biography
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McCallum, Daniel C(raig)
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| lived:
| (1815–78)
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| biography:
| Engineer and railroad builder, born in Johnstone, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, UK. His parents emigrated to Rochester, NY when he was a boy. He completed elementary school, began working, and became an architect and engineer, patenting an inflexible arched truss bridge (1851). In 1855 he became general supervisor of the New York & Erie Railway and he founded McCallum Bridge Co (1858). During the Civil War he was appointed military director of the Union railroads, and managed a vast operation of tracks and personnel that played a crucial role in such Union campaigns as General Sherman's march to Atlanta, for which he was promoted to major-general. He also wrote poetry, and published The Water-Mill and Other Poems (1870). |
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