| LC control no. | nr 95039574 |
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| Personal name heading | Ferguson, James, 1797-1867 |
| Variant(s) | Ferguson, J. (James), 1797-1867 |
| Found in | His Annual address delivered before the Albany Institute, 1838: t.p. (James Ferguson) Munsell, J. Collections on the history of Albany, 1870: p. 375 (James Ferguson; assistant astronomer at the university in Washington, D.C.; prominently connected with the coast surveys; spent early years in Albany; d. 9/29/1867 at Washington, D.C.) Appleton's cyclopaedia of Amer. biog., 1888 (Ferguson, James; civil engineer and astronomer; assistant civil engineer on the Erie canal, 1817-19; assistant surveyor on the boundary commission under the Treaty of Ghent, 1819-22; civil engineer for the state of Pa., 1827-32; first assistant of the U.S. coast survey, 1833-47; assistant astronomer of the U.S. naval observatory, 1847-67; b. 8/31/1797 at Perthshire, Scotland; d. 9/29/1867 at Washington, D.C.) Harbors of Black Rock and Bridgeport, 1848: map recto (triangulation by J. Ferguson) |
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