Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler (Volume 3) (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... by Jeremiah Morton, a pronounced secessionist, but when secession was an accomplished fact, he became an ardent supporter ot.the southern cause, and all his four sons entered the Confederate army. Parks, Marshall, born in Norfolk, Virginia, November 8, 1820, son of Marshall Parks, a famous steamboat owner, and Martha Boush, his wife. He left school at the age of fifteen to accompany his father to his grist and lumber mills in North Carolina, and before he had attained his majority was postmaster and major of militia. After his father's death, he gave himself largely to steamboat enterprises, and built an iron steam vessel, the Albemarle, which was famous in its day. In 1842 he was given command of the Germ, built at Norfolk, by the government, and which he sailed by bay, rivers and canals, from the Atlantic coast to Oswego, on Lake Ontario, in the first trip made by a steam vessel between the Atlantic and Great Lakes. He was the author of the method of ferrying railroad cars across rivers and bays, en specially constructed boats with iron rails set upon the deck. He was also the origi nator of the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal--the first in which steam dredges were used in construction, in place of ordinary picks and shovels--and he was president of the operating company for upwards of twenty-five years. In 1861, after the secession of Virginia, he was made state provisional commodore, and charged with the removal of more than three thousand pieces of artillery from the Norfolk navy yard to a place of safety. He was then appointed a special commissioner of North Carolina to create a navy, and was well along with the construction of several gunboats, when he was ordered to turn them over to the C onfederate government, and he delivered them to Gens. Gwi...

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... by Jeremiah Morton, a pronounced secessionist, but when secession was an accomplished fact, he became an ardent supporter ot.the southern cause, and all his four sons entered the Confederate army. Parks, Marshall, born in Norfolk, Virginia, November 8, 1820, son of Marshall Parks, a famous steamboat owner, and Martha Boush, his wife. He left school at the age of fifteen to accompany his father to his grist and lumber mills in North Carolina, and before he had attained his majority was postmaster and major of militia. After his father's death, he gave himself largely to steamboat enterprises, and built an iron steam vessel, the Albemarle, which was famous in its day. In 1842 he was given command of the Germ, built at Norfolk, by the government, and which he sailed by bay, rivers and canals, from the Atlantic coast to Oswego, on Lake Ontario, in the first trip made by a steam vessel between the Atlantic and Great Lakes. He was the author of the method of ferrying railroad cars across rivers and bays, en specially constructed boats with iron rails set upon the deck. He was also the origi nator of the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal--the first in which steam dredges were used in construction, in place of ordinary picks and shovels--and he was president of the operating company for upwards of twenty-five years. In 1861, after the secession of Virginia, he was made state provisional commodore, and charged with the removal of more than three thousand pieces of artillery from the Norfolk navy yard to a place of safety. He was then appointed a special commissioner of North Carolina to create a navy, and was well along with the construction of several gunboats, when he was ordered to turn them over to the C onfederate government, and he delivered them to Gens. Gwi...

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General Books LLC

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2012

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2012

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246 x 189 x 11mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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200

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978-1-154-00473-1

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9781154004731

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1-154-00473-2



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