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Digital Image: 1849 Benjamin Brunson Map of St. Paul (first map of St. Paul)
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Title
City of Saint Paul, Capital of Minnesota Territory. / Rice and Irvine's addition to St. Paul, Minnesota Territory.
1849 (dated) 23 x 43 in (58.42 x 109.22 cm) 1 : 1800
1849 (dated) 23 x 43 in (58.42 x 109.22 cm) 1 : 1800
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Cartographer S
Benjamin W. Brunson (1823 – 1898) was a surveyor, civil engineer, politician, businessman, and merchant active in Minnesota in the second half of the 19th century. Brunson was born in Detroit, Michigan to an itinerant Methodist preacher. In 1847, he traveled to Saint Paul to help his brother, Ira Brunson, complete the first plat of that city. The original plat map of Saint Paul produced under Ira Brunson's leadership was completed in 1847, but was never recorded and is today lost. Benjamin Brunson was contracted to draw a new plat, which is completed and published in 1849. Later Brunson served in the First Minnesota Territorial Legislature and a was justice of the peace. He also worked as a commission merchant at the Old Steamboat Landing. Later became involved with the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad. Brunson's Saint Paul home, built in 1855, still stands and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. More by this mapmaker...
John Major (fl. c. 1835 – 1854) was a New York based engraver and lithographer active in the middle part of the 19th century. Major began his career in New York as an engraver in 1835. In 1839, he adapted to the new innovation of lithography, founding John Major's Lithography with offices at 49 Wall Street. From 1850 his partner in the lithography business was Daniel Major, perhaps his son. They jointly acquired the lithography business of Peter Mesier, also based at 49 wall street, in 1850. Learn More...
References
OCLC 8778626.