| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Pillsbury, Isaac Newton |
| Title: | Isaac Newton Pillsbury Papers |
| Dates: | 1840-1887 |
| Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize volume) |
| Abstract: | Isaac Newton Pillsbury was a civil engineer of Cleveland, Ohio. He served as engineer and superintendent of the 2nd Subdivision of the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad Company in the 1850s. The collection consists of correspondence, notes on mathematics and surveying, notes on building estimates for bridges and arches for the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad Company, surveys of land in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, surveying and elevation information about Cleveland streets and the Great Lakes, surveys of routes of Cleveland railroads and of the Ohio, Miami, and Sandy & Beaver Canals, and other papers. |
| MS Number | MS 1851 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
The Isaac Newton Pillsbury Papers, 1840-1887 and undated, consist of correspondence, notes on mathematics and surveying, notes on building estimates for bridges and arches for the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad Company, surveys of land in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, surveying and elevation information about Cleveland streets and the Great Lakes, surveys of routes of Cleveland railroads and of the Ohio, Miami, and Sandy & Beaver Canals, and other papers.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and land issues there in the mid-nineteenth century. Those studying land surveys, bridge planning and construction, railroad development and construction, street planning, and the first charter election Cleveland will find this collection useful. Those studying canal development in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County and civil engineering will find this collection useful.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 1851 Isaac Newton Pillsbury Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Ansel Pillsbury in 1896.
Isaac Newton Pillsbury Papers 1840-1887 undated |
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| Box | Folder | Volume | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Volume of letters and surveys, including correspondence of Elias Loomis, Benjamin Tappan, and Seth Prat 1840-1842 | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Loose items found in Volume 1 1840-1842 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | 2 | Volume of surveys 1852-1861 | ||||||||
| 1 | 4 | 3 | Volume of railroad masonry estimates 1852-1861 | ||||||||
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Volume of weather reports 1840-1846 | ||||||||
| 1 | 6-7 | Surveyor materials and East Cleveland materials 1839-1869 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Letter 1887 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Financial and legal material 1849-1867 undated | |||||||||
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| 5 | Surveys 1853-1860 | ||||||||||