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Squire Whipple was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts on September 16, 1804. [1] His family moved to New York when he was thirteen. He received his secondary education at the Fairfield Academy in Herkimer, New York, and graduated from Union College in New York after only one year.
Philip Evan Thomas (November 11, 1776 – September 1, 1861) [1] was the first president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) from 1827 to 1836. He has been referred to as "The Father of American Railways". [2] [3] The Thomas Viaduct bridge in Relay, Maryland, was named after him. [4]
The Carrollton Viaduct, located over the Gwynns Falls stream near Carroll Park in southwest Baltimore, Maryland, is the first stone masonry bridge for railroad use in the United States, built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, founded 1827, and one of the world's oldest railroad bridges still in use for rail traffic. Construction began in ...
The Thomas Viaduct is a viaduct that spans the Patapsco River and Patapsco Valley between Relay, Maryland and Elkridge, Maryland, USA.It was commissioned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O); built between July 4, 1833, and July 4, 1835; and named for Philip E. Thomas, the company's first president. [3]
Benjamin Henry Latrobe II was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 19, 1806, [1]: 243 Latrobe was the youngest son of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who, six years previously, had married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Hazlehurst (1771–1841), the eldest daughter of Issac Hazelhurst, a Philadelphia merchant [1] and business partner for Robert Morris.
To show French leaders and those in America’s 13 states the new constitution, Congress would need a printed document. The Hall & Sellers press, usual job printer for congressional work, was en ...
The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for ...
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