| LC control no. | n 84140169 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gist, Christopher, -1759 |
| Variant(s) | Gist, Christopher, d. 1759 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Ohio |
| Birth date | [1705,1706] |
| Death date | 1759-07-25 |
| Place of birth | Baltimore (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Discoveries in geography Surveying Cartography |
| Affiliation | Ohio Company (1747-1779) |
| Profession or occupation | Explorers Surveyors Cartographers Indian agents |
| Found in | State Library of Ohio. The Journey of Christopher Gist, 1968. LC in OCLC, 10/10/84 (hdg.: Gist, Christopher, d. 1759) LC manual auth. cd., Dec. 11, 2000 (Gist, Christopher, d. 1759; lived 54 years; was born ca. 1705) Wikipedia, 20 Aug. 2014 (Christopher Gist was an accomplished colonial British explorer, surveyor, and frontiersman; he is credited with providing the first detailed description of the Ohio Country to Great Britain and her colonists; at the outset of the French and Indian War (1754), Gist accompanied Colonel George Washington on missions into this wilderness; born in 1706 in Baltimore, Maryland; it is said that in the summer of 1759 he contracted smallpox and died in Virginia, South Carolina, or Georgia; other reports have him surviving until 1794 and dying in Cumberland, North Carolina) American National Biography online, 20 Aug. 2014 (Christopher Gist (c. 1705-25 July 1759); explorer, surveyor, and Indian agent; born in Baltimore Country, Maryland; During his youth in Maryland he acquired literacy and other skills that enabled him to develop a vocation as a cartographer and explorer in the service of the Ohio Company) Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, 1979 (Christopher Gist, ca. 1706-1759, explorer and soldier) |
| Associated language | eng |
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