Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Meriwether Lewis, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Joseph Ellicott (miller)
Loc Publishing
(2013-01-09
)
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ISBN-13:
978-613-8-40370-8
ISBN-10:
6138403703
EAN:
9786138403708
Язык Книги:
Английский
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andrew Ellicott (January 24, 1754 – August 28, 1820) was a U.S. surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and served as a teacher in survey methods for Meriwether Lewis. Andrew Ellicott was born in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania as the first of nine children of Joseph Ellicott (1732 – 1780) and his wife Judith (née Blaker or Bleaker, 1729 – 1809). The Quaker family lived in modest conditions; his father was a miller and clockmaker. Young Andrew was educated at the local Quaker school, where Robert Patterson, who later became a professor and vice provost at the University of Pennsylvania, was his teacher for some time. Andrew was a talented mechanic like many of the family and showed some mathematical talent, too.