David E. Hughes papers, 1880-1942, (bulk 1920-1935).

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David E. Hughes papers, 1880-1942, (bulk 1920-1935).

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Correspondence and reports pertaining to Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro Harbor, Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles River, Newport Bay, San Diego Harbor, and the Point Fermin landslide (1929). Includes materials on tides and boundaries.

2 lin. ft. (4 boxes).

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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District

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Hughes, David Edward, 1861-1942.

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Biographical Information David Edward Hughes was born on September 21, 1861 at Palmyra, Ohio, the son of Evan and Ann Johns Hughes. His youth was spent in that locality attending school, farming for his widowed mother, and working in sandstone quarries. At the age of sixteen he moved to Dunigan in Northern California. He was largely self-educated, devoting every spare moment to study in both medicine and engineering. He taught in ...