James W. Herron Letterbooks 1848-1856

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James W. Herron Letterbooks 1848-1856

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Letters of James W. Herron, a Pensacola resident, from 1856 and an engineer's letterbook from 1848-1852.

0.05 Linear feet; 2 volumes

eng,

Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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United States Navy Yard, Pensacola

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Herron, James W. (James Watt), 1920-

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James W. Herron was a civil engineer at the Navy Yard in Pensacola. He died while working on a construction project for the Pensacola naval base on December 1, 1856 (Source: Pensacola Gazette, December 6, 1856). His son James S. Herron, Jr., was a noted Pensacola physician who served as a surgeon in the Confederate army and attended patients during an outbreak of yellow fever at Fort Barrancas. From the guide to the James W. Herron Letterbooks, 1848-1856, (Special and Area Studies Co...