Benjamin Wright

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1770

Birth Place: Connecticut

Death Date: 1842

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: New York State

Notes: American civil engineer who was chief engineer of the Erie Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. In 1969 was declared "the Father of American Civil Engineering" by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Trained by William Weston. In correspondance with Thomas Eddy and Robert Troup regarding Erie Canal (1815-6).

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