From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans 1904
Henry Brevoort Renwick, engineer, was born in New York city, Sept. 4, 1817; son of Prof. James and Margaret Anne (Brevoort) Renwick. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1833; followed commercial pursuits for a time, and then practiced civil and mechanical engineering. He entered the service of the U.S. government as an assistant engineer in 1837, served as first assistant astronomer of the U.S. boundary commission, 1840-42; was appointed examiner in the U.S. patent office in 1848, and the first U.S. inspector of steam vessels at the port of New York in 1853. He was married in June, 1892, to Margaret, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (McPherson) Janney of Alexandria, Va. While civil engineer in the government service he was engaged in many important works, including the breakwater at Sandy Hook and Egg harbor, and the survey that settled the boundary line between Maine and New Brunswick. He devoted himself to consultation practice in the specialty of mechanical engineering in which he ranked as an authority, and was engaged to testify in the suits growing out of the invention of sewing machines, the McCormick reaper and the Bell telephone. He wrote with his father, The Life of John Ray (1841). He died in New York city, Jan. 27, 1895.
Source: Johnson, Rossiter, ed.
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Boston, MA, USA: The Biographical Society, 1904.
Henry Brevoort Renwick, engineer, was born in New York city, Sept. 4, 1817; son of Prof. James and Margaret Anne (Brevoort) Renwick. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1833; followed commercial pursuits for a time, and then practiced civil and mechanical engineering. He entered the service of the U.S. government as an assistant engineer in 1837, served as first assistant astronomer of the U.S. boundary commission, 1840-42; was appointed examiner in the U.S. patent office in 1848, and the first U.S. inspector of steam vessels at the port of New York in 1853. He was married in June, 1892, to Margaret, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (McPherson) Janney of Alexandria, Va. While civil engineer in the government service he was engaged in many important works, including the breakwater at Sandy Hook and Egg harbor, and the survey that settled the boundary line between Maine and New Brunswick. He devoted himself to consultation practice in the specialty of mechanical engineering in which he ranked as an authority, and was engaged to testify in the suits growing out of the invention of sewing machines, the McCormick reaper and the Bell telephone. He wrote with his father, The Life of John Ray (1841). He died in New York city, Jan. 27, 1895.
Source: Johnson, Rossiter, ed.
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Boston, MA, USA: The Biographical Society, 1904.
From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans 1904
Henry Brevoort Renwick, engineer, was born in New York city, Sept. 4, 1817; son of Prof. James and Margaret Anne (Brevoort) Renwick. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1833; followed commercial pursuits for a time, and then practiced civil and mechanical engineering. He entered the service of the U.S. government as an assistant engineer in 1837, served as first assistant astronomer of the U.S. boundary commission, 1840-42; was appointed examiner in the U.S. patent office in 1848, and the first U.S. inspector of steam vessels at the port of New York in 1853. He was married in June, 1892, to Margaret, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (McPherson) Janney of Alexandria, Va. While civil engineer in the government service he was engaged in many important works, including the breakwater at Sandy Hook and Egg harbor, and the survey that settled the boundary line between Maine and New Brunswick. He devoted himself to consultation practice in the specialty of mechanical engineering in which he ranked as an authority, and was engaged to testify in the suits growing out of the invention of sewing machines, the McCormick reaper and the Bell telephone. He wrote with his father, The Life of John Ray (1841). He died in New York city, Jan. 27, 1895.
Source: Johnson, Rossiter, ed.
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Boston, MA, USA: The Biographical Society, 1904.
Henry Brevoort Renwick, engineer, was born in New York city, Sept. 4, 1817; son of Prof. James and Margaret Anne (Brevoort) Renwick. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1833; followed commercial pursuits for a time, and then practiced civil and mechanical engineering. He entered the service of the U.S. government as an assistant engineer in 1837, served as first assistant astronomer of the U.S. boundary commission, 1840-42; was appointed examiner in the U.S. patent office in 1848, and the first U.S. inspector of steam vessels at the port of New York in 1853. He was married in June, 1892, to Margaret, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (McPherson) Janney of Alexandria, Va. While civil engineer in the government service he was engaged in many important works, including the breakwater at Sandy Hook and Egg harbor, and the survey that settled the boundary line between Maine and New Brunswick. He devoted himself to consultation practice in the specialty of mechanical engineering in which he ranked as an authority, and was engaged to testify in the suits growing out of the invention of sewing machines, the McCormick reaper and the Bell telephone. He wrote with his father, The Life of John Ray (1841). He died in New York city, Jan. 27, 1895.
Source: Johnson, Rossiter, ed.
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Boston, MA, USA: The Biographical Society, 1904.
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