Moriz and Lester Bernstein correspondence 1897-1900 Bernstein, Moriz and Lester correspondence

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Moriz and Lester Bernstein correspondence 1897-1900 Bernstein, Moriz and Lester correspondence

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This collection contains correspondence written by brothers Moriz and Lester Bernstein to their family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while the pair worked surveying land for the Nicaragua Canal Commission. They described their daily lives and work, their environment, and political and military developments in Central America.

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Bernstein, Lester

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Lester Bernstein was born in the early 1880s in the state of Pennsylvania. His parents immigrated to the United States from Germany in the late 1860s. Bernstein attended Lehigh University from 1900-1904. He won several awards and held many positions in numerous societies on campus. In his junior year (1902-03) Bernstein won the Civil Engineering Society Prize, First Honors in his Civil Engineering Course, was the Delegate to the Cleveland Convention and was Civil Engineering Society Treasurer. I...

United States. Nicaragua Canal Commission (1897-1899)

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Bernstein, Moriz, b. ca. 1876

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Nicaragua Canal Survey (U.S.)

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Bernstein family

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S. J. Bernstein was born c. 1854 in Germany, and moved to the United States with his wife, Marie, sometime before 1876. The couple had several children: Moriz (b. ca. 1876), Ralph (b. ca. 1877), Julius (b. 1880), Lester, and Walter. In December 1897, Moriz and Lester left their family in Philadelphia and embarked for Central America to do construction and surveying work for the Nicaragua Canal Commission. While in Central America, Moriz took charge of a small work crew under Dr. C. ...