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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 . e was at various timesvillage surveyor of Lansingburg, West Troy, Gieen-bush and Green Island. He was surveyor and en-gineer of the Burden iron works, and was employedby the cities
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 . e was at various timesvillage surveyor of Lansingburg, West Troy, Gieen-bush and Green Island. He was surveyor and en-gineer of the Burden iron works, and was employedby the cities of Whitehall, Montreal and other Eddy was a communicant of St. Johns P. for more than thirty years, and was a masonof high order. He died at his home in Troy , 1892. BROOM, Jacob, statesman, was born in 1752,and was the familiar associate of all the public menof his day. He was a member of the Annapolis(Md.) convention (1786) and a delegate from Dela-ware to the convention to fi-ame the federal consti-tution, together with George Read, Gunning Bed-ford, Jr., John Dickinson, and Richard signature appears among those who subscribedto that document on Sept. 17, 1787. Mr. Broom filledmany offices of trust in Delaware. An addressto Gen. Washington, Dec. 17, 1783, was writtenby him and has been pronounced unrivaled as acomposition. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., , 86 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA GOODYEAR, Charles, inventor, was born atNew Haven, Conn., Dec. 39, 1800. His father wasAmasa Goodyear, a pioneer in the manufacture ofAmerican hardware, who had much of the inventivegenius which made his sou a noted man. His motherwas Cynthia Bateman. The sons education wasmainly secured in the public schools of New Haven,but while he was a boy his father removed to Nau-gatuck, in the same county, a centre of manufactures,lying upon a small river of the same name. In 1807the father began the manufacture of the first pearlbuttons made in America,
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