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About Cephas Hempstone Sinclair
University of Virginia: Its History, Influence, Equipment and Characteristics, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Founders, Benefactors, Officers and Alumni, Volume 1 (Google eBook)
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SINCLAIR, Cephas Hempstone, 1847
Civil Engineer and Scientist. Final Year, 1873.
Cephas Hempstone Sinclair, C. E., M. E., B. Sc., was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, December 4, 1847, son of George and Ruth Ann (Belt) Sinclair. His father was born May 18, 1806 and died December 31, 1851; his mother was born May 12, 1812, and died December 17, 1891. Through his grandfather, George SInclair, who married Margaret Craven, both from near Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, and his great-grandfather, George Sinclair, he is a descendant of John Sinclair, (great-great-grandfather) who came from Scotland in 1747, as a political exile, with the families of Douglas, McDonald, Shepherd, and others, after the defeat of Charles Edward the Young Pretender, at Culloden, in 1746. His grandfather on the maternal side was Alfred Belt, son of Carlton Belt, son of Higginson Belt. The parents of Mr. Sinclair removed from Loudoun County, Virginia to Charlottesville, in 1836, and purchased from Dr. Merriweather the place known as Locust Grove, once owned by the Lewis family.
Mr. Sinclair received his education at the University of Virginia, pursuing academic courses for two years and an engineering course for four years and graduating in 1873 with the degrees of Civil Engineer, Mining Engineer and Bachelor of Science. November 14, following his graduation he entered the United States Coast Survey with which he has been connected to the present time. During this long period he has had charge of many parties engaged in work of the greatest importance in triangulation, topography, hydrography, astronomical latitude longitude and azimuth. He was in charge of the telegraphic longitude work for ten years, 1888-1898; surveyed 110 miles of the boundary between Pennsylvania and West Virginia, 1883-1885; surveyed sixty miles of the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina 1886-1887; and surveyed 405 miles of the oblique boundary between California and Nevada, 1893-1899. In 1903 he was assigned to his present position of Chief Astronomer on the United States and Canada boundary west of the Rocky Mountains He prepared the monograph on “The Oblique Boundary Between California and Nevada” published with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Report for 1900. He is a member of the National Geographic Society of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Cosmos Club of Washington City, where he maintains his home.
Mr. Sinclair was married, June 4, 1879, to Miss Julia Stockton Farish, daughter of Thomas L. and Julia (Stockton) Farish. She was born September 20, 1850, and died April 28, 1895. Two children were born of this marriage—Howard Sinclair, born January 7, 1881, died November 13, 1885; and Rosalie Sinclair, born October, 1882, died August, 1883.
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Cephas Hempstone Sinclair's Timeline
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December 4, 1847
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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1904
Age 56
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=27569633 Cephas Hempstone Sinclair Birth: Dec. 4, 1847
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CEPHAS H. SINCLAIR DIES IN WASHINGTON Was in U. S. Coast Survey For Over 40 Years. News was received here last night of the death, in Washington, of Mr. Cephas H. Sinclair, of the U. S. Coast Survey, a native of this city and brother of Mr. Charles G. Sinclair. Mr. Sinclair’s health had not been good for some time though his condition was not regarded as critical. The body will reachhere at noon tomorrow and the funeral will be held at 3 o’clock from Christ Episcopal church. The interment will be in Maplewood Cemetery. Mr. Sinclair was a son of the late George Sinclair, of this county, and was seventy-three years of age. He was reared in this city and educated at the University of Virginia, where he graduated from the engineering school. For over forty years he had been in the U. S. Coast Survey. Mr. Sinclair married Miss Julia Farish, daughter of the late Capt. Thomas Farish, of this city. Her death occurred about 20 years ago. There were two children, both of whom are dead. |