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Jervis, John B. (John Bloomfield), 1795-1885 (16)

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Engineer. Civil Engineer. John Bloomfield Jervis was born in Huntington, New York, on December 14, 1795. He began his career in his father's lumber business at Rome, New York, and in 1817 he became an axeman on the local survey for the Erie Canal. Jervis became one of the most gifted engineers produced by the so-called "Erie Canal School." By 1823, he was the superintendent of a fifty-mile division, and two years later he accompanied his mentor,...

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John Bloomfield Jervis, 1795-1885. (1)

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