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MORE ABOUT ROEBlIAG
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never left Brooklyn for an hour He personally supervised all the 1mpg-z- ant preliminary work. spending the larger part of each, hours on the 50b- frequently making visits to the scene of operations al night after befng there through the day.
 The devotion of Colonel Roebling to his work resulted in impaired health and in December, 1872, he was obliged to cease his visirs- H0wewg- he continued to maintain personal supervision over the operations --Un the wheel chair on the roof e his home watching the progress Ut the work thru powerful feld glasses. Fearing that he might not live 1o see the work couplered and knUw7ng ngw incomplete were the plans and 1n- structions, he spent the w111er 61Ew- ing and writing, zn6 She pzps-s VII ten while he was 100 sick 10 9szve his room contained the nos u1ru-e and exact directions to- making the cables and the erection o1 al 1hs c0E- plicated parts which compose -hs superstructure. h the spring O1 1S-s upon the insis-ence ot his physicians. he completely suspended his work zn5 went 10 Germanv, where he remained six months. Upon his -s-u-n he re sumed supervision Of Jhe work and when the bridge was completed ic was said that 10 great project had been ever conducted by a man under SC many disadvantages.
 Colonel RoebIing made an excellent record during the Civl war He re received three brevets for gallant con duct, including that Of colonel Al the outbreak Of the war he enlisted in the Sixth New York artillery and served for year with that bats-v- During the remainder 0f the war he did staff duty. Ee was 0n 6u-v ar general hea6quarrers during rhe ba-le Of ChanceIlorsv1Te and ea1b morning ascended in a balloon to -ec9-13i-e- the enemy. From one oI those as tensions he was the frs 10 d7sc5vs- and announce, that General Lee was moving toward Get-ysbU-g n Jam ary, 1885, he resigned hiz commission in the army and went 10 C71c7zns-z to assist his father 1n 1hs cgnpas-5o- of the Cincinnati and Cgv1ng1a1 bridge. Since the c0uple1o1 e ne Brooklyn bridge he had devoted Azs time to the direction 05 a w7-e nam featuring business s1 Trenton x J
 Colonel Roebling was b0-1 z1 SzK- onburg, Pa, May 26, 1Ss-. 1hs SUI ot John 4. and Johanna Hs-11E Ross- ling. His father. a ns17ve 1E Prussia was a civil enginee-, hsv71g -ece9veS his degree from the Royal P59v1cAr5c School al Berlin The s0n was E-s5r- ated as a civil engineer from 1he Rsns- selaer Polytechnic 7ns11-use s1 --o-- N. r, in 1851 He Immediately be came an assistant 10 his ts1he-, h5s first engineering work 60ne 0r 1he Allegheny suspension b-sage- Ee was a man Of versatile RCzinmerrs, being a classical scholar, a liaguise and an excellent musician As g min eralogist it was said thzt hs hz-dlr had a superior in this c0uu-- Ee has a valuable collection 0F E9rs-S- specimens numbering spp-0rimz-s1F 15.ooO.
 On Janua-v IS. 1885, Colo1s- Ross- ling married EmZy, 6z1Ef-s- - STs- wanus Warren oE C0l5 Sr-zg- V E They had one son Hrs. Resa77rE. who died in 1sBs, WAS 6 sis1s- as Ea- jor General Gouve-1su- E wz--s-- While visiting her b-01hz- zr cam sn Virginia she t-s- me1 h9- AEssz-5 Colonel Roeblang ths1 se-v11g 1- the personal staff of Nzso- General War