Captain Nathaniel M. Osborne

Fri Nov 23 09:43:21 EST 2018

The 1910 U.S. Census for Norfolk, Virginia, indicates that Capt. Osborne was a veteran of the Confederate Army.

Peter R. R. Getz
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Capt. Osborne
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Abram,
R.P.C. Sanderson writes about a Captain Osborne . . .

"The Norfolk & Western working with the Old Dominion Steamship Line, with the East Tennessee, the Memphis & Charleston and other local lines of that day did quite a large and good paying through express freight business, which all hands had orders to give preference to. There were a great many claims for shortages from final destinations, which never could  be fastened on any one road as all the seal records always showed the seals as being perfect at all interchange points of junction. A meeting of all the representative responsible officers was called to remedy what could be found wrong at which Captain Osborne of our line at Norfolk produced a complete tracer from our line at Norfolk clear through to Memphis for 25 post holes that had been sent out by him from Norfolk, as received from the Old Dominion Line in good order, consigned to a destination at Memphis and had on it the signatures of all the yardmasters and train conductors, certifying that the car, in which they were suppo
 sed to be, had been examined found in perfect order at each yard and terminal. Not one of them had noticed the hoax until the captain almost rubbed their noses in it."

That is the only mention he makes of Captain Osborne.

Peter R. R. Getz

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 9:19 AM Mason wrote:

Abram,
>
> Great work on Sidney Tyler and the sorted mess of the finances of the
> SVRR. When I wrote the Shenandoah Valley Book my source  was the book of
> minutes of the BOD, which at that time was at Virginia Tech. There was also
> a scrap book  there, in which they kept of every newspaper clipping in
> which the Shenandoah Valley was mentioned. It makes very interesting
> reading. With the movement of the material from Virginia Tech, I do not
> know where it is now, but I know you would enjoy looking at it.
>

All (most) of that material is now at the archives "annex" in GOB East.
There are two or three aisles of shelves with ranks of leather-bound books
that cover the various early railroads -- minute books of boards, letter
books, lists of stockholders, etc. et al. There are also additional aisles
with ranks of Hollister boxes that hold smaller items (small minute books,
etc.) from a variety of railroads and affiliated businesses from the early
days through the turn of the last century. There is a wealth of information
in the materials at GOB East (with the monthly work session on Friday) that
is just waiting to be discovered and digested.

Bruce in Blacksburg
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Bruce,

Work Session on Friday? It's Saturdays, even for this month.... don't want
anyone standing out in the cold waiting for someone to let them in.

Stephen in Roanoke

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 9:35 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 9:19 AM Mason wrote:
>
> Abram,
>>
>> Great work on Sidney Tyler and the sorted mess of the finances of the
>> SVRR. When I wrote the Shenandoah Valley Book my source  was the book of
>> minutes of the BOD, which at that time was at Virginia Tech. There was also
>> a scrap book  there, in which they kept of every newspaper clipping in
>> which the Shenandoah Valley was mentioned. It makes very interesting
>> reading. With the movement of the material from Virginia Tech, I do not
>> know where it is now, but I know you would enjoy looking at it.
>>
>
> All (most) of that material is now at the archives "annex" in GOB East.
> There are two or three aisles of shelves with ranks of leather-bound books
> that cover the various early railroads -- minute books of boards, letter
> books, lists of stockholders, etc. et al. There are also additional aisles
> with ranks of Hollister boxes that hold smaller items (small minute books,
> etc.) from a variety of railroads and affiliated businesses from the early
> days through the turn of the last century. There is a wealth of information
> in the materials at GOB East (with the monthly work session on Friday) that
> is just waiting to be discovered and digested.
>
> Bruce in Blacksburg
>
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