Name a licensed land surveyor who lived here
Herbert Clark Hoover
Well, here's what the Herbert Hoover bio has to say about his work experience:
>Various other jobs and summer employment in Arkansas and California with the United States Geological Survey helped Herbert earn his way through Stanford with no loans.
http://hoover.archives.gov/education/hooverbio.html
Apparently, anyone who has ever spent a summer working on a survey party is definitely a surveyor. At first, I was skeptical, too, but after hearing so many old guys stop me to tell me that they had been surveyors also for a summer, I had to conclude that I was wrong. :>
My first thought
> HC didn't say it was a president.
Actually, my first thought was that Andrew Ellicott or Benjamin Banneker had lived in the White House while it was under construction.
And tha answer is ....
OK - the 6 who did surveying:
The big three - Washington, Lincoln & Jefferson
The minor ones:
Hoover - actually worked on field crews for 3 summers while in college and upon graduation his first choice of a career was to be a surveyor, but couldn't find a job.
Zachary Taylor - did a limited amount of surveying in Tennessee. I need to do additional research on this, but I am confident he was a legitimate surveyor.
And finnally
Ronald Reagan - a summer job while in college - it's in his bigraphy, but I need to do more research to get better details.
A SLIGHT CORRECTION
A slight correction to my post just above - ZT surveyed in Kentucky.
And tha answer is ....
I'm with Kent. Reagan et al who "held the stick" for a summer apparently qualify as legitimate surveyors in some peoples minds.
I guess everyone has heard those "I held the stick" stories while out on a survey.
