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Database: Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904
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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume II
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Carmack, Edward Ward
page 120
CARLL, John Franklin, civil engineer, was born in Bushwick, Long Island, N.
Y., May 7, 1828. He was educated at the Union Hall academy at Flushing, N.
Y., and in 1849 purchased an interest in the Newark Eagle, of which he was
associate editor. In 1853 he abandoned journalism and became a civil engineer
and land surveyor in Flushing, N. Y. He removed to Pleasantville, Pa., in
1864, and remained there ten years, engaged in the oil industry. Meanwhile he
produced several valuable inventions for developing oil, including a static
pressure sand pump, and an adjustable sleeve for piston rods. As a member of
the Pennsylvania geological survey he contributed several papers descriptive
of petroleum districts to the annual reports of 1874-85, known as I (1874);
I2 (1877); I3 (1880); I4 (1883), and I5 (1885). [p.120]
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