Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution

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Notes Chapter 1. The Formative Years 1. Advertisement, “New York and Havre Packets,” The Albion 6, no. 50 (Dec. 15, 1838): 400. 2. Leo Schelbert and H. Rappolt, Alles ist ganz anders hier. Auswandererschicksale in Briefen aus zwei Jahrhunderten (Olten, Switzerland: Walter-Verlag, 1977). 3. Etienne Gérin, letter to O. Chanute, dated July 17, 1862, Chanute Family Papers. 4. “Report & Manifest of passengers taking on board the Ship Havre at Havre in France & bound for New Orleans,” 1838. New Orleans Ship Lists (1820–1859), arriving into New Orleans, Louisiana, microfilm #1231, Newberry Library, Chicago. 5. Edwind W. Fay, History of Education in Louisiana (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1898). 6. Earl F. Niehaus, “Jefferson College, The Early Years,” Louisiana Historical Quarterly 38, no. 4 (Oct. 1955): 63–89. 7. Fay, History of Education in Louisiana. 8. Henry Rightor, Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana (Chicago: Lewis Publishing , 1900). 9. Elizabeth Chanute, “My Father,” 1912, Chanute Family Papers. 10. “New Orleans Passenger and Immigration Lists (1820–1850),” http://www.ancestry. com, accessed Feb. 2004. 11. Joseph Chanut, letter to Emilie E. Fourchy, dated Feb. 1860, Chanute Family Papers. 12. Chanute Family Papers. 13. Joseph Chanut, Histoire de France, depuis la mort de Louis XVI, jusqu’a la révolution de juillet 1830, inclusivement (Paris: Suite et continuation d’Anquetil, 1830). 14. Chanute Family Papers. 15. “Traveling Scenes—Air Line Roads,” Chicago Daily Tribune, June 3, 1853. 16. Wellington Williams, The Traveler’s and Tourist’s Guide through the United States of America, Canada, etc. (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1851). 17. “Wire Suspension Bridge over the Monongahela at Pittsburgh,” American Railroad Journal 2, no. 24 (June 13, 1846): 376–79. 18. Solomon W. Roberts, Account of the Portage Rail Road over the Allegheny Mountain in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Nathan Kite, 1836). Abstracted and republished in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography as “Reminiscences of the First Railroad over the Allegheny Mountain,” 2, no. 4 (Apr. 8, 1878), 370–93. 19. Charles F. Carter, When railroads were new (New York: Henry Holt, 1909). 20. Roberts, Account of the Portage Rail Road. 288 Notes to Chapters 1 and 2 21. John C. Smith, Illustrated hand-book: a new guide for travelers through the United States of America (New York: Sherman & Smith, 1847). 22. Philip Nicklin, “Trip on the Allegheny Portage Railroad from Johnstown to Hollidaysburg via the Allegheny Portage Railroad,” 1835, http://www.explorepahistory.com/ odocument.php?docId=205, accessed Jan. 2005. 23. Charles Dickens, American Notes and The Uncommercial Traveler (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Bros., 1842). 24. Theodore L. Condron, “Octave Chanute—Versatile Engineer and Aviation Pioneer ,” Journal of the Western Society of Engineers 50, no. 4 (Dec. 1945): 158–66. 25. Rossiter Johnson, “Coudert, Frederick Rene,” in The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (Boston: Biographical Society, 1904). 26. “Instruction. Charles Coudert’s Lyceum,” New York Times, Sept. 5, 1851. 27. Editorial, “Railroad System of the United States,” Merchants’ Magazine 18, no. 1 (Jan. 1848): 98–99. Chapter 2. The University of Experience 1. Alice Chanute Boyd, “Ancestry of Octave Chanute,” 1912, Chanute Family Papers. 2. Board of Directors, Report, “Members who died in 1874–5: Henry A. Gardner.” American Society of Civil Engineers, Proceedings 1, no. 12 (Dec. 1875): 335–37. 3. John B. Jervis, “Hudson River Railroad, a sketch of its history and prospective influence on the railway movement,” Merchants’ Magazine 22, no. 3 (Mar. 1850): 278–89. 4. Thomas C. Meyer, “The New Hamburg Tunnel on the Hudson River Railroad,” Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine 26, no. 1 (Jan. 1852): 111. 5. Richard P. Morgan, “Western Society of Engineers Annual Meeting,” Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies 9, no. 3 (Jan. 8, 1890): 140–41. 6. Chanute, Good-Bye letter to Joseph Chanut, his father, Dec. 7, 1850, Chanute Family Papers. 7. “Hudson River Railroad. Opening of the road to Albany,”New York Times,Oct. 9, 1851. 8. “What railroads are doing,” Brooklyn Eagle, Jan. 15, 1850. 9. Octave Chanute, “President American Society of Civil Engineers,” Engineering News 25, no. 23 (May 23, 1891): 496, full page portrait facing page 496. 10. State and Federal Governmental Records in the Illinois State Archives, http:// www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/serv-sta.html, accessed 2005–2007. 11. Paul W. Gates, The Illinois Central Railroad and its colonization work, Series: Harvard Economic Studies, vol. 42 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1934). 12. Thomas C. Clarke, “The Building of a Railway,” Scribner’s Magazine 3, no. 6 (June 1888): 643–71. 13...