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killed

 

at marriage of Tweed’s daughter

 

Tweed and

Flad, Henry

Floor

 

planking for

 

widening

 

See also Roadway

Floor beams, steel

Flower, Roswell P.

Flume of Pittsburgh aqueduct

“Flying Pendent Lever Bridge” (Rainbow Bridge)

Foley, Antoine

Folger, Charles J.

Footbridges

 

of Brooklyn Bridge

 

of Cincinnati Bridge

 

Farrington and

 

of Niagara Bridge

Ford, Gordon

Foundations

 

of Brooklyn Bridge

 

for approaches

 

going below riverbed with

 

projected depth of

 

J. Roebling on

 

wooden (for towers)

 

of Cincinnati Bridge

 

for St. Louis Bridge

 

See also Anchorages; Caissons

Fox, Richard K.

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper,

Franklin, Benjamin

Frederick the Great
(Carlyle)

Frelinghuysen, Theodore

Frémont, Gen. John (Pathfinder)

Fulton, Robert

Fulton Street (Brooklyn)

Garfield, James A.

Garvey (Prince of Plasterers)

General Slocum
(ship)

George, Henry

George Washington Bridge

Gilded Age, The
(Twain)

Gill, Washington

Gleizes, Albert

Godkin, E. L.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Golden Gate Bridge (Calif.)

Gould, Jay

Grace, William R.

 

audit of New York Bridge Company and

 

Brooklyn Bridge inauguration and

 

removal of W. Roebling and, 491

Grand Central Depot

Grand Pont (Switzerland)

Granite, use of

Grant, Julia

Grant, Ulysses S

 

Beecher compared with

 

Brooklyn Bridge and

 

at Centennial Exhibition

 

in Civil War

 

St. Louis Bridge safety and

 

Tweed Ring and

 

Warren and

Great Blowout

Great Bridge,
see
Brooklyn Bridge

Great Central Railroad

Great Eastern
(ship)

Great Railroad Strike

Great Western Canada Railroad

Grecian Bend

 

see also
Bends

Greeley, Horace

Green, Andrew H

Greene (professor)

Greenwood Cemetery (Brooklyn)

Guglielmi, O. Louis

Haigh, J. Lloyd

 

bankruptcy of

 

cable contract award and

 

jailed

 

wire fraud of

Hall, A. Oakey

Harbison, Massy

Harney, Gen. William S.

Harper’s Monthly
(magazine)

Harper’s Weekly
(magazine)

 

on Avondale coal mine accident

 

award of cable wire contracts and

 

breakup of Tweed Ring and

 

on Brooklyn caisson

Harpers Ferry bridge (Va.)

Harris, Frank (worker)

Harris, Frank (writer)

Hassam, Childe

Havemeyer, William

Hayes, Rutherford B.

Heffner (worker)

Hegel, G. W. F.

Hemp hawsings, iron rope replacing

Henry, John

Henshaw (doctor)

Herting (grandmother of John Roebling)

Hewitt, Abram

 

award of cable wire contracts and

 

breakup of Tweed Ring and

 

at Brooklyn Bridge

 

inauguration

 

at 1882 Democratic state convention

 

Rink Committee investigation and

 

as Tilden’s campaign manager

Hewitt, Charles

Hildenbrand, Wilhelm

 

designs of New York anchorage and

 

trusswork and

 

Williamsburg Bridge built by

Hill, Albert

Hoffman, John T.

Hoisting engines

 

double

 

for positioning cables

 

to raise stone blocks of towers

Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls)

Hook, Mrs. (sister of Emily Roebling)

Hooker, Gen. Joseph (Fighting Joe)

Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.)

“Hospital lock,”

Houses built by J. Roebling

Howell, James

Howells, William Dean

Huckleberry Finn
(Twain)

Hull (manufacturer)

Humphreys, Gen. A. A.

Hunter, John W.

Hunter, W., Jr.

Husted, S. L.

Hydraulic jacks for excavating for caissons

Immigration, German (1831)

Inauguration (Brooklyn Bridge)

 

Brooklyn prepares for

 

ceremonies described

 

electric lights turned on

 

excitement in New York

 

invitations to

 

planning of

 

reception following

 

speeches made at

Inclined stays,
see
Diagonal stays

Income tax, introduced

Independent
(newspaper)

Injuries,
see
Casualties

Inman Line (ship line)

Innocents Abroad, The
(Twain)

Intelligencer
(newspaper)

International Suspension Bridge, see Niagara Bridge

Investigating committees,
see
Investigation, Committee of; Rink Committee; Seventy, Committee of

Investigation, Committee of (New York Bridge Company)

Iron Age, The
(magazine)

Iron buildings

Iron ropes, first manufactured

Iron superstructure, weight of
see also
Superstructure

Irving, Washington

Jacobs Creek chain bridge (La.)

Jacobson, Andrew

Jackson, Gen. T. J. “Stonewall,”

James, Henry

James, Jesse

Jaminet (doctor)

Jarvis, Charles H. (husband of Josephine Roebling)

Jarvis, Josephine (daughter of John Roebling)

Jay Cooke & Company

Jefferson, Thomas

Jenkins, J. W.

Jenks, G. T.

John A. Roebling’s Sons

 

award of cable contract and

 

bought out

 

Hildenbrand’s work for

 

incorporates

 

W. Roebling in charge of

 

size of

 

wire fraud and

Johnson, Andrew

Johnson, Gen. Jeremiah

Johnson, Samuel

Jones, George

Journal of Commerce
(newspaper)

July Revolution (German; 1830)

Jumps from Brooklyn Bridge

 

see also
Suicides

Kalbfleisch, Martin

Kearsarge
(ship)

Keefer, Samuel

Kenney, Abner

Kelly, “Honest John,”

 

at 1882 Democratic state convention

 

withholding of funds for Brooklyn Bridge by

Kelso (New York Police superintendent)

Keystone Bridge Company

Keystones of Brooklyn tower arch

King, Major W. R.

Kings County Democrats

 

breakup of Tweed Ring and

 

at Brooklyn caisson launching

 

at Democratic state convention

Kingsley, William C.

 

breakup of Tweed Ring and

 

Committee of Investigation

 

New York World investigates

 

Rink Committee investigates

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