Leffert Lefferts Buck
and the Flag at Lookout Mountain
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The Ogdensburg Advance 1861 (continued):
After the war Leffert Buck entered Rensselaer Polytech (RPI) and became a
brilliant engineer and bridge builder. He did his apprenticeship in the
construction of the Croton Aqueduct in NYC. His first retainer was on the
Oroya Railroad in Peru. Later he built bridges in South America and Mexico.
He became famous for building the Williamsburg Bridge connecting NYC to
Brooklyn, the International Suspension Bridge at Niagra Falls and the Steel
Arch Bridge across the Niagra Falls Gorge as well as numerous other railroad
bridges.
Leffert married later in life in 1902. He proposed to his bride, Mira
Rebecca Gould from Paducah, Kentucky, on the Williamsburg Bridge.
Leffert died in 1909.
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