biography
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Long, Stephen Harriman
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| male
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| lived:
| (1784–1864)
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| biography:
| US soldier, explorer, and engineer, born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, USA. A Dartmouth graduate, he entered the army (1814) and established Fort Smith (1817), now a city in Arkansas. He began to lead expeditions for the army, and in 1820 led an exploration party into the Rocky Mts, discovering the peak outside Denver, CO named after him. He explored the sources of the Minnesota R (1823) and helped survey the border between the USA and Canada. After 1827, as a consulting engineer for railroads, he surveyed railroad routes, including that of the Baltimore & Ohio, drew up a manual with curves and gradients, and built railroad bridges. In 1861 he joined the Federal government as chief of the topographical engineers. |
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