Letter, 1871 June 5, Rumford House, Mount Pleasant, Quebec, to James T. Fields [Boston].

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Letter, 1871 June 5, Rumford House, Mount Pleasant, Quebec, to James T. Fields [Boston].

Responds to request for autograph material and pictures to illustrate George E. Ellis' Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson; encloses line drawing copy of silhouette of his father, Loammi Baldwin, by "Doyle."

3 p. on fold leaf. 21 cm.

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Baldwin, Loammi, 1744-1807

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Colonel Loammi Baldwin (January 10, 1744 – October 20, 1807) was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. Baldwin is known as the Father of American Civil Engineering. His five sons, Cyrus Baldwin (1773–1854), Benjamin Franklin Baldwin (1777–1821), Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780–1834), James Fowle Baldwin (1782–1862), and George Rumford Baldwin (1798–1888) were also well-known engineers. He surveyed and was responsible for the construction of the Middl...

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Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814

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