The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . 190 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. cEi-w^ PETERS, Richard, railroad manager, wasbom at Germantown, near Philadelphia, Pa., , 1810. He was of English-Irish blood. His great-grandfat
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . 190 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. cEi-w^ PETERS, Richard, railroad manager, wasbom at Germantown, near Philadelphia, Pa., , 1810. He was of English-Irish blood. His great-grandfather, AVilliam, a merchant, about 1750 emi-f rated from England to the site of Fairmount Park,a. His grandfather, Richard, was secretary of theBoard of War under Washington during the revolu-tion and afterward congressman and United Statesdistrict judge. His father wasRalph Peters, and his mother Cath-arine Conyngham, of a distinguish-ed Pennsylvania revolutionaryfamily of Scotch-Irish had a good English tuition inJudge Peterss family in Phila-delphia, including drawing, civilengineering and high mathemat-ics, and at nineteen studied a yearunder the famous architect, He was civil engineeron the Delaware Breakwater ayear, and worked in locating theCamden & Amboy railroad andconstructing the Central 1885 he was chief assistant un-der J. Edgar Thorn pson in locatingthe Georgia railroad from Augustat
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