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Roebling, John Augustus

civil engineer, author, was born June 12, 1806, in Prussia. He was a civil engineer of note who built the suspension bridge across the Ohio between Cincinnati and Covington, and was the designer of the Brooklyn bridge; and the author of Long and Short Span Railway Bridges. He died July 22, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

ROEBLING, WASHINGTON AUGUS- TUS, soldier, engineer, author, was born May 26, 1837, in Saxonburg, Pa. A suspension bridge was built over the Potomac at Harper's Ferry by him and many balloon ascensions were made for reconnoitering purposes and it was during one of these that he became the first to discover General Lee's army in motion for the march into Pennsylvania. Resigning in 1865 he took almost entire charge of building the suspension bridge in Cincinnati. Then came the Brooklyn bridge project, greatest work of all, undertaken first by his father. He is the author of Military Suspension Bridges.