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	Handbook of Texas Online: LONG, STEPHEN HARRIMAN
		Stephen Harriman Long, explorer and surveyor, son of Moses and Lucy (Harriman) Long, was born on December 30, 1784, in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, one of thirteen children.
		Long married Martha Hodkiss on March 3, 1819, and established residency at Philadelphia.
		Long remained with the BandO until 1830 and from 1834 to 1837 surveyed railroad routes in Georgia and Tennessee.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/print/LL/flo13.html (999 words)

	Long Family Genealogy - Deacon Robert Long
		Stephen Harriman-6 LONG (Moses-5, Enoch-4, Robert-3, Shubael-2, Robert-1) was born 30 Dec 1784 in Hopkinton, Merrimack Co. NH and died 4 Sep 1864 in Alton, Madison Co.
		Stephen Long was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, on December 30, 1784.
		Minnie Almira-8 LONG (Moses Edwin-7, Nathan-6, Nathan-5, Nathan-4, Benjamin-3, Abiel-2, Robert-1), was born 16 March 1866 in Boscawen/Concord NH; died 27 Sep 1890 in Webster NH; married 6 Sep 1882 in Webster NH to Charles Albert Kilborn, son of Albert Plummer and Abigail (Tuttle) Kilborn.
	www.nh.searchroots.com /Long/longdearobt.htm (7420 words)

	Stephen Harriman Long - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Long was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, the son of Moses and Lucy (Harriman) Long.
		Long and his party of scientists would learn much to tell the nation and have the opportunity to show the U.S. flag.
		Long felt the area labeled the "Great Desert" would be better suited as a buffer against the Spanish, British, and Russians, who shared the continent with the Americans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Long (1051 words)

	Benjamin Edwards Papers, American Philosophical Society
		Benjamin Edwards was a minor figure on the Stephen H. Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
		He was a member of the Stephen Harriman Long Expedition in charge of scientific explorations between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
		Long designed and supervised the construction of a steamboat, the Western Engineer, that was to carry the scientific team, that included William Baldwim, Titian R. Peale, Thomas Say, and Samuel Seymour, up the Mississippi River.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/e/edwards.htm (470 words)

	Long, Stephen Harriman. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first in 1817 was to the region of the upper Mississippi and the Fox-Wisconsin portage; it is recorded in his Voyage in a Six-oared Skiff to the Falls of St. Anthony (1860).
		He climbed several peaks, including Long’s Peak, and explored the regions of the Platte and Arkansas rivers.
		In 1823, Long led an expedition to determine the source of the Minnesota River and to study the United States–Canadian boundary W of the Great Lakes.
	www.bartleby.com /65/lo/Long-Ste.html (226 words)

	About The Engineer of Marine Hospital, Louisville, Ky. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1820, Long led one of the earliest explorations of the Rocky Mountains.
		Long became one of the first engineers to specialize in railroad construction and wrote the definitive early study on railroad engineering.
		Long subsequently served as superintendent of the Corps of Topographical Engineers until the unit was merged with the Army Corps of Engineers in June 1863.
	www.marinehospital.org /engineer.htm (278 words)

	Major Stephen Harriman Long: Teacher and Explorer
		Stephen H. Long was born on December 30, 1784, and was one of thirteen children born to Moses and Lucy Harriman Long.
		Major Long's first expedition was in 1817 to the upper Mississippi region, where he surveyed the portages of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers and helped construct Ft. Smith, Arkansas.
		Long then left Engineer Cantonment, their winter quarters, with nineteen men heading to the Platte River and its tributaries, on June 6, 1820.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_oto_tribe/90201 (531 words)

	Stephen Harriman Long
		LONG, Stephen Harriman, engineer, born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, 30 December, 1784; died in Alton, Illinois, 4 September, 1864.
		An account of his first expedition to the Rocky mountains in 1819-'20 from the notes of Major Long and others, by Edwin James, was published in Philadelphia in 1823, and in 1824 appeared "Long's Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake of the Woods, etc.," by William H. Keating (2 vols., Philadelphia).
		Colonel Long was retired from active service in June, 1863, but continued, charged with important duties, until his death.
	famousamericans.net /stephenharrimanlong (460 words)

	Clarke Historical Library - Stephen H. Long. Northern Expeditions 1823
		Stephen H. Long (1784-1864) made five exploring expeditions between 1816 and 1823.
		On its banks, especially on the American side, the settlements are pretty numerous and exhibit a flourishing aspect.
		On its shores are numerous settlements in a flourishing condition and a few villages of respectable size.
	clarke.cmich.edu /detroit/long1823.htm (1217 words)

	Academy of Natural Sciences
		A successor of the Corps of Discovery, the Scientific Expedition of 1819, was ordered by the Secretary of War John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) "to explore the Missouri River and its...branches." The leader of the expedition, Stephen Harriman Long, one of the army's early topographical engineers, considered that he was expanding the Lewis and Clark exploration.
		Long's plan included the design and construction of a steamboat to ascend the Missouri.
		For more on Major Stephen Long's expedition and an example of its results in the field of natural history, see Thomas Say's View of the Prairie Wolf.
	www.lewis-clark.org /content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2345 (416 words)

	Topographical Engineers --Stephen H. Long
		Long’s group selected a site a half mile above Fort Lisa on the same side of the river to establish "Engineer Cantonment", their winter quarters.
		Among those with him were: Samuel Seymour, landscape painter; Titian R. Peale, a naturalist and one of a distinguished family of artists; Thomas Say, a zoologist; and Edwin James, a physician knowledgeable in both geology and botany.
		Long and his party came upon the Canadian River on August 4, 1820, and mistook it for the Red.
	www.topogs.org /b_long.html (1104 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The next day, tensions mounted when the Kaskaias tried to take several horses and other property belonging to the whites, but in the end the two groups parted amicably; this was probably the first recorded contact between Kiowa-Apaches and Anglo-Americans on the Llano Estacado.
		Long and his party followed the winding Canadian, weathered a violent hailstorm, and by August 18 had crossed the present Oklahoma boundary, after having spent about fifteen days in the Panhandle.
		For the next three years he was chief engineer of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, in which post he was promoted to regular major when the Topographical Engineers became a separate corps in 1838.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/LL/flo13.html (1004 words)

	Building the Western and Atlantic Railroad
		Stephen Harriman Long took the plum assignment of plotting the route and building the Western and Atlantic Railroad on May 12, 1837.
		Long quickly realized that the grade would be too much from this point and moved south to take advantage of the wider river plain and generally flatter terrain.
		Long selected land near Hardy Ivy's home to be the zero mile post, with Hardy's approval.
	ngeorgia.com /railroads/warr01.html (2134 words)

	184 Years of Lost American History is Emerging from Local Missouri River Soil
		In conjunction with this event, Major Stephen Harriman Long was ordered to carefully select and lead a crew of notable specialists in zoology, geology, cartography, journalism, art and botany.
		To protect the vessel from Indian attack, Long installed a bulletproof pilothouse, mounted a cannon on the bow, placed howitzers along the side, and armed the crew with rifles and sabers.
		Major Stephen H. Long's Western Engineer would be the first steamboat to reach what would become Nebraska, and it was able to do so only because it could float in only 19 inches of water.
	www.omahariverfront.com /articles2003/20030603_rvrhistory.htm (1729 words)

	Missouri's First Botanists
		The officer in charge was Major Stephen Harriman Long, who led a crew of specialists in zoology, geology, cartography, journalism, art and botany.
		The initial botanist was the ill-fated William Baldwin, who had a long history of poor health and apparently thought that extended travel would benefit his condition.
		This forced Long to return east and recruit a replacement botanist, Edwin James, but by the time the two managed to catch up, the rest of the party had already travelled to the northwest of Missouri.
	mdc.mo.gov /conmag/2000/01/40.htm (2001 words)

	Biography
		Stephen Harriman Long was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire on December 30, 1784, one of the 13 children of Moses and Lucy Long.
		Long was called to Washington DC, in 1861, as commander of the topographical engineers, a post that he kept until his retirement as a colonel in 1863.
		Colonel Long died on the 4th of September of 1864, in Alton, Illinois.
	www.alexanderstreet2.com /EENA/bios/A9446BIO.html (448 words)

	History of Atlanta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An experienced army engineer, Colonel Stephen Harriman Long, was selected to choose the most practical route for the new rail line.
		In the fourteen short years between the time Colonel Long drove his marker into the ground and the start of the Civil War, Atlanta grew like the boom towns of the West.
		A few years later, prominent citizens decided that Marthasville was too long and too bucolic a name for such a progressive city and the name was changed to Atlanta.
	www.sos.state.ga.us /tours/html/atlanta_history.html (2591 words)

	SRM Features: Western & Atlantic
		The survey was made under the direction of Lt. Colonel Stephen Harriman Long, U.S. Army.
		The WandA RR was the connecting link in a well devised system of railroads that made Georgia the Keystone State of the South and the future City of Atlanta, the Gateway City.
		Colonel Long found a way to leave Chattanooga without having to tunnel under Missionary Ridge, but as he came south through the ridge and valley section of northwest Georgia it was necessary to tunnel through Chetoogeta Mountain.
	www.srmduluth.org /Features/wanda.htm (910 words)

	The Allegheny Portage Railroad, Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But the board, willing though they were to accept Robinson's proposal of five planes on the east and five on the west slopes of the mountain, did not approve his idea of a mile-long tunnel; and in 1830 they engaged the famous Stephen Harriman Long to make further explorations.
		The Robinson plan was adopted in 1831, with modifications by Colonel Long and Major John Wilson, the South Carolina engineer who surveyed and began the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad.
		The first contracts were made in May. The Allegheny Portage was now to have a thirty-six-mile route, ten planes with ten stationary engines at their crests, a stone viaduct across the Little Conemaugh, a nine-hundred-foot tunnel, a skew-arch bridge of two spans, other minor bridges, and eleven levels.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/portage/page2.asp?secid=31 (428 words)

	Source- The University Libraries Newsletter
		The principal expedition of Stephen Harriman Long covered the Central and Southern Plains.
		Long’s Peak near Boulder, CO, is named for him.
		Long’s maps detailed much of the Plains area, but are best remembered for their labeling of the High Plains, “Great Desert.” The Long Expedition was further distinguished by including artists Samuel Seymour and Titian Ramsay Peale who provided some of the earliest, accurate images of the West.
	www.libraries.uc.edu /source/volthree/west2.html (669 words)

	love online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stephen Harriman Long, explorer and surveyor, son of Moses and Lucy (Harriman) Long, was born on December 30, 1784, in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, one of thirteen...
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		Writing from the Engineer Cantonment, where the expedition arrived on 18 September travelling from Cow Island, Edwards relates that he is in good health and expects that the expedition will winter at the Bluffs and return down Missouri River in the Spring after the return of Major Long from Washington.
		Edwards is unable to return home due to bad weather and he can not get a "settlement" on the boat he is now on which is not under the command of Major Long.
		Edwards now aboard the steamboat Hope of Louisville, Kentucky writes that he is expecting to soon receive the $850 the U.S. Government owes him.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/e/edwards.xml (658 words)

	AllRefer.com - Longs Peak, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		AllRefer.com - Longs Peak, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Longs Peak [for Stephen H. Long], 14,255 ft (4,345 m) high, N Colo., in the Front Range of the Rocky Mts.
		From the east side of its snowcapped peak there is a 2,000 ft (610 m) drop to Chasm Lake.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LongsPea.html (154 words)

	Trails of Hope: Trail Guides Essay
		J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War, under the command of Major Stephen H. Long, from the notes of Major Long, Mr.
		Notebooks began to be filled with observations on the size, nature, and habits of each Indian tribe encountered....
		On June 30, the expedition sighted the Rocky Mountains...." It is clear that the account of the Long expedition had a lasting influence on government policy and on western settlement for a long period of time. In a sense, Long bridged the gap between Lewis and Clark and John C. Fremont.
	overlandtrails.lib.byu.edu /guides.html (915 words)

	Long, Stephen Harriman - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Long, Stephen Harriman - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK or LOGIN
		In 1823, Long led an expedition to determine the source of the Minnesota River and to study the United States-Canadian boundary W of the Great Lakes.
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	AllRefer.com - Stephen Harriman Long (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Stephen Harriman Long (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Vanguard of Expansion (Chapter 1 Notes)
		Secretary of War John C. Calhoun to Major S. Long, 25 April 1823, Letters to Officers of Engineers, Vol.
		Stephen H. Long, "Journal," Long Papers, Minnesota Historical Society; Evan Jones, The Minnesota, Forgotten River (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1962), p.
		Long, "Journal"; Theodore Christianson, "The Long and Beltrami Explorations in Minnesota One Hundred Years Ago," Minnesota History Bulletin, 5 (November 1923), 263; Miceli, The Man with the Red Umbrella, p.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/shubert/chap1n.htm (1131 words)

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		I'd like to make contact with descendants of Stephen Harriman Long who have information about his wife's family.
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