| LC control no. | n 50030295 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Eads, James Buchanan, 1820-1887 |
| Variant(s) | Eads, Jas. B., 1820-1887 Eads, J. B. 1820-1887 |
| Other standard no. | Q1520407 0000000066773728 348149196280074790867 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) Saint Louis (Mo.) |
| Birth date | 1820-05-23 |
| Death date | 1887-03-08 |
| Place of birth | Lawrenceburg (Ind.) |
| Place of death | Nassau (Bahamas) |
| Profession or occupation | Civil engineers Inventors Marine engineers |
| Found in | Dorsey, 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) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Eads> |
| Associated language | eng |
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