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Henry Brevoort Renwick was the son of the elder James and Margaret Anne (Brevoort) Renwick, and a brother of the younger James and Edward.
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Lives of John Jay and Alexander Hamilton
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Henry Brevoort Renwick
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He graduated from Columbia College in 1833, at the age of sixteen, and for the succeeding two years was a dry-goods clerk in New York. Being interested in mechanics, however, he devoted the years from 1835 to 1837 to the study of engineering.
Career
He entered the government service as an assistant engineer. Here he had the opportunity to take part in a number of federal construction jobs, including the building of the breakwaters at Sandy Hook and Egg Harbor, New Jersey. In 1840 he became associated with the United States Boundary Commission.
After seven years' service, which included the survey of the boundary line between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, he entered the United States patent office as examiner in charge of the divisions of metallurgy, steam engines, navigation, civil engineering, and ordnance. Five years later, in 1853, he was made United States inspector of steam vessels at the port of New York.
He held this position for a number of years, and thereafter devoted his whole time to work as a patent expert.
Soon, because of his great technical knowledge, he was constantly employed by the best patent lawyers of the period and took part in nearly all the great patent litigations between 1870 and the time of his death. Among these were cases having to do with the sewing machine, the McCormick reaper, and the Bell telephone. He was coauthor with his father of The Lives of John Jay and Alexander Hamilton (1840).
He died in New York City.
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On June 22, 1852, he married Margaret Janney of Alexandria, Virginia. They had two children.
