. Bulletin. Science. health. In the year 1808 he married Miss Gillet Kendall, a daughter of Noadiah Kendall of Granby Connecticut. She was one of the best of women, and had no enemies, but was beloved by every body who was acquainted with her. For a while he took students into his own house, and taught them such branches as each one had engaged to be instructed in. Julius M. Coy of Suffield, studied surveying—Levi also from Suffield studied Nav- igation, and soon went to sea, and after a while command[ed] a vessel. Benoni B. Bacon of Sims- bury, studied Surveying and astronomy, Joseph W. King
. Bulletin. Science. health. In the year 1808 he married Miss Gillet Kendall, a daughter of Noadiah Kendall of Granby Connecticut. She was one of the best of women, and had no enemies, but was beloved by every body who was acquainted with her. For a while he took students into his own house, and taught them such branches as each one had engaged to be instructed in. Julius M. Coy of Suffield, studied surveying—Levi also from Suffield studied Nav- igation, and soon went to sea, and after a while command[ed] a vessel. Benoni B. Bacon of Sims- bury, studied Surveying and astronomy, Joseph W. King of Suffield, studied surveying—Henry Merwin of Granby studied Surveying, Jefferson Cooley, a graduate of Yale Colledge, studied surveying and civil engineering. He had also students from Gran- ville Mass. But the school interfered with his other business, and he discontinued it. He manufactured about this time a good many sets of surveyors in- struments—compasses, chains, scales, protractors, and dividers, some for his pupils and some for others. He also manufactured, magnets, electrical machines, leveling instruments, and some others. He was greatly attached to the business of surveying, and had more applications than he could attend to. He was compelled to leave it in 1825, and go into the business of civil engineering, which also in a few years, gave way for the business of manufacturing telescopes. At the commencement, he never thought of its ever becoming a business of profit. About the year 1830 he had completed an achromatic telescope, which he took to New Haven, and asked Prof. Ben- jamin Silliman to look at it. He did so, and at once took an interest in it, and published a notice of it in the American Journal of science, of which he was editor. He manufactured principally Reflecting. Figure 2.—Herschelian reflecting telescope (USNM 310598) built by Amasa Holcomb and shown by him at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, in 1835. The Institute's report of the dem
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