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BIOGRAPHY Poole was born 13 September, 1825 in Salem, Massachusetts (renamed Peabody 1868). He attended Yale University 1841-1842, and Harvard University . He worked up to 1850 at Newburyport, Massachusetts with Organ maker Joseph Alley and minister Henry James Hudson (b.1821-) developing a ''euharmonic'' ( Enharmonic ) organ which they patented and solicited by mail. One was installed at Indiana Place Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts (constructed 1848-1851). Poole patented a special keyboard to be used with his extended tuning system in 1868. Poole worked under Pennsylvania state geologist Henry Rogers (with Horace Moses, J. T. Hodge, J. Peter Lesley) authorized by ''Geological Society of Pennsylvania'' ca. 1851, and later as commercial property agent and surveyor in coal mining hub Pottsville . He was engaged by the Mexican Pacific Coal and Iron Mines and Land Company 1856-1857 surveying railway prospects between Veracruz and Mexico City (overseen from 1858 by Andrew Talcott ), and later returned teaching modern languages at College of Mines, Mexico City. Poole was a contributor to the ''American Antiquarian Society'' and active collector of Mexican literature and archaology. He subscribed to Isaac Israel Hayes ' 1860-1861 polar expedition through Boston committees, and spoke at hearing at State House, Boston March, 1868, concerning resistance renaming South Danvers, MA to Peabody after George Peabody . He was son of Ward Poole (1799-1864) and Elizabeth Wilder (1801-1864), brother of famous librarian William Frederick Poole , and cousin of celebrated humorist (journalist, politician) Fitch Poole . He died 22 October, 1890 and is buried at Mexico City National Cemetery . |
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