Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . BENJAMIN THOMPSON, Count of Rumford,See page HON. LOAMMI BALDWIN, JR., Father of Civil Engineering in 1825, Designer of the Shaft Erected on Bunker Hill, and fronri 1827 to 1834 Builder of theFamous Dry Docks at the Charlestown and Norfolk Navy Yards. Born in Woburn, May16, 1780. Died in Charlestown, June 30, 1838, aged 58. Photographed by Baldwin Coolidge of Boston from a Painting by Chester Harding, theProperty of Mrs. Wm. A. Griffiths of Quebec, Canada.
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . BENJAMIN THOMPSON, Count of Rumford,See page HON. LOAMMI BALDWIN, JR., Father of Civil Engineering in 1825, Designer of the Shaft Erected on Bunker Hill, and fronri 1827 to 1834 Builder of theFamous Dry Docks at the Charlestown and Norfolk Navy Yards. Born in Woburn, May16, 1780. Died in Charlestown, June 30, 1838, aged 58. Photographed by Baldwin Coolidge of Boston from a Painting by Chester Harding, theProperty of Mrs. Wm. A. Griffiths of Quebec, Canada. See page 29. ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 29 Colonel Baldwin is also noted as a promoter and one of theprincipal constructors of the famous Middlesex canal (the first ofits kind in America) which connected the Merrimack with theCharles. It was commenced in 1794 (Colonel Baldwin diggingthe first spadeful of turf September 10), and completed in 3, 1859, the Supreme Court declared the franchise for-feited, the canal having been abandoned. He was the friend, companion, and schoolmate of BenjaminThompson, Count of Rumford, elsewhere mentioned, and washonored with a de
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