Ocupation: Civil engineer
Life: December 14, 1795 - January 12, 1885
Birthday: December 14
Death: January 12
The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.
source: JOHN B. JERVIS (1872). “A TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS”, p.3