Sherman Day (1806–1884) was born in

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and died in

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. He attended

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and graduated from

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, A.B., 1826, receiving the degree from his father,

Jeremiah Day Jeremiah Day (August 3, 1773 – August 22, 1867) was an American academic, a Congregational minister and President of Yale College (1817–1846). Early life Day was the son of Rev. Jeremiah and Abigail (Noble) Osborn Day, who were descendan ...

(1773–1867), who was president of Yale from 1817–1846. He was also the grandson of the American founding father

Roger Sherman Roger Sherman (April 19, 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an American statesman, lawyer, and a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to sign four of the great state papers of the United States related to the founding: the Cont ...

Biography

After his graduation he lived in New York and

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for a time, as a merchant. For several years he was in

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and

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as an engineer. In 1843, he published Historical Collections of the State of

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. He came to California in 1849, and engaged in civil and mining engineering at San Jose,

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and

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. In 1855 he made for the state a survey of wagon-road routes across the

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; California State Senate, 1855–56; United States Surveyor General, California, 1868–71; original trustees,

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, Professor, Mine Construction and Surveying. Sherman Day's ''Historical Collections of Pennsylvania'' is considered one of the most important documentations of early histories of Pennsylvania, mostly because it included individual histories for all the counties within the Keystone State. As well, it contained a series of wonderful images (produced by Sherman as well) of all parts of the Keystone State. :"We are more familiar with the history of England, Rome or

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' and with the career of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon than with the events that have occurred in our own vicinity. Yes, even in the very fields that we ourselves are tilling."

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* ttps://www.slc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marlette_1855.pdf 1885 Annual Report, Surveyor General, State of Californiabr>Up and Down California 1860-1864
* ttps://www.lib.berkeley.edu/uchistory/pubs_resources/papers_books/ucbriefhistory/chapter2.html Brief History of the University of California
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Sherman Day, New Almaden Mine Main Tunnel EntranceWatkins # 145 Into the TunnelSherman Day, artist, forty-niner, engineer by Murphy D. Smith
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