biography
| name: |
Meigs, Montgomery C(unningham)
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pronunciation:
[megz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1816–92)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in Augusta, Georgia, USA. He attended the University of Pennsylvania (1831) and the US Military Academy (1836), after which he was assigned to the engineers corps. During the Civil War he was quartermaster general in the Union army, and later continued in this role to supervise the construction of several important buildings and public works in Washington, DC, notably, the Washington Aqueduct, the Cabin John Bridge, and the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. The Old Pension Building (1883) is his best-known work. |
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