. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . lity the commissioners commendedhim to the authorities at Washington,D. C., which resulted in his appointmentas surveyor to finish the line. He took upthe wrork atWheeling, , and con-tinued it west-ward to TerreHaute, Ind.,closing theseason thereNovember 15,1820. In a let-ter written tohis wife whilemaking thejourney (theletter wasmailed at TerreHaute and thepostage costwas fifty cents)he gave a mi-nute descriptionof the countrythrough whichhis partypassed. It be-ing heavilytimbered andthinly settled,they made theirway with diffi-culty. In thelett
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . lity the commissioners commendedhim to the authorities at Washington,D. C., which resulted in his appointmentas surveyor to finish the line. He took upthe wrork atWheeling, , and con-tinued it west-ward to TerreHaute, Ind.,closing theseason thereNovember 15,1820. In a let-ter written tohis wife whilemaking thejourney (theletter wasmailed at TerreHaute and thepostage costwas fifty cents)he gave a mi-nute descriptionof the countrythrough whichhis partypassed. It be-ing heavilytimbered andthinly settled,they made theirway with diffi-culty. In theletter he namedthe rivers theycrossed, told of their width and of the very trying ex-perience they had in replacing a brokenaxle on one of their wagons. They de-pended for meat mostly on wild , Indiana, being on the lineof survey, was named in his honor. In 1821 Mr. Knight was elected to theoffice of State Senator from the countiesof Washington and Green in Pennsyl-vania. He was continued in that officesix years JONATHAN KNIGHT On August 4, 1827, he resigned in orderto give his time exclusively to the Balti-more and Ohio Railroad Company ascivil engineer. He was appointed to servein conjunction with Colonel Stephen H. Long and the president of the Balti-more and Ohio, who were constituteda board of engineers to take office January I, 1828. On November 5, 1828, they went by ap-pointment toEngland, arriv-ing in Liver-pool. This styleda very shortvoyage ofseventeen days. The trip wasmade for thepurpose of in-specting engi-neering worksto better fitthem for thetask at first ex-amined thetunnel underLiverpool,2,500 yardslong and cutthrough sand-stone, whichwas constructedto accom-modate theLiverpool andManchesterRailroad. Aninspection ofthe line betweenthe two citiesfollowed. Atthe invitation of the directors of the com-pany the Americans attended a meetingof engineers in the north of England,called for the purpose of experimentingwith
Size: 1319px × 1895px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectbaltimo, bookyear1912
