Hon. Peter Ward was a native of the Village of Ramapo in the nearby County of Rockland, where his father, Thomas Ward, for many years engaged in iron manufacture. The rudiments of his education were recieved in the common schools of Ramapo, Goshen and Haverstraw with special reference to his subsequent occupation as a civil engineer. As a mere boy he was employed for four years in the civil engineering corps of the Erie Railroad.
He conceived the plan of mining bituminous coal on the Ohio River and supplying steamers with it. But with closer examination he abandoned the idea.
He then fitted up a large flat-boat, which he named the "Floating Scow of Old Virginny," stocked it with dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, and hired two clerks and a cook, and floated down the river along shore with planters til he reached Baton Rouge. Fifteen months he hauled goods up and down the rivers.
In 1849 he resumed engineering for the Erie Railroad going from Corning to Dunkirk. In 1851 he became the Superintendent of the Newburgh Branch of the Erie.
Incidentally to his railroad business, Mr. Ward was extensively engaged in the painting business as the senior member of the firms of Ward & Leonard.
He later became the mayor of Newburgh and later on was elected to the State Senate.
In 1852 he married Mary A. Logan, daughter of Captain Samuel R. Logan of Newburgh.
Ref: Newburgh; her institutions, industries and leading citizens. Historical, descriptive and biographical.
Published in 1891.
He conceived the plan of mining bituminous coal on the Ohio River and supplying steamers with it. But with closer examination he abandoned the idea.
He then fitted up a large flat-boat, which he named the "Floating Scow of Old Virginny," stocked it with dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, and hired two clerks and a cook, and floated down the river along shore with planters til he reached Baton Rouge. Fifteen months he hauled goods up and down the rivers.
In 1849 he resumed engineering for the Erie Railroad going from Corning to Dunkirk. In 1851 he became the Superintendent of the Newburgh Branch of the Erie.
Incidentally to his railroad business, Mr. Ward was extensively engaged in the painting business as the senior member of the firms of Ward & Leonard.
He later became the mayor of Newburgh and later on was elected to the State Senate.
In 1852 he married Mary A. Logan, daughter of Captain Samuel R. Logan of Newburgh.
Ref: Newburgh; her institutions, industries and leading citizens. Historical, descriptive and biographical.
Published in 1891.
Hon. Peter Ward was a native of the Village of Ramapo in the nearby County of Rockland, where his father, Thomas Ward, for many years engaged in iron manufacture. The rudiments of his education were recieved in the common schools of Ramapo, Goshen and Haverstraw with special reference to his subsequent occupation as a civil engineer. As a mere boy he was employed for four years in the civil engineering corps of the Erie Railroad.
He conceived the plan of mining bituminous coal on the Ohio River and supplying steamers with it. But with closer examination he abandoned the idea.
He then fitted up a large flat-boat, which he named the "Floating Scow of Old Virginny," stocked it with dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, and hired two clerks and a cook, and floated down the river along shore with planters til he reached Baton Rouge. Fifteen months he hauled goods up and down the rivers.
In 1849 he resumed engineering for the Erie Railroad going from Corning to Dunkirk. In 1851 he became the Superintendent of the Newburgh Branch of the Erie.
Incidentally to his railroad business, Mr. Ward was extensively engaged in the painting business as the senior member of the firms of Ward & Leonard.
He later became the mayor of Newburgh and later on was elected to the State Senate.
In 1852 he married Mary A. Logan, daughter of Captain Samuel R. Logan of Newburgh.
Ref: Newburgh; her institutions, industries and leading citizens. Historical, descriptive and biographical.
Published in 1891.
He conceived the plan of mining bituminous coal on the Ohio River and supplying steamers with it. But with closer examination he abandoned the idea.
He then fitted up a large flat-boat, which he named the "Floating Scow of Old Virginny," stocked it with dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, and hired two clerks and a cook, and floated down the river along shore with planters til he reached Baton Rouge. Fifteen months he hauled goods up and down the rivers.
In 1849 he resumed engineering for the Erie Railroad going from Corning to Dunkirk. In 1851 he became the Superintendent of the Newburgh Branch of the Erie.
Incidentally to his railroad business, Mr. Ward was extensively engaged in the painting business as the senior member of the firms of Ward & Leonard.
He later became the mayor of Newburgh and later on was elected to the State Senate.
In 1852 he married Mary A. Logan, daughter of Captain Samuel R. Logan of Newburgh.
Ref: Newburgh; her institutions, industries and leading citizens. Historical, descriptive and biographical.
Published in 1891.
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