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Long, Stephen Harriman
The following data is extracted from Long Family Records.
engineer: b. Hopkinton, N. H., 1784; d. Alton, Ill., 1864; assistant professor of mathematics at U. S. Military Academy; transferred to the topographical engineers, 1816, with brevet rank of major; had charge of explorations between Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, 1818-23, and of the sources of the Mississippi, 1823-4, receiving brevet rank of lieut.-colonel; the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains was named Long's Peak in his honor; surveyed the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1827-30; engineer-in-chief of Western and Atlantic Railroad in Georgia, 1837-40; major of the topographical engineers, 1838; in 1861 he was chief of that body with rank of colonel; an account of his first expedition to the Rocky Mountains 1819-20 was published in Philadelphia in 1823; member, American Philosophical Society and author of a "Railroad Manual" (1829) which was the first original treatise of the kind published in this country.
Source: Long Family Records
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