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REIDUS, ABRAHAM SOLOMON: (Bibliographer)
He was born in Riga, in 1867 and died in New York, 1923. Freidus came
to the United States in 1889 and in 1897 was assigned to the department of
Hebraica and Judaica, at the New York Public Library and held this office
till his death. He had a prodigious memory, and a phenomenal knowledge not
only of titles but of the contents of books.
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#riga-bi-2: MOISSEIFF, LEON SOLOMON
Bridge builder; Born in Riga, Latvia, 1872. He came to the United
States in 1892 and was in 1898 appointed bridge engineer and chief draftsman
of the Department of Bridges of New York. He designed the Manhattan and
Queensboro Bridges, New York, and the Delaware River Bridge, joining
Philadelphia to Camden. He is a distinguished authority on long span
bridges. |