Boston water supply papers, 1824-1892.

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Boston water supply papers, 1824-1892.

Letters relating to Boston's water supply, including Josiah Quincy to George Odiorne (1824), civil engineer Loammi Baldwin to Henry Dearborn (1833), and Daniel Treadwell to Joseph M. Wightman (1871). Also biographical notes on Baldwin and Treadwell (1892).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6934152

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Odiorne, George S.

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Dearborn, H.A.S. (Henry Alexander Scammell), 1783-1851

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Massachusetts politician, resident of Boston. From the description of Papers, 1802-1848. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19405827 U.S. representative from Massachusetts, lawyer in Portland, Me., and army officer. From the description of H.A.S. Dearborn autograph letter signed, 1806. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 71129499 Henry Dearborn (1751-1829), an officer in the Continental Army, was U.S. Secretary of War and ...

Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864

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Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts; United States and Massaschusetts legislator; and, President of Harvard University. From the description of Josiah Quincy letter, portrait and autograph, 1839-1889. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 63118297 President of Harvard. From the description of Autograph note signed : [Cambridge, Mass.], addressed to the Rev. John Pierpont, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616000 From the description of Autograph note ...

Wightman, Joseph M. (Joseph Milner), 1812-1885

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Epithet: Major-General; of Add MS 33273 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0003b7 Philosophical instrument maker, author, and politician(?) of Boston, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1839-1880. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38754440 ...

Baldwin, Loammi, 1780-1838

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Loammi Baldwin, 1780-1838, class of 1800, Harvard College, was a lawyer and later a civil engineer whose projects included canal construction and harbor improvement, railroads, water power projects, and city water supplies. He was in charge of the design and construction of dry docks at the Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia, Navy Yards. His father (Loammi Baldwin, 1745-1807) was one of New England's first civil engineers, and his brothers, James Fowle Baldwin and George Rumford B...

Boston (Mass.). Water Supply.

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Treadwell, Daniel, 1791-1872

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Treadwell received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1829 and taught application of science to the useful arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Daniel Treadwell, 1821-1887 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972906 ...