James B. Eads

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James B. Eads: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

His writings are collected in Estill McHenry (ed.), Addresses and Papers of James B. Eads (1884). Florence L. Dorsey, Road to the Sea: The Story of James B. Eads and the Mississippi River (1947), is the standard work, a well-documented biography, based on research in technical and family papers. Louis How, James B. Eads (1900, reissued 1970), is by Eads’s grandson. H.J. Hopkins, A Span of Bridges (1970), offers a good account of the building of the bridge. Quinta Scott and Howard S. Miller, The Eads Bridge (1979), includes a photographic essay.

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Modified title of Web site: The State Historical Society of Missouri - Historic Missourians - Biography of James Buchanan Eads.	Emily Rodriguez	Jul 24, 2019
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