Andrew Onderdonk
Deceased Person
1848 – 1905
Who was Andrew Onderdonk?
Andrew Onderdonk was an American construction contractor who worked on several major projects in the West, including the San Francisco seawall in California and the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia. He was born on August 30, 1848 in New York to an established ethnic Dutch family. He received his education at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He married Sarah Delia Hilman of Plainfield, New Jersey. After starting his career surveying townsites and roads in New Jersey, he headed west to work as a general manager for financier Darius Ogden Mills on several engineering contracts. He died in Oscawana-on-the Hudson, New York on June 21, 1905.
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- Born
- Aug 30, 1848
New York City - Education
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Jun 21, 1905
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on July 23, 2013
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