COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, legal and business papers and other papers relating to White's service in the War of 1812, his engineering activities, and his cement manufacturing business with his brother Hugh at Chittenango, N.Y. Includes material relating to the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, Chambly Canal, Champlain Canal, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Cohoes company, Delaware and Rariton Canal, Delaware Breakwater, Enfield Falls Canal, Erie Canal, Croton Aqueduct, Louisville and Portland Canal, Mohawk River, Pennsylvania Canal, Union Canal, and Utica and Schenectady Railroad. Correspondents include Major Bender, Edwin A. Douglass, General Jessup, William Lehman, George Olmsted, William Read, Peter Remsen, Alfred Smith, and Joseph Trumball.
Dates
- 1814-1835.
Creator
- White, Canvass, 1790-1834. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Canal engineer and cement manufacturer of Whitestown, Oneida County, N.Y.
Canvass White served in the War of 1812, made surveys on the Erie Canal, visited England to study canals, introduced hydraulic cement into the United States, manufactured cement, was president of the Cohoes Company, chief engineer of the Delaware Breakwater, the Delaware and Rariton Canal, the Enfield Falls Canal, the Louisville & Portland Canal, the Union Canal, and consulting engineer for the Chambly Canal, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, the New York Waterworks, the Portsmouth & Lancaster Railroad, for improvements on the Union Canal, and for other engineering projects.
Extent
.9 cubic feet. (.9 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers documenting canal engineer and cement manufacturer Canvass White's career.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Katherine Talcott
- Date completed:
- September 2004
- EAD encoding:
- Peter Martinez
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, November 2015
- Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company
- Canals.
- Cement -- Industries -- New York (State) -- Chittenango
- Chambly Canal.
- Champlain Canal (N.Y.)
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
- Cohoes Company
- Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.)
- Delaware Breakwater.
- Delaware and Raritan Canal.
- Douglass, Edwin A.
- Enfield Falls Canal.
- Engineering -- New York (State)
- Erie Canal.
- Lehman, William.
- Louisville and Portland Canal.
- Mohawk River.
- Olmsted, George.
- Pennsylvania Canal.
- Railroads -- New York (State)
- Read, William.
- Remsen, Peter.
- Smith, Alfred.
- Trumball, Joseph.
- Union Canal.
- United States -- History -- War of 1812.
- Utica and Schenectady Railroad
- Whitestown (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Katherine Talcott
- Date
- September 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in ENG
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu