Andrew Alfred Dexter papers, 1823-1834.

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Andrew Alfred Dexter papers, 1823-1834.

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Family and business papers, 1823-1834, written from Philadelphia, Pa., Montgomery, Ala., and Charleston, S.C., including 2 letters, 29 Sept. and 1 Oct. 1831, Charleston, S.C., from J.T. Robertson, to Dexter, ass[istan]t engineer, S.C. Railroad Co., Hamburg, S.C., re supplies and health concerns, reporting "sickness in the interior," and care and value of his health while on the job. Collection also includes unbound account book, 8 Oct. 1832-13 Aug. 1833, [Barnwell County, S.C.?] for expenditures at sawmill run by Williams & Dexter [successor to W.W. Williams & Co.] recording payments for bacon, corn, fodder, and wages.

26 items and 1 v. unbound.

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Dexter, Andrew Alfred, 1809-1854

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Civil engineer promoting development of railroads in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and elsewhere; trained as a civil engineer, Dexter surveyed the first railroad from Charleston, S.C. to Augusta, Ga., 1832-1833, and laid out the town of Aiken, S.C., where he met and married Sarah Williams, ca. 1834; Dexter became a cotton planter in Macon County (Ala.); died of yellow fever, 1854, while surveying a railroad from Mobile to New Orleans; son of Andrew Dexter (1779-1837), a native of Massachuset...

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Williams & Dexter.

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Dexter, Andrew Alfred, 1809-1854

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Civil engineer promoting development of railroads in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and elsewhere; trained as a civil engineer, Dexter surveyed the first railroad from Charleston, S.C. to Augusta, Ga., 1832-1833, and laid out the town of Aiken, S.C., where he met and married Sarah Williams, ca. 1834; Dexter became a cotton planter in Macon County (Ala.); died of yellow fever, 1854, while surveying a railroad from Mobile to New Orleans; son of Andrew Dexter (1779-1837), a native of Massachuset...

South Carolina Railroad

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