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GILLESPIE, William Mitchell, author, born in New York in 1816; died there, 1 January 1868. He was graduated at Columbia in 1834, and afterward spent nearly ten years in Europe in study and travel. On his return to New York in 1845 he was appointed professor of civil engineering in Union College, where he remained till his death. He was popular as a professor, a brilliant and original thinker, and had few equals in his department of science. His published works are "Rome, as seen by a New Yorker, 1843-'4 " (New York, 1845); "Roads and Railroads: A Manual for Road-making" (1845; 7th ed., 1854); " Philosophy of Mathematics," from the French of Comte (1851) ; "The Principles and Practice of Land Surveying" (1855 ; 6th ed., 1858) ; and a "Treatise on Levelling, Topography, and Higher Surveying," edited by Cady Staley (1871).
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