James P. Kirkwood
Civil engineer, Author
1807 – 1877
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Who was James P. Kirkwood?
James Pugh Kirkwood was a 19th-century American civil engineer, and general superintendent of the Erie Railroad in the year 1849-1850. He left the Erie to go to the southwest to construct railroads, and he made the first survey for the Pacific Railroad west from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains. Late 1860s he served as President of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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- Born
- Mar 27, 1807
Edinburgh - Also known as
- James Kirkwood
- Profession
- Lived in
- St. Louis
- Edinburgh
- Died
- Apr 22, 1877
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on July 23, 2013
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