Kirkwood, James Pugh, 1807-1877 (engineer)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1807 - 1877
Biography
James Pugh Kirkwood was born in Scotland, but emigrated to the USA in 1832. He was a civil engineer involved in lighthouse and dockyard construction, railroad development, and with water works, all over the USA.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Ms engineering journal of James Pugh Kirkwood, relating to Pensacola docks in Florida, and projects elsewhere
Item — Box CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1795 / SC-Acc-2017-0006
Identifier: Coll-1795
Content Description
This manuscript engineering journal is in two parts, spanning the period of Kirkwood's career associated with the Pensacola docks in Florida, 1845-1847, but also covering the period 1871-1877 providing a wealth of information on the occupation of the USA's most important civil engineers.The content is: copy letters which offer a detailed account of the exigencies of the task at Pensacola; and, diary or journal entries.The volume also has - at the end - a combination...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1845-1877