1754-1820.
Ellicott, a Quaker, was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His father was a prosperous miller whose family founded Ellicott City, Maryland in 1775. Andrew Ellicott was trained to be a mathematician and surveyor. He conducted several large surveys with David Rittenhouse, the Philadelphia astronomer, mathematician, and clockmaker. President Washington in 1791 asked Ellicott to survey the bounds of the District of Columbia. The following year Washington asked him to complete L'Enfant's plan for the city. Ellicott made some changes to L'Enfant's plan. He changed the alignment of Massachusetts Avenue, eliminated five short radial avenues, added two short radial avenues southeast and southwest of the Capitol, and named the city streets. In less than one month Ellicott had a plan ready for the engravers. A few months later Ellicott, like L'Enfant, found himself at odds with the Commissioners and resigned from the project.
Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Andrew Ellicott'.
Se Aspegreen.
1735-1824. Född och död i Bergen.
Norsk ämbetsman. Han var en tid prokurator i Telemark, vistades sedan från 1783 under några år i Köpenhamn, och var 1786-1804 lagman på Färöarna. 1807 blev han utnämnd till borgmästare i Bergen. 1785 gav han i Köpenhamn ut 'Forsög til en Beskrivelse over Övre-Tellemarken', ett verk som blev belönat med 'Det danske Landhuusholdnings-Selskabs' guldmedalj.
Bland arbeten.
Forsög til en Beskrivelse over Övre-Tellemarken.
Halvorsen.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Grönsöö - 'Sveriges Industri, dess Stormän och Befrämjare' ca 1900.
