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Dunbar, George Towers

civil engineer, ichthyologist, was born Feb. 11, 1812, in Baltimore, Md. He was one of the surveyors of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Portsmouth and Welden railroad, and the New Orleans and Nashville railroad. In 1842 was appointed engineer of the state of Louisiana, and in 1848 deputy surveyor-general of that state. His great love of natural history led him to make a large collection of insects, birds and plants of the United States. He gave the classical names to the streets in the upper portion of New Orleans, and Dunbar, a town in Pennsylvania, was named after him.