See also:

• ASA

ASA See also:

• ASA PACKER (1805-1879)

PACKER (1805-1879)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American capitalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in Mystic, See also:

• CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, on the 29th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1805 . In 1822 he became a See also:

• CARPENTER, LANT (1780-1840)
• CARPENTER, MIRY (1807-1877)
• CARPENTER, WILLIAM BENJAMIN (1813-1885)

carpenter's apprentice at See also:

• BROOKLYN

Brooklyn, Susquehanna See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania . He worked as a carpenter in New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City for a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time and then in Springville, Pennsylvania, but in 1833 settled at Mauch Chunk, in the Lehigh Valley, where he became the owner of a See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

canal-See also:

• BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat (carrying See also:

• COAL

coal to See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia), and then established the See also:

• FIRM

firm of A . & R . W . See also:

• PACKER, ASA (1805-1879)

Packer, which built canal-boats and locks for the Lehigh Coal & See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

Navigation See also:

• COMPANY

Company, probably the first through shippers to New York . He urged upon the Coal & Navigation Company the See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage of a See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

steam railway as a coal See also:

• CARRIER
• CARRIER, JEAN BAPTISTE (1956-1794)

carrier, but the project was not then considered feasible . In 1851 the See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of the stock of the See also:

• DELAWARE

Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill & Susquehanna Railroad Company (incorporated in 1846), which became the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1853, came into his See also:

• CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control, and between See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1852 and See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1855 a railway See also:

• LINE

line was built for the Company, largely by Packer's See also:

• PERSONAL

personal See also:

• CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

credit, from Mauch Chunk to See also:

• EASTON

Easton . He built See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways connecting the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main line with coal-mines in Luzerne and Schuylkill counties; and he planned and built the See also:

• EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension (completed in 1868) of the line into the Susquehanna Valley and thence into New York See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state to connect at See also:

• WAVERLY

Waverly with the See also:

• ERIE

Erie railway . Packer also took an active See also:

• PART

part in politics . In 1841 and 1842 he was a member of the Pennsylvania See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of Representatives; in 1843-1848 was county See also:

• JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge of See also:

• CARBON (symbol C, atomic weight 12)

Carbon county; in 1853-1857 was a Democratic member of the See also:

• NATIONAL

national House of Representatives; and in 1869 was the Democratic See also:

• CANDIDATE

candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania . In 1865 he gave $500,000 and 6o acres (after-wards increased to 115 acres) in See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• BETHLEHEM
• BETHLEHEM (Heb. " House of Bread," or, according to a more questionable etymology, " of [the god] Lakhmu ")

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for a technical school for the professions represented in the development of the Lehigh Valley; Lehigh University was chartered in 1866, and its main See also:

• BUILDING

building, Packer See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall, was completed in 1869; he erected a library building in 1877 as a memorial to his daughter, Mrs See also:

• LUCY, RICHARD DE (d. 1179)

Lucy Packer Linderman; and his will bequeathed $I,5o0,000 as an endowment for the university and $500,000 to the university library, and gave the university an See also:

• INTEREST

interest (nearly one third) in his See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate when finally distributed .

He died in Philadelphia on the 17th of May 1879 . The Packer Memorial See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church (See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant Episcopal) on the Lehigh University campus, given by his daughter, Mrs See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary Packer Cummings, was dedicated on the 13th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1887 .