Person:Sherman Day (1)

m. 14 Jan 1805
  1. Sherman Day1806 - 1884
Facts and Events
Name Sherman Day
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1806 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Death[1] 1884 Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 STUDENTS. 1819., in Biographical Catalogue of the Trustees, Teachers and Students of Phillips Academy Andover 1778-1830. (Andover, Massachusetts: The Andover Press, 1903)
    102.

    Sherman Day, 13, New Haven, Ct. Y. 1826. *1884

    Son of President Jeremiah Day and Martha Sherman, daughter of Roger Sherman.
    — Left 1822
    — Merchant in New York, Philadelphia, Marseilles.
    Civil engineer in Ohio and Indiana.
    Res. from 1849 in California;
    surveyor, civil and mining engineer;
    Trustee, and Professor of Mine Construction and Surveying, Univ. of Cal.;
    Senator;
    U.S. Surveyor Gen. Compiler of Historical Collections of Pennsylvania.
    Surveyed, 1855, wagon-route across Sierra Nevada Mts.
    Died at Berkeley, Cal.
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    [Y = Yale]