchanged by Henry A. du Pont and David Heber Plank also regard the Wilmington and Northern Railroad Company's predecessor, the Wilmington & Reading Railroad Company. The three letters from du Pont and six letters from Plank also discuss the creation of the Morgantown & Conestoga Valley Railroad Company, of which Plank was to be director and cooperation between the two railroad companies.
Dates
- Creation: 1894 May-June
Creator
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open for research.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
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Henry Algernon du Pont
Henry Algernon du Pont, a Republican Senator from Delaware (1906-1917), was born at Eleutherean Mills, New Castle County, Delaware, on July 30, 1838. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel, and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. He was president and general manger of the Wilmington Northern Railroad Company from 1879-1899. Du Pont died at Winterthur on December 31, 1926.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay (accessed January 2008).
D. Heber Plank
D. Heber (David Heber) Plank, a Berks County (Pennsylvania) physician, was born in Caernarvon township, Pennsylvania, on November 12, 1842. He received his M. D. in 1867 from the Univerity of Pennsylvania. Plank maintained a medical practice in Morgantown, Pennsylvania, and was a member of the Pathological Society of Berks County. Dr. Plank died on January 4, 1906.
College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, D. Heber Plank Financial papers. http://www.collphyphil.org/FIND_AID/histdhp1.htm (accessed January 2008).
Extent
9 item (15 pages)
Abstract
Consists of late 19th-century business correspondence, regarding the Wilmington & Northern Railroad in Delaware, between company president Henry A. du Pont and David Heber Plank.
Arrangement
The correspondence is arranged in chronological order.
Source
Purchase, December 2007.
Shelving Summary
Box 7, F0168: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0098 manuscript boxes
Processing and Encoding
Processed by Anita Wellner, January 2008. Encoded by Anita Wellner, January 2008. Further encoding by Tiffany Saulter, March and August 2015.
Subject
- Wilmington & Northern Railroad Company (Organization)
- Wilmington & Reading Railroad Company (Organization)
- Morgantown and Conestoga Valley Railroad Company (Organization)
- Plank, D. Heber (David Heber), 1842-1906 (Person)
- Du Pont, H. A. (Henry Algernon), 1838-1926 (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Finding aid for Henry A. du Pont correspondence with David Heber Plank
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Date
- 2008 January 11
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository