Judge Moses Greenleaf
American
Maine's First Mapmaker
Moses Greenleaf was a notable American geographer and Justice of the Court of Sessions who surveyed the State of Maine. - AsNotedIn
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- Father Capt Moses Greenleaf
Moses Greenleaf was a notable American geographer and Justice of the Court of Sessions who surveyed the State of Maine. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1777/10/17 | Lydia Parsons Greenleaf, wife of Moses Greenleaf, gives birth to a son, Moses Greenleaf, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. | Born | |||||
| 1816/00/00 | Moses Greenleaf creates and publishes "Statistical View of Maine" of about 150 pages with a map. | Geographer | |||||
| 1820/00/00 | In the Maine woods, Moses Greenleaf discovers iron ore on the side of a small mountain at the head of tide on the Penobscot River, 50 miles north of Bangor, the booming lumber capital of the East. | Work | Katahdin Ironworks | Hundred-Mile Wilderness, ME | |||
| 1829/00/00 | Moses Greenleaf publishes a new map, on a scale much enlarged and improved, accompanied by a "Survey of the State of Maine" in an octavo volume of nearly 500 pages, and an atlas exhibiting various features of the state, titles of land, etc. | Geographer | |||||
| 1834/03/10 | Moses Greenleaf dies. Mr Greenleaf is buried in Brownville, Maine. A marker is located in the Brownville Village Cemetery but he is buried by the old Greenleaf Homestead. | Died |
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