Downes, John, 1799-1882

LC control no.	n 88223892
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Downes, John, 1799-1882 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Downes, 1799-1882 J. D. (John Downes), 1799-1882 D., J. (John Downes), 1799-1882
Located	Boston (Mass.) Philadelphia (Pa.) Shrewsbury (Mass.) Washington (D.C.) Worcester (Mass.)
Birth date	1799-09-04
Death date	1882-09-29
Place of birth	Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Profession or occupation	Bibliophiles Engravers Mathematicians Publishers Surveyors
Found in	His The United States' almanac ... 1842?: t.p. (John Downes) LC data base, 1/30/90 (hdg.: Downes, John, 1799-1882) Cummings, A. The teacher's parting gift, 1846: frontispiece (Downes; engraver) Worcester Society of Antiquity. Proceedings, v. 7, 1886: p. 10, etc. (John Downes; book collector; engraver; musician; mathematician; publisher; surveyor; employed by U.S. Board of Commission for the Northeast Boundary Survey and the U.S. Coast Survey Dept.; publisher of almanacs; resided at Boston, Shrewsbury and Worcester, Mass., Philadelphia and Washington; after his death his personal library was given to the Worcester Society of Antiquity, where it was known as the Downes collection; b. New York, Sept. 4, 1799; d. Sept. 30, 1882) Appleton's Cyclopedia of American biography (John Downes; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., 4 Sept. 1799; d. Washington, D.C., 30 Sept. 1882) Ancestry, via WWW, Apr. 11, 2014: District of Columbia select deaths and burials (John Downes; age 84; died 29 Sept. 1882, Washington) MWA/NAIP files, Apr. 11, 2014 (access point: Downes, John, 1799-1882; usages: John Downes; Downes; J.D.; note: some items from his personal collection of books bear the label: Downes library; active at Worcester, Mass., ca. 1834-1850; also active at Boston and Shrewsbury, Mass., Philadelphia and Washington)
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	n 85253039