02109mpc  2200229 a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025010001800066035002400084035002200108040001900130100003200149245003800181300001700219545007800236545058200314520022000896520054801116510008101664524011301745905002101858209479919920710120000.0910412i18141835nyu                 eng d  b   66000561    a(CStRLIN)NYCV91A197  a(NIC)notisAKT3473  aNICcNICeappm1 aWhite, Canvass,d1790-1834.00aCanvass White papers,f1814-1835.  a.8 cubic ft.  aCanal engineer and cement manufacturer of Whitestown, Oneida County, N.Y.  bCanvass 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 & Portsland 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.  aCorrespondence, 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.  bIncludes 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.  aDescribed in:  Report of the Curator and Archivist, 1946-1948 and 1948-1950.  aCanvass White. Papers, #609.  Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cornell University Library.  a19920710120000.0