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Birth Date
01/24/1754
Birthplace
Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Death Date
08/20/1820
Occupation
Surveyor
Mathematician
Biographical Text
Ellicott was born to a Quaker family in Pennsylvania where his father worked as a millwright and clockmaker. As a teenager, he studied math, astronomy, and other sciences. Shortly after Andrew married Sarah Brown in 1775 he moved with his new bride to his father's Maryland property to oversee the mills. During the Revolutionary War, Ellicott joined the Continental Army and rose to the rank of Major. <br /><br />Ellicott first worked as a surveyor in 1784, helping to determine the boundary between Virginia and Maryland. In 1789, he moved his family from Baltimore, where he had been working as a teacher, to Philadelphia to take a job as a federal surveyor. President Washington commissioned Ellicott in 1790 to survey the boundary of the newly established Federal Territory on the Potomac. While in the area, he also conducted surveys within the district for private landowners. <br /><br />In 1801, he refused an appointment as Surveyor General of the United States because he preferred field work to being an administrator. He accepted an appointment in 1813 as professor of mathematics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, a position which he held until his death in 1820.
Bibliography
Silvio A. Bedini. "Ellicott, Andrew". In <em>American National Biography Online</em>. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Andrew
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Ellicott
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Andrew Ellicott
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Andrew Ellicott was a surveyor employed by President George Washington to survey the boundary lines of the federal Territory of Columbia, which became the District of Columbia. His survey team included his younger brother Joseph and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/77">Benjamin Banneker</a>, a self-taught African American surveyor. The team laid the boundary stones of the 100-square mile borders of the District. Ellicott also completed and revised the original city plan of <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/82">Pierre Charles L'Enfant</a>.
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New York Public Library. <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1228539">View original image</a>.
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Pre-1800s
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Andrew Ellicott
building the mall
design & monuments
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Maryland Historical Society
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Birth Date
11/09/1731
Birthplace
Baltimore County, Maryland
Death Date
10/09/1806
Occupation
Surveyor
Mathematician
Biographical Text
Benjamin Banneker was a free black resident of Maryland. His father was a freed slave and his mother had been born free. He lived most of his life in a cabin his father built on the farm which he eventually inherited from his parents. He learned to read and write from his mother and grandmother, and may have attended a local one-room schoolhouse run by Quakers in the winter. Banneker also studied on his own, making a functioning clock out of wood when he was in his early twenties. By 1780, Banneker lived alone on the farm: his parents had died and all three of his sisters had married and moved away. <br /><br />In 1771, George Ellicott, wealthy white man with an interest in the sciences, moved to the area. Ellicott shared his interest in astronomy with his neighbors, including Banneker. Because Banneker was so interested, Ellicott lent him a telescope and some books. Banneker taught himself how to make the calculations necessary to create an almanac. <br /><br />Banneker’s first almanac was published in Baltimore in 1792. He published five more almanacs, one for each year until 1797. These were sold in Great Britain as well as the United States. His publications and scientific achievements were touted by anti-slavery activists as proof of the injustice of racial slavery. Banneker himself wrote to Thomas Jefferson, at the time Secretary of State, to argue for national abolition of slavery.<br /><br />During this period, Banneker worked as a surveyor, assisting <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/105">Andrew Ellicott,</a> George Ellicott's cousin, with the first survey of the what would become the District of Columbia in 1791.<br /><br />Banneker died in his sleep a month short of his seventy-fifth birthday. Sadly, a fire in his house shortly after his death destroyed most of his papers. Although he was a talented mathematician and scientist, his opportunity for advancement was extremely limited because of racial prejudice.
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Benjamin
Last Name
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Banneker
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Benjamin Banneker
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Banneker was a free African American surveyor, mathematician, and almanac author from Maryland. In 1791, he assisted <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/105">Andrew Ellicott </a>with a survey of the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Among his duties on the survey, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/514">Banneker</a> operated the astronomical equipment which helped the surveyors determine their exact location.
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Pre-1800s
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Maryland Historical Society. <a href="http://www.mdhs.org/digitalimage/cover-benjamin-bannakers-sic-pennsylvania-delaware-maryland-and-virginia-almanac-year-1">View original</a>.
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Benjamin Banneker