Adolph Lindenkohl. 

 1833-1904. 



Adolph Lindenkohl was born at Niederkaufungen, Hesse 

 Cassel, Germany, on March 6, 1833, and died in Washington, 

 D. C, June 22, 1904. He graduated from the Polytechnische 

 Schule, Cassel, in 1852. He came to the United States the 

 same year, and in 1857 was admitted to American citizenship. 

 He was employed in teaching for two years after coming to this 

 country, and on July i, 1854 was appointed to a position in the 

 cartographic work of the Coast Survey, where he remained until 

 his death, a remarkable record of fifty years of valuable service. 



During the first year of this duty, James A. Whistler was a 

 fellow employe for about three months. It was found to be a 

 matter of difficulty to get the future distinguished artist to come 

 to the office with that regularity expected by the government, 

 or when there to devote himself to topographic drawing or to 

 etching views for the charts, as he preferred to sketch heads and 

 figures on the edge of the plates. Lindenkohl told of a per- 

 sonal effort to assist the young artist in punctuality, when he 

 went one morning to his room, the walls of which were found 

 to be covered with sketches on the plaster ; the young artist was 

 still in bed and so interested Lindenkohl in telling of his work 

 that the only result was that neither got to the office that morn- 

 ing. In the last month of his service Whistler was credited 

 with only six and one half days' work at one dollar and a half a 

 day and the experiment of his employment was terminated with- 

 out ill feeling on either side. 



With others from the Coast Survey, Lindenkohl was assigned 

 to duty with the army during a portion of the Civil War from 

 1862 to 1864. He assisted in a topographic survey on the Po- 

 tomac River, and served as a topographer on the defenses of 

 Baltimore. He also assisted in the compilation of data for 

 various maps for the department of West Virginia. 



In his regular duties in the office of the Coast Survey, Lin- 



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