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Eads, James Buchanan, 1820-1887

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Personal name headingEads, James Buchanan, 1820-1887
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Variant(s)Eads, Jas. B., 1820-1887
Eads, J. B. 1820-1887
Other standard no.Q1520407
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedNew York (N.Y.) Saint Louis (Mo.)
Birth date1820-05-23
Death date1887-03-08
Place of birthLawrenceburg (Ind.)
Place of deathNassau (Bahamas)
Profession or occupationCivil engineers Inventors Marine engineers
Found inDorsey, F. L. Road to the sea, 1947.
A history of the St. Louis bridge, 1881: page iv (Jas. B. Eads) page 6 (James B. Eads)
ISNI database, December 6, 2022 (Eads, J. B.; Eads, James B.; Eads, James Buchanan; American civil engineer, 1820-1887)
Wikipedia, December 1, 2022 (Captain James Buchanan Eads was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor; born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, May 23, 1820; grew up in St. Louis, Missouri; largely self-educated; operated Eads' Union Marine Works in Carondelet, Missouri, during the Civil War, designing and supplying gunboats and ironclads to the United States Navy; designed and built the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, constructed from 1867-1874; moved to New York four years before his death; died in Nassau, The Bahamas, March 8, 1887, and buried in St. Louis; namesake of Eads, Tennessee, Eads, Colorado, and Port Eads, Louisiana)
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