Autobiography - Publications Societies of Which He Was Member

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4th Question: Educated in the common school such as were then established of Wayne County, at Rochester & Lockport, N.Y. and at Louisville Ky. Whatever knowledge or mental outline I have acquired beyond this, has been picked up from time to time without the benefit of college instruction. Under these circumstances I was quite surprised in 1860 to find in the post office a parchment from Amherst College conferring upon me the honorary title of L.L.D.

7th Question: My studies have been various, including not only such as pertains to my profession as an engineer, but also geology, mineralogy, botany, meteorology, antiquities etc.
From Louisville, upon the completion of the canal I went to Portsmouth Ohio and answered the duties of an Assistant Engineer (from March 1830 to March 15th 1833), on the Ohio Canal which there terminates on the Ohio River. I here witnessed the great flood of 1832 when Portsmouth was nearly all submerged. Francis Cleveland was the Resident Engineer under whom I Served & Micajah T. Williams of Cincinnati was the Acting Canal Commissioner under whose supervision the canal was constructed.