April 12, 2024
Travels in Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana & Illinois Fordham (1906)
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A 1906 1st hard cover printing from Arthur H. Clark in Cleveland in good condition with no marks, some edge wear, 248 pages with some b&w illustrations. Edited by Frederic Austin Ogg who also supplies a preface and extensive introduction. In addition to the other places he saw, Fordham visited Louisville, Shelbyville, Frankfort, and Lexington, Kentucky, and observed the people, taverns, slavery, manners, and families. Much on the social and political conditions of the frontier. Elias Pym Fordham (1787-unknown) was the original surveyor of Indianapolis. He was an English immigrant to the US and author of an American travel memoir. Elias Pym Fordham was born in eastern England, one of two sons and seven children to Elias and Mary Clapton Fordham. He studied civil engineering under George Stephenson (inventor of the steam locomotive). Fordham came to the US in 1817 with his sister Maria and traveled to Illinois where he purchased a tract of land known as "the English Prairie". In April 1821 he along with Alexander Ralston received joint appointments as surveyors of Indianapolis. Little else is known of Fordham. He was well educated and articulate as evidenced by his Personal narrative of travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky : and of a residence in the Illinois Territory: 1817-1818 which was not published
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