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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: DeWitt Clinton, Robert Fulton, Erie Canal Commission, Gouverneur Morris, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Robert R. Livingston, Simeon De Witt, Peter Buell Porter, Samuel B. Ruggles, Joseph Ellicott, William North, Henry Seymour, Charles D. Cooper, Stephen Clark, Thomas Eddy, Myron Holley, Darius A. Ogden, William C. Bouck, Heman J. Redfield, Thomas Clowes, Asa Whitney, Adin Thayer, Nelson J. Beach, Samuel Young, Franklin A. Alberger, Charles Cook, Michael Hoffman, John Bowman, Jonas Earll, Jr., William W. Wright, Frederick Follett, William Baker, Benjamin Enos, James Hooker, Charles H. Sherrill, Henry Fitzhugh, Simon Newton Dexter, Benjamin F. Bruce, John T. Hudson, Robert C. Dorn, Nathaniel Jones, Christopher A. Walrath, George H. Boughton, Jacob Hinds, John C. Mather, John D. Fay, Henry Hamilton, David Hudson, Alexander Barkley, Samuel S. Whallon, James Jackson, Jr., Ephraim Hart, Stephen T. Hayt, William I. Skinner, John M. Jaycox, Oliver Bascom, Hiram Gardner, Reuben W. Stroud, George W. Chapman, Daniel P. Bissell, George W. Little, Samuel H. Barnes, Cornelius Gardinier. Excerpt: The New York State Legislature appointed in 1810 a Commission to Explore a Route for a Canal to Lake Erie, and Report which became known as the Erie Canal Commission. Before 1817, the reports were submitted by the Commissioners Appointed to Provide for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of the State, from February 1817 on the actual term Canal Commission was used, and its members titled officially Canal Commissioner. Besides, in 1817 a Canal Fund and Commissioners of the Canal Fund, and in 1826 a Canal Board, of which both the Canal Commissioners and the Commissioners of the Canal Fund were members, were created, and the term Canal Commission was applied sometimes to any of these bodies. The Erie Canal Commission at first proposed the r...
