. Norwich University, 1819-1911; her history, her graduates, her roll of honor . winter months, but possessing a great desire for education, he spentall his spare time in study. Between the ages of ten and seventeen, he workedat market gardening, farming on the celebrated Lander farm in South Danvers;also in clerking in his fathers and ^™<— Lambert & Merrills store in thesame place. He attended the Dur-ham (N. H.) Academy in the winterof 1845 and 1846, and in September,1848, entered Norwich University,remaining until the winter term of1850-51, graduating from the Scien-tific department. He
. Norwich University, 1819-1911; her history, her graduates, her roll of honor . winter months, but possessing a great desire for education, he spentall his spare time in study. Between the ages of ten and seventeen, he workedat market gardening, farming on the celebrated Lander farm in South Danvers;also in clerking in his fathers and ^™<— Lambert & Merrills store in thesame place. He attended the Dur-ham (N. H.) Academy in the winterof 1845 and 1846, and in September,1848, entered Norwich University,remaining until the winter term of1850-51, graduating from the Scien-tific department. He then enteredCaptain Partridges private schoolfor practical instruction in field en-gineering, where he remained untilJuly, 1851, receiving a diploma asa military and civil engineer. He immediately went to Peru,Illinois, where he joined his two class-mates, Thomas E. G. Ransom, 51,and Dunbar R. Ransom, 51, whowere engaged by George W. Gilson,37, in general land surveying. Hewas in the employ of Mr. Gilson,until November, 1851. He then en-tered the engineer corps of the. Cadet Grenville Mellen Dodge. Illinois Central Railroad as axe man and took part in the survey fromLasalle to Dixon. His training at Norwich soon placed him in chargeof the transit and he assisted in making the surveys from Lasalle toBloomington, including the long bridge crossing over the Illinois River atLasalle. He was employed in March, 1852, by Peter A. Dey, division engineer,as rodman on the Rock Island Railroad, and was assigned to the sectionextending from Tiskilwa to Sheffield. He was given charge of the surveysof the Peoria branch of this road from Peoria Junction to Peoria. In 1851,he prophesied the building of the great transcontinental line and outlined itslocation to Council Bluffs and from there to the Pacific coast. In the spring of 1853, Mr. Peter A. Dey was appointed chief engineer ofthe Mississippi & Missouri Railroad and he selected Mr. Dodge as his principal 478 NORWICH UNIVERSITY. [1851
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