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at "Woburn, he made his home, till his important work at Quebec — 

 soon to be referrc d to — occupied him there so many years, that be 

 became a householder and resident there. It was on an autumn visit 

 to the family mansion at Woburn that his life of ninety years closed 

 where it began. 



On a fragment among his papers is the following brief mention of 

 some of his early engagements: " 1821. Built P. C. Brooks' Stoue 

 Bridge [over the Mystic, in Medford]. 1822, Sept. 16, to 1823, 

 Jan. 13, in Pennsylvania, with Loammi Baldwin. 1823, May l,to 

 1825, June 25, at Factories in Lowell. 1826. Surveyed Navy Yard, 

 Charlestown. Executed Marine Railway, Boston. 1831, Nov. 2."). 

 to 1833, Jan. 5, in England. 1833, Feb. or March, to 1834, Nov. 18, 

 on Lowell Eailroad. 1831, Nov., to 1836, April, in Nova Scotia. 

 1837, in Georgia on Brunswick Canal." 



On November 6, 1845, he left Boston on an appointment as chief 

 engineer to make a survey for the route of the Buffalo and Mississippi 

 Railroad. His report, with specifications and estimates, was rendered 

 in 1847. In 1846 he was employed in the examination of water power 

 in Augusta, Georgia, and by the national government on the Board of 

 Commissioners for Dry Docks, in Washington and Brooklyn. 



It was in July, 1847, that he was summoned to Quebec by a letter 

 from the Mayor, engaging him on a professional task which was to 

 occupy him diligently and laboriously till he completed it, in 1856, 

 though many years afterwards he was employed in further perfecting 

 some details and improvements in it. The enterprise resulted in the 

 introduction of water into the city from the Indian village of Lorette. 

 From August to October he was engaged in his survey. His field- 

 books and journals give full evidence of the general and some special 

 difficulties of the undertaking, in a region exposed to extreme changes 

 of temperature, to ice and freshets, with marshes, streams, and hard 

 rocky cliffs. He brought home with him his Profiles and Estimates, 

 on which he worked, presenting his report in print in the following 

 June. A contract for pipes was to be made in Scotland. He was 

 put in full superintendence of the work, under the Mayor and a 

 Water Board, in November, 1850, and in February, 1851, he had 

 made a survey of the city. After a short visit home, he sailed with 

 his family for Europe, in November, to superintend at a foundry in 

 Glasgow the casting of pipes, gates, etc., and to make arrangemi 

 for their shipment. The water-jet flowed in the city in 1852, and at 

 the end of 1853 he returned temporarily to Boston. Bis resignation 

 as Chief Engineer took effect in 1856. 

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