Ancestors And Descendants of Andrew Moore, 1612-1897 1, Pt.1
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This party, at the summit of Mine Ridge, Lane. Co., Pa., commenced the _^rs^ survey for a railroad in Pennsylvania, if not the very first in the United States, excepting the gravity power railroad at Mauch Chunk; and I am now, I believe, since the demise of J. Edgar Thompson, the oldest civil engineer in the United States living. I continued in the service of the State as civil engineer until ^larch, 1833, a period of five years and nine months. Then, after surveying and locating the Philadel- ...phia and Columbia Railroad, first at Lancaster, and then at the Gap the latter half of the time, a singular circum- stance occurred: I was then a Sub. Ass't, and had entire control of the Gap division (10 miles), the most difficult * The sketch of his life given was written by himself. FIFTH GENERATION. 189 and intricate to locate of the whole So miles of the road, in localing my section I had departed from the original lines of snrvey, and was censured for so doing; but in pass- ing over that road in 1S76, on my way to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, it was a source of no little satisfaction and gratification to my pride to see and know that my location of the "Gap Division" was the only ten miles of the whole road that had not been improved upon or altered; and that after a test of more than forty years the ideas and v.-ork of those inexperienced days had not been substituted by anything of the scientists of the pres- ent advanced day.
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