FLEMING, PETER, civil engineer and author; fl. 1815–52.
Peter Fleming was of British origin, according to comments made by Thomas Coltrin Keefer* while addressing the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers in 1888. He was the author of two pamphlets on surveying published in Glasgow in 1815 and in 1820. The first traces of his work as a civil engineer are found in 1829, the year in which he wrote from Albany, N.Y., to the governor of Lower Canada, Sir James Kempt, seeking preferment. Fleming had been employed on the construction of the Mohawk and Hudson Railway and was still committed to the railway company, but he preferred a post in the Canadas.
Courtney C. J. Bond, “FLEMING, PETER,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed May 14, 2014, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/fleming_peter_8E.html.
| Born | fl. 1815 |
| Died | 1852 |
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| Born | fl. 1815 |
| Died | 1852 |
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Famous problems, Geometry, Géométrie, Problèmes classiques, Circle-squaring, Cours d'eau, Jaugeage, Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company, Quadrature du cercle, Stream measurementsPlaces
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- Peter Fleming
- Peter Fl 1815-1852 Fleming
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