Cartographers and surveyors (45)

by Stevenson, George, Jr. Robert H. B. Brazier, cartographer and civil engineer, was born of unknown parentage in Great Britain, where he received his professional training under John Rennie (1761–1821), the Scottish civil [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Fields, William C. Farquhard Campbell, legislator and soldier, was born in Scotland. Facts concerning his parentage, place of origin, and the exact date of his emigration to North Carolina are not known and are further [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Folmsbee, Stanley J. Newton Cannon, military officer, congressman, and governor of Tennessee, was born in Guilford County, the son of Minos and Letitia Thompson Cannon. His father was a revolutionary soldier, and his [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Jackson, Claude V. Cape Fear in modern-day Brunswick County projects into the Atlantic Ocean at the southeastern tip of Smith Island, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River and adjacent to the area known as Bald Head. [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Herndon, G. Melvin. John Carter, frontiersman, merchant, surveyor, land speculator, colonel of the militia, and legislator, was born in Cumberland County, Va. There is no known evidence that he was a relative of the [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Kerr, Mary H. D. William Christmas, surveyor, cartographer, legislator, and militia and civil officer during and after the Revolution, was a son of John and Mary Graves Christmas. Despite a statement in his obituary [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Engstrom, Mary Claire. William Churton, pioneer surveyor and cartographer for the Granville District, colonial official of Childsburgh (Hillsborough) and Orange County, and member for Orange in the colonial legislature, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Dunaway, Stewart. William Churton began working as a surveyor and cartographer for the Granville Land District beginning in 1748 soon after arriving in America from London, England. His English heritage dates back to [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Cumming, William P. John Abraham Collet (Collett), a Swiss military engineer, map maker, captain in the British army, and governor of Fort Johnston, N.C., was probably from Geneva, where his widowed mother, a Moravian, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Stevenson, George, Jr. William Dewey Cooke, educator of the deaf, editor, publisher, and cartographer, was born in Williston, Vt., to Milo and Harriet Bulkley Cooke. He was educated in Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Mcbride, Robert M. James Cotton, colonial officeholder and Loyalist, was born in Hamlet Parish, Ipswich, Mass., son of Leonard and Mary Frieze Cotton. He was the grandson of the Reverend Thomas and Bridget Hoar Cotton [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Holeman, Sarah E. Dickins, Samuel by Sarah E. Holeman, 1986 ca. 1775–22 July 1840 Samuel Dickins, surveyor and congressman, was born in Person County near Roxboro, the son of Robert and Mary Dickins. His [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Walser, Richard. Dugger, Shepherd Monroe by Richard Walser, 1986 26 Feb. 1854–13 Sept. 1938 Shepherd Monroe Dugger, educator, orchardist, landscape architect, mining prospector, geologist, surveyor, road [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Grant, Dorothy F. Fremont (née Fish), Sewall Lawrence by Dorothy Fremont Grant, 1986 30 Aug. 1816–1 May 1886 Sewall Lawrence Fremont (née Fish), army officer, chief engineer, and superintendent of the [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. Franklin Richard Grist, artist, art critic, and diplomat, was born at Egypt plantation near New Bern, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Heritage Washington Grist. His father was a merchant of [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Levy, Suzanne S. George Way Harley, Methodist missionary, physician, blacksmith, geographer, anthropologist, and researcher, was born in Asheville to George Gamewell (1862–1925) and Lillie [Lily] Way (1871–1959) [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Bell, John L., Jr. James Clarence Harper, surveyor, manufacturer, and congressman, was born in Cumberland County, Pa., the son of John Witherow Harper III, whose grandfather had emigrated to America from Ireland, and [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Holloman, Charles R. John Lawson, explorer, surveyor, and author of A New Voyage to Carolina (London, 1709), was apparently the only son of Dr. John Lawson (1632–ca. 1690) and his wife [Isabella] Love (ca. 1643–ca. [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Casada, Jim. Masa, George by Jim Casada, 1991 1882?–21 June 1933 George Masa, Japanese photographer and cartographer, for whom the Great Smoky Mountains were an adopted home, was [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Lowry, Charles B. Maule, William by Charles B. Lowry, 1991; Revised by Jared Dease, Government and Heritage Library, December [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Dill, Alonzo T. Frantz Ludwig Michel, colonist and explorer, also called Francis Louis Michel, assisted Christoph von Graffenried in establishing a Swiss-German colony at New Bern in 1710. His family, Michel von [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Price, William S., Jr. Edward Moseley, colonial official, may have been the single most important political figure in the first half of the eighteenth century in North Carolina. He was a man of great and varied skills: [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Stevenson, George, Jr. Mouzon, Henry, Jr. by George Stevenson, 1991; Revised December 2021; Revised by SLNC Government Heritage Library, June 2023 18 May 1741–25 Aug. [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Wegner, Ansley Herring. Paint Rock By Ansley Wegner, Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History, [...] (from Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History.)

by Stevenson, George, Jr. Pearce, Samuel by George Stevenson, 1994 20 May 1807–25 Dec. 1878 Samuel [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)