Papers, 1818-1925.

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Papers, 1818-1925.

The Horatio Allen papers consist of fragments handed down in the family of his sister Mary Louisa Allen and her husband Edmund C. Evans. Associated with them are fragmentary papers of other Allen family members and genealogical materials.

1 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6683443

Hagley Museum & Library

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Allen, Rose A.

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West Point Foundry Association

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Foundry organized ca. 1817 for the purpose of supplying ordnance to the U.S. Army; incorporated April 15, 1818 and continued to operate until 1884; built blast-furnace and foundry near Cold Spring Landing, Putnam Co., N.Y., across Hudson River from West Point; also constructed a machine shop and finishing shop on Beach St. in New York City, specializing in marine steam engines; built first commercially successful locomotive in U.S., 1830; machine shop moved to Cold Spring, ca. 1839. ...

Serrell, Edward W. (Edward Wellman), 1826-

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Edward W. Serrell, Union Colonel with the 1st New York Engineer Regiment. From the description of Letter to Charles P.N. Weatherby, 1862 Apr. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476815 ...

Allen Family Association.

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Allen, Mary B. (Mary Benedict), d. 1828.

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Brown, James, 1791-1877

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New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

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Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903

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Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889

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Civil engineer, inventor. A.B. Columbia, 1823. Resident engineer, Delaware and Hudson Company. Consultant for Erie Railroad; president 1843. Consultant for construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. See sketch in Dictionary of American Biography. From the description of Diary, 1828. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269581245 ...

Albany Academy

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Allen, Theodore, b. 1800.

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Allen, Grace B. (Grace Brown), d. 1854.

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New York and Erie Railroad Company

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Chartered April 1832. From the description of Report of A.C. Morton, engineer of the Delaware Division, on the routes proposed for the New York & Erie Rail Road between Goshen and the mouth of Callicoon : manuscript, 1841 June 10. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58758123 ...

Seymour, Silas, 1817-1890

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Allen, Mary M.

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Delaware and Hudson Canal Company

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Allen, George F. (George Featherstonhaugh), 1815-1863.

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Allen, Mary L. (Mary Louisa), 1816-1861.

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Delaware and Hudson Company

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The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was incorporated in 1823. The name was changed in 1899 to Delaware and Hudson Company. In 1930 a new corporation was formed, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation, which took over the railroad properties of the Delaware and Hudson Company. In 1968 most of the assets of the Railroad Corporation were acquired by a new corporation, the Delaware and Hudson Railway Company. From the description of Report of L. F. Loree, president to the executi...

Allen, Benjamin, 1772-1836.

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Allen family.

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Horatio Allen, a noted civil engineer and inventor, was born in Schenectady, N.Y., on May 10, 1802. His father, Dr. Benjamin Allen, was then professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Union College. Horatio graduated from Columbia College in 1823 with high honors in mathematics. Deciding upon a career in engineering, he spent a year on the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. Around 1825 he joined the staff of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company as a resident eng...

Allen, Thomas, 1698-1780.

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Panama Railroad Co.

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South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company

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Chartered in South Carolina in 1827 to construct railroads or canals from Charleston to Columbia, Camden, and Hamburg, S.C.; railroad line opened in 1833 from Charleston to Hamburg (136 miles); consolidated in 1843 with Louisville, Cincinnati, and Charleston Railroad Company to form South Carolina Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1835-1841. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28410778 ...

Benedict family.

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Arctic (Steamship)

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Loree, Leonor Fresnel, 1858-1940

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