Papers, 1820-1885.

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Papers, 1820-1885.

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Personal and business papers, 1820-1869, consisting of letters received, letter books of outgoing correspondence, account books, diaries, dockets, estate papers, memoranda, reports, bills, receipts, broadsides, and photographs. Correspondence includes approximately 10,000 letters to and from Delaware and Hudson Canal officials, locktenders, boatmen, raftsmen, property owners, and tax collectors. Other correspondents include John A. Roebling, John B. Jervis, James Archbald, Horatio Allen, the Wurts family, John Bolton, William Dimmick, and Benjamin Seward. Subjects include payments, results of canal inspections, legal matters, canal construction, land transactions, competition from railroads, and political aspects of canal management. Collection also includes papers of his son Russel F. Lord, Jr., an engineer in California, 1857-1885, consisting of pocket diaries, account books, mining notes, and a pamphlet of his report on the lands of the Brentwood Coal Company in Contra Costa County, Calif., 1873.

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Lord, Russel F., Jr.

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Archbald, James, 1793-1870

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James Archbald was born in Ayrshire, Scotland on March 3, 1793 and at the age of fourteen, immigrated to America with his parents. In 1817 he became a contractor on the Erie Canal and worked with John Jervis. Jervis appointed Archbald as an engineer on the Delaware and Hudson Canal which opened in 1828. He became the superintendent of works and played a prominent role in the engineering of the gravity railroad and in coal mining operations. In 1848 he was hired by the Pennsylvania Coal Company t...

Dimmick, William

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Roebling, John Augustus, 1806-1869

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John A. Roebling emigrated to New Jersey from Germany in 1831, abandoned farming, and returned to his profession of engineering. He moved to Trenton, N.J., in about 1848 and built a steel wire plant, operated as John A. Roebling's Sons Company. John A. Roebling designed many bridges and was the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge. From the description of John A. Roebling letter to Elias Calkin & Co., 1850 May 25. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 73...

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

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Engineer. From the description of Papers of John B. Jervis, 1827-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067890 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...

Seward, Benjamin

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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 ...

Lord, Russel F., d. 1867.

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Engineer on the Delaware and Hudson Canal. From the description of Papers, 1820-1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155521033 ...

Bolton, John, 1790-1893.

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Brentwood Coal Company (Contra Costa County, Calif.)

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