Fordham, Elias Pym
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Fordham, Elias Pym
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Fordham, Elias Pym
Elias Pym Fordham
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Elias Pym Fordham
Fordham, Elias Pym, active 1808-1810
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Fordham, Elias Pym, active 1808-1810
Fordham, Elias Pym, fl. 1808-1810
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Fordham, Elias Pym, fl. 1808-1810
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English civil engineer who at age twenty-nine (1817) emigrated to the new Birbeck colony at English Prairie in Edwards County, Illinois.
A nephew by marriage to George Flower, a co-founder with Morris Birkbeck of the agricultural settlement, Fordham surveyed colony lands and assisted in the construction of dwellings, mills, etc. He later returned to England and engaged in a successful career as a civil engineer.
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Frontier and pioneer life
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English Prairie (Ill.)
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Edwards County (Ill.)
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Illinois
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Pittsburgh (Pa.)
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Illinois--Edwards County
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King's Lynn, Norfolk
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Ohio River Valley
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Edwards County (Ill.)
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Illinois--Edwards County
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
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East (U.S.)
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