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John Yapp Culyer (May 18, 1839 - 1924) was an American civil engineer, landscape architect, and architect, who worked on parks in Chicago, Pittsburgh and other cities. He is known as the Chief Landscape Engineer of Prospect Park opened in 1867. == Biography == Born in New York city, May 18, 1839 ; son of John and Sarah (Norton) Culyer; grandson of John Culyer of Norfolk ; and a descendant of Nelson of Norfolk, England. He was educated in private schools and studied surveying and engineering under Professor Richard H. Bull of the University of the city of New York.〔Brown, John Howard. "Culyer, John Yapp" in: ''Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States.'' Vol 2. 1900. p.295-6.〕 He then spent one year in an architect's office in New York city. He was a member of the engineer corps under Frederick Law Olmsted, superintendent of Central Park, New York city, where he developed a talent for landscape architecture, especially in road construction, surface treatment and planting. In 1861 he accompanied Mr. Olmsted to Washington, D.C., where he assisted in organizing the U.S. Sanitary Commission. He then entered the engineer corps, U.S. army, under General George Dashiell Bayard, and was engaged on fortification and defence works in Virginia south of the Potomac river.〔 On April 14, 1865 Culyer witnessed the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.〔John Y. Culyer. "(The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln ),"in: ''The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries,'' 1916. p. 58-60.〕 At the close of the war he was made engineer on Central Park by Comptroller A. H. Green, and in 1866 he assisted Mr. Stranahan in organizing and Mr. Olmsted in laying out Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was employed for twenty years on the public parks, boulevards and parkways. He resigned in 1886 and engaged as an expert landscape architect and was employed on parks in Chicago, New Orleans, Nashville, New York, Brooklyn, Albany, Pittsburg and Paterson. He attained the rank of lieutenant -colonel and engineer in the N.Y. state national guard; was active in developing rapid transit in Brooklyn ; and was a member of the board of education for twenty-five years.〔 He was elected secretary and advisory landscape architect of the Tree Planting association of New York city and contributed articles on landscape gardening, sanitary reforms and educational advancement to the leading journals of America.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Y. Culyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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