. Between the ocean and the lakes; the story of Erie . onin Wall Street affairs, continued business for himself, andmade a great fortune, which he fully and rationally enjoys. Augustus Sherili. Whiton.—Augustus Sherill Whitondied in New York City Monday, February 7, 1898, in hisseventy-eighth year. Mr. Whiton, when but eighteen yearsof age, was a member of the engineer corps that finallylocated the route for the New York and Erie Railroad be-tween Piermont and Goshen, in 1838. Young Whiton was promoted to be assistant engineer toH. C. Seymour in 1S39. In 1840 he was appointed superin- THE STOR
. Between the ocean and the lakes; the story of Erie . onin Wall Street affairs, continued business for himself, andmade a great fortune, which he fully and rationally enjoys. Augustus Sherili. Whiton.—Augustus Sherill Whitondied in New York City Monday, February 7, 1898, in hisseventy-eighth year. Mr. Whiton, when but eighteen yearsof age, was a member of the engineer corps that finallylocated the route for the New York and Erie Railroad be-tween Piermont and Goshen, in 1838. Young Whiton was promoted to be assistant engineer toH. C. Seymour in 1S39. In 1840 he was appointed superin- THE STORY OF ERIE 499 tendentof superstructure and bridges of the Eastern Divis- Virginia. He retired from active railroad service in iS5S, ion, and had charge of that work in the building of the road and established at New York a depot for railroad supplies! between Piermont and Goshen. In 1851 he was appointed He conducted the business for nearly forty years, and ac- engineerand superintendent of the Xewburgh Branch and cumulated a large fortune from AUGUSTUS WHITON. superintendent of the Eastern Division. He resigned in1852 to go to Kentucky to take charge of the constructionas chief engineer of the Maysville and Lexington 1854 he again became Eries superintendent of the East-ern Division and branches. 1857 he resigned to becomechief engineer and manager of a railroad and coal mines in In 1S43 Mr. Whiton was married to Caroline, daughter ofThomas Ward, the Ramapo ironmaster and landed proprietor. He was born at Binghamton, X. V., on Christmas,1820. He was a graduate of the old Ithaca Academy. Hewas an elder in the Collegiate Dutch Reformed Chun h 1 ifXew York. GAZETTEER OF CITIES AND VILLAGES ON THE LINE OF THE ORIGINAL ERIE AND ITS BRANCHES NEW YORK (EASTERN) DIVISION. JERSEY CITY, Hudson Co., N. J. From New York,i mile; Buffalo, 424 miles; Dunkirk, 459. Eastern ter-minus of the Erie since 1851. Second city of New Jerseyand capital of Hudson County. Popu
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