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lie school, leaving it for Lyons and Friese’s classical school, 
where he was fitted for college; but he did not enter college, 
having married at the early age of twenty-two. 
At that time his attention had already been turned toward 
his future field of labor. While studying surveying and 
civil engineering he had assisted in making and publishing 
a map of Northbridge, Worcester county, Massachusetts. At 
the same time he also taught an evening drawing school in 
Providence with marked success. Previous to this time he 
had been assistant librarian of the Providence Atheneum. 
He formed a partnership about 1849 with Barrett Cush¬ 
ing, a civil engineer of Providence, with whom he was asso¬ 
ciated in making the map of Northbridge before referred to. 
This partnership did not last long, for in the next year he 
alone engaged in surveys in Bristol county, Massachusetts, 
resulting in the production of maps of five considerable 
towns, all bearing the date of 1850. From that time forward 
map-making and surveying for that object became the busi¬ 
ness of his life. Between 1850 and 1860 fifty-two maps of 
towns and twelve maps of counties, all in Massachusetts, 
bear his name. 
In 1858 he set up in New York an establishment for the mak¬ 
ing and publishing of maps of all kinds upon a large scale. 
Here he employed surveyors, whose work he carefully su¬ 
perintended, while watching the reductions and publication 
with thoughtful care. This establishment he had brought 
into successful and profitable operation, when, in 1861-62, 
the war supervened and nearly ruined him. The class of 
men in his employ were precisely those most needed in the 
country’s service and most ready to give both service and 
life to the country when called upon. 
Early in 1868 he accepted an appointment to the chair of 
civil and topographical engineering at the Pardee Scientific 
School of Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, at the same time 
carrying on to some extent the publication of maps. He 
held this position about three years, and then, returning to 
