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The Elmer F. Farnham Collection The Railroad History Archive received the gift of the
Elmer F. Farnham Collection in 1999. Elmer Frost Farnham was born on January 21, 1893, in the Collinsville
section of Canton, Connecticut, and
received his early education in the Canton public schools. He graduated from Collinsville High School in 1911 and then In the early 1920s Mr. Farnham was a tobacco grower in Simsbury and South Windsor, Connecticut.
He moved to Norwich, Connecticut, in 1927 and worked as a security salesman with the Aspinook Company in Jewett City, Connecticut. By the late 1930s and early 1940s
he was a clerk with the Selective Service System board, until 1947. In 1952 he joined the editorial staff of the Norwich Bulletin and retired in 1964.
After his retirement he was a features writer at the paper. In 1973 his book The Quickest Route,
A History of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad was published by Pequot Press. Elmer F. Farnham, Norwich & Worcester Railroad freight house and dock at Norwich, Connecticut, with a string of cars at the dock. The freight house was destroyed in 1938 hurricane
.
The collection consists of photographs gathered by Elmer F. Farnham for his book The Quickest Route: The History of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad, and other photographs of locomotives and railroad scenes of southern New England railroad and Norwich, Connecticut. The collection is not processed to an item level. Norwich &Worcestor Railroad locomotive named The Sagamore, the first no. 11, built in 1864.
A finding aid to the Elmer F. Farnham Collection is available at: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/farnham/MSS19990032.html See our other recent gifts, including: Last updated February 20, 2007 |
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