. The Doane family:. econd,Nov. 19, 1870, Louisa Amelia Barber, born at Brattleboro, Vt., , 1828, daughter of Anson and Louisa (Potter) Barber. Mr. Doaneattended the Orleans Academy until he was nineteen years old, andthen spent five terms at the English Academy at Andover, Mass. Leaving this school he entered the office of Samuel Feltou, one ofthe most noted civil engineers of his time in the country and a lead-ing citizen of Charlestown, Mass. After three years in Mr. Feltonsoffice, he was placed in charge of a division of the Vermont CentralRailroad and later was for two years residen
. The Doane family:. econd,Nov. 19, 1870, Louisa Amelia Barber, born at Brattleboro, Vt., , 1828, daughter of Anson and Louisa (Potter) Barber. Mr. Doaneattended the Orleans Academy until he was nineteen years old, andthen spent five terms at the English Academy at Andover, Mass. Leaving this school he entered the office of Samuel Feltou, one ofthe most noted civil engineers of his time in the country and a lead-ing citizen of Charlestown, Mass. After three years in Mr. Feltonsoffice, he was placed in charge of a division of the Vermont CentralRailroad and later was for two years resident engineer of theCheshire Railroad, at Walpole, N. II. In Dec, 1849, he returnedto Charlestown and, in company with his brother, John Doane, Jr.,opened an office at 21 City Square, under the firm name of T. & , Jr., for the general practice of civil engineering and survej-ing, an office which was maintained until his death. The firm alsomaintained for many years, ending in 1870, a Boston office; first at 4. (No, 500.)THOMAS DOANE. DESCENDANTS OF DEA. JOHN DOANE. 445 Cornhill Court and later in Barristers Hall, Court Square. Mr. Doanehad at one time or another been connected with all the railroads run-ning out of lioBton, but particularly with the Boston and Maine. In18(j.} Ik- was appointed chief engineer of the iloosac Iunnel and lo-cated the line of the tunnel, built the dam in tlje tofurnish water power, and in this work introduced nitro-glycerine andelectric blasting for the first time in this country. He also intro-duced compressed air and invented the machinery for it, and had alarge share in inventing the pneumatic drills used there. On the open-ing of the tunnel in 1875 he ran the first engine, the N. C. Munsonthrough it. In 18G9 he went to Nebraska and built two hundred andforty miles of railroad on the extension of the Chicago, Burlingtonand Quincy Railroad, and located and named nearly all the towns onthe extension. Completing his work in Nebr
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