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| Scott Number | 2 |
|---|---|
| Date | December 2, 1847 |
| From City | La Fayette |
| From State | IN |
| To City | Middlebury |
| To State | VT |
| Addressee | Alexander C. Twining |
| Cert Author | PF |
| Cert # | 83628 |
| Fake | |
| Quantity 1 | 0 |
| Quantity 2 | 1 |
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Notes
PF 83628 #2 stamp has been removed and replace on this cover where it originated
Alexander listed as 12/2/47 from La Fayette, In to Middlebury Vt
Letter to Alexander Catlin Twining (1801-1884), civil engineer, professor, scientist and inventor. After graduating from Yale in 1820 and attending West Point, Twining was first employed upon the State works of Pennsylvania, and his earliest independent work was in 1835–37 as chief of the survey for the Hartford and New Haven Railroad; he was subsequently employed either as chief or consulting engineer upon every railroad running out of New Haven (excepting possibly the Derby road). In like manner he was employed on the northern lines running up the Connecticut River valley and through Vermont, on the Lake Shore road between Buffalo and Erie, and on other roads in Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan.
From 1839 to 1848 he filled the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Middlebury College, Vt.; this position he resigned to give himself more fully to his engineering labors. He removed from Middlebury to New Haven in 1852, and resided there for the rest of his life.
Alexander listed as 12/2/47 from La Fayette, In to Middlebury Vt
Letter to Alexander Catlin Twining (1801-1884), civil engineer, professor, scientist and inventor. After graduating from Yale in 1820 and attending West Point, Twining was first employed upon the State works of Pennsylvania, and his earliest independent work was in 1835–37 as chief of the survey for the Hartford and New Haven Railroad; he was subsequently employed either as chief or consulting engineer upon every railroad running out of New Haven (excepting possibly the Derby road). In like manner he was employed on the northern lines running up the Connecticut River valley and through Vermont, on the Lake Shore road between Buffalo and Erie, and on other roads in Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan.
From 1839 to 1848 he filled the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Middlebury College, Vt.; this position he resigned to give himself more fully to his engineering labors. He removed from Middlebury to New Haven in 1852, and resided there for the rest of his life.
