Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Jonas Preston FAIRLAMB
The only son of Nicholas II Fairlamb, Jonas Preston became one of the most widely known civil engineers of his day and was regarded as a man of unusual capacity in his profession.
"J. P. Fairlamb made the first surveys for the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company. He also superintended the first establishment of the waterworks in Wilmington and though many predicted his effort would result in failure, nothing daunted, he, confident in his own conclusion, went energetically to work and completed the enterprise with perfect success. He was a man of most positive convictions and could not be moved from his purpose by arguments whose force and correctness did not commend themselves to his discernment. He died in 1860 in full communion of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, lamented by his friends and respected by the entire community."
- (J. Thomas Scharf) "The History of Delaware, 1609-1888, Vol I (2), pp426-7
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