About Samuel C. Lancaster
Lived 1864 – 1941 (aged 76–77). Samuel C. Lancaster was an American engineer and landscape architect.
Samuel Christopher Lancaster (1864 – March 4, 1941) was an American engineer and landscape architect, known for his work on the Columbia River Highway.
Biography
Samuel Lancaster was born in Magnolia, Mississippi in 1864, and grew up in Jackson, Tennessee.
He came to Oregon in 1908 and was hired by Sam Hill to design his experimental roads at Maryhill in 1909. He did a plan for the campus of Linfield College before beginning supervision of the Columbia River Highway in 1913.
He died from leukemia at his home in Portland on March 4, 1941.
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Who was Samuel C. Lancaster?
American landscape architect
When was Samuel C. Lancaster born?
Samuel C. Lancaster was born in 1864 in Magnolia.
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Samuel C. Lancaster died on 4 March 1941 in Portland.
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Samuel C. Lancaster was an engineer and landscape architect.
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Samuel C. Lancaster was American.
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