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Railroad History ArchiveRecent Gifts and AcquisitionsThe Elmer E. Farnham CollectionElmer Frost Farnham was born on January 21, 1893, in the Collinsville section of Canton, Connecticut. He graduated from the Connecticut Agricultural College (now known as the University of Connecticut) in 1915 and served as a second lieutenant during World War I. After working as a tobacco grower, a security salesman, and a clerk with the Selective Service System board, he joined the editorial staff of the Norwich Bulletin, where 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. He died on November 11, 1974, in Norwich, Connecticut. The collection consists of photographs gathered by Elmer F. Farnham for his book, and other photographs of locomotives and scenes of southern New England railroads and Norwich, Connecticut. For more information about the collection please see the finding aid at http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/findaids/farnham/MSS19990032.html
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