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Lewis Nixon additions

Thanks for your additions to Lewis Nixon (naval architect). Do you have any references for the information you added? It doesn't have to be something online, if you got it from a book, can you give us the title, author, publisher and date of publication? Based on your user name it appears you are in the naval architecture field. Thanks again. --rogerd 22:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Practically every fact in my edit comes from a separate article in the contemporary New York Times. Short of citing every article I was at loss on how to capture that. I am open to suggestions. I want to add more to the article. Nixon had a very important role in the Shipbuilding Trust scandal. That will be more of a challenge.Navarch41 23:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I see, I searched the NY Times myself unfortunately, to view this, it requires a paid subscription for us and for anyone else looking at it. But again, citations do not have to be available on-line to use them. Did you get them from the public library? If you can supply the NYT publication date and name of the article, I can help you format them in a correct format for the article. I also think we need to add an article to wikipedia about the Shipbuilding Trust scandal. Let me know how I can help. --rogerd 15:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I have been using Proquest through the county library for NYT and Washington Post articles. I will try to list the articles referenced for each sentence in the added paragraph.

1. "Lewis Nixon Dies", N.Y. Times, Sept. 24, 1940; "Alexandria", Washington Post, July 31, 1885

2. "The News of the Capital", Washington Post, Nov. 18, 1886

3. "Army and Navy News", N.Y. Times, Dec. 12, 1885; L.A. Swann, Jr. John Roach, Maritime Entrepreneur,p. 236

4. "Three New Battle Ships", N.Y. Times, Oct. 2 1890

5. "Of Naval Interest", N.Y. Times, Nov. 9, 1890

6. "New Jersey Shipyard Lease", N.Y. Times, Dec. 13, 1894

7. Who built these is covered in the linked articles and many other places. I found no evidence that Nixon or his company made significant changes to the Navy designs for these ships.

If you can sort out how to reference this material I would appreciate it. I'm afraid there is more work and volume in the references than the article itself.

I just found his obituary (see above) and that lists a lot of facts on his later life that could be worked into the article. I believe it has one date wrong where it says he entered new York politics in 1886 but he was a young lieutenant stationed elsewher at the time.

For the shipbuilding trust the best coverage I found is in the book Corporate Promotions and Reorganizations by Arthur Dewing which is available as a Google book. There is a lot of material there and elsewhere and I am thinking about how to summarize.

Also a search within Wikipedia for Lewis Nixon only turns up his grandson by the same name. Is there a way to fix this?Navarch41 18:43, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Lewis Nixon now points to a disambiguation page, which points to either of the Lewis Nixons --rogerd 02:00, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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